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A very trivial moral question  [message #51644] Fri, 18 July 2008 19:25 Go to previous message
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I have a parking permit to park in the road outside my (large, shared, suburban) house, granted by Reading council. They are rationed, so I'm one of the lucky people whose application has been granted.

There are already four residents who park outside the house with reserved parking in a concrete area in front, assigned by the landlady, which means that there are no street parking spaces just outside it. But there are various other street parking spaces all the way down the road.

Today, I was parking in front of the house next door when a woman came out of the house, and said, brusquely, "I'm afraid you'll have to move. My husband will be back in a minute and he needs to park there. We've already got two other cars and there's not enough space for them as it is."

I don't make a habit of parking in any particular space, but she is now the second person who has asked me not to park outside their house (the other one being the man living at the house on the other side). Bearing in mind that there are lots of houses in the road, I'll always be outside someone's house.

Not wanting to cause a scene, I moved down the road, outside another house instead (no idea whose, but they haven't asked me not to park there, so I assume it's fair game).

Is this normal suburban behaviour? (I was brought up in the almost-countryside, where there are many more potential parking spaces than cars.) As I can't park outside my own house without obstructing the other residents, am I quite possibly offending someone every time I park anywhere in the entire street? Do I have any obligation, moral or otherwise, never to park outside that woman's house?

(I told you it was trivial! People tell me I worry too much ...)

David

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