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.

And OP has already explained that the man was already in the driveway
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Which kind of makes it all the more cheeky.

I did say he handled it badly. I don't agree with the banging on the car and while the OP was cheeky it's not the end if the world using his drive. But posting his address on a public forum is bang out of order and trying to defend it by saying people asked for pictures on another thread is poor.

Yes I mean there isn't enough space to do a turn in the road in 3 turns. Of course I can actually do a 3 point turn.

Isn't there some sort of weird general easement in the UK to allow visitors up a path/driveway without an occupier's permission, thereby enabling postal folk, milk operatives and delivery personnel access without 'trespassing'.
Thinking about it, you can only burgle inside a property. Not its driveway etc. - presumably because burglary involves trespass and a visiting thief isn't a trespasser?
Not suggesting OP was a burglar though.

@pettywitch: I did driver training in California.

Someone today pulled into my drive today to let another car by; the very rare jam on our quiet country lane. I don't mind the pulling in at all as long as they actually look for living creatures and don't brake hard into the drive because they were driving too fast anyway.

Can't bring myself to get upset about people using my drive to turn round. If they caused actual damage, then yes, but just using my tarmac for a few seconds? No no problem with it. OP YANBU but I don't think posting a picture of the house was a great plan!

Will op stand by her nonchalant attitude about privacy by furnishing us with her address? I suddenly feel the need to do some driving where lots of turns in the road are needed. not that I'd use my actual driving skills to do this, I'd use your drive

Sure, 51.5010° N, 0.1416° W

It strikes me that the OP is pretty keen on privacy and boundaries when it's to do with her own property but it's different when it's other people's.

You wish. Although, by the sounds of your driving even that's not enough room to turn.

Nice pad OP! Windows could do with a bit of a clean though...

Omg! Someone's been attaching fences to, and rendering garage walls at Buckingham palace!?

Can't believe this is still going on!!

This must be a "turn in the road" topic, if it had been a "use the drive" topic it'd have finished by now!!

It's Drivegate.

Mostly because he didn't have a gate.

This is what I find interesting about MN that something that seems so obviously wrong to me seems normal and unremarkable to others.

A few years ago we had a drive, and it seems somebody in a large van had been used to reversing into it to turn round; because I replaced my car with a brand new one slightly longer and the git stoved the back in less than 3 weeks after I had it. (it was a hatch and the damage was to the back panel, not the bumpers, so too high up for a car to have done it). Then just drove off, of course, having caused ££££ worth of damage.

Having watched people in this street turn in my neighbours' drives I can only conclude it is the less skilled drivers who do this, so those more likely to cause damage.

If I had a drive again I'd have bollards or gates.