My first parking thread

[OneBiscuitAtATime]

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?

Has the previous occupants forgotten to leave?

Yanbu anyway.

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

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

And no, YANBU
I wouldn't be happy either

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???

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?

I remember that SDTG

How on earth do you forget a car?

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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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

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)

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

Yanbu

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

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

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

Sorry, this isn't acceptable.

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

Oh. How amicable :(

No penguin bollards? Disappointing

for RaptorInaPorkPieHat for the correct guess!