On of my pet peeves is when people decide they own the bit of highway outside their house.
I got into a blazing row with one of the residents opposite our office last summer – I’d parked, carefully and close to the kerb, making sure not to block anyone’s drive (despite their various modifications to their drives to make the entrances wider without actually widening their drives, only to be confronted by some fat old **** from 3 doors up squaring up to me about this ‘private road’ which is anything but – ‘private’ as in they’d rather no one else use it, public is in when there’s something wrong with it they’d like the local council to fix it.
Now they’ve managed to have their street declared “for access only” which is some vague declaration – it was designed to stop quiet residential roads becoming busy commuter roads, I suppose they’re “special” and the people who live in the parallel road aren’t but that’s an aside no one of authority will go on record to say whether you can park there or not, and anyway this road is a complete dead-end doesn’t lead anywhere – but it seems if you moan enough you can enjoy all the benefits of having your house on a public highway and all the benefits of having a private road. Arsehole, I hope enjoys all the junk mail.