There's a CF parked in my drive

I would take photos or a video with a time and date stamp, block them in and go out. They are on your property without permission and even if you get a ticket I would splash it all over social media and challenge the case. You may find that someone has rented out your space on one of these parking platforms where people can book your parking space for a day etc. a few cases where this has been done fraudulently and the result is similar to yours.

Can't bear people doing this. We used to have a drive with gates and yellow lines- people would block us in and go off for their salsa classes then be annoyed when I asked them to move ? Always 'I was only going to be 5 minutes'. Think is you can't reason with stupid but to be on your drive is truly bizarre x

Be a sport. It's village fete after all. Park as safely as possible and do leave a note for the CF if you've blocked it. Too much stress is no good to you or the fete goers!! Parking mistakes are made on such exciting village days and you don't know the circumstances of the other person/person maybe with babies? Hopefully it's all blown over by now??😀

Traffic wardens round my way don’t care about cars parking across drives. I even caught an actual warden blocking mine to go round the corner to catch people out. I’d defo park across my own drive in this situation.

Yes i reported the warden. CF.

Am just here for the mooring CF story…

We had a similar situation, mum bought a new house with a double drive around the back, she doesn’t have a car but we all do, neighbours back door had several cars & asked if they could park on her drive, & she agreed if they didn’t park up against her GD- I drove round back to visit & couldn’t get on the drive, two strange cars parked up & against the garage door. Knocked on the neighbors door, turns out its relatives of theirs & they had pissed off for day & night to a wedding, would have to kindly wait until the day after when they would be returning, I just went mental- never parked there again🙄I have heard that if you let someone park on your drive & the years pass by, it becomes their parking spot for good- not sure about that one?

Never heard of anyone being so cheeky to do that! Yes park across & leave a note on your car & their car- you could be disabled, elderly for all they know CFs

I am settled in at the fete, in a slightly damp gazebo drinking slightly warm white wine with friends.

Nothing says "Bank Holiday Monday in the UK" like this!

If we all chant MOOR-ING! together…?

It's 100% NOT the same, and is a bizarre comparison.

A while back we had 2 men climb over a walk onto our property, climbed up a fire escape onto a balcony outside our bedroom window.

Luckily our dog woke us, and scared them off. The police attended immediately and agreed it was totally planned to be an aggravated burglary (cameras caught it all and they knew exactly where they were going). BUT, as they had not actually entered our house even if they did catch them there was nothing that they would be able to charge them with as trespass is only a civil offence and not actually breaking the law.

I would also block them in and leave car there cheeky sods

As the person who parked on your drive is a certified CF, it’s not impossible she’ll have the brass neck to bring the incident up in further conversation with the OP in order to let her know how inconvenienced she was.
So don’t forget any of the benefit of hindsight comments you’ve since thought of and be ready with them if she approaches you.

I think you might have met my cousin's husband.

What the actual shit?

Can’t believe she phoned to get you to unblock her but not to check that it was ok (obviously you would have told her to get lost!) CF!

Or here's one for the book, we came home to find a chap on our drive, releasing his racing pigeons, as he thought it was a good spot to do so from!! He didn't think that after the conversation!!!!!

One day(if we eat our greens and say our prayers)we might get a 'Some CF Pilot Has Landed On My Helipad' thread.

@Oldsu now that the OP has fully updated us, please feel free to hijack the thread and tell us about the mooring??

I bet there'll be a next time (next fete?) and OP can use these suggestions then. I'm sure I'll still be on MN so look forward to catching up then. 🌹

We need to hear the mooring story now @Oldsu

If you'd had your wits about you at the time, I would have feigned ignorance about who owned the car parked across the driveway and said that you might have assumed it was someone from the fete as you are away for the day, so you have no clue as to who to ask to move their car from being parked across your own driveway...oh and why is she asking for this car to be moved anyway, surely she didn't assume it was ok for her to park on your driveway, right???

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Please start a thread...mooring one...getting popcorn... looking forward to this one

I think you responded appropriately on this one.

And fingers crossed for another school mum.