Was my friend BU about this person parking over her driveway?

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I went to visit my friend the other day, call her H. As I was coming up to her house I noticed a car was half over her driveway, so as my friends car was parked in the driveway I had to park half in and half out her driveway, the back of my car was sticking out onto the road since the other car was blocking me from getting into the free space in her driveway.

Anyway, as I was getting out my car, a woman with her daughter (she had just picked her up from school and that's why she had parked there) came up to me, looking quite flustered and said "I'm really sorry, I'm just moving." I just replied it's okay as I hate confrontation and she had apologised.

I get to my friends door and H comes to the door and was like, "look at that woman parked over my drive" I told her she had apologised, H then proceeded to go up to the woman and say, "could you watch where you are parking in future as people can't get in and out my driveway" the woman replied that she had said sorry and H then said, "that's not the point, it's my driveway!" And stormed away. The woman then apologised again.

I'm just wondering if I am being unreasonable in thinking my friend was being a bit unreasonable. The woman had apologised and was affronted, I just think my friend over reacted but maybe I'm wrong. Personally unless I needed out of my driveway, it's not something I would get upset or worked up about. But I also wouldn't park over someone's driveway, partially or not.

Thoughts?

YellowFish123
Don't be so ridiculous.
There is simply no need for a resident to do any of those things because drivers coming to drop off their children just have to park slightly further away. It is that simple.

As I said previously the vast majority of drop off parents manage to do it. I managed to do it. I expect the cheeky fuckers to do it too.

@FrancisCrawford

The police rightly wouldn't be interested as they have far more important issues to be dealing with. Most of the parents round here have to park over drives for a few minutes and the school and police are quite happy with it.

@YellowFish123

I do prefer the option to tow the CF. Or get them a ticket. Or ram my car against their doors. Surely they wouldn't mind.

Most of the parents round here have to park over drives for a few minutes

No they do not have to. They choose to because they can't be bothered to park further away.

I walk down a road of houses close to a primary school. I see so many school runners just parking up anywhere without worrying about who they are blocking. They are in a hurry, and probably won't be long, but that's not the point if you live on the street and regularly inconvenienced by inconsiderate parking.

How is it a few minutes? If it’s with a child you can go in alone I would be pulling up and out in seconds. If it’s a child you need to go in, wait for bell, wave them off, there’s no way that’s less than 5-10 mins.

@YellowFish123

They don’t have to park over drives at all. They could use public transport, park further away and walk in or just walk the whole way.

If you live near a school I think you need to just accept that twice a day, for 15/20 minutes, someone may be parked a little bit unreasonably.

Which is it (from the timings suggested so far)? A minute? A few minutes? 5 minutes? Or 15-20? I might ask the next person who blocks me in to give me their exact schedule so that I can alert my neighbours to my lift requirements. Or check the local bus/train timetable. I've got to hand it to you, you're a right comedian (though I wouldn't give up the day job just yet!) 🤣

Stand down everyone. No-one is this bonkers!

Many parents dropping kids are just CFing cunts. At DD's secondary school (!) there's empty parking all along the large avenue, on both sides. But they choose to stop in the middle of the dual lane road, on both sides, just before or on the pedestrian crossing and stay there until their precious teenagers enter the school.
It has got better since I've started annoying them by beeping them and various loud complaints in the commute (fairly small town) and FB photos.

I'm pretty sure it would get better with a few rounds of the police giving away tickets like candy.

I'm sure people can cope with their drive being out of use for a few minutes. Alternatively, there is a multitude of other options available if they absolutely cannot wait to go out.*
I can't decide if you're selfish, a wind up merchant or just plain stupid.

We should have a poll.

If all the drive owners decided to pre-empt the school run and park across the pavement onto the road, surely that would also be ok, no? Pedestrians would have the option of walking in the middle of the road.

The alternative options I was suggesting are the drive owners asking neighbours or friends for a lift or utilising the excellent public transport services most places have access to

So why aren't those options available to people who drive their children to school, YellowFish?

Drives existing on public roads actually imposes an unfair burden on many others- i.e. there is no parking space where there otherwise would be

If the drives didn't exist the likelihood is that the owners of said drive would be parking on the road, so the parking space wouldn't be available anyway. On some properties having a drive means people can park at least two cars off the road, so they're doing other drivers a favour by not taking up two or more spaces.

What about consideration for the needs of people dropping their DC at school

Why does anyone (apart from, perhaps, a tiny minority of disabled parents or parents with disabled children who for some reason can't drive into the school grounds) need to drop their children at school, YellowFish? Why can't they park slightly further away and walk?

Yellowfish, we know from your other posts that you're a cunt in your professional life now you've confirmed you are in your personal life too.

Yellowfish, we know from your other posts that you're a cunt in your professional life now you've confirmed you are in your personal life too.

Just say what you mean there @MorningRichie. Note, I'm not disagreeing with you.

There are always people who believe their wants trump everyone else's. Sad but true.

Most of the parents round here have to park over drives for a few minutes and the school and police are quite happy with it.

No they don't. They have to arrive at school earlier to get a parking spot, car pool, walk further or send their child to a different school. My friend who lives on a road next to a school had this issue. She's a doctor who is sometimes on call and needs 24-7 access to her drive. They contacted the council and they sent a parking warden out. Ticketed loads of parents. Magically after a while the parents didn't have to park over the drives anymore.

Drives existing on public roads actually imposes an unfair burden on many others- i.e. there is no parking space where there otherwise would be

Total rubbish. Residents would otherwise park on the streets so instead of two cars parked on the drive there would be two on the road and even less parking. Regardless residents parking needs trumps other people's. My mum lives on a road next to a train station used by commuters - they ended up getting it turned into residents only parking between 8-12. So many angry commuters felt that their need not to walk to to the station should trump the needs of residents to be able to get in their homes with their babies/shopping etc. (There are disabled parking bays next to the station).

I live very close to a school - there is a single yellow line outside my house so no one should be parking there but they do! They also park across my drive or so close to it that reversing in (on a main road) is very difficult.
I have a disabled child who attends a special school a mile away - I have my own school run to do twice a day and it can be a nightmare, it's not unreasonable to be able to expect to be able to enter and exit my driveway safely.
I have no patience or sympathy with the parents who park illegally outside my home, there is ample free parking for the school but they are just too lazy to walk a few extra meters!!!
Thankfully the police have been ticketing cars recently and there has been some improvement, but it's unlikely to last!

Drives existing on public roads actually imposes an unfair burden on many others- i.e. there is no parking space where there otherwise would be

This actually made me genuinely laugh out loud. My house, with it's pesky driveway was built over 60 years ago. Our village has expanded quite a lot of the last 15 years, including the school increasing in size by about 2/3 so the main road has become much busier, obviously. Should I just hand over my driveway now? Don't even get me started on those who live in the same, small village and still insist on driving their poppets to school rather than walking.

I live opposite a primary school but have to drive to drop my own children off at different school. I am so conscious of where I park. I would never dream of blocking someone's drive. Luckily, while people seem to park illegally on double yellows, they have the decency not to block drives here but I would be furious if they blocked mine - it might be the difference between me picking my own children up on time or not!

Everyone saying she shouldn’t have parked with her back end on the road have you never parallel parked on a road before? She’s said there is no path so she’s not blocking anyone walking past!