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-to get effed off with people blocking my drive?!!

95 replies

whendoesthecrapend · 12/06/2014 20:38

Sick to the back teeth of neighbours visitors parking right in front of my drive so I can't leave or get on my drive without knocking and 'asking' them to move their vehicles! They don't see a 'problem' with this and just expect me to be amicable and knock and they will 'happily' move for me!!

I, however, do not wish to KNOCK every time I want to leave/enter my own driveway, and don't see why I have to ask 'permission' to do so, if you know what I mean!!!!

I don't want to fall out with anyone but this is really effing me off!! The lazy f'ckers don't live here and can't be assed to park a bit further away and use the legs they were born with!! Can you tell I'm angry!! Angry

Any ideas on how to resolve this issue? (Preferably amicably as I do have to live here).

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KatieKaye · 12/06/2014 21:53

You can get blank, oblong book-plate stickers with really strong adhesive that needs a special solvent to remove them. I have been tempted (really, really tempted) to stick those on offending cars, inscribed with a pithy message.

MidniteScribbler · 12/06/2014 21:54

I would not bother with polite knocking anymore. Raving, screaming banshee would probably be a more appropriate description of my actions if this kept happening to me.

Fruityb · 12/06/2014 21:58

My old house had a parking space/driveway out the back and my neighbour used to 'borrow' it frequently, or people from the school nearby used to borrow it. A guy one left his van in there so I couldn't park. I had to ring the number on the van to get him to move it! I wouldn't dream of doing that.

Neighbour only stopped when I threatened to let his tyres down lol.

dripty · 12/06/2014 22:03

Park in front of the neighbours driveway? Might start to piss them off enough to get the message.

LadySybilLikesCake · 12/06/2014 22:06

Can you get a small sign and a clamp? £50 release fee? Grin

amy246 · 12/06/2014 22:17

One of my neighbours lets their visitors park in my drive! And they wonder why we get angry!

Lovecat · 12/06/2014 22:25

Oh, I feel your pain. Every fucking weekend a bloke parks his car across our drive so he can deliver his two kids back to his ex-wife in the flats next door. I have no idea what he does or says to these children on his access visits but the kids are basically hysterical and screaming clinging to the car refusing to go back to their mother (strangely enough they don't scream/shout/hit stuff during the week when they're with their mother so I suspect he's winding them up to it :( ), so it takes forever for them to get into the house and for him to piss off. He reverses about a metre when he sees me coming out, all smiles, like 'look! I've moved for you, aren't I lovely?' then he'll move back once I've gone. Drives me INSANE!

Can you install your own penguin bollards on the actual road or do you need council permission?

cookiefiend · 12/06/2014 22:28

I knew someone who used to write on the windscreen with lipstick- please do not park here or something like that. A pain for the driver as it smears over the windscreen and needs soap to come off properly.

Chattymummyhere · 12/06/2014 22:32

Everytime they pull up ring 101 report being blocked in and needing to get out urgently...

They will attend next door will get fed up of police at their dog and looking like a local trouble maker/dealer always having police there.

If they block you out knock on door get mad/shout and tell them you will be getting remote controlled bollards and if they park over them you will raise them with the car on top.

PicandMinx · 12/06/2014 22:33

Bollards. Penguin style.

emms1981 · 13/06/2014 00:07

The mother of the woman who lives next door to us as always parks in front of our drive way really pisses me off. also on a few occasions people have parked on our drive way when dh at work, I really don't get it, our drive way is right next to our back garden what makes them think this is OK?

NeilNeilOrangePeel · 13/06/2014 00:17

We get this. It's not neighbours, it's visitors to the village pub, and each and every one was "only going to be a minute". Really? Hmm

DH, when he can be arsed goes and drags them out, saying he needs to get the car out, and drives round the block - they're generally v sheepish when he does this.

We did put a sign up, which has made a difference.

I would try getting them to move it every time they do it - because you just must pop to the shop or whatever. They'll soon get sick of it.

NeilNeilOrangePeel · 13/06/2014 00:20

OOH, and dh once had an argument with a v posh lady with a jaguar, she said 'oh, do you need to use your car then? Why? Is it very important?" He was Shock

Don't block driveways, people Angry

RuddyDuck · 13/06/2014 04:31

We had this when we lived in London. Ndn parked across my drive one morning, I went out to get in car as I had meeting 2 hours drive away, so had to get her to move car at 6.45am and she was not happy. In fact quite abusive because I had the temerity to want to go to work. Hmm

One of my friends has this problem. She uses lipstick to write on the windscreen of the offending car "please don't block my drive". Not criminal damage as it's not permanrnt, but lipstick is a pita to get off a windscreen....

thebodylovesspring · 13/06/2014 04:51

Er can't you just knock in the door and say 'right I have been patient enough but if you park across my fucking drive again I will slash your tyres'.

thebodylovesspring · 13/06/2014 04:51

Er can't you just knock in the door and say 'right I have been patient enough but if you park across my fucking drive again I will slash your tyres'.

echt · 13/06/2014 04:52

It's a an extreme solution, but you could come to my bit of Australia, where it's illegal to block any drive, even your own, or have any portion of the car overhanging into the driveway, even if it's your car and your driveway.

pombearsforbrunch · 13/06/2014 06:05

We often had this problem with people parking across our garage.....so my husband bought a glass marker pen. It does come off with vinegar, but, like the lipstick, it's a PITA to remove.

GreatAuntDinah · 13/06/2014 08:33

You could do what DP did and use your scrapheap challenge vehicle to shunt theirs out of the way. Just make sure you have a couple of thousand in the bank for when your own car then dies on you.

Tentedjuno · 13/06/2014 09:07

If a house has those no-parking lines ending in a vertical dash in front of it, are you allowed to park there with the owner's permission? (echts post prompted this). DS2's front drive has room for two cars side by side, usually used by him and his GF, with a line on the road, so can I park there legally? Complicated by fact that the road has parking meters, but not after 6pm etc.

MehsMum · 13/06/2014 10:30

YNBU. I ended up melting down in the street at the manager of a local shop whose delivery driver kept on blocking our garage (and, incidentally, the whole street), usually at some time-critical moment (late for school, en route to dentist etc). I didn't think I was shouting, but the men in the workshop opposite told me afterwards that I had been.

A few months later I came home to find my garage blocked yet again. So I turned off the engine, left the car in the middle of the street and went indoors. They had to come and find me and told me it was very inconvenient for them. I told them it was pretty bloody inconvenient for me too, and it was about time they used the goddamn loading bay behind the shop rather than blocking a road to a dozen or more properties. After about 18mo of ranting and screaming from me and a lot of other people, they began to use a smaller lorry.

This is one of several reasons why I never darken the doors of a certain well-known supermarket. Ever. I have driven round a strange town to find a garage rather than use one of theirs.

I feel for you, I really do. It's infuriating when other people are so selfish and thoughtless.

Cric · 13/06/2014 10:45

Go out at 4am for 10 mins!!

quietbatperson · 13/06/2014 11:49

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Rhine · 13/06/2014 11:59

Blocking peoples drives is the rudest thing ever. I can't ever imagine any kind of circumstances where I'd do it. I remember one time when I was at my mums house and her neighbours were having some new windows fitted. The fitters parked a huge van across the drive blocking her car in, and we needed to get out. DM went around and politely asked for them to move and they just looked at her like she had three heads, shrugged their shoulders and said, "we'll move in a minute". Mum said "no, you'll move it now or I'm calling the police as it's a criminal offence to block a vehicle on a driveway". They did as she asked, but with much huffing and puffing and dirty looks.

People are are so fucking rude sometimes. I'm not condoning vandalism, but if you block other peoples driveways you should expect a nice key mark down the side or an egg cracked onto the windscreen ;)

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/06/2014 12:20

Check the legalities of lipstick/lipsalve etc , I think (not 1005 sure) that you cannot leave a car in an unsafe or undriveable state.
So a note under the windscreen - fine.
Lipsalve that smears when the windscreen wipers ar on and make the screen opaque - not fine.

(Though I am very tempted to write a note for the drivers who park so close that I cannot open my boot - I hope the next person you do this to writes the note on your fecking paintwork with a key, or scrapes the side of your car with their trolley. Ciao now )

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