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AIBU?

to wonder why if you have your own driveway you'd park your car in a neighbouring road?

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lucysullivan · 16/03/2010 16:08

I genuinely don't get this. Have noticed lately that a lot of car owners who live in neighbouring roads, rather than park in their own driveway, drive 5 mins down the road to park their car on the road in someone elses road. This means once they've parked their car on the road they have a 5 or 10 min walk back to their houses. Witnessed this the other day when I was walking ds to nursery.

AIBU to ask the next person I see doing this, why? I'm insanely curious as to why they do it. If I had a driveway I'd damn well use it rather than park miles away, surely it would be really inconvenient if you've got shopping, dcs to carry home..

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KimiGaveUpStarbucks4Lent · 16/03/2010 16:15

is there any kind of road works in their roads?

lucysullivan · 16/03/2010 16:18

no roadworks at all, nothing to indicate why they do it! I walk past the same road on my way to nursery several times a day so have started to recognise the cars. Sometimes they're in their driveway more often than not they're parked on the road a few roads away. I just wish I knew why.... [anal emotion]

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NorbertDentressangle · 16/03/2010 16:19

Maybe they don't want to let people know that they're home so don't want the car on the drive??

Is the road difficult to turn out of (eg. to turn right onto a busy main road during rush-hour)??

Are their driveways in a prime location (eg. near town centre or railway station)? If so maybe they rent them out for commuters parking

lucysullivan · 16/03/2010 16:21

Ah the renting out of driveways to commuters makes sense, as the road is very near the station. So they earn money out of commuters while dumping their cars in their neighbours roads.

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JaneS · 16/03/2010 16:22

Partner coming back later to park the second car on the drive maybe?

ChickensHaveSinisterMotives · 16/03/2010 16:22

Witness protection programme? Maybe they're all spies!

MrsJohnDeere · 16/03/2010 16:31

To make room for builders' vans, skips, or visitors' cars (that's the reason we sometimes move our car)?

NorbertDentressangle · 16/03/2010 16:39

The only time we ever park our car on a different road is if there is snow due as there is no way we'd be able to move the car out of our road for a week otherwise (as we've found from experience!)....but I don't think its due to snow, is it?!

stripeyknickersspottysocks · 16/03/2010 16:40

I do it but we have 3 cars and can only get 2 in drive.

heather1980 · 16/03/2010 16:40

my dad parks his car on the road and my mum on the drive but only because she leaves for work before him and therefore gets home earlier than him so it would mean lots of car moving and messing about in the mornings.

ClaireDeLoon · 16/03/2010 16:51

I have a drive but don't park on it - because it's right next to my neighbour (in front of the garages) and he opens his van door onto my car. So I park on the street.

Pixel · 16/03/2010 17:05

Perhaps they are worried about bailiffs?

Actually I used to park my old car in another road because it wouldn't start in the morning unless I could get a run down a hill!

memoo · 16/03/2010 17:17

We don't park on our drive anymore because people always block us in!!

majafa · 16/03/2010 17:53

My Ex-neighbour used to park down the road so it looked like she was'nt in, that was because of the baliffs!!

BigMomma3 · 16/03/2010 19:16

We have a two car drive but DH parks in the road behind our house most of the time. Reason being that there is only one way to get in and out of our estate and if there is heavy traffic it can take ages to get out onto the main road to the motorway. The road behind leads straight to the dual carriageway and can sometimes cut off at least 30 mins if there's been an accident or roadworks which there often is.

Lady who lives in that road takes great offence at DH parking in 'her' road though and has left nasty notes on his windscreen and threatened him with her broom on one occasion . Even though they are all OAP bungalows and none of them seem to own a car as the road is usually completely empty!

Tortington · 16/03/2010 19:18

if they owe money , the car can be taken so thats a reason.

maybe they are a three car family and haven't got the space.
thats a reason.

maybe they want to walk and get healthy
thats a reason.

maybe its bin day and the nins have to be out in the drive
thats a reason

CrankyTwanky · 16/03/2010 19:49

Maybe they're having affairs with the householders!

I park round the corner and not in the garage because the garage is too narrow to get children/my belly out of it, and because DH would block me in.

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