Neighbor with Pest Control van keeps parking in front of our house!
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Anonymous
OP, I had a similar reaction once when someone's vehicle was parked outside out house and people flamed me and told me that the street is open to park for everyone. If it's temporary, it will be okay but if it's all of teh time I would try to do something about it discreetly after some time has passed. |
Anonymous
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It’s funny how some posters feel it’s fine to lecture another adult, but don’t you dare to suggest that neighbors should be neighborly.
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Anonymous
| I hear you. Our neighbors have a big ugly truck with a huge platform trailer behind it and some sort of racing car on the platform. (It's a junky one with stickers all over it). They constantly park in front of our house and it's such an eye sore. It's public parking though, so nothing we can do about it. We park our cars mostly in the garage but sometimes use street parking so I try to grab the main spot when I can but then they'll just park in front of me. |
Anonymous
Ok, now you're being ridiculous. Parking in front of someone else's house is something that happens. Feeling "terrible" about it? Really? |
Anonymous
So park farther down the street, use your driveway, or just move to a rural area where you don't have neighbors. I mean, you don't get to claim the street in front of your house because you have young kids. And I have young kids. |
Anonymous
If you do have 2 spots in front of your house, park poorly with the one car that is there all day so it is double parked until cousin gets home. Kind of a jerk move for other neighbors, but would solve your problem |
Anonymous
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Agree with OP that this is a problem as the neighbor has several other open spots from which to choose.
OP: Consider buying a low cost car and parking it in front of your house so that the space is taken. |
Anonymous
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We have no driveway, and around half our neighbors don't either, so we have to park on the street. A work truck has been parking in front of my living room window every day for weeks, and not moving during the weekend. We are on a city with no front lawn or garden, so when I say in front...well, if it's a tall truck, that's the view.
My husband has a strong idea of parking etiquette, i.e. the strip in front of our house can fit 4 cars between neighbor driveways, so he thinks you should always park at one of the end spots if open to help fit the most cars. (They arent individually marked within the parking box, so bad middle parking jobs mean only 3 can fit.) He usually parks in the front of the box, in front of our next door neighbor who doesn't park on the street at all. Our window looks out on the second spot. I've started parking there even though it's against my husband's idea of etiquette because I am tired of being overly polite just to reserve that second space for a work truck that isn't even for a business on our street, and that's so big it makes it hard for 4 cars to fit anyway. Petty? Maybe. That said, I think it would be a bit obnoxious to insist we should get 3 out of 4 spots, which sounds like what OP wants. I am not very sympathetic to households with limited parking and an above average number of cars. This all happens because people want more cars than the infrastructure is built for. |
Anonymous
If you think this through for 30 seconds, you may realize that it won't solve the problem. I swear, some of you don't have three brain cells to rub together. |
Anonymous
I would consider that abandoned property, and a free cone. |
Anonymous
Wait - you have an extended family member living with you, and you are cranky that she doesn't get to park in a spot in front of your house? That your neighbor is parking his truck there? If you were really concerned about being a good host, OP, you'd let your cousin park in the driveway, and you would park elsewhere. I'm sure it isn't that far. |
Anonymous
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If I was the owner of the van and a homeowner confronted me about parking in front of their house because my vehicle was unsightly, that would be my permanent parking spot for life. In fact, I might even ask the boss if I could bring another van home!
I would also troll Craigslist for the cheapest, ugliest POS car possible and park that baby right out front too. I would make sure it ran and had all the necessary stickers and whatnot. I would move it around but always make sure to park it right in front of your place. I would even let my kids go to town with a couple of cans of spray paint to decorate the car. So before you confront the driver, consider they may just be a passive aggressive petty jerk like me who could make things worse for you (and totally legally worse). |
Anonymous
Because it's funny? If Pest Neighbor isn't leaving room for OP to park there and could, I'd definitely ask, politely, if they could park so there's room for my car, too. If not, I'd just park in front of their house. |
Anonymous
Lol you will also find many aspects of parenting to be quite challenging, and will no doubt burn out very quickly, if you keep sweating the small stuff. |
Anonymous
🤣🤣🤣 Love this pun! |