My parents have taken to parking on next door’s drive when they visit.

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I genuinely can’t believe it.

Saw them out earlier and their car is on next door’s driveway. Plenty of places to park on the street, including directly outside my house and across my driveway.

My next door neighbour is currently in a nursing home but it is still his house with his belongings inside.

I am so embarrassed.

They have no understanding of boundaries. None. If they want to do something they fucking do it, to hell with everyone else.

I’m not even asking for advice, I’m just ranting.

Why, WHY would you think it’s okay to park on a strangers drive?

Mortifying. I no longer speak to my parents and can thoroughly recommend it as a route to inner peace and getting on with your own life on your own terms.

I would attempt to block the drive with the neighbours bins or similar, imagine if this persons family turn up and your parents car is parked there - shameless.

Sorry you're dealing with this OP, It's about more than the parking isn't it and is a horrid position to be in when your parents are this way.

As an aside, perhaps you could try and obtain some contact details for the neighbour of his next of kin. I would want a number in case anything happened to the house or even just to let them know if there was an issue.

PIL are a bit like this. When we lived in London we were lucky enough to have a drive, but FIL decided he would park in the street instead because the drive was a bit narrow. I told him to move it to the drive because the street requires a resident’s permit (which we didn’t have, due to having a drive). He gave a derisory snort and sat down with a coffee.

An hour later he glanced out of the window and was outraged to see that his car had been towed away.

He didn’t do that again.

The first house dh and bought, the neighbour’s mother used to park either in the middle of one of our and one of their spots or at times in the middle of our two and I’d come home from work and couldn’t park in my space. One day I came home to find her in the middle of our two so I parked neatly in one of their spots. Idk why the mother was at the house as the daughter’s car was not but the daughter came home from work and screamed at me for parking in her space as she was pregnant and her space was closer to her house… by 2 car widths I should add. The next day the husband painted lines to delineate their spaces. Idiots.

I was obviously not in the wrong for taking their space as I couldn’t take mine. Moral of the story, you don’t know how people will react and I agree with you. I never confronted this couple about the mother as I knew what they were like. But that day I was fed up.

Your parents sound like the sort of people we lived next door to, who were outraged for someone doing something that they (rather her mother) had repeatedly done.

@dontgobaconmyheart I have also taken that route to inner peace.

Highly recommend it op.

Can you tell them that the neighbours son/daughter/niece/nephew popped round and asked whose the random car is that’s been on their relatives drive and asked that it not be parked there anymore?
Will that stop your parents doing so?

This sounds like something my Dad and his wife would do. Whenever someone posts a CF thread and people say there is no way people like this exist I think of them and know they do.

OP, I’d just say something to them along the lines of “would you be borrowing his grave so quick”.

If you know the ndn or their family I would ring them and ask if they would like you to park your car on the drive for security as the house is empty. Then put all the bins on your drive. Parents can park in the street.

Next time they do it, have their car towed 'anonymously'

It might be good for security reasons as some have said.

However, eventually someone will move in and highly doubt they will be happy. Op might find herself in situations with the neighbours not being too happy.

Gods sake that’s an embarrassment. Poor you !

I'd just moved into my new house and had a friend round. I'd invited her dad over too as he was picking us up and taking us out for a meal.
Her dad knocked on the door, came in for a chat and a glass of water, sat down for 20 minutes or so chatting... We then leave and as I walk out of the house I can see he's parked completely blocking our neighbour's (not next door, but just along the street) driveway!! As we're getting in the car, said neighbour comes out and says "hi, can you not park in front of our driveway?" My friend's dad ERUPTS and goes completely mad, right up in the face of my neighbour, shouting "don't effin tell me where I can and can't effin park!!!" Me and my friend were just stood there in shock. He then gets in the car and heads off to the restaurant and carries on chatting like it was the most normal thing in the world!
I was mortified and went round the next day with a bottle of wine and some flowers to apologise!
Since then, I now have a habit of checking where visitors have parked on the road 🤣 if I can't see their car I'll walk out to the end of the driveway pretending to look at something different just to make sure they've not done anything crazy

Could you lie and say someone who’s related to your neighbour has been asking whos the car is ?

Would you? You’d go to all that trouble?

I don’t think you would.

The neighbour is in a nursing home. What's the problem?

Seriously? You think if someone isn't physically occupying their house that anyone should be able to access their private property for their own use?

We bought a house that had been empty for a long time and before that the person who lived here didn’t have a car. It took months to stop people parking across our drive “oh but we’ve always parked here…” grrrr

Quietly call parking enforcement to give them a ticket. That'll stop them.

Parking enforcement won’t ticket a car on private property.

Wrong. If they don't have the owner's permission, the owner or their proxy can request that a ticket be given. Call and see.

We had a car abandoned in our work car park. The council parking enforcement weren't interested. It was there for weeks. The police wouldn't do anything either. The company got it towed to the road eventually.

Holy moly! How did he take it when you made him unpack them??