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Input: In our neighborhood the homes that do have driveways are single car driveways and garages for the most part.  My next door neighbors on either side have drive ways. The neighbor directly across the street from me is on a corner lot, so her property essentially runs along 60 feet on her side of the street. She also has one of the few houses with a two car garage. This is all directly across from my house. (One of the biggest lots in this part of the neighborhood). Her front door is not visible to me as it’s on the other side of the street. Her driveway and side of the house face me. 

My boyfriend and I almost always park in the driveway, but since he leaves before me and gets home before me on during the week, we often play musical cars. What happens most often is my Bf parks across the street (on the right side) about 10 feet back from her driveway. For an hour or 2 until I get home and then he moves it behind my car in the drive. 

He drives a pick up that has a long bed. The space between our driveway and our next door neighbors is very tight to park that in and technically illegal because the law is you cannot park within 5 feet of someone’s driveway. (It’s obviously not enforced unless your neighbor cares). I felt it was more courteous to park on the other side of the street where we wouldn’t risk someone having a hard time backing out/being fined if someone didn’t like it. 

Today before I got home she came over and asked my boyfriend not to park on her side of the street. BF said he was sorry and explained why he had been parking there and explained it would probably be only for a few hours each day if that and that he would do his best. She kinda skips around that and just asks “can you just not park there anymore?”. He felt she was being a bit pushy and rude. She then proceeds to tell him she thinks our dog looks “too skinny”. Over all he said it was a strange and awkward encounter. 

I can’t lie- I’m a bit irked. I told him to just not park there anymore and he’ll just have to squeeze in the spot on our side of the street. (When one of the neighbors isn’t using it). But told him that if he has to park there, well that’s just the way it is. 

Am I the asshole for thinking SHES being the asshole? I thought it was quite ballsy of her to come over here. Believe me, I know I would be annoyed if someone parked in front of my house everyday and night. But this has maybe happened a few times a week for a few hours and has maybe stayed there over night 5 times. 

TL;DR My neighbor basically demanded we not park on her side of the street for a few hours every week with no real explanation as to why. AITA for thinking she’s just being a bitchy neighbor? 







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