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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.

Parking wars - on my own drive !
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Runninglikeamummy · 26/07/2017 22:08

FFS OP!Angry

Forgetfulmum · 26/07/2017 22:10

My first ever post on here - what a great (if annoying) thread.

Do you have access to a mangy dog? Or something that looks like one?

Cling to it whilst hanging around outside the neighbour's house. You could even throw in a few sobs.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/07/2017 22:12

Weetabix is a greta idea 8twatchops*.

Stuff sets like concrete - my kids are over 30 and I'm still chipping the bloody stuff off the walls

I second the weetabix!

Lweji · 26/07/2017 22:13

Let's get perspective people. This is a friggin parking space, not a rape.

Some people really have nothing better to do than to try and spoil other people's fun. Syria, you know?

Lweji · 26/07/2017 22:14

I suppose the OP went early to bed to be able to ask her neighbour to move the car at about 5 am.

Mummyoflittledragon · 26/07/2017 22:16

Shame you don't know where the employee lives, you could go over there and ring the doorbell every half hour tonight. Perhaps they'd go and move their car then.

AlphaBites · 26/07/2017 22:18

CFNE's car is still there Angry

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BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 26/07/2017 22:19

Is CNF home?

gingergenius · 26/07/2017 22:19

Christ on a fucking cracker @AlphaBites what a fucking arsewipe. We're all fuming on your behalf. AngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngry

Runninglikeamummy · 26/07/2017 22:19

OMFG!!!! Ring the police and report it stolen and vandalised

Ollycat · 26/07/2017 22:20

I'd go and knock on CFN's door and ask what is going on. I'd be very nice and polite to make him look even more of a CFN!

SlothMama · 26/07/2017 22:21

I'd work out a way to have it blocked in for a long time, v v rude of them to park it there!!

WaaWaaWaaa · 26/07/2017 22:22

Is the neighbour back yet? I'd be hammering on their door demanding to know wtf they were thinking?

Ollycat · 26/07/2017 22:22

One query on the otherwise superb diagram OP - where is CFN's house and where is nice neighbours house?

BoneyBackJefferson · 26/07/2017 22:23

I wonder what glitter in the air vents would do?

PyongyangKipperbang · 26/07/2017 22:25

Surely if there is a car dumped on your drive you can contact the police and say it has been dumped? Sorry if that has already been mentioned, just skim read.

WineAndTiramisu · 26/07/2017 22:26

Think I'd be hanging off their door bell until someone moved it!

flickerty · 26/07/2017 22:26

Unbelievable!!! I would hammer a long nail into a tyre. By the time they've realised they won't be able to pin it on you heh.

Oldbutstillgotit · 26/07/2017 22:26

Dilemma- go to bed now and rise early for update or stay up watching thread .
< tosses coin >

PoohBearsHole · 26/07/2017 22:26

Nows the time to block the whole road - by inconveniencing you he can prove he's a CFN to all the other neighbours too!

MipMipMip · 26/07/2017 22:27

Listen out at 2am as they try to sneak it away....

CauliflowerSqueeze · 26/07/2017 22:30

That utterly takes the piss. Ffs.

Justaboy · 26/07/2017 22:30

They say - a can of lighter fuel stuffed up the exhaust pipe has shall we say interesting properties;!

Course you have decided to spray paint your fence, who says you have to mask off any offending cars;?

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 26/07/2017 22:30

Oh you should definitely report it as abandoned now.

onalongsabbatical · 26/07/2017 22:31

Whooo - off to bed in a bit, placemarking for the morning. Nice to have a cheeky fucker thread to spring out of bed for, thanks OP! Grin