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To butter the windscreen of the car blocking my drive

41 replies

Woodburningsuz · 25/10/2015 18:41

I don't have a car so don't used my drive often, however when having deliverys or being dropped off with lots of stuff its great to get the car right he g to the front door.

As I don't used it often people keep parking over it. I would ask them to move it but its more Hassel than just parking on the road and unloading. I do mention it in passing of leave a note on the window.

They have left their car parked over my drive all weekend. I've told them not to do this, even though I don't need to access it until tomorrow morning and they will have probably gone to work it is still pissing me off that its there now.

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coffeeisnectar · 25/10/2015 18:46

Yabu if you don't even have a car to consider smearing food over the windscreen.

Ywnbu to leave a note suggesting that if they don't understand what a dropped kerb means they should resit their test.

RaspberryOverload · 25/10/2015 18:48

The feeling I get from from your OP, is that you've already tried talking to whoever keeps using your drive, so I won't bother suggesting that.

You probably need to find some way to block the drive so that cars can't access it without your permission.

There are companies out there that sell bollards that can be raised and lowered as required.

MaidOfStars · 25/10/2015 18:48

Whose car is it?

MaidOfStars · 25/10/2015 18:49

I think the car is across the end of the drive, not on it?

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 25/10/2015 18:49

It is not an offence to park across a dropped kerb or driveway. It's a "Do not" in the highway code, which is an advisory, but has no legal basis. It needs to be a "Must not" if it has an associated law.

If they'd blocked you in, the police would help you to access your vehicle, but that isn't the case here.

So you'd risk a criminal damage investigation, and you probably wouldn't have much of a defence, because the person isn't committing an offence and all you can do is leave notes appealing to their better nature.

pinotblush · 25/10/2015 18:51

I'd superglue a note on it saying "please refrain from parking on my drive"

sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 25/10/2015 18:52

butter and empty a packet of paxo all over it

Pocketrocket31 · 25/10/2015 18:55

I'd smash the window, take handbrake off and move car my self....in my head. Pet hate of mine

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 25/10/2015 18:55

It's not on the drive, it's blocking the drive - that the OP isn't using, as she doesn't have a car - so there is no offence here, and causing damage to the car would be an offence, so the OP would be the one looking at a criminal record.

QuiteLikely5 · 25/10/2015 18:56

They are probably thinking 'she has no car so what is her problem?'

I'm assuming if they could get parked outside of their own front door they would do it.

I think you are being slightly precious.

OwlinaTree · 25/10/2015 18:56

I understand it's annoying but does it really matter as you don't even need it till tomorrow and you reckon they will be gone by then.

You could offer them the rental of the drive at £5 a day or something. Stops them blocking it. You could tell them what days you need it clear then.

slugseatlettuce · 25/10/2015 18:58

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Sallyhasleftthebuilding · 25/10/2015 19:02

Lipstick works better.... Its inconsiderate ...

DickDewy · 25/10/2015 19:06

The butter idea is ludicrous.

It must be frustrating, but don't let it turn you into a common thug.

Perhaps get some advice from the police?

helensburgh · 25/10/2015 19:08

I'd try and rise above it and not let stuff like that irritate me.
If actually they are blocking you one day then complaine.
Life's too short to get annoyed by this

Hufflepuffin · 25/10/2015 19:10

www.parkonmydrive.com

Branleuse · 25/10/2015 19:11

im delighted to hear that parking over a dropped kerb isnt legally enforceable, as i have street parking here and sometimes its just fucking impossible to find a space. Gives me a couple more options!!

merrymouse · 25/10/2015 19:11

It's not going to make it easier for them to park somewhere else if they can't see through their windscreen.

Presumably if they could just move the car a couple of metres they wouldn't be blocking your drive.

MuddhaOfSuburbia · 25/10/2015 19:13

common thug LOOOOOL

I feel your pain, OP

Its a super idea. Don't do it, though

fingers crossed it's gone by tomorrow!

tywinlannister · 25/10/2015 19:17

Hmmm. If it's not an offence, why did the council tow me and charge me £250 to get my car back, for having the boot, ie 1.5ft of car, hanging over someone's dropped kerb. Hmm

The guy called them and reported me. I'd only gone indoors quickly to change the baby's bum and it was gone when I got back. Perhaps you could consider reporting them?

NeedsAsockamnesty · 25/10/2015 19:18

bran

You realise that would be preventing someone else from using their own drive,right?

bkgirl · 25/10/2015 19:20

A friend who is a burly irish builder visited an elderly lady who was experiencing the same problem over an extended time despite her protestations. Tbf she was quite frightened of entering into any dispute, so he went next door and assured the owner of the offending car, he and many of his mates with vans would block their drive if it ever happened again. An apology was forthcoming and it hasn't happened again.

Molecule · 25/10/2015 19:26

My father, born 1914, remembered one of his father's friends saying that butter was very good for windscreens, as it caused the rain to form droplets
rather than a sheet of water. Obviously this was before the advent of wipers
so might no be so welcome now.

ElsieMc · 25/10/2015 19:29

I used to get this a lot, years back. I could never get out on a Saturday morning when a haphazardly parked car blocked not only my driveway but also across my ndns. I went into the nearby shops to ask whose car it was and it belonged to an elderly lady who was having a shampoo and set. She decided not to move it as she had her rollers in. She used to leave the key in the ignition as well so my neighbour drove it up the road and reparked it. We watched out of the window when she came out, looked surprised and then saw where it was. Turns out she actually thought she had parked up there in the first place. And breathe.

Weeks later I was disgusted to see an elderly gentleman in a deerstalker trying to get in my car and he was struggling with the door. I ran outside to remonstrate with him only to discover I had left my handbrake off and it was slowly rolling backwards.

laughingatweather · 25/10/2015 19:29

I got an official (from the Council traffic warden not a parking company) parking ticket for parking in front of a dropped kerb so I'd be very surprised to hear that isn't legally enforceable.