Urgent - WWBU to ask them to move their camper can out of our driveway

[bumbleymummy]

Strange situation - woke this morning to find a camper van parked at the end of our driveway. There's a note in the window with an apology saying that they are sorry to park there but they arrived late etc etc. it's a battered old thing with an Irish number plate. Do we give them the benefit of the doubt and think they'll be gone in the next hour or do we ask them to leave and risk creating a bad situation? I'm in the 'get off my land!' way of thinking but DH wants to give them an hour in case it is genuinely just a case of someone about to fall asleep and pulling into the nearest safe place. I would have thought if that was the case they would have moved on after a short nap though!

There is a massive difference between deliberately seeking out somebody's private property to pitch up tents, or camp, or park, (like some of you more hysterical lots are suggesting) and doing an emergency stop for some sleep in the early hours of the morning, in order to drive on safely without risking harm to either oneself or others out on the roads.

The first is taking the piss, the second is adhering to road safety rules and common sense.

How was he to know he parked on the land of somebody who could not understand this?

lots of x posts, that'll teach me to answer the phone.

Think this is getting blown out of proportion now!!
Nobody is saying everyone should have all and sundry parked up in peoples gardens at all.
It was one, repeat ONE camper van that for some reason or another need to stop. We can all try and guess why but we may never know. They have apologised arrived very late and have now gone.

It's not like a load of travellers have turned up and wanting to squat on your land and stay there forever.

Mountains out of molehills as usual on MN
If OP had a lie in this morning she may never have known they had been there!!

I love it when MN has a fit of the 'right ons'. Bloody hilarious! Still waiting for addresses in my inbox......by the way I actually am part Irish traveller so think of the wonderful stories you could tell your friends about my visit!

Gawd you are ridiculous Rhinestones....

Is the ability to use logic 'right on'?

Oops, missed that the happy camper has now gone !

Apparently the ability to use logic is 'ridiculous'.

Why Rhinestone?
Are you planning an emergency stop somewhere. Because if you are it won't be an emeregency. It will be a planned stop.
It sounds like it was an emergency for these (guessing now) couple?

Nobody suggested that Rhinestone.

I´m wondering what the note has to do with anything tbh.

Sorry to park there but they arrived late?

So when it gets late & you just park freely at your own convenience??

Rhinestone you'd be welcome to - I don't have one, but you can do that thing called "parking on the street".

diddl.
It could have been out of desperation
THey could have been horendously lost
It could have been if they drove another mile they could have fallen asleep at the wheel.

Who knows? but it does sound like it was an emergency.
Your posts are normally a bit more compasionate.

What bettybat said. At the end of a long driveway, round the corner, away from and, presumably, out of sight of the house, meh. It's not as if they're parked under her front room window trying to watch Corrie through it.

In fact actually - that's incorrect. I live above a shop. The back area of the shop is also the entrance to my flat. There's a little driveway, and then stairs (the fire escape type) up to my front door. People park in that little driveway all the time because just outside it is a council owned non-car park area that is known for aggressive clamping.

I shock horror don't know any of the people who have the audacity to park in the drive way at the foot of my stairs. Oh noes. Shall I call my landlady, who owns the land, every time someone parks there?

It's not as if they're parked under her front room window trying to watch Corrie through it. That is so funny!!!

I would not call what you are doing logic at all, but I shall leave you to bicker.

I have this image of an older couple (don't know why except if they were parents of young kids the kids would probably be ast school) that are quite happy driving along chatting and listening to Ken Bruce not having a clue about all the MN outrage they have caused!!

The bastards!!!

At least they have made an interesting if not slightly bonkers subject to discuss.

Shockingly, as the thread gets thrown from extreme to extreme, the op should have probably done exactly as she should - take the note at face value, leave them be, but be a little wary because she didn't know them and it was a little odd.

I love this thread. Especially Timewastings "ironic class warmongering"

But if they were lost/tired/desperate/emergency why not put that?

I think that it´s really taking the piss tbh.

And to just drive off in the morning without saying "thank you"

Me-compassionate-are you thinking of someone else??

Diddl - yeah, must be

This has been a great thread!

Although since I mentioned I was part Irish traveller, absolutely none of the right-on people have PM'ed me their address! How odd!

Yes, he could've at least limped up to the front door to doff his cap. Lol!

Rhinestone, I think that would put in me breach of my tenancy agreement.
Not supposed to use blu-tack let alone invite potential ruffians to sub-let.