Note left on car after parking outside someone's house.

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Yesterday, a car was parked outside my house and there was no space on the pavement along my house so I parked around the corner.
There was no dropped curb so naturally presumed I could park there.

Spent my day doing things around the house when DH comes in saying there's a note on the car and that i've parked in front of their drive.
I read the note and it said something along the lines of
"Please don't park across our drive again, there are plenty of spaces on this street. Thanks."

I have never met this person despite living on the same street and never really took notice of their house to have known they have a "drive". Most of the houses on my street do not have drives apart from the odd one who has had their kerbs dropped.

But I was always led to believe that a 'drive' always has a dropped kerb. There is no dropped kerb outside their house.
Anyway I moved the car but DH told me it's obviously a drive even though it doesnt have a dropped kerb and he apologised to the owners of the house.

I feel stupid now because according to DH it was obvious.

I got shouted at in the street by a woman for parking outside her house because she'd paid for a dropped kerb but the council hadn't come to do it yet. She'd painted her own line on the road. I wondered out loud on here whether I should park there again and got my arse handed to me; apparently it was 'obviously a drive, just with no dropped kerb '. OP and everyone else quite rightly agreeing with her, where were you all then? 😁
Often people who do this don't actually want to keep bumping the kerb. Needing access is just a pretence so they can reserve a space on the road. In the case of my lady, she kept a Ferrari on the space outside her house which always without fail was there with a cover on it, and wanted to park the car she actually used on the road.

She's got her dropped kerb now, fair does, but it's still the same; covered car on drive, car she uses over the dropped kerb.

YANBU OP. From your photo, it's clearly not a drive. I'd be parking there as much as I could just to make a point, but I'm petty like that.

@Thumbs sorry but I've only read half the thread - I'm shocked at how some pps in those first 6 pages are almost accusing you - here's the thing, your DH was wrong to apologise - if he was trying to be neighbourly then fine, but you did NOTHING wrong - I'm pretty certain it's an offence to mount a kerb, so everytime they do it to drive onto their property, they're effectively breaking the law - there's also the fact that pedestrians won't think to check for cars backing out as there is no dropped kerb, it's a hazard. Your neighbours are in the wrong, your husband should've said, you won't park there again, but he shouldn't have apologised.

Sorry if this has been mentioned later in the thread.

If my dh apologised for me even if I was in the wrong I would be mad...
He isn't your df..

It was when we were buying our house that our solicitor pointed out "no dropped kerb = no drive". The vendors were using next door's dropped kerb to drive in at an angle onto what they had called the drive. It didn't actually bother us as we had no intention of parking there - we have lots of street parking, and intended to ask the council for a disabled bay (which we got).

Next time this happens to anybody and you get such a note, drop a polite response back through the door of the house to point out to them that - should they ever come to sell - they won't be able to class it as a 'drive' on the property particulars