to be told 'sorry' for parking across my drive?

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Neighbours parents parked across my drive so could not get in, loads of other places in the road to park so no idea why, DS knocked on the door and politely asked for them to move the car so I could get on the drive; wanted to reverse on, boot full of shoopping, kids and kids school stuff, not wanting to park over the road and carry it all across the road.

The Dad came out and did not say a word and move the car three feet forward so I could get in.

So rude A - to do it in the first place B - not to say sorry, AIBU?

Also, I was speaking figuratively, not literally. Of course.

YANBU. At my previous house, the NDNs ran a business out of their home which required a large Parcelforce van to come every day. It always parked across our drive, every single day.

Even when I didn't need to get out it made my blood pressure soar.

Soemone did this to me a couple of weeks ago, just as I was coming out of the house to take the DDs to out of school club and head off to work. She looked at me, closed the car door and started walking off, I called out to her and politely asked her to please move her car as I was just leaving. She did, but gave me a look - honestly, some people!

And my mum in Holland used to get this all the time as there was a physiotherapist just across the road from our house. One Monday morning during exam time (I was home from Uni, our exams over, was assisting her as a scribe), we found someone parked across the drive - mum trotted across to the physio clinic, went into the waiting room, asked the nurse to let everyone know - no-one owned up, but one guy looked shifty.

Twenty minutes later, the car was still there, my mum had to call the school to let them know she was going to be late for her first exam and could another examiner be called in! So she thought 'right mate, you're making me late, I'm going to make you late' and got a pot of that old-fashioned thick green soap in a pot and smeared it all over his windscreen (front and rear) and side windows. No damage to the car at all, obviously, but the guy (and it was the shifty one) had to gio back to the physio, borrow a bucket, ask for loads and loads of water and wash the stuff off until his windows were clear enough. And lovely and clean. Mum and I watched and drank coffee, were epically late. Funnily enough it was years before it happened again, reckon physio must have briefed his patients about the nutter lovely lady across the road who needed to get out of her drive.

YANBU.
I saw this advice on here and have made a mental note: Stick a notice on their car windscreen asking them not to park there and make sure you use very sticky tape to do it and rub it firmly onto their windscreen. This will take ages to clean and hopefully they will not want you repeating the proceedure whenever they block you in.

Pointythings - your mum sounds like an absolute legend!! What a great way to make the point!

I assume fairy liquid, in big enough quantities, would have a similar effect, and anyone on this thread who has this problem should invest in bucketloads of this or cheap laundry soap.

muminthemiddle i would be sticking it on with prittstick, loads of it

Yep, Fairyliquid slathered on thick would take a lot of buckets to shift. And my mum is still a legend all these years later, thanks!

Am dashing to the shops right now to get a casefull of Fairy Liquid!

People turning in my drive irritate the hell out of me. My DD potters about on our drive, she knows not to go any further. My cats sit in the drive too.....as do our daily drives and our classic vehicle. What if they were hit by someone "just turning"?

It is private land, I expect my child, cats and cars to be able to be on it without fear of someone turning into it unexpectedly.