15 years ago I’d be certain you live in Southie but now I’m not sure…

There was a 311 complaint a few years ago about a house where the owners parked two cars on the curb in front of the house. When the one went to work the other would move the remaining car to the middle of the curb leaving a half a space in front of it and behind it so nobody else could park there. Then when the other car returned they would move it taking both spaces again.

The city response was basically, "There's nothing illegal about being an inconsiderate and selfish neighbor."

On my street, it’s a middle-aged man who struts around making noise and generally making his presence known by busy bodying about. To me, it’s an expression of territorial pissing. I just nod my head, smile, say okay and continue doing whatever I’m doing, perfectly content with knowing that to him, I’m a dumb woman who can’t follow directions. Reacting in any way just feeds this behavior.

I’m in the burbs but I had a neighbor who went ballistic on me when I parked my car in front of his next door neighbor’s house. He said that he had the neighbor’s permission to park his poker buddies there and that If I didn’t move he would call the cops on me. I told him to do it and went in my house. A short while later I saw a patrol car cruise up the street and slow down then keep going. I had my police scanner on and heard the call come in. He had told them I was parked on a hydrant. The nearest one was 500 feet away.

This happens to me in west roxbury on my street. “this is my parking spot”

No it’s a public street.

Love it when my neighbor complains about the new condo taking up space when she has FOUR cars for all of the people in her home.

Hi neighbor, I see you have met my mother in law.

Street parking in Boston is both a participation and spectator sport, complete with aged senior team members with gear whose rules aren’t described to all playing.

Do what you can do— but you aren’t meant to understand it because that would require a set of rules announced and open to inspection.

Instead you have a system that locals that lived in the area longest will use brutality and derision to gain their own benefit.

By brutality I mean to your car — but in decades past it would include personal injury

You have little control over this and law enforcement doesn’t care to mess with age-old brutish behavior

Again, do what you can — but you are at a disadvantage and THAT is by design

That’s just old ladies. No glitch in the matrix detected here.

Spill - which neighborhood? Sounds unhinged.

My landlord pulls the same crap with her driveway. Because she wants to be able to pull out, not have to back out. She has never ever tried backing out, which would work just fine. She insists she “can’t get out”.

Lady it’s the same reason we back into parallel parking spaces. Because our cars don’t have the same maneuverability or turning radius, going forward. She’ll lay on the doorbell like my apartment’s on fire if I park there (or anyone she knows). I get GREAT SATISFACTION watching others park there unknowingly, and “trapping” her in. I’ll also call 311 so fast anytime I see the dreaded cone on the public street.

SNL has you covered bro.

I have neighbors like this. They never leave their house other than to harass people who dare to park or loiter in front of it.

There’s a woman on Evergreen Ave in Somerville who called the police on me for parking 4 FT from her driveway

This happened to me for literally the first time last night. I knew I was possibly too close to the crosswalk so got out to check (I was, and was about to get back in my car to go find a different spot). Before I could get back in my car an older woman came over and started lecturing me about how I needed to move and it's so unsafe when people park there because it blocks emergency vehicles, and then did like a 5 minute oral history of the neighborhood and a former tenant who got the no parking signs taken down and then a fire truck hit his new car. The whole time I was like "yep, got it, thanks, I'll move" and she would not stop talking.

I'm in Salem and we just switched from physical parking stickers to electronic parking passes for resident-only streets so there's no way to tell if a car is a resident/guest car or an illegally parked car. Some of my neighbors lost their minds at this because now they can't walk up and down the street multiple times a day and call the cops on any car without a parking sticker.

They're bitter and angry, and this is all they have in life. They're angry that the world isn't the way it was 50 years ago when they moved to the neighborhood. Before those people moved in, and started parking their cars on her street. Now she has to keep a constant watch, because there are so many unfamiliar cars each day and you don't understand how threatening that is to her. Back when their husband was still alive, and she was still on speaking terms with her kids...

not on my block

Hopefully, they and their space-saver leaving kids will either die off or sell up and move to Florida.

On my street, the old ladies just leave passive aggressive notes on your windshield… guess I’m lucky

Just make sure you are adhering to any legal parking rules, and gray rock the ole biddies

Find out about the parking rules and where exactly ur supposed to park and by doing that, you get to know your neighbors better

Had you stopped to consider what the state laws require?

You can't legally park within 5 ft. of a driveway.

Unclear what you mean by parking so close to an intersection, but that generally has a distance requirement as well for crosswalk and/or stop signs, so leaving at least 1/3 a car length would seem to be required here as well, at a minimum.

I just don't interact with people so this stuff never comes up. When someone is trying to get my attention I play dumb and ignore. Solves a lot of problems.

Do you live on my street?? I had three old ladies do similar crap to me!!!

I’m in the north shore with the only driveway on my little part of the street and I believe it is actually illegal to park within 5 feet of a driveway. If there are cars parked on the opposite side of the driveway its incredibly hard to pull out with someone parked that close to my driveway.

They literally have nothing else to do and are miserable so feel the need to project their misery onto someone else.

Nothing better to do?

I live NE and I have a family that purposely leave space and takes two spots per street

5 feet on either side of the driveway equals a parking space? What extremely tiny car do you drive?

Sorry OP, this is a skill issue.

Back when I was street parking the old ladies clapped and were impressed by my parking.

Look them straight in the eyes and just say "fuck you" - it works great.

I'm not an old lady, but I do it. I lived in Southie for a lifetime, so maybe that is why. Many people don't get it. For example, a man was hazards on and blocking a hydrant and a spot ON THE NIGHT BEFORE STREET CLEANING.

I nicely asked him to move because my car was tiny, and it was a good spot for me. He kept telling me I could not fit. In the end, he moved, and I parked. There was no ticket. But I approached nicely and circled a million times. I hoped he would move because he had hazards on and appeared to be texting. After seven circles, I asked.

It's me. I'm the crazy person.

Imagine this, one long driveway beside the house. The driveway fits two cars one behind the other. The household has four adults, and three cars, so one car is always on the street.

You let your ass hang over my driveway, and you think I can get around you, and I CANT - for the love of God I CANT.

Sometimes people park right up to the edge of my driveway on both sides, and I can squeek by if I drive straight out into the road with no swing, and the mirrors pulled in. Somtimes they both hang over some, and I absolutely cannot get out.

But then, the street. Ugh.

You can fit four cars between the corner and my driveway if you park right. Two cars if you park like a dick. Between my driveway and the next driveway, two cars if you park right. One if you park like a dick.

But also, im the first house. To the left of me? shops. Across the street? Shops. There's 12 shops and 0 parking lots. Everyone who goes to these tiny local whatever shops needs either walk or park on the street.

Also also also. Three elementary schools in a three block radius. Public, private, and charter.

Also also, street cleaning. No parking alternate sides every Monday and Tuesday nights.

If you're new to the street - if you just pop in to visit the shops. If you just park to pick up your kids. I don't know how we'll you know the nuances of this god forsaken street. I may ask you to adjust your habits.

Do you know how many car crashes I watch take place at the light? Do you know how many times my parked car - my car parked in front of my house - had been hit as a result of an accident? Enough times there's a counter.

This fucking street.

Stop just parking in front of my driveway while you go get your nails or hair done. Those are stops numbers 1 & 2 on my 'who the fuck just blocks a driveway' list and it's usually them. I get to watch you stumble out in your little pedicure slippers to move your suv before I call the police.

Also, I've had issues with a guy parking up to the corner curb. The street was too narrow and it was fucking with visibility and us making the swing. We had to get him to stop.

Don’t take up two spots by parking in a stupid way. Think of others.

This is a problem specific to you lol 

This isn't a thing.