Parking thread

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Am I a CF ? Picking my dc up from high school I park in a residential road nearby ( we live about a half hour walk away but there is a very busy 60mph road they would have to cross) I would never usually park over someone's drive even though I am sitting in the car . There is however one driveway in particular which leads to someone's garage with a van parked on the drive which is clearly never used . I don't think it has been driven in years ! Has at least one flat tyre and moss growing all over it . The wheelie bins are permanently behind the van . So I sometimes park over that driveway while I am in the car . Today a man came out of there and rather stroppily asked me to move . I apologised and parked elsewhere.
But aibu to think he is an idiot ? The drive way is on the side of his house so I'm not even visible from his window . What difference could I possibly make to his day by being there ? He was actually going out as I watched he get into another car !

He is right

You are wrong

If he had a swimming pool would you take a dip just because he wasn't using it??

You were a c.f. and got caught. Don't do it again

YANBU. I’d move like you did of course but there really seems to be no reason at all for not letting you stop there for a few minutes as it’s not in use.

You are a cheeky fucker. I live next door to a school and cf parents drive me mad. I will always tell them to move from my dropped kerb. I was very quick to tell the one to move who I caught parking on my actual driving be.

*drive

I will not park there again - I'm not a AH . People who worry about what other people do when it doesn't effect them at all is my pet hate I guess . I know I shouldn't park over someone's driveway but equally the owner of the driveway baffled me .

" there really seems to be no reason at all for not letting you stop there for a few minutes as it’s not in use."

HIS drive. HIS property. HIS choice. Cheeky fuckers can fuck right off.

how rude. Would you also use somebody's house whilst they are on holiday?

It's none of your business what they are doing with their property, respect it.

Does the busy road also not have crossing places on it? High school children who live half hour walk away should walk to school in my opinion.

Parking by schools seems to bring out the idiot in drivers.

Not parking blocking someone’s drive is a pretty basic bit of manners I would have thought!

If you'd parked up and left I'd say yabu but as you were sat in the car and he didn't need to get anything on or off the driveway then I can't see this issue. I'd have no problems with someone pulled up in front of mine for a few minutes if they stayed in the car and I actually use my driveway. Some people are so precious.

@Norma27 . I am on a new housing estate so no , there are no crossing places unless you want to dice with death at the roundabout. I wouldn't attempt crossing it myself let alone my 11 yr old . Otherwise yes , they would walk to school . ( although I am driving home from work at that time anyway )

Maybe park a bit further away then and let them use their legs and walk to you rather than inconveniencing the local residents.

The irony is that after sitting in the car a little further away both my dd decided they weren't coming home with me after all and we're going to the park ! So I got myself all riled up for nothing ( hormonal day )

Lol at the black and white comments. If he genuinely was using the dropped kerbs to exit the drive then he’d have a point. As it is, he’s just flexing his “rights” muscle. Life is too short for this shit.

Thanks for your concern @FrancisCrawford but the point of this post has nothing to do my children's fitness thank you !

Technically, I suppose YWBU if you had parked over a dropped kerb.

My NDN was like this. He had a van that hadn't moved for about 8 years before he finally got rid (it had brambles and bindweed growing in it, ffs) and he used to go ballistic if anyone parked blocking it in.

But then he's a grade A arsehole: he won't pick up his wife from the supermarket when she's got 2 big bags of shopping and a trolley on wheels. She says he's worried the trolley might damage the inside of the boot of their "new" car. It's a 2003 basic Fiesta ffs. We fitted her, her shopping, our shopping and both of us into a Peugeot 106 when we gave her a lift back.

Did the man need to get in the garage OP?

So he's an idiot for not wanting you on his property? 🤔

Maybe if you list the ways in which you help strangers then i could have more sympathy for you.

Bloody hate this new CF business.

Why is everyone saying it now?

Oooh, nice to get the cheeky fucker's opinion for once.

So tell us, cheeky fucker, what makes you so special that you can block someone else's driveway.