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Using neighbours' drives?

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Bulldogclip · 02/07/2015 19:55

I live at the end of a naice cul-de-sac. All houses have drives, some single, some double. More than half have more cars than driveway space so there are often cars everywhere, but that's for another thread. Neighbours a few doors along were moving yesterday. They have a single width drive that they usually get both their cars on. They had their self drive van on there, so their cars were parked on the pavements along the street. Along with the 4 cars of their helpers. First van load went and those left behind started filling their tiny front garden with the next load. When that was full they started putting stuff on anyone's drive that was empty/missing a car. This went on all day - they obviously had a deadline to be out. At 3pm I went to go and fetch DCs from school and couldn't get out because they'd parked a car (with all its doors open) in front of my drive. They literally stood and watched as I drove over the pavement to get past them. I came back 25-30 mins later and they'd parked their van in front of my drive and dumped a load of stuff (wardrobes, exercise bike, kids bikes, lawnmower etc) on the empty half of my drive! The driver mouthed "sorry" but didn't do much to speed things up. I was going to park on their drive but the new owners turned up with their 2 cars and filled it. So I had to park in the next street over and walk very fed up and hot children, bags etc home. Their shit was still there an hour later, at which point I got a bit cross about it. (My other car is a sports car and I didn't really want people walking around it with bits of heavy furniture!) other neighbours came home at 5,6 and 7pm to the same situation. I overheard 2 of the movers talking and they said it wasn't really on that they were getting dirty looks etc when it wasn't their fault they'd miscalculated how long moving their stuff would take.

So, who was BU?

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MackerelOfFact · 03/07/2015 16:57

Moving house is stressful enough, especially if you're doing it yourself in a heatwave. It was inconsiderate of them and they were at fault, but given that it's not going to happen again and you probably won't see them again either, what can you do really?

I'd just let it go!

starfishmummy · 03/07/2015 17:07

Our former neighbours decided to move themselves. They had split up - he was already living somewhere else but obviously still had a load of possessions at the house and he appeared to want a share of the furniture. So two separate sets of friends with small vans and cars were helping. Stuff was getting mixed up and there were increasingly "heated" arguments about who was having certain items!!

They hadn't finished when the new people arrived so just had to pile everything on the lawn....and then it started raining. It was very late when they finished.

Neighbours who could, did offer to help, but just added to the chaos!!

magicstar1 · 03/07/2015 17:13

You're all so polite...I'd have just said "Get off my drive" and that would have been it. They'd be gone and I'd have my drive back. None of this parking far away and dragging stuff home.

RebootYourEngine · 03/07/2015 17:37

Why didnt they just pack up all the cars with stuff too? That would have gotten the job done quicker, instead of putting everything on the street and only using the one van.

ExitPursuedByABear · 03/07/2015 17:43

Well most of you are far more reasonable than me.

It would have given me the rage

Cheeky Feckers

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