To get angry about visitors parking on my drive?

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I live on a main road and my drive way is right off the main road. The main road is a 30 and there are no double or single yellow lines so you can park there.

But when people visit my house they always park on the drive. The drive is not massive, a short peice of driveway that leads to 2 parking spaces. So when people visit they park on that short peice of drive that leads to the 2 parking spaces. This includes my hairdresser, my parents, the window cleaner, the pizza delivery man etc.

I don't ever park on what I consider to be anyone's drive way. I would always park on the road. Aibu?

The problem with people parking there is that this blocks in our cars and say my hairdresser is here and my fiancé wants to drive somewhere - she has to go back out and move her car into the road... and then she automatically will take his parking space leaving my fiancé without one when he returns!

Sorry I X posted with your MASSIVE drip feed.

This is bizarre. I thought this was going to be that you lived near a school/station and strangers parked on your drive. Of course YABU. Why on earth shouldn't your visitors park on your drive? If you know you are having visitors but will need out then surely your fiancé would just park out on the road.

Wow, this is the weirdest pet peeve I've ever heard of. Frankly you sound unwelcoming.

So a visitor blocks neighbours access but you don't?

I don't think I completely understand the lay out.

The main road is a 30 and there are no double or single yellow lines so you can park there.
That's not necessarily true, I think people can only park there if it is safe to do so and they are not causing an obstruction or danger to other road users. We live in a rural-ish area and we don't have any yellow lines either, but you couldn't park safely on the road (and people don't).

So yes the expectation is that people will park on the driveways of the homes they are visiting and leave the roads free for cars, cyclists, horses, tractors etc.

Well, that's a pretty big drip feed

Clearly if your visitors are blocking your neighbours drive when they park on "your" drive, they should park elsewhere. And you should tell them to move their cars immediately as they're blocking your neighbours drive.

I think it depends. If its a drive on a housing estate, I would always park on the road. But on a busy main road, i would absolutely pull into the drive.

I live on a busy main road, and have a very long drive, but one car width till you get to the house - so visitors would block access. However, I would find it very odd if people parked on the road. Everyone (family, visitors, postman, deliveries etc) ALL park on the drive - I've never thoght anything if it!

That's hilarious! I thought it was a given that your visitors park in your drive? I think you ABU here.

Honestly thanks for the feedback I would never park on someone's driveway and now I think I will start!

The layout is like a narrow road that is not very long and this opens out to both houses and I front of both houses are spaces for 2 cars. So if they have a visitor on the access road we are blocked in and the same the other way around. They don't ever have anyone visit though really so they have mentioned it to me in passing but never in a mean way.

The risk with parking in the access road is it's not very long so if you have an estate car for example the back of the car juts out onto the path that runs the edge of the main road. So this is an obstruction in itself - the access road is not supposed to be used for parking.

I'm almost tempted to give my first biscuit.

I love a good parking thread, but AIBU to not like to have visitors park on drive?

Urrmm, yes, yes you are.

I presume they aren't really blocking the right of way, just annoying you that you might need to move cars around.

I thought this was going to be about strangers parking there

Are they on your drive or blocking a right of way?

Yes, that's a huge drop feed. It's a different matter if your visitors are blocking in your neighbours.

Drip.

So why don't you say to them 'do you mind parking on the road instead? It's just that my neighbours have complained about access being blocked'. What is so difficult about that? Why do you assume that they are psychic and can read your mind?

What's wrong with visitors to your house parking on your drive?

Nothing.

However they aren't are they? They're parking on shared access which is a bit different

Is there no way you could communicate this to your visitors?
Like, speaking, texting, emailing, or putting up a sign?
Or is there some massive important bit of info that I've missed......?
Sorry to sound harsh, but in a week when trump got elected and Leonard Cohen died, this feels....... Manageable.

We used to have this type of parking thing ..whenever we were expecting visitors me or DP would go and park our car around the corner in case we needed to go out before visitors had left iyswim...not a great prob really is it?

FFS if you don't want them parking on your drive then when they arrive and park you politely ask them to move. You are being silly and weak then whining and moaning for the sake of it. You have a mouth and voice USE THEM

Erm...gates?

What a drip feed. Your AIBU is really "AIBU to expect visitors not to park on the single track access road to my house, blocking in my neighbour"

Given how uncles raised your initial Op was I suspect you haven't communicated very clearly with your visitors hat Thai is shit for you neighbour.

Am i right....Your visitors park on your driveway and you have a problem with that. Im heard everything now. Op do you get cross with the sun as its raises every day too? (Shakes head sadly)

No, it isn't unreasonable or bad mannered for people to park on the drive of someone they are visiting.

It is totally unreasonable to block access to their neighbours however.

Why you didn't explain that in your first post and save a lot of posts made before the full info was made, I'm not sure...

LOL talk about 1st world problem!

Sorry OP. I understand the frustration. It could possibly be a slight inconvenience to you or your neighbour.

We are lucky to be one of the few houses on our residential road with a small drive. Finding a parking space otherwise is a nightmare and can end up a good walk away from the house. One of the 'perks' of having a drive is that we see it as being TWO spaces! One car on the drive, the other blocking it. Never seen it as an inconvenience to very occasionally have to move a car.

Try living on a road with very limited parking. You'd see why you might not get many sympathetic replies xx

UABU and more than a bit weird.