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This is more of an awkward situation really. Our neighbour is disabled so the council created a large disabled parking bay outside her house. Fine, obviously her car is a tremendous help to her mobility...
Fine, that is, until she recently started parking her car so badly that she's repeatedly bumped and scratched my mum's car and almost always leaves about a 2 metre space behind whilst going over her bay's line by about 0.5-1 metre, so effectively in front of our house and making it almost impossible for mum to get out or park. It's become so bad even other neighbours have commented. We hoped she'd have it pointed out to her by a carer, or take the hint when mum placed a cardboard box in front of her car to protect it, but no.
No one wants to have conflict with neighbours but it seems even worse to have to address the issue with someone who is disabled, recently widowed, mother to a young child, often needs a hand with little random things, plus who we really like and have the deepest respect and admiration for.
I'm usually the one who comes straight out with it and tackles these things head on (notes through doors seems like a bit of a passive aggressive measure to me) but I have just convinced mum to go and have a word herself...hopefully there'll be no fallout!
tl;dr - cars are evil, bikes are good.