Imagine living in a house where the only place you can park is on the street. You don’t have a driveway or garage. You have to fight for public street parking with your neighbors.

What would you do if one of your neighbors claimed one of the most convenient public street parking spots as “his” spot? Would you park there anyway, or would you let him have the spot?

In this story, one homeowner explains why nobody fights the neighbor about “his” spot. Keep reading for all the details.

Our neighbour has claimed a parking spot that isn’t his and accosts anyone who dares park there.

UK. Directly outside our house is a small island of no-man’s land, it’s a brick paved ‘road’ surrounded on all sides by pavement with a dropped curb at each end, it cuts the corner at a junction and the area is used solely for parking.

It is 2 cars wide and long enough to fit 3 vehicles parked in a row with access from both ends, so 6 cars in total but when at capacity, the middle 2 cars are blocked in…

Being no-mans land, ANYONE can park there.

It is of course courteous to not park at either end if it will block someone from leaving.

One neighbor hogs one of the middle spots.

Our neighbour uses this to his advantage by leaving his silver/algal Saab parked in one of the middle spots, this means that if someone is parked behind the Saab, it shotguns the space at the front of the Saab for his Mercedes Vito Van, because if anyone else were to park there, he’d claim the Saab is blocked in.

Which would be true, if said Saab was taxed or MOTd which is it isn’t.

This wouldn’t be so annoying if he hadn’t told us in such a condescending manner when we first moved in that it was an unwritten rule that he always parks there (because of the risk of his van getting broken into for tools).

The rest of us have to tip-toe around him and crawl the street looking for a vacant spot.

Nobody dares to take the spot in front of the Saab.

It also gives us a hideous view of his scabby Mercedes Vito out of our front window, the joys of not having off-road parking.

Worth noting there are plenty of other tradesmen’s vans dotted around the streets who don’t lay claim to a parking spot, though I do understand his concerns.

Obviously one could park in the ‘Vito’ spot claiming that at the time of parking, the car at the far end wasn’t there, thus not blocking the Saab in and moving blame to the other car, but as a clearly well connected and established resident of the street, we fear it’s not worth a sour relationship with our neighbour over a seemingly petty parking issue especially as he clearly told us it was ‘his spot’ (we should have put our foot down at that first encounter but we had just moved into the area).

The guy really is possessive of this spot.

In some ways it’s a devious plan of his but for the extremely aggressive notes he leaves on any unknowing car that dares to park in the dreaded space, printed a4 sheets stuck to EVERY window saying ‘stop parking like an inconsiderate jerk’ despite the fact his smutty Saab hasn’t moved since May and doesn’t have an MOT nor is it taxed.

If the notes weren’t enough, if he sees the innocent, unsuspecting parker approach their car, he pulls his van in behind them to aggressively accost them, even though he has NO RIGHT to the parking space!!

It has riled my partner and I since we moved in to the extent now literally anything he does annoys us even though we have never actually parked in ‘his spot’ so as such have never been on the receiving end of his aggressive notes (presumably he has print outs at the ready for the rare moments he doesn’t get his way).

We realise we could literally just park there, and he’d have no legal rights to move us, but it’s just not worth the pain of neighbourly dispute especially given his house is literally attached to ours.

Parking in that spot doesn’t seem safer than parking somewhere else.

I sympathise the slightest amount with regards the risk of his tools being stolen if it weren’t for the fact his van was broken into when parked in ‘his’ spot so clearly it makes no difference anyway.

Obviously we can’t complain about his ugly van outside the front of our house as we bought somewhere without off road parking, but so did he.

If he’s so precious of his tools he should take them in every day or move to a place with secure parking rather than being so aggressive with everyone.

Rant over, I realise there’s little we can do, we will either have to move on or just out last him.

How annoying! Of course, it doesn’t seem like there’s much they can do about it.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person suggests calling the police.

Another person has questions.

Here’s a vote for reporting the Saab.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a disabled woman who confronts her neighbors about using her spot, only to have them tell her they can park where they want.

Another person suggests reporting the Saab to two different places.

It’s really annoying that the neighbor is hogging the street parking with a car he doesn’t even drive. He shouldn’t be allowed to do that, and by doing so, he’s actually hogging two parking spots.

The car really needs to be reported. This is unacceptable.