I have been with my dp for about 18 months now, he lives in the same street as me and has 2 lodgers, between them they have 3 vans, dp and lodger no 1 have small private vans which can both fit on dp's drive,
Lodger no 2 has a big work van so had to find somewhere else to park, we have some flats across the road with a parking area for maybe 10 vechiles, There are no signs saying that these are just for the flat dwellers there are also garages for each of the the flats and a few of them have been vandalised, There are 12 flats,
I have lived here for 15 years and anybody and everybody has always used this parking area, usually visitors and workmen, anyways about a year ago one lady in the flats was giving lodger no 2 grief most times when he parked the van there, leaving notes on the windowscreen and sometimes coming out shouting at him that he couldn't park there,
I have a drive but do not own a car so I told him that if he really could not find no where else to park then I didn't mind him using my drive overnight on the odd occasion, I hadn't taken much notice of the van before and assumed as it was his work van (company he works for has name all over it) then if at all it might be on my drive overnight at the most a couple of times a week.
Well he took that as he can park on my drive all the time, I didn't know at the time that his van was used as back up, he works with another fellow and they use his van 90% of the time, lodger no 2 only uses his if his workmates van is off the road or is on holiday and for personal use,
So for the past year I have had this big drain van on my drive, sometimes it doesn't move for weeks on end, 24/7. it has been winding both myself and dc 19 and 17 up for months now as it's always there, we have to walk over mud and grass to get to the house and if we have more than one visitor they have to find somewhere else to park as only one can park across the bottom of the drive.
What finally pissed me off enough to say something was the xmas period, It never crossed his mind that we may have vistors or need the drive, I have asked him a few times in the past to move it as my dd was having friends round but I don't feel I should have to ask seeing as it's my drive,
I got so wound up about it that on the sat after xmas he came home to dp's house and I was there, he shouted hello through the door and I asked him if he could move the van the following day as I wanted my drive back, he said ok, within 5 minutes he went back out and moved it to the spaces near the flats,
He has come in whilst ive been there since about 6 times and never said anything to me, He usually says "hi chaps" to myself and dp as front room door is never fully closed because of the dog but I have noticed that since I asked him to move it he only says "hi dp" even though he knows i'm there.
I have replied "hi lodger no 2" his real name obviously, so had a good idea he was pissed off about it'
Last night dp picked me up from work and told me that lodger no 2 had asked him why I didn't want him parking on my drive anymore, he told him that he was taking the piss, it was only supposed to be as a last resort and we had had enough of it being there all the time, His reply was that it was a lame excuse and he would get me a small pressie to make up for it then I should let him park there again,
My dp said " good luck with that" and laughed,
Wibu to tell him to shove his small pressie where the sun don't shine?