P*ss off and don’t be bothering me

People are very quick to get annoyed by other people since covid/lockdown has shown them it's possible to live life only interacting with machines

I'd say the opposite is true. People put up with a lot here (to keep the peace). In other countries, abusers are more likely to be called out.

Not saying the neighbour was correct in the first place - we don't actually know how the car was parked.

A lot of people think its fine to just dump (park) their car anywhere they feel is ok.

My local town, people park on both side of the narrow streets, up on footpaths and all around the local centra.

You dont drive on a side of the road - you drive down the middle..

Its very fcuking annoying, but some people feel entitled to dump their vehicle wherever suits THEM , not thinking of any inconvenience or danger being put on other road users/pedestrians/people on bikes...

(not insinuating anything on the OPs - just an example)...

Edited - Footpaths - Not carparks!!

How could two people have such a divergent view on what is dangerous parking?

If I drove into and estate an parked outside someone else house, then came out and the house owner was there and told me not to do that again, my first reaction would be to just say "sorry I didn't think I was in the way"........ I might be annoyed in myself and think to myself "what a cranky old git" but I would just apologise and move on.

Likely this is always happening to him and he probably has a right to be cranky. Pick your fights

Every now and then something like this happens - and its funny how often, when it does happen, its triggered by what happens on roads.

Seems like you were both wrong in how ye handled it - although if I was to lean one way, yes it is a bit of an unwritten rule that you dont block peoples driveways when you are parking, if thats what happened.

I'd write it off, no point in beating yourself up over it.

Were you parked in a way that would mean a fire engine might not be able to fit down the road? Then yes, that would be dangerous, but yeah... He could have said it a nicer way.

Yeah I honestly can not imaging acting like either of the people described in the opening post. Neither of them appear on this vague description to have acted in a useful, empathetic, or productive way. Given the paltry information I can imagine how I would have acted as either party. But there is also so much we do not know about the event having not been there and only getting second hand (biased) descriptions.

But people are not isolated events. How they act in a given situation is an amalgamation of all the situations they have been through before that moment. Humans often forget there is a whole history behind every other human in a given situation - and go into any interaction with a rather 2D view of the person before them like it's just a simple machine with a fixed state.

Sounds as though both the neighbour and the op were unreasonable, but I used live at the end of a cul-de-sac and visitors used park in the turning circle all the time, (residents didn't usually) which meant that if you drove down the road you had to reverse out, which is less than safe, especially if there were kids around.

Hard to comment without knowing how the car was parked. Maybe the OP thought he was parked ok, maybe the neighbour had a point. Either way there was no need to be so aggressive and its probably going to create an issue for the friend with his neighbour.

I had an issue with a neighbour parking outside my house every evening, he probably thought the way he was parked was fine, but in reality he was so close to my pillar it was making it extremely difficult for me to see oncoming traffic when I was exiting my driveway, especially if the other neighbour directly opposite had his work van parked on the road (as he usually does as it doesn't fit in the driveway).

One day when I saw him at his car I asked him to come into the garden and sit in my driver's seat so he could see my difficulty and when he saw it for himself he agreed he was too close and from then on he parked a few feet further back. Problem solved. No row. He still parks there.

I had to change a headlight bulb in my car last Saturday. Turns out, this necessitates taking off the wheel and the wheel arch liner (19 screws), and accessing the headlight cluster from behind. There's no other way to do it - believe me I tried. Stupid design, and a relatively big job.

So a couple of hours later, after successfully changing the bulb, I'm lying on my back, half under the jacked-up car, in the wet and cold, with darkness rapidly approaching, trying to get the wheel arch liner properly refitted - there's tabs and screws and lips, and while it'll just rip out, to get it back in requires things being done in a very particular order for which there's no documentation.

Next thing I hear a woman's voice saying "hello!". I half roll out from under the car, covered in dirt and look up to see a woman with a bundle of Social Democrat leaflets in her hand.

"Hi, I just wanted to drop one of these in to your house".

She's standing in my driveway. I'm under a car, wet, cold, covered in muck, surrounded by tools, parts and torches. My front door is 8 steps away. It has a letterbox - specifically designed for such things to be inserted into. Why on earth is she even considering that it's appropriate to engage me in conversation at this time, in this situation, for this purpose?

I was just so, so disappointed by her. I sighed "I'm really busy here. Can you please leave me alone?". She looked shocked, as if I was somehow inconveniencing her, and walked off silently.

‘P*ss of and don’t be bothering me’ is what I should have said.

"I will, yeah" was the correct response to Ken.

But - are you sure you weren't dangerously parked?