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We all love a parking thread

54 replies

outgrown · 25/06/2017 18:54

First world problems I know, but irritating to death all the same...

Row of six town houses, next door is the only one with a garden rather than having it converted to a driveway. There used to be a grassy patch on the pavement in front of their house.

However, they then spent the whole winter parking on it and driving on it so much that it had been turned into a muddy patch that stretches in front of my driveway and their other next doors. Said mud gets driven onto my new driveway and trampled into my house. The pavement that was already knackered has quickly eroded under the mud to be quite messy and dangerous.

The grassy patch is now too damaged for them to park on...you've guessed where they park now...right at the end of my driveway. This completely blocks access.

The car doesn't belong to someone who seems to live here all the time, so sometimes they are just picking neighbour up. But it is always at the exact time that I am trying to leave in the morning for work. AIBU to expect that I can just leave my house when I am ready, rather than wait until she had loaded her feral (oh that's a whole other thread) children into the car?

Or sometimes when I come home they are parked there. They pay no attention to horns and just glare at me if I knock and ask them to move. So I have to park across the street and move my car later.

Currently, they parked there at 5pm and when I went out "to the bins" they said they would just be a minute. I'm expecting guests at 8pm, who I don't mind blocking my driveway and they will have no where else to park. They are still there...

Surely it's not unreasonable to want to chose who I allow to block my driveway?!

Rant over. I feel better now.

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GeillisTheWitch · 25/06/2017 18:56

Nothing you can really do about them blocking you out but next time they block you in I'd be straight onto 101 to get them towed. Entitled cockwombles.

Muumi3 · 25/06/2017 18:59

Call the council about the bit where they used to park and the dangerous pavement?

Friolero · 25/06/2017 18:59

You know the rules, a parking thread needs a diagram.

YANBU to be very irritated though, entitled twats.

outgrown · 25/06/2017 19:09

I've asked the council several times and they send a bloke out with a shovel to tidy it up a bit. Lasts a day.

101 won't be interested will they?

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GeillisTheWitch · 25/06/2017 19:11

If they're blocking your car from being able to leave your property and access the road then they are breaking the law and 101 may send someone out to do something about it if they have someone spare.

outgrown · 25/06/2017 19:13

Friolero would this be an acceptable drawing....

We all love a parking thread
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Supersoaryflappypigeon · 25/06/2017 19:13

It's not real unless there's a diagram op-sorry Grin

Friolero · 25/06/2017 19:15

Yes that's better!

They're totally over your drive then, how can they possibly think that's acceptable?

outgrown · 25/06/2017 19:15

Grass indicates the original patch that was once pretty. Mud indicates the mess that has been made of the no longer grassy bit. The stars show where they park every bloody day!

I paid a couple of thousand for a new block paved drive last summer which is now just a mud bath.

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Fitzsimmons · 25/06/2017 19:16

Can you park in front of your drive?

UrethaFranklin · 25/06/2017 19:17

Do the houses with drives actually have dropped kerbs in front of their properties?

Madwoman5 · 25/06/2017 19:18

Blocking the drive is not allowed. I would leave when I was ready as otherwise they will not know. You need to speak to them and spell it out that blocking your drive is not acceptable at any time and if it continues, you will have no option but to report it. Suggest they may want to consider converting their front garden as the obviously need the parking.

outgrown · 25/06/2017 19:18

Maybe if I told you a story, it would help explain their personality.

I come home from work (office hours). Their dog is sitting on my conservatory sofa, evidently having come in through the cat flap.

I knock on their door and describe the dog and ask if it was hers. She shrugged. I knew damn well it was hers so I asked her to come and collect it. She huffed several times and eventually followed me, saying "I suppose so" and took it back out. No apologies or anything.

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outgrown · 25/06/2017 19:20

Yes all dropped kerbs. No signs to say they can't park at the end, so I do let my guests.

In a morning, I sit there with the engine running and even sometimes slowly backing out. It's clear I'm trying to go to work. Doesn't affect them at all. One of the feral children is usually running around my car throwing my pebbles at this point.

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StealthNinjaMum · 25/06/2017 19:24

Excellent diagram op. I am loving this parking thread already (but sorry that you live next door to such selfish bastards.)

outgrown · 25/06/2017 19:25

Hey I could start a whole new thread about the "selfish bastards".

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outgrown · 25/06/2017 19:33

Friend is en route. She either parks in position car 2, or where they park, depending on how long she is staying for.

She's the type to just sit and hold her horn until someone comes out 😂

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outgrown · 25/06/2017 19:50

Nope no response. Friend parked down the street.

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IggyAce · 25/06/2017 19:52

Blocking your drive is not on, I would tell them to stop parking there and call police (non emergency number) next time they block you on your drive. They sound the type that won't get it until the police have a word.

SnowiestMountain · 25/06/2017 19:57

Sounds like this could be a good one, they sound hideous!! I wouldn't be surprised if you lived near me where a lot of this goes on

outgrown · 25/06/2017 19:59

They've gone now. I shall report back in the morning when I'm getting furious at how long it will take me to get off my drive...

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DontTouchTheMoustache · 25/06/2017 20:09

Back out of your drive into their car...

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ijustwannadance · 25/06/2017 20:14

Why do they park in front of your house/drive when they could park in front of theirs?

justkeepswimmingg · 25/06/2017 20:15

Well they sound charming.. Is there something preventing them from parking outside their house? Not in the garden, but in the road. Surely they don't need to be blocking you in, if they can park there? I'd report them to the council for everything. The kids throwing pebbles around the property, blocking your driveway, dog in your house etc. And of course call 101 if they are blocking your drive, even if you don't need to leave the house. Say there's an emergency, and you need to leave straight away. This needs to be nipped in the bud, I'd be fuming. I'm sure if you got their car towed just once, they'd never attempt it again Wink.

luckylucky24 · 25/06/2017 20:15

Drive into their car! Slowly so you don't cause damage.

(Obviously not if the kids are in it) Alternatively hand on horn until they come and move.

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