There's a car parked on my drive

[Mreva]

Arrived home from work to find a car parked on my drive. Thought it might be one of dh's friends but no.

Our drive can fit two cars but the bastard has decided to park at the front of the drive so no chance of parking on the drive and blocking them in like I would like to.

It's making me irrationally angry and I can't stop checking to see if it's gone. Dh doesn't seem to share my annoyance.

Why would anyone decide it's ok to park on someone's drive?!

I'd still block them in - you can easily move for a neighbour - they might even be at the neighbour's.....

FFS. Have you cancelled the cheque?

I used to have this all the time where I lived a few years ago. Very quiet area with very little street parking, and it was always someone visiting a neighbour: once NDN was having a party and had told a couple of his guest to park in my drive, used to drive me mad. Have you tried neighbours.

What used to make me really hopping was that without fail, they would get really sniffy about it as if I was in the wrong to ask them to move. Don't think I ever got an apology out of any of them.

Why they think this is okay is any one guess.

Remove the number plates and phone the police to say a car has been abandoned

Block them in! Doooo iiiiiiit.

At least put the bins there to block it, but I would try and park somehow to do this.

Block them in for sure

Likelihood is they are visiting one of your neighbours! Unless you are close to shops it something? I would block and if the neighbour's need in or out they can knock.

Ohh block them in. I'm sure your neighbours won't mind. Just explain that MNers get very invested in this sort of thing and who are they to deny us so much joy in a joyless world?'

We let our neighbours park on our drive when they have large gatherings. But our drive is big enough to fit our cars and others.

To do so without asking isn't on though.

We also live on a clearly marked private road so no cars should be parking on our road unless they are visiting.

Doggity

Absolutely true though!

So cheeky! I'd block them in anyway - the neighbours will know it's your car and where to knockif they need to get out. Unless you're on bad terms and it would aggravate things.

I also never believed that this is something that is that common.

It is quite obviously our drive, it is directly infront of the house and our house number is on the garage.

All of our neighbours have space on the drives so I don't think it's their visitors.

I'd be raging. That's like me going sunbathing in someone else garden, or hanging up my underwear ok their washing line!

Go and and syphon all their petrol.

I have made Dh get up to make me a tea so I don't have to move from my vantage point.

No way you can park tight up against a door or across your drive? I would make it as awkward as humanly possible for the person to get out. I would be tempted to let down the tyres (NOT by slashing them!) meaning they couldn't just hop back in and drive off. I know it doesn't get them off your drive, but it gives them the inconvenience they have given you, and you can go out and give them a bollocking while they inflate their tyre!

Lie down in front of it. It's the only way

love the assumption the Parker is a 'he'

Knock on your neighbour's doors and ask- they may encourage you to block him in even if it inconveniences them.

Honestly I would block it and explain to any neighbours that come calling.

Grab a chair and set up a tea party on the bonnet of the car.

I came home after staying over one night at my parents to an unknown car on my drive once- I was completely baffled as to what was going on for a good few minutes. Then I started to get angry and blocked them in.

We live opposite a school and parking is always a nightmare on our street at drop of and pick up time, there's also a sure start centre attached to the school so there's often new mums parking on our road. I thought it might have been one of them.

Next door neighbours were having some work done, so a good chunk of the road was blocked off, making parking even tighter.

After a couple of hours, our NDN came knocking on our door, absolutely mortified. It turns out it was her MILs car. She was babysitting their DD and had nowhere to park when she arrived at school drop of time, so she dumped it on our drive!
NDN repeatedly apologised! MIL was not so apologetic when she came to shift it!

Definitely put something behind their car like the bins or a garden bench so they can't just jump in and run.

Seem to recall dog shit under the door handles was suggested on a previous similar thread. Still a valid course of action

How rude is that?! I'd be fuming too & waiting to pounce on whoever the car belongs to!!
I've left snotty note before when someone parked across our dropped kerb stopping me parking on our drive late at night.
We moved house due to parking problems in our old street. My mum whilst taking my DC to school one morning was threatened by a neighbour because she'd parked outside her house ( not blocking her drive BTW) I approached her later that day to say I didn't appreciate her threatening my mum and she told me to fuck right off !!again in front of my DC!! We'd had other probs with her & parking. I phoned DH & told him to start house search we moved after that. Obvs didn't tell buyers of our foul mouthed neighbour!!
I hope you catch the cheeky drive parking scumbag red handed!!