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?!

Follow her home and park on her drive. See how she likes it!

Gates are wonderful things, you don't need to close them, until someone parks on your drive, then close, them, lock them, padlock them, throw away the key then go on holiday. Aggggh

Ffs. Didn't think it would be a problem?
Would she stroll into your house and use the loo? 'Oh I only wanted a wee, I didn't think it would be a problem'

Did you actually confront her? I'd be far to British to do that b

Yeah, that exactly the sort of response I used to get when people did this to me where I used to live.

There's a certain type of person who thinks the rules of considerate, polite behaviour don't apply to them.

Bloody frustrating.

Over and above, this reminds me of something, just a few weeks ago I was on my tea time walk and saw a flash black BMW in the traffic queuing at the lights, stuck to his windscreen (passenger side) were dozens of yellow post its all over the windscreen, at the drivers side were lots of ripped off pieces of yellow post it. I suspect someone got fed up of BMW driver parking where he shouldn't.

I confess I walked past, stared at the screen and smirked.

You have to do something which causes just as much inconvenience to them as they have to you, without resorting to criminal damage. That's why the lipstick/vaseline thing is so effective.

I did confront her, managed to stay fairly polite whilst letting her know that I'm pissed off.

It appears that there is a weight watchers meeting at the school down the road that finishes at 7 so I'm fairly sure that is where she came from. There's about 30 houses between my house and the school though and some spaces to park on the road so not sure why she decided to park on my drive.

If she parked legally a little further away, she'd burn a few more calories on her way to/from those meetings!

Maybe not a water pistol but one of those lawn sprinklers... I don't know if they do remote controlled ones? :) If they don't, well they should! :)

Just one left on full, all over the car :)

Oh is that it ?

Still lesson learned Op - need to be quicker off the mark with lipstick/dog shit/ Vaseline next time

Glad the car has gone, your DH is being very unreasonable for not being annoyed by this is he normally this laid back?

CatNip2 It's definitely a badge of shame, any sticky mark! One guy on our street had an offender go mad at him for using a lot of sellotape but he knew the man had done it before so was able to say rather smugly that using only minimal sticky product was clearly ineffective

Cheeky cah!

My now DH lived in university halls of residence near a tube station.
There was limited parking on the enclosed piece of land in front of the building, used by the caretaker and other staff.

Any cars parked there without a permit had an enormous piece of paper glued across the entire windscreen stating "this is private property". It must have been a bugger to remove.

It would probably be considered criminal damage nowadays but was entirely reasonable back then.

I'd lie in wait for the next weeks weight watchers meeting, and if it's back walk in the meeting and point her out loudly and tell her to move her dam car off my driveway.

Dh can be very laid back but can also get annoyed over similar things. I think him being so confused by my anger probably held me back from acting on some of the suggestions on this thread.

At least I have a few ideas if it ever happens again

You have to write a twaty message in SUDO CREAM!! Would take them ages to get it off

I bloody hope she won't think it's ok to park there again.

We have sudocrem in the house. Might have to stock up on Vaseline, lipstick and water pistols just in case.

And maybe think up a poem about parking like a twat

Let the tyres down, they are hard faced bastards. Id go ballistic!

Let her tyres down. She'll have to burn off some calories pumping them up again. I wonder how many exercise points that will earn her?

Ah OP you chickened out.
Cheeky fe*ker.
Definitely Vaselined if she parked on my drive.
And I'd ring the police.

Is it criminal damage if the car is parked on your drive with no permission in the UK?
It's trespass under Irish law.

I went to Bournemouth at the weekend for the air festival and walked past loads of empty driveways. I did wish I had the front to park on one of them and then look for the thread later.

Go out and remove his windscreen wipers. He'll have to knock to ask for them back, then you can say you assumed the car on your drive was a gift, as only a git would park on someone else's drive without asking.

FWIW, we found a car on our drive when we returned from holiday, which was very annoying as we were tired and just wanted to get in and unpacked. It turned out to be a misunderstanding - a neighbour had told a friend they could use the drive while they were away but the friend had the wrong house number.

In future, let her tyres down.