Neighbors spar over ‘tight’ parking job: ‘Can’t believe how this has escalated’
It hit too close to home.
Lliam Green, from England, is sparking a ferocious debate online for parking in a “tight spot” near someone’s driveway — which resulted in him receiving a note on his BMW from the annoyed homeowner, Kennedy News reports.
“Please park more considerately,” the Sept. 23 note stated. “You have made it impossible to access my drive.” The disgruntled resident’s house number was included.
Green, 36, took to social media to mock the note and share an image from the cul-de-sac in Spondon, Derbyshire. His car appears to be in line with the boundary wall next to the property’s driveway. The garage seems accessible.
“I think it’s ridiculous,” Green told Kennedy News of the incident. “There’s a completely open driveway that’s free to get into.”
“I think they were being excessive and a bit over-protective about a street that we all pay our council tax for,” he continued.
Green, who was in the area visiting a friend, maintains that he was “exactly in line with the wall,” and his car “fit like a glove” in the spot.
“I appreciate it’s a tight spot, but any driver should have been able to get on and off that driveway,” Green said.
“If I’m in the wrong, I’m always happy to apologize,” he added. “I realize everyone has an opinion, but I don’t really believe I was in the wrong.”
Green said he was going to knock on the homeowner’s door to apologize, but his two kids were tired, so he decided not to — instead, he went to Facebook, where his recounting received 50 reactions before going viral.
Some social media users thought he was in the right.
“They clearly don’t know how to reverse park,” one wrote.
Another agreed, typing, “If you can’t park a car in there you shouldn’t be driving!”
Others, however, called him out for being the asphalt.
“They are going to struggle getting on the drive from the left,” one person argued. “Personally, I think you’re [an] ignorant t–t parking like that.”
Someone else seconded, “Everyone assumes it’s the resident who can’t access their drive. They’re maybe waiting on a delivery of building materials or having work done that needs clear access.”
In a recent interview, the unidentified woman, a semi-retired mental health complaints officer, told The Daily Mail she didn’t find her note to be “nasty” at all.
“It wasn’t snotty, nasty or aggressive, but it sounds [like] he got very defensive if he had to post about it,” said the woman, who has lived in the house for decades.
“I was just pointing out politely,” she continued. “I can’t believe how this has escalated!”
She explained that parking difficulties in the area are an ongoing problem.
She says she’s “not a bad driver,” despite Green’s claims, and she shared that a large pole and hedge partially block her view.
“You have to see the layout to know,” she said. “On the face of it, he wasn’t parked straight over my drive, so [he] thought he had done nothing wrong, but his car blocked my view.”
She added: “It’s not as if I haven’t got anything better to do than look out of my window and moan about the parking.”
