What I’m really thinking: the mediator

We need to be impartial, non-judgmental and endlessly patient, but I feel like telling them to stop behaving like five-year-oldsThe housing trust is at its wits’ end. Two households are in an intractable dispute over a small area of pavement between their houses, where each feels they have a right to park. In fact, no one owns the road outside their house, but each person feels their circumstances entitle them to park there. So, a mediator – me – has been called in. Parkin