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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).

OP posts:
70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/06/2014 12:20

100% not 1005

HannerHet · 13/06/2014 13:10

Yanbu
When you go and ask them to move, can you also say 'can you not park there again please?'

cowsarescary · 13/06/2014 13:40

Park across your own drive, deffo.

DejaVuAllOverAgain · 13/06/2014 14:02

Next time they do this give them 5 minutes to get settled in at the neighbours then go and ask them to move their car. Drive out of your driveway and park in front of your drive before going back in the house. Do this each and every time until they finally get the message and start parking elsewhere.

Andrewofgg · 13/06/2014 14:13

kelper This may be the first time that a man has been directed to a (mildly) pornographic site by a thread on MN. Have you looked all the way down the site you menti

Andrewofgg · 13/06/2014 14:14

*mention?

prawnsmummy · 13/06/2014 14:27

You should not have to use an excuse as to why you want to enter/leave your premises. Think you need to have a polite word with your neighbours to remind them it is your driveway and your access to your house and it's becoming an inconvenience that you have to knock to ask them to move.

Just had a new drive laid and kerb dropped so I'm waiting for this to happen to us - I'll be ready! Grin

kelper · 13/06/2014 21:09

Andrewofgg please feel free to report it then, I have no idea why there is a random topless lady ¾ of the way down the page. However you are the only person to have contacted me via pm or otherwise about it!!!

Andrewofgg · 13/06/2014 22:52

Kelper Done. I was a bit taken aback . . .

8misskitty8 · 14/06/2014 15:48

People park over various drives in our street due to school drop off/pick up. Even those who live in the next street would rather drive to the school instead of walking their children. Then they stop and chat in the playground for 20mins afterwards so it's not as if they do it to get away quick for work or anything. But the people whose drive they have blocked do !
We've tried putting notes on cars (They were thrown away) and politely telling them to stop blocking drives (The reply was that they would park were they wanted as they pay road tax !) We've started taking photos in our street it's so bad and have sent them to the council to see if they can do anything.

If it's the same car OP then i'd consider reporting it to the non emergency police line every time it happens. Or as someone else suggested sit and toot your horn until they come out.

PoonAnnie · 14/06/2014 16:02

Oh FFS. The site is called youparklikeacunt.com. What did you expect - rainbows and puppy dogs? Hmm

Andrewofgg · 14/06/2014 16:26

PoonAnnie I expected photos of badly-parked cars, and found them, but I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition a photo of a young woman displaying her breasts and her genitalia. There's a time and a place. I was in the office, good thing I was on my phone and not my employer's PC Grin

PoonAnnie · 14/06/2014 16:36

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition. Grin

Sorry Andrew. I took a bit of a beating on another thread and was angry when I posted here. Really sorry for my post.

RedToothBrush · 14/06/2014 16:42

I know someone who once got so fed up of this, they put the bins right next to the neighbours car so they had to move them before they could go anywhere.

They took the hint.

Andrewofgg · 14/06/2014 16:46

PoonAnnie I am very difficult to upset and no apology is called for!

alemci · 14/06/2014 16:50

Miss Kitty could you contact the school and complain. Sometimes traffic wardens come down to the school in my road and the parking drastically improves. Surely it is downright wrong to park over someone's drive. I understand if they park on the road but not over someone's drive. What is wrong with them?

Just because they pay road tax doesn't entitle them to obstruct peoples' drives etc.

Harry1603 · 14/06/2014 16:57

I hate inconsiderate parking. MIL had new neighbours who had their driveway relaid and rather than park on it they parked the wife's car across MIL's driveway. She's in poor health and so doesn't have a car but that's not the point - DH has to take her to various medical appointments and so needs to be able to park right outside her house as she can't always walk to the car.

When DH mentioned it to them there was a lot of huffing and puffing the car moved the following day (presumably when the wife went out) and now she completely blanks DH if she sees him.

RedToothBrush · 14/06/2014 17:01

Thinking about it 23.05 tonight would be a very good time to knock on and ask someone to shift their car. Especially if they have had a drink or two, at which point you can make an issue of it being dangerous and what can you do in an emergency

JohnnyBarthes · 14/06/2014 17:06

If you're not parked in your drive, is it reasonable to expect other people to not park across your drive if there are no other spaces?

Genuine question. My opinion is that if you know your neighbour is likely to be coming home late, or has a genuine need to be parked close to their door, then you leave it clear. Anything else and that space is fair game.

RedToothBrush · 14/06/2014 17:20

JohnnyBarthes Sat 14-Jun-14 17:06:44
If you're not parked in your drive, is it reasonable to expect other people to not park across your drive if there are no other spaces?

Er if there is a drop curb, of it bloody is!

How does your neighbour know if you might be doing something out of the ordinary. You have PAID for your parking as part of the property and have a right to access it. Its them who haven't paid for parking, so their tough luck.

I don't understand on what parallel dimension it would be find to act like a dick and add to parking problems in the area, by preventing your neighbours to park on their own property and forcing them to park elsewhere.

JohnnyBarthes · 14/06/2014 17:32

By paying to get the kerb dropped and thereby baggsying kerb space whether you're in or not, you're contributing to any parking problems (not to mention issues with run off and flooding).

RedToothBrush · 14/06/2014 17:40

No you are not. You are allowing the free flow of traffic, and very often you can get more than one car on a driveway.

Sorry but I think anyone who blocks a driveway is a nasty self centred shit.

OddFodd · 14/06/2014 17:42

How am I contributing to parking issues by having a drive? My car on my drive takes up less space than it would on the road.

And how does a dropped kerb contribute to run off and flooding? Confused

OP I leave polite notes on people's windscreens 'please don't park here again - you're blocking my drive. Thank you'

RedToothBrush · 14/06/2014 17:43

Not everyone works 9 - 5 either.

What professions do a lot of shift workers do?

OddFodd · 14/06/2014 18:00

Oh and the only reason my street doesn't have parking restrictions (unlike the rest of the streets in the centre of town) is because the houses all have OSP. Without it, there'd be residents' parking, meaning you couldn't park here at all.

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