Driving in graveyards

[Littleallovertheshop]

Passed by the cemetery today, and it was full of cars, many parked on grassy patches. I always thought you were meant to park nearby and walk - it just seems v disrespectful to drive through. Unless you've mobility restrictions AIBU to think you should Park and walk to the graveside (unless you're driving a hearse)? There's a massive car park right next to this one.

Ours only has a handful of parking spaces but has access roads to all parts of the cemetery. It's huge someone with mobility problems or an elderly person may find it extremely difficult to acces a grave at the top end from the small car park.
Having said that though, it is a one way system but there is enough room for cars to park on one side. Whilst still being able to pass on the other so no need to park on the verges.

People have started parking here, there and everywhere in the cemetery my grandparents are buried in too. It's so rude and disrespectful, especially when the wheels of the car are on the grass which is right next too/part of someone else's grave.

There's a big car park at the front and people are supposed to park there. it's where the water fountain is. Now people just drive through, use bottled water for flowers and if the maintenance man is lucky they'll bin the bottle, other times they chuck it over the wall (which really really gets my goat).

I have to admit though, my biggest peeve in the cemetery atm is that some of the graves are laden with stuff. The rules were always that you are allowed to have memorials/ornaments/whatever you like around the headstone area, but not on the grass. Then a couple of people decided they wanted to decorate the whole graves, but this means lots of the edges are all messy because the grass cutters can just go from one end to the other. The grave next to my Aunt's has all sorts on it, toys (like a doll's house, not just little things), teddy bears, about 15 windchimes and endless big notices from the council saying that if X is not removed in so many days they'll remove it to allow the grass cutters in.

Why do people make such a fuss about cemeteries?! The residents are dead - it isn't going to bother them.

LaLyra I agree with you. I'm saying that because your view about junk on graves that breaks the rules and intrudes on other people's graves will probably not be popular. There is a view that people ought to be allowed to express their grief any way they want to, even if that hurts other people.

But we all have to share space, so I'd like people to obey simple rules.

And nanofone, people make a fuss about cemeteries because though the residents are dead, we are not. But I guess you understood that.