Another parking thread - parking in people's drives if you visit

[voluptuagoodshag]

I'm just curious about this and wondered what was considered rude. If you are visiting friends who have obvious space in their drive do you park in it or on the road?

Personally I wouldn't park in it if I knew the space was about to be used by their DP coming home or similar but if I knew that the space was available for the duration of my visit and the alternative was to block up the street or pay for a ticket then I'd assume it was ok, and ask whoever I was visiting if it was ok.

Similarly I always ask visitors to park in the drive. We have a lot of space but the road we are on is very narrow and parking in it causes congestion so I feel guilty if visitors park in it when we have plenty space.

of course I would, if there was space. my only friend with a drive - when I visit her husband parks elsewhere so I don't have to and can park on the drive. I think that's exceptionally kind, and don't expect him to, but i'd certainly not be parking down the road if he was at work.

I'm always surprised when people visiting me don't use my drive. There is only me at my house and I have one car with room for two on my driveway.

I don't have a car but if I did of course I would park on the drive if I was visiting someone and they had a drive! Unless they specifically asked me not to, of course, obviously then I'd do as they asked. You are in that person's drive and visiting them - if they need to get out, they know who the car blocking them in belongs to and thus it is easily enough moved. Likewise other occupants getting home, the car is in front of their house and thus chances are its owner is inside, perfectly willing to move it so you can get onto the drive.

I had this very conversation with DH when we went to friends' house for supper on Saturday. They live in a big house with a long drive - long enough for about 4 cars. Their house is on a dark but wide road. DH parked on the road at the bottom of the drive. I gave him this look . He said it's really rude to park on someone else's drive and that's that. When the second couple arrived, they also parked on the road. Just me then...

People always park on my drive when they visit. We have a shared drive with next door - all the other semis around here have space for 4 cars, but for some reason ours only takes 3 cars. Neighbours have two cars and generally use both spaces on a day-to-day basis.

However if someone is visiting me (or the neighbours) they will park in the third 'communal' space. If the neighbour's second car arrives home in the meantime they park across the back of 'their' space. I thought nothing of this - as we're both happy with it - until a visiting friend refused to park in the 'third' space as it's usually used by the neighbours. Was so odd. They ended up having to park two streets away as there's not much space between houses so they'd have ended up blocking someone in.

I find it odd when people don't park in the driveway of a friend or family member.

My drive is big enough for two cars. In 7 years of living in this house no one has ever parked on my drive.

People love to park across the drive, instead.

My next door neighbours have room for 4 cars, but no one ever parks on their drive either. I think it depends on how big the opening of the drive is.

Having though about it, unless the house was on a busy road, or on a modern housing estate and the road was a dead end type of road with specific a specific drive for each house, I wouldn't park on the drive.

I tell visitors to park in my drive as I live on a corner and people aren't always careful when coming around the corner. My cars live in the garage, so the drive is always clear.

My dad is always funny about people parking on their drive. He doesn't make a big issue of it, but if he's out when people arrive and they use the drive so he's had to park on the road, then he can't help but say 'jokingly' "Oi, who's that car in my space?"

I can remember an early boyfriend coming to pick me up and coming in for a bit and I was mortified when my Dad came home and I realised BF had parked on the drive Dad couldn't resist a dig... Embarrassing parent alert!

It's silly really, their drive takes two, but one blocks the other in, so if you do park on their drive you're blocking in the first car, so I never do. There's oodles of room on the road anyway, so not an issue to park there, but I think that's why my DF thinks it's cheeky to park on the drive.