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Input: My mother and I live in a duplex across the street from an elementary school. We live directly in front of the parking lot for parent pickups. Street is one lane each way, but it’s wide enough for parents to make a “turn lane” and let neighborhood traffic through.

Neighborhood traffic *cannot* go through, however, if anyone is parked on the curb in front of our house. I frequently park there for three reasons:

1. My mother’s car is more valuable than mine. We mutually agree it belongs in the (1-car) garage.

2. She leaves for work before I do; sometimes even before I wake up. She often comes home later than I do. If I park in the driveway, I frequently need to move my car so she can get in/out.

3. There is generally not enough space for me to park farther back in the driveway and for her to snake through to the garage.

If I sense that I won’t need to move my car for whatever reason (maybe she’s riding with someone else), I park in the driveway. More often than not, I need to park in the street to avoid dropping whatever I’m doing to move my car.

NTA: Parking in the street is perfectly legal. If we lived literally anywhere else on this street, I wouldn’t be blocking traffic. I may be physically unable to move my car at times (napping, shitting, timed testing, etc) when my mother comes home. I make an effort to park in the driveway when I can and only in the street when it is explicitly more efficient (which happens to be more often). Neighborhood traffic can go around the school street by taking the street directly behind us.

YTA: We chose to live on a school street. Although it was once *my* elementary school, we’re living in prime space for schoolchildren and ethically we should yield to their traffic. I can get off my lazy ass most of the time and move my car out of the driveway; the needs of the many (neighborhood traffic) outweigh the needs of the few (me) and I shouldn’t use the legality as a crutch. The fact that it happens more often than not means I should find a proper solution; otherwise I could maybe get away with it “just this once”.

NAH: I’m in the right but traffic has the right to be upset at me (and leave upset notes on my car).

ESH: I could be doing my part but ultimately the street is ill-equipped for school traffic.

AITA? What do you guys have to add to some of the arguments I’ve already heard? Which do you side with?

**Note:** I’m not posting this to seek validation. I’ve already made my choices, asshole or not. I’m posting this to raise interesting questions to this sub, for the sake of fresh content.

parking my car in the street in front of a school