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?!

Got any recycling needing to be put out? Make it extra noisy when they move the bins

Not place marking at all, narp,

Vaseline all over wheelie bin handles is my suggestion.

Plus maybe a bit on the door handle of drivers side.

Plus an invoice/note under the windscreen.

None of it's illegal but it's all really fucking annoying!!

Fabric softener all over the windscreen, and lipstick under the wipers so when they come to try to clear the fs they make it immeasurably worse - I love those ideas. Combined, you have perfection. Though clingfilming their car closed as a final piece de resistance would be entertaining. Then sell your story to the Fail. (Erm, is all that lawful, though? Don't want to get into any trouble because of entitled twits.)

Tub of Vaseline
Coat windscreen

Can you get it towed? What's the legal position on towing something left on private property?

Wonderful. Not only a sanctimommies thread but also a parking thread. Evening sorted.

Shamelessly place marking!!

Can't believe the cheek of some people! Having said that I woke up one morning home alone to find 2 men asleep in a car on my drive a few years back. I called the police who came straight away! Turns out the men thought it was our neighbours house and had driven miles to give them some bad news and were waiting for them to come back from holiday!

Placemaking as this is the highlight of my crappy holiday

Can't resist a little place mark here.

Aww, sorry your holiday is crappy, six.

Ooooo Wanna - lipstick on the wiper blades . Genius .

This has happened to me a couple of times, first time it was a white van....I knocked on several doors but no one admitted to knowing who it was. I had to park quite away away. Blocking in not an option as there are double yellow lines on my road. Unfortunately it stayed there for about five hours and then I couldn't avoid going out and it was gone when I got back.

Another time I had parked to one side of my drive as I had a workman coming. As I walked downstairs I saw a vehicle pulling into the driveway through the side window so opened the door expecting a gas man but saw a dolled up woman getting out of her flash car with her child. She saw me and said "I'm just going to the open day at (school up the road)" and made to walk off. I told her that she couldn't park there, it's a private drive and I was expecting a visitor. She let loose a torrent of foul language (in front of her child) about how she could park where she wanted, she can't be expected to walk far in heels etc. etc. I simply took her photo and said I'd email it to the school with details of our conversation (said school is an extremely popular oversubscribed academy who are very picky about who they accept). She did drive off and parked a few doors away ON the pavement and over the double yellow lines......she had a ticket when she returned 😎

Karma....

My DH's ex colleague left a long, verbose note for someone who parked on her drive which ended with the sentence 'I, like you, drive a car not a Harrier fucking Jump Jet'.
It gets quoted round our way for situations like these.

Ooh I love a parking thread. I deffo think a wheelie bin block is the way to go.

She's just come back.

No apology just an face well I wasn't there long and I'm going now anyway. I didn't think it would be a problem.

Twat.

I love these threads! I just go to the last page and see if it's been resolved! If it has I go back a page to see how! 😀

Having said that...... I used to live on a very narrow cul-de-sac and tosses at the weekend, visiting a well-known club up the street would park across the entrance, and rarely moved until mid afternoon. Thus trapping 9 families for 15 hours! Personally I'd kill him!

Fucks sake these people are absolutely unbelievable, I would no more park in some ones drive then I would open their door and sit down for dinner with them.

My SIL lives next to a school too, a different school and on a tighter road, I was appalled that she came home from dropping her DD off at a third school and found people regularly parked on her drive to drop their own kids off.

Seriously who, on earth, would ever, think that this is Ok?

Someone on mumsnet must do is, it is so common, please confess your sins and expIainyour rationale?

I would be giving her an invoice too

cheeky bastard!! Bet you wish you'd done the dog shit on her handles now?

Did you take a picture for a bit of social media twatty parking shame?!

Absolutely wish I had tried the dog shit and water pistol

Might have to buy a water pistol now just in case....

I live not far from a train station so lots of commuters park in our road. Most of them are perfectly considerate and legal but a couple of repeat offenders block people onto their drives. The neighbours and I stick notes on to the windscreens politely asking them not to - using an incremental scale of sticking materials as people continue to do it. We start with a couple of bits of sellotape and work up to full-on gaffer tape on all sides. We've never had to go higher than gaffer tape - which is really hard to get off and often leaves a sticky mark - but I guess the ext step would be glue, then superglue...