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My first parking thread

30 replies

OneBiscuitAtATime · 18/09/2015 18:05

I've just arrived at our new house having completed and picked up the keys today. There is a strange car parked in my new drive. I've parked across the drive and they are now blocked in. I'm not BU am I?

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WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 18/09/2015 18:06

Has the previous occupants forgotten to leave?

Yanbu anyway.

WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 18/09/2015 18:07

Bet if it's been empty for a while one of the neighbour's has been using it.

wickedwaterwitch · 18/09/2015 18:07

Who is it? Surely they're there if their car is in your drive?

wickedwaterwitch · 18/09/2015 18:07

And no, YANBU
I wouldn't be happy either

Fatmomma99 · 18/09/2015 18:08

No, but bear in mind that if the house has been empty for a length of time, people may have used it and not have realized that you're there now. I would be inclined to give the benefit of the doubt as it's your first day. I think you are at risk of upsetting your new neighbours???

Squishyeyeballs · 18/09/2015 18:08

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/09/2015 18:09

One MNer's dh forgot to go back to their old house and collect their old car (they'd bought a new one but hadn't yet sold the old one) - they moved, and he basically forgot about it, until he saw it on a garage forecourt. One of his old neighbours had reported it as abandoned, claimed it and sold it to the garage.

Iirc, it was either a BMW or a Mercedes.

Maybe it will turn out to be a moving-in gift?

ohbollocks2u · 18/09/2015 18:10

I remember that SDTG

CruCru · 18/09/2015 18:12

How on earth do you forget a car?

RebootYourEngine · 18/09/2015 18:12

Yanbu to park across your own drive. However i would politely chat to them if they come knocking. Just let them know that you have just moved in & will be using your drive.

Collaborate · 18/09/2015 18:15

Just let them know that you have just moved in & will be using your drive.

I would hope that the second part of that sentence is a little unnecessary!

Minicaters · 18/09/2015 18:18

When we moved here we found a car in the drive. It belonged to the previous owners, who had moved abroad. They'd left the keys on one of the wheels but we only worked that out once our removals people had broken our gate trying to manoeuvre the lorry round it, then carried all our belongings round it into the house.Not the happiest of moving days.

ModreB · 18/09/2015 18:25

When our former NDN died, while the house was being sorted and sold his family asked us to park one of our cars on his drive to make it look as if someone lived there. When someone new moved in, he came round, introduced himself, thanked us for making the property less vulnerable, and said that he would be using it from now on.

No drama, no fuss, and a good start to a neighbourly relationship.

RandomSocks · 18/09/2015 18:26

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius I remember that thread.

YANBU, OP. I expect whoever it belongs to will be along soon. If not, perhaps you could check if it belongs to the previous owners?

NerrSnerr · 18/09/2015 18:26

I bet it's a neighbour who has been parking there while the house is empty. YANBU to park across your drive though.

rainpouringrainbows · 18/09/2015 18:27

YANBU, but just keep an eye on your car, hopefully it's just a neighbour who has been taking liberties. (or to be fair, had an arrangement with the previous owner, and didn't mean to bother you at all)

RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 18/09/2015 18:33

If it's been empty for a while, the neighbours might be doing you a favour by parking there as it'll make it look lived in. Currently a friend of mine is living next to an empty house (elderly neighbour has moved to a residential home), they park on the drive and use the bins/put them out so it isn't obvious that it's empty. So it might be that. Our neighbours park on each others drives when they're on holiday.

Or they could just be taking the piss Wink

purplefizz26 · 18/09/2015 18:48

Yanbu

Junosmum · 18/09/2015 19:00

YANBU as long as you're polite when they come knocking (so long as they aren't dicks).

OneBiscuitAtATime · 18/09/2015 19:54

It was the neighbours opposite, they'd agreed with the sellers to park there to make it look occupied. They were lovely Smile.

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LittleRedSparkle · 18/09/2015 20:06

aw - lovely skulks off disappointed at the complete lack of drama in this so-called parking thread

Welshmaenad · 18/09/2015 20:42

Sorry, this isn't acceptable.

We need fisticuffs, or threats thereof, NARs, psychological warfare, penguin bollards and people phoning 101.

DirtyMugPolice · 18/09/2015 20:47

Oh. How amicable :(

coconutpie · 18/09/2015 21:12

No penguin bollards? Disappointing Sad

RandomSocks · 19/09/2015 14:26

Star for RaptorInaPorkPieHat for the correct guess!

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