i was once told that "life it like a bed of roses....so watch out for the pricks"
seems very apt in this situation
my wife had not quite a scary moment and not in a car. but we have houses opposite us who have a spare parking space and it is on the new housing development plan as a visitors bay. my wife parked on it as i was on the drive and about to go back out to work for a school thing and was in the shower. when we got a knock on the door and it was the lady who had moved in across the road. telling her to move her f*ing car, how dare she park on the drive, she had payed a premium and owned the land, and that she had spoken to me about it as well, and that it was on there deeds if she wanted to have a f*ing look, and people were coming round soon. was down right rude to my wife. and also spouted complete BS. i went a checked with the site office they hadn't bought it, it was a visitors bay. and no she hadn't spoken to me, and no one turned up all night. that night they even parked sideways across both parking spaces, shows how immature they are.
funny thing is they won't talk to me. i make a point of being deliberatly pleasant, say hello, ask them how they are, and not once have they said a word to me about not parking there. which makes me cross, they feel they can try and bully my wife but haven't got the balls to stand up to me. my wife wasn't upset, more dumbstruck at how rude she was. if she'd asked nicely and just said, something on the lines of "just noticed you'd parked in front of our house is there any chance you could move it soon please." then there would never have been an issue. manners go a long way, yet so few people seem to have a grasp on them