People parking outside your house
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2 years agoI too live on a busy main road in town and I don’t mind people parking in front of the house. However we do have narrow entrance to the driveway and when people park in front of the drive because they’ve got a dentist appointment 3 doors down the road and I need to do the school run...well that’s when the full wrath of a woman’s fury is unleashed🤯.....beeping horns, note on the windscreen, even marched into the dentists to tell them to “shift your blummin vehicle”! So in front of house is fine but NEVER park in front of my drive! 🙂
Best one is when I came out one morning to see this: (kids or drunken louts, we never found out, but it made me laugh 😆)
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PROThe JOY of Blinds and Shutters
2 years agoHi Darren, why do people get so annoyed about other cars parking outside their house? Here are some possible reasons:
Hazardous - It might cause difficulties when going in and out of the drive, especially when trying to see around the parked vehicle when traffic is heavy.
Territorial - Just as ‘your home is your castle’, people often extend this to their frontage.
Fear - Who might they be? Could they be burglars??
Aesthetics - Some people feel that parked cars around their property make their frontage look cluttered and untidy - but perhaps not as cluttered as in my photo below!
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