Just human nature, space is desirable and some people don't mind who they inconvenience or upset using it.

I did have an issue with a neighbour parking in an awkward spot opposite my mother’s driveway despite having a driveway large enough for two cars. A polite request from my mother resulted in said car being left there almost permanently so while it was away I left a cheap but road legal old trade-in on my mothers side of the road opposite the spot which blocked them from parking there since the street is only wide enough for a car to be parked on one side. Unlike them however my parking didn’t restrict their access to their own driveway. One unhappy neighbour but richly deserving of any upset. I don’t understand ignorant people.

Some people are just lazy - where I live, another resident took to parking his car in a visitor bay (not allowed) opposite the front of his house. His two allocated spaces were only round the corner, about 25m away. We got the last laugh when he was ticketed multiple times by our parking company for numerous offences.

This may sound a trivial offence to some, but our development is near a railways station, many businesses, most properties are flats with only one allocated parking space, the most the houses get are two allocated spaces (all marked up), and we have one communal visitor space for every 5 properties, with narrow roads (so on-street parking isn't possible).

And then there is Wimbledon fortnight - the kids drag their old tennis racquets out and the street is full of flying tennis balls bouncing off of houses and cars.

My mother caught one of the local irritants bent over, rummaging about in her front shrubs and flower bed looking for his lost tennis ball and whacked him across the ar*se with her walking stick. His whining parents called the police who attended and offered her "words of wisdom" while trying to keep straight faces.

Edited by catsdad on 02/03/2019 at 17:52