Back on topic - I agree entirely with MarkS. I have resisted putting in my two penn'orth but have been really disappointed in the way the responses take the revenge route (and can only assume most are "tongue-in-cheek").

Barbara caused the situation by doing something that her neighbour objected to, so it was up to Barbara to find an equable solution. Which I understand she did - well done for rising above the situation.

Bear in mind that trying to get revenge is available to both sides of any argument - that's how positions polarise and things escalate out of all proportion.

Here in UK, most modern housing developments are protected by legal covenant to prevent people parking caravans on their drives - this didn't just happen, it's by (mostly) common consent. Those roads not so protected can look like hell with caravans of various age, condition, lurid colours etc, and no way to prevent it. It's all about trying to make life a little nicer.

So if one of my neighbours wanted to move a TWENTY THREE FOOT trailer in next door to me, you can be sure I would be as pissed off as Barbara's neighbour. But I hope I would have gone about it in a more sensitive way!!

Cheers, Terry