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Parking wars - on my own drive !

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AlphaBites · 26/07/2017 14:34

I know the rules, diagram is attached. 😉

I'm on half days this week and have just got home to find a car in my driveway. As we are a corner house we have two driveways, big enough for one car each. Parking is really tight around here and permit only too. Opposite us is 8 terraced houses with no allocated parking, so quite often they either park in their garages or in the handful or visitor bays opposite my place but in front of theirs. My front drive is VERY clearly my driveway.

Cheeky Fucker Neighbour (CFN) runs a business from home which involves a lot of clients coming and going from her house throughout the day (pet groomer) and he employs two people to help.

I came home today to find a car in my drive which was not DHs. So I park down the side (pink section) of the house on the road where neighbours park their cars. I go and knock on several doors to find out who it belongs too, turns out it's one of the employees who is staying for a little while longer (P/T). "But I'll only be another hour, so I'll move it then." I reply "No, move it now please as I have to unload my car." Person refuses and I end up leaving telling them to move it within 30 minutes.

That was an hour ago and when I knock on the door there is no answer.

My next door neighbour has just told me that this car is on either my front drive or rear drive each morning ! When he questioned them about it, apparently CFN has said it's OK for them to park there and they have cleared it with us. No they bloody haven't!

Thing is this went on last year but after words it sooner stopped but obviously they are doing it again.

I'm sat here glaring out my front window waiting for the fucker to move his car then we will have words. I would block it in, but the road is only wide enough for one car so would block the road.

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TheBiscuitStrikesBack · 26/07/2017 21:08

Helllllooooo.... OP... come and let us know what's happening!!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/07/2017 21:08

Get the business phone number and post it on gumtree as a 24 hour good time, party girl, cheap rates, ad. That phone will ring all hours of the night

Oh YES! Please do this! [also]

OP - you you have access to a dog? A small amount of dog poo, inserted into the exhaust pipe will reek and take a long time to burn away. Just a small amount, though - don't want to damage the car. . .

(Or you could try a few prawns Grin )

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 26/07/2017 21:09

The population of CheekyFuckerLand is growing!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/07/2017 21:11

an unfortunate trip over in the drive, while carrying an open bottle of brake fluid (you need to top up your brake fluid, don't you, and you had to carry it down your drive to your car because a CF had parked in your drive).

. . . didn't you trip over the wheel of the car parked there? It was at an angle and you were so busy concentrating on not spilling the brake fluid, that you didn't notice it.

And now you have twisted your ankle.

And will be off work.

And it is their fault.

Sue the arse off them.

user1499285595 · 26/07/2017 21:13

Please come back OP I'm dying to hear what's happened! I'd be literally bubbling over with rage if that happened to me! my DH is a bit like yours though and would do anything to avoid the confrontation Grin

QODRestYeMerryGentlemen · 26/07/2017 21:14

Burn it

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/07/2017 21:18

Would definately go with the chain across the drive, they would have to ask you to remove it to get their car, and you might get an apology

You could possibly make you reimburse you for the chain, too.

cailyaclara · 26/07/2017 21:19

I'd be fuming if this happened to us. We get dickheads parking in front of our garage s fair bit and I'm the first one out there, usually flipping my lid. Is it still there, OP??

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/07/2017 21:20

I wonder if you could blend egg and raw fish and if it might fall into the in of their air conditioning?

Probably a seagull dropped it lotsaZZZZZZs
Wouldn't surprise me if it had done a BIG POO on the car as well.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/07/2017 21:23

God you lot are vindictive!

I like it

Me too Pirate

I have found my people . . .Grin

Coffeeandcakeplease16 · 26/07/2017 21:25

I would bill them, how dare they!!!

iheartpink · 26/07/2017 21:26

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/07/2017 21:27

Grumpy I think I luffs you; will you have my babies?!

Will you have mine too - I'm sick of the little monkeys! Grin

TheSnorkMaidenReturns · 26/07/2017 21:27

You may be able to see if there has been planning permission for change of use to business by looking on the council website. They often allow you search by address or map. No need to wait until tomorrow.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 26/07/2017 21:29

Seagulls drop the funniest things.

Fish, prawns and so on.

jellyshoeswithdiamonds · 26/07/2017 21:29

Cheese, grated into the air vent.
Cheese makes evetything better.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/07/2017 21:29

They poured 4 litres of 3 day old pee mixed with paint thinner all over the car

They KEPT their PEE?

AWESOME!!! Shock

LazySusan11 · 26/07/2017 21:30

Can we please add rules to future cheeky fucker threads. That if someone starts one of these the op must dedicate themselves to frequent updates. In fact can't we just have a CF topic' overly invested Grin

AtomHeart · 26/07/2017 21:31

WTF? Tell him you will scratch it if it appears on your drive again.

happymumof4crazykids · 26/07/2017 21:37

I would go ballistic! Op time for you and DH to have a work with the neighbour. That just isn't on!

penny4321boom · 26/07/2017 21:39

The absolute cheek of some people

Legwarmersforboys · 26/07/2017 21:42

Once gone I would get a bollard / chain & stick a cheap cctv type camera in a window that overlooks the drive in case of retaliation

JenziW · 26/07/2017 21:43

Yes to a CF page!

Absolutely outrageous. Can't believe they didn't move when you told them. I would have been absolutely furious. Are they still there? I would be camped out waiting for them.

Articu · 26/07/2017 21:43

The very least you could have done (I assuming the car has left now?) is to draw something rude in the dirt on the car. I know it's not the most original thing to do but at least it's actually doable. Much as I love the suggestion to 'burn it' I suspect that might be a little extreme.

I found this picture in the Independant 🤔

Parking wars - on my own drive !
twatchops · 26/07/2017 21:59

I would have an alfresco breakfast of 3 weetabix and accidentally trip up whilst eating it so it spilt up the side of the car (and all over the windows)

Weetabix! Why is weetabix never mentioned on these threads.......
Much better than paper/prawns/cheese etc