neighbour using my drive when I'm out.

[birdladyfromhomealone]

I came home early this morning just after 11am as i have had a chest infection since before Xmas and was struggling at work.
When I got home there were two cars on my drive, one park almost touching my front window and the other one at an angle beside it.
This is the only way to get two cars on the driveway so whoever it was parking there must know the driveway well and how to get two cars on it.
Outside on the road is permit parking and no parking between 10 and 12am.
This is to stop commuters and shoppers parking as we are five minutes from a huge indoor shopping centre.
I had to park behind them blocking them in and blocking the pavement also.
I left a note on my car for the traffic warden
Please knock on door as I have to obstruct the pavement due to two illegally parked cars on my drive.
half an hour later my next door neighbour in his 70's who we NEVER see knocks on my door.
Totally unapologetic and says one car belongs to his wife's carer as she cant park on the road due to restrictions and the other is a neighbour from up the road who uses our driveway when we are at work as her driveway is not big enough.
Even though I was fuming he still just didnt seen to think it was a problem even saying.
Well when your at work your not using it and at least it makes it look like some one is home.
I told him to get them moved straight away.
The carer came round looking really sheepish and asked would I mind if she parked during the restrictions between 10 and 12 as she has been given a ticket in the past. I said fine if no one is in but why cant my neighbour move his car off his drive to enable his wife's carers to park. He cant afford £40 a year to pay for a permit for his carers?
The other car nearly touching my front window is still there so I have put a not on it.
Caroline, I have reported your car to the police as an abandoned vehicle. Since then Nicholas has told me he gave you permission to park here. Nicholas has no business or authority to use our driveway. It would have been polite and neighbourly to at least have asked permission. If your car is parked on my driveway again I will be reporting you to the police.
Tomorrow if I am feeling better I am off the B&Q to buy a chain and paddlock so they cant use my drive!

Perhaps she's waiting for you to go to work !!

Lol sorry for the typing mistakes hunni! So excited to have my great team and business so I can't type! #mumprenuer

She will sneak back for her car when Nicholas tells her you have gone out, until then she is hiding. I would be sticking huge signs across all the windows, windscreen and back with really sticky glue, saying 'Do not park on my drive' or 'You owe me £50 per day for the last 2 years'.

Completely cover all windows so she can't just drive off, then cling film the car so she can't open the doors without removing it all.

sauv glad to have you onboard!! Welcome to #livingindebt with Hoover!!

I think, not absolutely certain but I was once told by a solicitor, that you can charge rent for someone parking a car on your property. You could try sending them a bill but don't expect them to pay it. It will piss them off but it sounds like they need a good pissing off.

I mentioned it on another thread, but I think your own blog about stuff like this can be satisfying, maybe even useful, if you get regular hassles about stuff that justifiably annoys you. I'm thinking of doing it about problems I get as a disabled traveller, mostly on the trains but I've had some horrors on buses as well. No, you can't have grumpyoldbat.eu, that's me!

Best parking thread ever

I love a parking thread!

We had so many issues in our old house. Next door neighbours DIL used to park over my drive as her FIL didn't like anyone parking in his drive - even family. But she couldn't see why we might have an issue with it

Also a random party goer attending a party 5 doors up. Couldn't understand my problem as "our street is hard to park on do what was she supposed to do?"

Best one though was a cabbie actually in my drive. I blocked him in and made him knock on my door to ask me to move my car.

Can't wait to hear all about your encounter with the mystery Caroline.

What a cheek!

We have a similar issue in that our road has double yellow lines that are in force in the middle of the day, making it difficult for workers and tradespeople to park. Me and my neighbours have made arrangements IN ADVANCE AND WITH AGREEMENT to occasionally use each other's drives to leave space for vans, etc.

I can't believe she hasn't come round and apologised. I would be raging (not a popular feeling on MN but appropriate here, I think) and would certainly ask her why she thought she could park on your drive when she has never spoken to you about it.

If it is the same as our road, the restrictions are only in place for a few hours a day - so you can park on the road the rest of the time, or round the corner where there are stretches with no restrictions. So assuming that Caroline's house has two cars, hers should be parked on the drive all the time and the other one should be struggling to find a space. Your drive does not count as a space!

very exciting! Cheeky mare.

Place marking

Thanks for the update, I was confused about where your car was OP.

Have finished the sherry and am toasting my new business venture in now.

get your wheel brace out, take a wheel for a ransom.

Whistles 3 wheels on my wagon

And is now using someone else's holiday villa and swimming pool

I understand that there is no extradition from Mexico . . .

OP - glue Sylvanian Families to Caroline's vehicle.

All over it.

Dozens of them.

And maybe a Shelf Elf.

I'm sorry OP but if she doesn't come for her car tonight, you can't possibly go to work tomorrow.

I'd let the carer park there. It's a nightmare finding parking in places like that and the poor woman is doing it all day, every day and getting paid a pittance. Knowing she has a parking space at one call will make her day so much nicer. It's not her fault Nicholas is a dick. She has to put up with him every time she visits his wife!

This

I suspect cheeky Caroline has slunk home and is hoping to reclaim her car anonymously tomorrow when you're out

Cheeky bitch

not place marking at all

We are all far too sensible to take the word of an elderly sports jacket wearer.

But surely the flat cap lends an air of credibility?

Isn't b&q or similar open late near you. I would park one of the cars totally blocking her in and go out to get the chain and lock tonight.
If you are back at work tomorrow I would be chaining her in before I left.
Because that's what she's waiting for. You leaving tomorrow to get her car back.

Could you fashion some kind of terrifying scarecrow to stand guard over her car?
it won't help but it would amuse me

Oh bugger - I have gone through 14 pages and Caroline Car Parker hasn't returned. Now I have to go out to a meeting.

Sighs.....

Caroline

[grn]

*sorry

Shamelessly place marking, this is getting good!