[Misc] How many f*****g cars do your next door neighbours have between them?

[Oh_aye]

On one side we have a couple who have a total of 4 cars. I've no idea why as they could quite easily cope with just two and one of them the man barely uses and appears to have just for show. Without any apparent sense of self awareness he often comments how parking has become a problem in our road. He has a drive which accommodates two of the vehicles.

On the other side we have a family comprising of two parents and two daughters, all of whom drive. They have a total of 6 vehicles between them, two of which also appear to be superfluous Their drive also accommodates just two of their vehicles.

So between our two sets of neighbours they have a total of TEN f*****g cars between them, four of which appear to be totally unnecessary.

Do your neighbours' car ownership practices piss you off?....

Neighbour across the road. Builder. At least 2 vans and a car for him his wife and each kid at any time. Usually about 6 cars / vans making the turn into the road virtually blind.

I can see why mother earth can't wait to fùck us right off.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Paving your entire block/garden should be illegal. You are the cause of flooding. 50% of every plot should be green.

May I just add that artificial turf does not count?

 

[portlock seagull]

Oh, they sound highly strung, one of my hates is folks that have the door wide open into the road with traffic, instead of going round to the pavement to get little little snotrag out of the baby seat or unload their haul from shops....
They look at you in disbelief as if you are uncaring or unsympathetic if you don't stop to let them do their thing,
No hang on, you are the uncaring soul in this situation, No way would I struggle with my daughter and seat belts whilst traffic wooshes past and then lead them into the road around to "SAFTEY"

Arseholes....

Rant over

This literally happened to me only 2 days ago. Of course, all my fault because a) my telepathy was switched off b) I had to overtake their parked (on double yellows) car.

Arseholes as you say.

 

[zefarelly]

Not sure about the neighbouring blocks, but no one in my apartment block owns a car.

In all fairness, you do live in a civilised country with an educated population.

 

[portlock seagull]

It was quite bizarre. I can honestly say I just trundle slowly around the roads near my house. I live at the end of a cul de sac with only three houses in it, so by the time I've got to the end of that little strip, where her house is, I'm only up to about 10mph before pausing to check round to my right. There are always kids playing, and dog walkers, and other cars, and cats wandering around (including mine)...I don't want to collide with any of those, so I really do always proceed with care around every corner.

It's like she thinks I drove like a twat when it was just her and her husband, but now I know there is a baby involved, I will suddenly become awakened, and entirely re-think my appreciation of the Highway Code, thanks to her letter.

Obviously she has a huge Baby On Board sticker in her car, because that will immediately make everyone else on the road drive slower and more cautiously out of sheer respect for her.

In fairness the Baby on Board sticker at least alerts you unquestionably to the fact they're a terrible driver. Think of it like radar.

 

[clapham_gull]

There is man is my road, currently sitting in his car eating a curry and doing some work on a laptop.

I'd imagine he is waiting for the big yellow clamp to be removed.

 

[Official Old Man]

Think the op talking about resident trades, least I was. Temp visiting trades

So you’re part of the problem in other words?

No.
We have a two car drive which is used, indeed the van is parked there out of sight. My Daughter works full time and parks across the drive leaving room for at least two more cars in front of our house.
Next door has two Daughters and four cars. Other side three cars, two on drive. Same all around the estate.

 

[zefarelly]

We have three cars currently, they all fit on our drive way (that is one car each) as our daughter is currently home. We do have six motorbikes, but they are all hidden away somewhere. As for neighbours we don't have any issues, but most have their own drive. My only issue is with people who park their car on the pavement, saying that once I have tutted and got past it I have already gotten over it and moved on with my day. As long as people don't block my drive I don't really care what they do with their cars or how many they have. Mind you my husband seem to finds way to moan about it, but I just ignore him

We’re similar, 2 every day cars on the driveway and a space in front for visitors if required. We got our driveway in less than half the front garden so still plenty of natural drainage and greenery

We have a small fleet of old shit but thats all locked up in the Zef-cave. They never get left out.

One very noticable problem in recent years has been people selling their garages amd converting integrals into rooms. You can’t have it both ways.

 

[dsr-burnley]

There is the argument any one person doesn’t own the road though, which includes parking on them. Would love to see road tax quadrupled for people parked on roads permanently. With all this CCTV must surely be a way. Then people might consider car shares, hires, public transport, bikes or good old fashioned walking and so forth to remove the excessive numbers littering not just our roads but our public spaces, pavements, roundabouts…you name it, people just dump their cars on it as if it’s their god given right to wreck or inconvenience others.

I've certainly heard arguments that say increase the cost for everyone so that poorer people can't afford to drive and leave more room for rich people.

This is the first time I've heard an argument to make it more expensive for poorer people so that the rich can run two cars on quieter roads while poorer people have to go by bus. Not as socialist an idea as we usually find on this message board.

 

[Gwylan]

In all fairness, you do live in a civilised country with an educated population.

I remember seeing a statistic once that stated that Germany had a higher car ownership per head of population but made far, far fewer journeys (or maybe it was fewer miles travelled) by car. I've been looking for the stat ever since, but never found it, so I don't know if it's true.

I do know that I used to visit a very good friend in Germany about four times a year and over eight years of visiting, I only saw her use her car once - to drive to a terrible nightclub in the middle of nowhere. If she was typical, then that stat certainly rang true

 

[Lenny Rider]

All these comments reminded me, when we bought our first family home in 1992, £48,000 for a 3 bed mid terrace!, our new neighbour a lovely old lady called Joan, welcomed us to the Road and stated that she'd bought the house in the mid 60's as a new build and as part of the price she and her late husband purchased the parking space outside the house on the road.

Not wanting any conflict and back then only being a one car family, I humoured her, we had a wonderful relationship for the 6 years we lived there, needless to say when she eventually passed on, I gave her a lovely cremation at friends and family rates.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

I have a barn which houses my caravan and van, a lorry back for storage for my business and room for another two cars. My driveway/parking area could get 10+ cars if need be. My nearest neighbour is over 150m away.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

All these comments reminded me, when we bought our first family home in 1992, £48,000 for a 3 bed mid terrace!, our new neighbour a lovely old lady called Joan, welcomed us to the Road and stated that she'd bought the house in the mid 60's as a new build and as part of the price she and her late husband purchased the parking space outside the house on the road.

Not wanting any conflict and back then only being a one car family, I humoured her, we had a wonderful relationship for the 6 years we lived there, needless to say when she eventually passed on, I gave her a lovely cremation at friends and family rates.

You failed to mention you ran her over as she stood in her parking space preventing your hearse from parking.

 

[BLOCK F]

"Slightly stained on the rear seats but otherwise, good as new"

Oh come, come, I bet it is worse than that!

 

[Zeberdi]

Do your neighbours' car ownership practices piss you off?....

Oh yes.

Now bear in mind, I live in a tiny cul de sac with 5 other cottages whose only access is a single lane of unclaimed road with no pavements on either side except just round Neighbour’s house who lives adjacent to me. He has 5 vehicles, including a work van, a saloon car for him, a saloon car for his b+tch-resting-face missus, a car for his son, who doesn’t live there but leaves his car there because he lives in a flat nearby with no parking and a car for his son’s fiance, who doesn’t live there either because she lives with his son in a flat with no parking. He has only room for 2 parking spaces on his property so it’s constant musical cars with 3 being left either on other people’s allotted parking slots or in front of my house completely blocking my exit to the street or he parks half on half off the pavement still blocking the lane for larger cars/deliveries.

Not satisfied with leaving his cars everywhere, he also sticks his head out of the window when any visitors come into the cul de sac, ordering them as to where they can and can’t leave their cars and often telling my visitors they can’t park in front of my house because he parks there

A very sad g*t whose world has shrunk so much since he retired from the army, he actually enjoys ‘controlling the parking’ in the cul de sac. Personally I just ignore him and tell my visitors to as well. Life’s too short.

 

[US Seagull]

We have a neighbor around the corner from us, they have 5 kids, 3 of which are driving age (I think, at least one has moved out). I think they have about 7 cars and are constantly juggling them in and out of the garage (which they do use) and the driveway on to the street. Where I live, you can't park your car on the street overnight, so, presumably, they have to Tetris their cars back on to the driveway every night.

 

[smudge]

Got 1 home around the corner here in Lancing has 6 cars outside on their forecourt / drive, all red!

 

[portlock seagull]

I've certainly heard arguments that say increase the cost for everyone so that poorer people can't afford to drive and leave more room for rich people.

This is the first time I've heard an argument to make it more expensive for poorer people so that the rich can run two cars on quieter roads while poorer people have to go by bus. Not as socialist an idea as we usually find on this message board.

Nonsense because it's neither to do with being rich or poor as you've interpreted. It's about people living in the same street but some blocking the road because of they've 5 or 6 cars, vans and even speedboats per household, some of which don't even move for weeks/months on end. It's called taking the pee and being inconsiderate neighbour / citizen. Entitlement in a word (compounded by laziness often as not), and screw everyone else seemingly.

 

[Zeberdi]

That’s fine you can get on with your day, however if you’ve been in a wheelchair or push one then you’re outlook would be very different I can assure you. I’m constantly having to ‘educate’ selfish twats (including those that park without a blue badge in disabled bays) and nearly always they just look at you with indifference or become confrontational. Maybe one in a hundred apologise. It’s a massive problem. As if being disabled isn’t hard enough. If anyone reading this thread thinks differently now then brilliant. Sadly I doubt it. People are inherently rude arrogant and increasingly violent as their default stance these days. It didn’t used to be like, and I wish there was a solution. Sterilisation probably…

Totally understand this.

When my neighbour blocks my access, I can’t get my mobility scooter off my property past his vehicle and onto the road - it basically means I am effectively housebound on days I am unable to walk more than a few metres unless I call a taxi - until he decides to move his vehicle (s) which could be anything from minutes to half the day. I gave up several years ago trying to ask him not to block me in because he just got confrontational even violent towards me (as he did with other people in the street who complained about his parking). At least they don’t block the road permanently but it is annoying because I end up having to pay out for taxis to get to work if I can’t get the scooter past his van/cars.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

If the cars parked outside are all taxed, mot'd and insured, I have no qualms about them being in the road.
My wife, however, will sacrifise live chickens if a strange car even attempts to drive up our road....we live near a school! I'm sure she was the cause of KFC running out of chicken not so long ago