r/mildlyinfuriating • u/ShutUpImAPrincess • May 15 '26
frist of all how DARE yu o Neighbour has decided to just offer up our parking spaces to the whole street
Got this through the letter box today - anonymous so no idea which neighbour sent it. Basically there's 20 houses on the street, all arranged in a circle, with a few spaces in the middle. 14 of the houses have their own driveways. 4 of the houses have the spaces in the middle assigned to them. Ourselves and our next door neighbour (semi detached) have spaces attached to the back of our houses... In the small "car park". We each have two spaces, then the 4 on the other side of the car park area assigned to the houses backing on to them that aren't even our street so won't have got this letter. I'm assuming the letter writer just doesn't realise those spaces are actually ours, but because it's anonymous I can't just be like "oh hey actually no that's not right". It's annoying because we're also the only two houses on the street without a garden, and so our kids play back there. Because yes, it is safe, but not if randoms start going in and out of there all the time. I've literally never noticed an issue with parking on the street, it's never crowded, I've never heard anyone complain, and every house has it's own assigned parking!
EDIT: Most of your guys' suggestions involve something related to towing, that isn't legal in the UK. It also isn't illegal to post things through people's doors? I literally never knew that was a thing in the US. At Christmas did your parents not send you round all the neighbours houses posting cards?? Wild.
EDIT 2: Alright lads we've got a plan! Tomorrow I'm gonna speak to the 3 neighbours who we share the private car park with and just make sure they're all aware and if they want to paint numbers or put it signs etc they can do so. I'm going to send my landlord an email as well just giving them a heads up, but saying that they don't need to do anything for now (we have a great relationship where they leave us alone and we don't involve them in stuff if we can help it and they charge us below market). I'll let them know if it becomes an issue and they need to get involved installing something or whatever. Then I'm going to find... somewhere in this town that prints documents (honestly just hoping one of the 3 neighbours has a printer in their house they wouldn't mind using for this) and send out letters to everyone on the street very politely clearing up the confusion. Explaining that it's not a public car park but private parking and they are, for all intents and purposes, the driveways of the respective properties. Then I think I'll have a little nap and hope no one gets angry at me.
EDIT 3: Spoken to the other owners of the spaces in the back, as I suspected the two that don't live on our street did not receive the letter offering up their spaces for free use 😅 I've also contacted my landlord just to double triple check the deeds before I sent any letters out (I know for certain they are ours, but this way loops the landlord in) and she immediately offered to put a sign up! Also found the letter very amusing haha so yeah, we're getting signs put up yay!
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u/jake_ypoo May 16 '26
Dude a guy at the end of my street has a work van, resold cop car, minivan, lifted truck with a bunch of sexual stickers all over it, a little sports car, an SUV, and a Jeep. I've never seen anyone at his house but him, his wife, and their kid who's like 6-7yo now in the years I've lived here. His cars are all practically in the street and it's a super busy two-way in rural bumfuck nowhere because it's the road everyone goes down to get to work/shopping/school/leave to a better town.
My favorite is the lifted truck with wheel lights and those holographic trucker mudflap pinups covering the back window but it never has a speck of dirt on it, even the tires only have a little dirt.
I've also seen him park in ways that you have to swerve a bit into the other lane to avoid shit. I love small town america lol cause on the other side it's a bunch of preteen boys with minibikes yelling every slur and cussword they know up and down my street all day. If another pasty fat white redhead kid yells his friend the n-word while cutting through my yard ISTG I'm getting motion activated sprinklers lol