Live CF parking thread (with diagram!)

Shamelessly placemarking!!

Neither carpet fitting or oven cleaning are particularly long jobs. Hopefully he has another job to get to this afternoon and will find being blocked in very inconvenient.

I mean I'm not personally bothered if my DH cheats on me...I'm just not really wired that way. Huh? Nope... can't see that happening!

So how did they get in front of your car if the gates are behind your car ? So confused maybe just stupid

boom I think the point is that the smallness of having someone randomly invade your personal space varies enormously from person to person...and on the nature of the space invaded...

I mean I'm not personally bothered if my DH cheats on me...I'm just not really wired that way. But I can accept that the majority of people are very bothered by that and empathise with them about it!

M31on

*pipe - not pie

(Mmmm - now I want pie . . . )

@Battytwatty

I'm not a white van man. Just someone who thinks this kind
Of thing ain't worth getting too worked up about.

It does fascinate me to see how riled up people get though!

among the many other things wrong with a DM article, that one has no diagram!

@QualCheckBot

Yes, I do respect other people's property. I think that a generally laid back approach to life is easier. I wouldn't park on someone else's driveway but I wouldn't be bothered if next doors workman parked on mine.

Life can be really shitty at times - sweating the small stuff doesn't help (IMO).

We have the misfortune to live next door to a shop and even the fact we have a fence and "Private no Parking" signs people still think it is fine for park there...…...My favourite come back to "oh I'll only be a minute" is to ask for their home address, when they ask why I just say "so that when we are in the area we can park on your drive and pop off for a coffee and bit of light shopping...…..Now move"! Grrrrr I feel your pain!

I disagree Beaver - OP should not be forced ut of her home. She should just wet her lips with sherry (oh - okay, fish a bottle full if you like OP and then refuse to get behind the wheel because of Strong Drink Reasons.

Also she can't find the car key because Small Boy has been playing with it, so she can't just give it to Wanky Builders to move her car.

I would definitely hide a few tools and deny all knowledge even if it meant blaming an Innocent Child.

And I'd tell the said Innocent Child to stick a potato up the exhaust pie.

I can see the new diagram and it is a thing of beauty! Brava!

Ok. So you and toddler are napping but he won’t give a shit until it’s time to go home.

If it was me, I’d leave around 4. Close gates behind you and see if you can’t stay out until bedtime. I really would.

BOOM. Are you a white van man?

Sorry about the DM link but maybe you should claim harassment like this guy!!

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I won't pay a premium to live in a house that has a driveway... I'll just use one of the neighbours drives instead

They won't care that they're blocked in until they want to leave - and I suspect they think if they kick off/shout the OP will quickly move. OP - go out for a long, long walk! Don't come back until about 7pm.

the correct response when they want you to move / unlock is 'I'm having a tea break will only be 15 mins

That is, of course, a builders 15 minutes . . .

boomshakalak Honestly I cannot begin to see why this is causing SO MUCH ANGER!!

I really find it interesting that people get this wound up about it.

It's a driveway (that no one is using) with a van on it. It doesn't matter. If OP needed it then it would be different.

Life is much easier when we let the small stuff go...

Do you not respect other people's property then either...?

boom I'm on the fence. On the one hand what you say makes some sense, on the other hand a lot of people are attached to their property and their land, and view it strongly as their personal space and deeply dislike people invading it without permission.

I mean in theory there is nothing awful about someone walking into your house through the back door, sitting in your kitchen and responding to a request to leave with 'I'll just be a moment' then staying for 2-3 hours.

I mean if you aren't using the kitchen then so what?

But almost everyone would find that invasive and stressful. Most people would find a stranger sitting in their garden invasive, and I still think more people than not feel the same way about their driveway - especially if it can be closed off as the OPs can.

I don't feel massively attached to my driveway as it goes straight to the road, but I would still react at least a little if someone parked on it and wouldn't move!

Thay messy dog path is obviously where the dog turned in circles before having a poo.

(Thank you Pinkywoo for publishing the extra diagrams).

Those ARE crabs, OP - you can't wheedle your way out of this one.

Now I'll read on . . .

There are times to let the small stuff go but when you've pointed out to a person that they've parked in the wrong property and THEY LEAVE IT THERE ON PURPOSE then they are being deliberately Goady and don't deserve any kind of leeway whatsoever. ,

Boom is clearly the type of entitled CF that pulls this shit. 'oh you're not using this, I'll just use it myself even though it's not mine and I have no right to but it's convenient for me'

I don’t understand why he’s still there and I don’t understand why you’re so chilled about it?

He’s on private property and is refusing to move. I’d have called the police by now to get him to shift.

If you think this case is bad, I had one a couple of years ago when the neighbour was having their scaffolding taken down and I came back home to find they'd reversed the huge scaffolding lorry down our drive (only wide enough for a car), so there was no way past it besides climbing over it. They'd left the cab on the pavement so the driver could get out. When I asked them to move it, they had the cheek to say they'd not be much longer. I had an errand to run, so I left them to it, but when I came back an hour later, it was still there and the cheeky sods were sat on my front lawn having a tea break. I went ballistic at them. Scaffolders are a different breed of entitled/arrogant pricks!