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Original poster

How would you have worded this "don't park over my driveway" note?

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AnotherParkingProblem · 27/09/2015 15:42

soo.....last night someone parked over my drive (dropped curb, obviously driveway, with an actual car in it), for a good few hours - plenty of other parking available.

Eventually after a few hours, i popped a note on the car

I realise you may not know this road, but unfortunately you have blocked my driveway all evening and i have been unable to get my own car out.

Please do check next time you park that you are not over a driveway or dropped curb

thanks

Would you have been upset with me if you got this note? could i have worded it better? (they didn't come back to me, and i didnt see them go)

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BoyScout · 27/09/2015 15:47

No, I think it was nice and polite, no problem.

InimitableJeeves · 27/09/2015 15:48

Looks fine to me.

AloraRyger · 27/09/2015 15:49

Remarkably polite and restrained.

'Oi cunt, don't park over my drive!' would have been my wording of choice.

Pipbin · 27/09/2015 15:51

I was going to say, they parked over your drive therefore anything short of calling them a cunty cunt bag is fine, but Alora beat me to it.

Every1KnowsJeffHesUsuallyACunt · 27/09/2015 15:51

"shift that piece of shit" would have been my choice but yours works too Op

EponasWildDaughter · 27/09/2015 15:58

A very polite note. About as polite as you could get with a parking note

Me? I'd have put ... er ... ''Please don't park over the drive again or we'll have the car towed. Thanks''.

MrsTerryPratchett · 27/09/2015 16:09

Far too polite. Don't know the road, my arse.

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AnotherParkingProblem · 27/09/2015 16:12

ok,. i'll be honest, i wanted them to move it! i think its bloody rude to park over someone elses drive, but then the sensible head comes in to play, they know where i live!!!

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DameMargaretOfChalfont · 27/09/2015 16:17

I'd have been too busy smearing sudocrem and lipstick over the windscreen to bother with a note!!

Andrewofgg · 27/09/2015 16:57

Fine this time. I hope you noted the number. If the same car does it again, leave the same message, but on an A4 size sticky label and very firmly stuck down over the driver's windscreen.

ValancyJane · 27/09/2015 18:53

Far more polite than I'd have been!!

MarthaMonkeynuts · 27/09/2015 19:01

I've written one before. "Please do not park blocking my driveway again".

Senpai · 27/09/2015 19:20

Much politer than most would have left. Here you can get towed for blocking a driveway.

FishWithABicycle · 27/09/2015 19:24

Far too polite imo. More swearing and insults needed next time.

May09Bump · 27/09/2015 19:30

I block the car in if possible - so they have to knock. I need access to my car as DS has allergies, and whether reasonable or not, I'm always waiting for a call from the school to say they have used the epipen. I then calmly explain how would they feel if they couldn't get to a family emergency.

Often they are ashamed, sometimes a bit angry (appearance of 6"2 DH sorts that). I started with notes - but they often were not read.

wankerchief · 27/09/2015 19:33

"block my drive again and I will brick all your Windows you stupid cunt"

I'm a cow

NoArmaniNoPunani · 27/09/2015 19:40

I would have got them towed.

SellFridges · 27/09/2015 19:45

I've gone with "If you park over our drive again, I will have you towed". Fortunately it's a shared drive so they wouldn't know it was me. Some of our elderly neighbours have had offenders towed before so I know it's a real threat.

ChocolateWombat · 27/09/2015 19:45

Your note was extremely polite - couldn't have been moreso. You were very restrained and can certainly take the moral high ground with this.

I had a similar thing once, but being blocked in in a car park.My note was polite too, but I mentioned that I had been waiting 2 hours and needed desperately to get out and would they text me when they returned. They did and were very apologetic. Of course, they may have been arses who did this kind of thing all the time.

I actually don't think much is achieved by being aggressive.If they did it again, my note would certainly be more frosty and probably suggest if they did it again I Would call the Police/get them towed or whatever....but still very politely.

TBh I think frosty, forceful, specific about what you will do is more effective.

Castrovalva · 27/09/2015 19:58

Except that you mean kerb not curb, it's fine

Witchend · 27/09/2015 20:25

A photo of this offense has been passed to the police is a good one.
Keeps them wondering if they night get comeuppance

Although I've discovered going out with a notebook and pen, making notes and taking a photo about 75% of time brings the idiot out f the woodwork, usually with apologies.

bessarabiantiger · 27/09/2015 20:25

We're the only house for miles, so people seem to think it's fine to park over our drive.

I leave special 'JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL! Because this moron can't park' signs.

They blocked an ambulance arriving to take one of my kids to hospital once, I lost all tolerance that day.

MrsKoala · 27/09/2015 20:47

Very restrained OP. Yesterday i called a neighbour a dickhead for parking across our space. We have a dropped kerb and i had gone out to do an almighty monthly shop of tins and heavy stuff and when i got back a car was parked across our drive. Every house on our street either has a dropped kerb/drive or double yellows. It's a shit road to park in - i concede that. But i had to pull over our right hand neighbours drive to unload while glaring at the car (i didn't realise it was 2 doors along neighbour otherwise i would have knocked). He then came out after i had lugged all the stuff an extra 20 metres and strolled to the car, not acknowledging me at all. I said 'can you move your car please' and he ignored me then drove it onto my left hand neighbours drive/space. He then got out and walked away. I said 'that's not your parking space either, is it?!' and he just carried on walking. So i shouted 'dickhead' at him which thankfully he ignored.

My neighbour then came back and had nowhere to park.

sproketmx · 27/09/2015 22:16

Very polite. If that was to happen here and no one knew who's the car was it would be said in eggs and probably the local kids would have stripped it for good parts

Prettyeyedpiratesmile · 27/09/2015 22:24

Very polite. A few months ago a knob jockey driver parked his car in the communal car park in the street where I live and managed to block in 5 cars in the process. No amount of horn tooting could get this guy to come out the house he was in visiting and we couldn't be sure which one he was in. There are only 25 houses in the street so as we were just about to get saddled up to go round the doors one of my neighbours phoned the police! They arrived and gave the guy a terrible rollicking when he finally emerged from the house. Asked him if he had any concept of people's right to come and go freely and asked him what would've happened if there had been an emergency and he'd been too much of a dick to allow people to get out quickly. Guy has never been back

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