guy came out of his house and started swearing and shouting for using a few ft of his drive to turn around

[pettywitchinlondon]

Had to pop out at lunch in the car. Was to a new place, so made a wrong turn. As the road was empty I turned the car around using mostly the pavement and a few ft of someone's wide drive. Just as I was about to complete and drive away a guy thumped my car and started shouting at me for using his drive. I said sorry, but didn't even wind down the window but he saw me mouh it. Was shocked and just drove off.

Was I in the wrong? I did no damage and was barely on his drive for 10 seconds.

OK, a 'very second' then. Same same.

I'm afraid I couldn't bring myself to give a tiny rat's ass if anyone uses my drive to turn round. I probably don't even know if they do.

I didn't really use someone else's drive, I was on it for seconds at most 2-3ft

By the way for some it doesn't stop at pulling onto their drives. We had people do it WHILST OUR CAR WAS THERE and actually hit our car. We also had soo many people drive onto our grass and hit our flowers etc.

He was on his property. Bottom line is that if you don't like it, GTFO his property, you don't have a right to be there.

In practical terms, he should get a gate or people will turn on it, this would be more effective and more conducive to "live and let live" than starting altercations with inconsiderate members of the public.

I said very second to describe when he ran out of his house. Not how long I'd been on the drive!

As someone who this happens to regularly (we have a drive at the very top of a cul-de sac which people often drive up thinking its a different road) I can see why he was annoyed.

No excuse to act like an idiot though.

You can't always have gates though. we are on a new estate and restrictive covenants prevents front fencing. plus the expense.

You were both unreasonable.

When I had driving lessons, we were taught how to do a 3 point turn IN THE ROAD. You would fail your driving test if you even touched a kerb, let alone crossed a kerb, a pavement and went onto someone's drive!!

Funnily enough, only this morning I watched a neighbour use the first part of my drive to turn round on. From the comfort of my sofa I muttered "learn to drive properly or get a smaller car you fuckwit".

I'd like to say YWNBU.

Unfortunately, I have a drive which, quite without my knowledge, appears to have become public property. So while it seems majorly churlish to object, by the time you've had umpteen fucking vans, every piece of heavy machinery on wheels that Network Rail uses and random bits of farm machinery turned on it - and the the surface damaged beyond repair - you can easily get a tad difficult with the next innocent car driver too lazy or incompetent to turn in the road who thinks they'll just use "a tiny part of it".

So while I avoid thumping on people's cars or going totally troppo, I do get unreasonably enraged when my driveway is encroached yet again.

He's probably sick of people doing this, can't blame him.

We put gates up for this very reason. Was worried somebody would knock one of the kids over one day. Some people were reversing about 10ft in to turn around, literally right up our drive.

I think coming out and banging on your car was a bit much but if it happens often it can get irritating.

We used to have a parking space at the end of our drive that would get used by visitors to our next door neighbours. That was slightly understandable although annoying but when the visitors to people across the road started to use it I got more than a bit irritated.

Some people, (including me ) can get very possessive about their drives.

It's a bit rude and annoying to use someone's drive to maneouver in, you should be able to do a 3 pt turn in the road, and as others have said it probably happens frequently to this person and he's got the arse.

I live at the end of a close and people turn round in it all the time and visitors park on my grass - gives me the hump too.

Drives me mad as my dogs think its visitors and start barking and charging around the hallway.

I also don't see why I should barricade my drive and garden because other fuckers are too rude to understand why it isn't acceptable to use them as their own. I wonder how accepting they'd be if I drove all over their drives and parked on their grass? Not at all, I suspect!

Do you remember when you did your driving test? You had to be able to do a '3-point turn' on the road without touching a pavement or using a drive/waste land/bit of grass. Well, that is what you should have done. You were taught to do that for a reason.

In 43 years of driving (and getting similarly lost) I have never backed up some strangers drive for my convenience.

YABU

I'd have come out and given you what for if I'd caught you doing it too. Pisses me right off when I catch people doing it as there is no need for it in my street.

I saw somebody reversing into my driveway not so long ago. I wasn't anything like close enough to say anything to them, but they were so hasty in trying to make a quick getaway that they also reversed into a concrete gatepost. They stopped long enough to check the damage, but chose not to stay and clear up their smashed rear headlight cover.

People do this on my drive too and it gives me the rage. I wouldn't run out and shout at them, but I do have fantasies about getting some James-Bond- style sharp steel blades which, at the touch of a button in my front room, would emerge from the drive surface and rear their tyres to shreds.

At the end of the day you shouldn't have turned in his drive ('tiny part' of it or not).
His reaction may seem over the top and unnecessarily confrontational but for all you know he might have had his car hit yesterday by someone else doing exactly what you did.
Apologise, drive off and don't do it again. End of.