Can I park here or would it make me a CF?

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Visiting DH parents... its park here or park most of the street away.

DH chose far away. But come on, that is not a driveway.

This is fucking bat shit!! 😂😂

On the one hand, the OP is being a nasty cow for no discernible reason.

On the other, people are crying for being told to read the thread!

Mad!

No of course you can't. You would be U and CFs and really thick to think it was ok to block your PiLs neighbour's car on their drive. And before someone feels the need to repeat it for the hundreth time, YES, I KNOW THERE'S NO DROPPED KERB HENCE ITS NOT A DRIVE but you would still block the car.

YABU. Two wrongs don't make a right. Though I might park there if there wasn't a car on the drive, it's not reasonable to block them in.

Funny old day on MN. On a different day if you posted that picture and said you couldn't get out of your drive because somebody had parked on the road blocking you in. You'd be told that you didn't have a real driveway, no dropped kerb and the person blocking you in was entitled to park on the road and to get over yourself!!!

OP, you do sound like a twat. If I were your ILs I wouldnt be impressed that you cause animosity between me and my neighbours.

Thats not a driveway but ywbu to park there and irritate your PIL neighbours. If they were your neighbours you would get the grief so it would have been your choice to go for.

Why didnt your dh park there and drop you off then move it? It looks like you could park and not block the car, by only parking over half. There is a house near my sons nursert like that and everyone blocks one half at some time to get to the chippy.

But... she didn’t park there?

It wasn’t as clear from the first post as you seem to think it was, and I would think that the number of people who’ve said the same thing should tell you that by now.

Regardless, you’re now just being fucking rude...maybe because more people disagreed with you than you expected, either way you’re out of line.

Oh, and you would have been a CF to park there.

Hope you continue to have such a lovely day 🙄

We bought a house with a drive with no dropped kerb. We were told we wouldn't get permission as our 'drive' is 10cm too short despite our car fitting on without overhanging over the pavement. So we parked on the drive, like our neighbours do too. My husband blocks my car in so we don't take up a valuable extra space on the road. One day I was blocked in by an unknown car and couldn't get my daughter to an appointment. Pissed me off. Anyway, someone reported us/our road for our illegal parking and long story short this helped us to get permission to drop the kerb! So now we have a lovely dropped kerb. Just saying all that as it's not always a case of just not bothering to get a dropped kerb. I'm glad you saw reason and didn't block them in. You could have unloaded the stuff and people, then one of you driven to park elsewhere.

And I agree your first post wasn't entirely clear. I thought the parked car in the photo was yours at first.

I think it was clear, as do many others. Agree to disagree.

The name calling and bitchiness towards me in this thread is outstanding.. even comments that my husband should leave me! Because of a thread about a kerb

Nest of vipers indeed..

Ywbu: you would be, not you were sorry. You asked if you would be

I was confused....until I opened the picture to full size and saw the NON-dropped curb.
I'd be parking there any time I visited, it's a good spot. Mumsnetters are usually such fucking goody-goodies for following the law, so why are they now against perfectly legal parking!?

These people chose to put a car in their front garden, that's not the OPs fault, or problem. It could be in long term storage for all we know. Should this perfectly LEGAL parking space be out of use because of the owners lax grasp of the law??

I am with Emma - drop everyone off at that point and send DH off for a tour of the area to find a space

However even if you have a dropped curb in London tis would be considered fair game for parking

A similar thing happened to me on my old road. A neighbour’s nanny started parking on their front garden because she didn’t have a residents permit, no dropped curb. It was a dead end road with limited parking and if you couldn’t park on it, it was a long walk across a busy road to the next spaces.

I called the council and they said it was fine to park across that bit of road and block her in because they weren’t allowed to cross the pavement without a dropped curb. So you’re not blocking them in technically because the route you are blocking is not a route they are allowed to drive.

If there were two spaces available on the road I took the other, I’m not mean for no reason. But if it was the only one left, I blocked her in. I wasn’t hauling 2 kids and shopping across a 4 lane road just so she could park illegally. And her car would not have taken up that space on the road if it hadn’t been on the garden, because she couldn’t park there without a permit. Sometimes she’d knock and ask me to let her out which I would. Eventually the council came round and threatened fines and she stopped

Ywnbu to park there. It's not a drive and they are breaking the law.

However I do think people who create a drive patio to park on are often the sort of people to get very confrontational so I don't blame your dh!

I'd park there and if I was a neighbour walking my kids up and down there I'd report it. They're the CFs not you. No dropped kerb and the cross it. Illegal!

If you'd parked there you'd have been a prick

Why would they be though? Someone's block paved there front garden and bumps the car up a kerb, illegally drives across a pavement and your calling the OP a prick? 😂😂

Your, you're, there, their, they're. Can't spell

I love the fact that MNHQ deleted my message telling the OP that she was out of order to be so rude and patronising towards another poster.

At least you are not my neighbour!

@mummabearfoyrbabybears didn't call anyone a prick as she didn't park there

again, as repeatedly stated on the thread, 2 wrongs don't make a right. A parked car should keep you from parking there, who cares if there's a dropped kerb or not. Thinking about blocking someone makes you a very unpleasant individual.

The only time you should block someone is when they are parking on your property, or blocking your drive - you just have to do it legally - as long as it's not an ambulance

And as I said. Why would they be a prick though??? They have every legal right to park on the road, outside that persons house as is their legal right. There is no dropped kerb to allow that person a legal right to park there, be it there front garden or not!

No idea why the OP is getting such a hard time. Seems like a pile-on to me.
I understood the first post - not sure why others struggled with it.

I would have parked there. Looks like there would have been space to park without actually blocking them in.