to block someone in on purpose?

[ElderflowerB]

This same car parks outside my house every day on the school run. They park on the pavement to the point that she is less than a foot away from my house, I can barely get out of my front door (I had to take my shopping round the back), and people have to either walk around the car or cross the road to get past. I'm fed up. I've parked so close to the back of her car that she can't get out. She knows it's my car as she sees me in it in the mornings and I've spoken to her briefly out of the window sometimes. Waiting for her to knock my door to ask me to move.

I don't mind people parking outside the house. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. But across the whole pavement so I can't get out my front door? DP left a note on her car before but it clearly meant absolutely nothing.

AIBU to have blocked her in to prove a point (that it's not nice when you are denied access due to someone else being selfish)? Or am I too petty for my own good?

I would hang around and go and talk to her when she appears and ask her not park so close. Hopefully she's just being absent minded by parking the way she has and will understand where you're coming from.

yanbu. I hate people parking on pavements. So selfish. Pretend to go out so she has to stay overnight! (And keep posting here!)

It's a nice evening, why don't you and oh stroll down to the pub for a drink?

Good on you OP

Hope she realises her error but she probably won't

If a traffic warden saw her car it would get a ticket, you can't block a pavement if it means a wheelchair can't get past

Email the school.
Our school hate parking that annoys the neighbours. They send out emails to all parents and speak to the individuals to pack it in.

If she’s causing an obstruction to your home,call the police to speak to her about it,see if that makes a difference,sounds selfish to me.

Have we really got to 28 messages without OP being asked for (take a deep breath) DIAGRAM!!!!

Yes come on with the photo please

If it's every day can you ask your local community officer to walk by ....

Good on you, my first husband used a wheelchair people like her are like pond scum.

It’s such a lovely day. Why don’t you and DP have a nice glass of wine right about now....

.... but wait, you couldn’t drink and drive to move the car until the morning

reminds me of a recent thread where someone blocked in cars which were parked on their driveway. The OP then ‘had wine’ so she couldn’t move car. Think she was successful in making her point!

Do it! I hate people who park selfishly, blocking any kind of access. It would serve her right and maybe it would teach her a lesson. YANBU.

Good for you op. I have no idea what madness takes over some drivers on the school run!

There is a website called parklikeatwat /similar. Post a pic of her car up there.

block. what crazy behaviour, wonder why she does it.

YANBU at all. I’d find out my rights and leave her car blocked in overnight at the very least. I cannot believe it’s legal to block the pavement to wheelchair users. There must be a law somewhere.

glad you blocked her in. do it every time. force her to ask you to move. every time.

That's how big the pavement is and that's how close she was to my front door. Struggle to get all my shopping in especially with a big baby bump and definitely couldn't get a wheelchair/pram past there. She's parked even closer than that before!

April
Of course. Naming and shaming. Do you have a local Facebook page? Put it on there too.

depending on where you are, you might have a reporting system in place?

In Sussex you have www.operationcrackdown.org/

No idea if the school is open or if her child has some sort of after school club but she's still not back yet!

Would you like me to come over and scratch go past her car in my wheelchair, as I try to get access to your house? It's electric and very powerful