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Would you park in a random persons driveway?

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Rollergirl1 · 17/09/2014 20:51

We live on a fairly busy main road. Some houses have driveways (enough for one car). Unfortunately we don't. I admit that parking can be a bit of a nightmare but there's not anything we can do about that. Both DC's had friends to play after school today. One Mum came to pick up her son. DS immediately came and asked her could she stay for a cup of tea as they weren't finished playing. I said she was welcome to if she wanted. She was about to say yes but then remembered that she'd parked in our NDN's drive and asked me if that was okay. I was a bit flabbergasted to be honest. I was literally just looking outside to check which neighbour and saying that it wasn't okay. Then the neighbour in question turned up in their car and was not able to get in to their drive and was holding up traffic behind them and obviously wondering who the hell's car it was. It all caused a bit of a fiasco. Neighbours have been very gracious about it but I am really embarrassed.

Who parks in the driveway of someone they don't know from Adam??!

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Boysclothes · 17/09/2014 22:59

Twice in my rounds I have parked in communal car parks of flats when me wasn't visiting someone in those flats. We have lots of period properties here and when they are turned into flats they have huge gravel drives but no actual designated spaces. They are all empty in the daytime and I have in desperation stuck the car in one. Hated doing it! But wasn't blocking anyone or causing any inconvenience as there was tonnes of space left. That's one of my guiltiest secrets!!!

getdownshep · 17/09/2014 23:00

I get the rage when someone parks hanging over my white line, god knows what I would do if they were on my actual drive

thereturnofshoesy · 17/09/2014 23:00

never ok
if someone did that in my drive I would be furious
in what planet is it ok??
it is private property.

CrazyTypeOfIndifference · 17/09/2014 23:04

No I wouldn't.

I'd be pretty open about telling anyone parked on my drive to get the fuck off too. Just like I would if I happened to come home and find some random sitting in my garden.

It's my garden, my drive, private property and NOT for you to use when you fancy - get the fuck off.

Bulbasaur that attitude stinks.

SquirrelWearingATrilby · 17/09/2014 23:06

One of my neighbours was annoyed at someone parking on his drive "just for a minute" (half hour or so)

So the next time he waited until they had gone in next door, then pulled his gates shut and padlocked them.

He kept them shut for a week. He came and went by his back gate. The driver screamed and called the police, who said there was nothing they could do as it was private land.

CrazyTypeOfIndifference · 17/09/2014 23:07

There is just no excuse, not even for picking your child up 'just for a minute' (the only exception I can understand is the mw on an emergency call in the middle of the night - pretty unique situation).

If you go to collect your child and there is no parking in the street, you find the next nearest street with parking, and park there and walk. And if you have to walk the length of three streets to the nearest parking, so be it - you do NOT just pop onto someones private property when it suits you.

StitchWitch · 17/09/2014 23:45

Squirrel, I want gates!!

MrsPiggie · 18/09/2014 00:02

No way! It's private property, she might just as well get into his home and store her buggy there because there was nowhere else to leave it.

DustyCropHopper · 18/09/2014 00:09

No I wouldn't, but it seems it isn't that uncommon. I have heard of parents at ds' school doing it and in the summer we were at a fete/firework evening when it came over the tannoy system 'could the owner if x car please move it as you are blocking a drive, oh no not blocking the drive, you are actually parked on their drive and they would really like to put their own car on their own drive'.

HauntedNoddyCar · 18/09/2014 00:17

I wouldn't. And I went proper batshit when I came home from school run in car (no alternative) to find a builder parked on my drive. I work at home so I dumped my car blocking him in and yelled at him before going in and refusing to answer the door when he knocked.

MidniteScribbler · 18/09/2014 00:39

There is no choice but to either park across the spaces thus blocking one or two cars in or use one of the currently vacant spaces.

Or find somewhere you can actually park and WALK to pick up your child.

Parents who think their little angels will melt if they have to walk a few meters are the worst.

Thebodyloveschocolateandwine · 18/09/2014 00:48

Midnite I suspect it's the lazy arse parents not the kids.

It's dreadful behaviour.

Bulbasaur · 18/09/2014 03:03

What if you couldn't restart your car or you didn't see the child of the house playing on that drive or their cat.

Uhm.. You look for living creatures before backing out of any driveway? Do you not look for neighbor kids or stray cats before backing out your car on your own drive?

If my car couldn't start, I have more problems than a person angry about me being on their precious drive.

I'm slightly concerned about the cars you buy and your driving etiquette if these are truly concerns.

I'm glad you are ok with it Bulbasaur - but if you parked on my drive, I'd have your tyres

If you wanted me to leave, wouldn't that be counter productive? I'd just be there longer filing a police report and getting a repairman out.

maninawomansworld · 18/09/2014 10:51

A friend of mine had a problem with someone parking in his drive a few years back. He found the offender on his drive the once , a few hours before he was due to fly to turkey for 2 weeks. So he blocked them in!

He came back to lots of angry notes through his door but both cars were still as he'd left them.
He then issued the offender with a parking charge before he released the car.
They never parked there again.

LurkingHusband · 18/09/2014 11:01

"Alien cunt car"

TortoiseshellSpecs · 18/09/2014 11:03

No, of course not, it's incredibly rude and bizarre behaviour.

Loopylala7 · 18/09/2014 11:11

Cheeky as.

Thebodyloveschocolateandwine · 18/09/2014 11:17

I guessing that one day Bulbasaur you may regret your attitude and park on the wrong drive.

Very entitled attitude.

OwlCapone · 18/09/2014 11:25

What if you couldn't restart your car or you didn't see the child of the house playing on that drive or their cat.

Yes, because thinking you can park on someone else's driveway turns you blind to spotting children or cats.

Personally, I wouldn't, unless I was literally just grabbing my child who was waiting on the doorstep. Probably not even the though. However, I woj
Don't really have a problem with someone doing it on my drive if it was genuinely just picking up.

(Thankfully I spotted that autocorrect had changed the word doing to dogging. I think I'd be pissed off with someone dogging on my driveway!)

AlPacinosHooHaa · 18/09/2014 11:42

I imagine she was just side tracked by the tea invite and was not thinking properly.

AlPacinosHooHaa · 18/09/2014 11:43

a LADY was waiting in school queue behind me yesterday, she was right across someones drive, then she asked me to move forward to clear the drive, but no one parks in front of the drive and when I said this, she said "Oh I didnt realise" but you can see the bloody drive there and that is why we do not block it

icanmakeyouicecream · 18/09/2014 11:43

Nobody does that - how rude!

Andrewofgg · 18/09/2014 11:50

andsbad Fretting about somebody turning on your driveway is not only absurd, it's absurd in a very male way. Get over yourself.

francesdrake · 18/09/2014 11:54

argh! You've just reminded me! How did the Alien Cunt Car thread finish??

PatricianOfAnkhMorpork · 18/09/2014 12:06

i get very tired of people parking across our drive. Generally we don't mind if we know which house they are in so we can get them to shift if we need to.

Think the best one though was coming home one evening to discover a police car parked on the drive! I blocked them in and they were pretty sheepish when they knocked on the door to ask us to move

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