You are not alone in your guilt. In my neighborhood, I live on the corner of a residential street that is all single-family homes and a major cross street that is all low-income apartment houses.
So, there's not enough parking at the apartment houses a half block away so they come and park in front of my house. I have NO driveway so there's been a few times where I wind up parking down the block instead of in front of my own house.
So far, no real problem, right? Well, said apartment dwellers all have cars they either do NOT drive or the owners are unemployed so the cars wind up being parked forever. They're basically abandoned and the owners move them from time to time to avoid being ticketed. Well, a few of them decided to park their abandoned cars at my house for several weeks. I was hopping mad.
This means I could not put out my trash cans on trash day. And sometimes they park their cars so that it blocks the gateway to my house and I have to climb over their cars to get in!
So, after the first occurrence of this, I started calling the city and reported them all as abandoned if the car was parked more than 3 days. hehehe
Funnily enough after I made a few examples of the worst offenders, hardly anybody leaves their wrecks in front of my house and I can park *and* bring out my trash cans on trash day. But I know that someday, one of them will come over and shoot the windows out of my car or house because I reported them. Uh-oh!