To be very annoyed with the neighbours.

[supersonicginandtonic]

Our neighbours are nice enough but very nosey. They appear every time we go in the garden or out the front door. They've even been asking us where we are going recently.

Yesterday their son parked on our drive, they just text us to say he had done this, they didn't ask. I came home and parked behind him. DP had to park down the road as we live on a roundabout. We asked him if he could move it about 6pm before we had tea and put the kids to bed. They replied that he was playing on a PS4 game and couldn't come at that moment. I asked if he would be needing his car for work tomorrow (today) and he said no.

6:45am this morning we are woken by knocking at the front door, followed by the door bell ringing. It's next doors son he's been called into work. Me and DP are on annual leave today and we're hoping for a lie in. He also woke our toddler. I'm furious. Does anybody else feel IBU for thinking this is selfish behaviour?

Selfish entitled and damn well rude!!

This is insane

I would tell them in the strongest possible terms to piss off, that your property is not an extension of theirs.

When they ask where you are going p, tell them “none of your effing business”.

How did it come to this?

@AcornAutumn I have no idea. They chat friendly with us in the garden but she has a habit of passing my Toddler things through the fence, like chocolate etc which is annoying. I'm wondering if it's a culture thing where she originates from but I find it suffocating.

Total madness. Tell them they cannot under any circumstance use your driveway ever again.

That’s crazy. Tell them firmly that he is not to use your drive again. That your husband was inconvenienced last night by not being able to park at your property and that your whole family was disrupted this morning and it’s not acceptable. Why on Earth did they think him gaming was a suitable excuse not to move his car when asked!?

At 6.45 I think I'd be telling him that you're gaming so can't move the car!

Entitled much? No way would he be parking on my driveway. Sort that one out now, and ensure it doesn't happen again. CFs!

[quote supersonicginandtonic]@AcornAutumn I have no idea. They chat friendly with us in the garden but she has a habit of passing my Toddler things through the fence, like chocolate etc which is annoying. I'm wondering if it's a culture thing where she originates from but I find it suffocating. [/quote]
My point is, you need to say no. You need to say “this is my home and I want privacy”.

I don’t have a garden but I’d not see the point if I had to chat to neighbours when I went in it!

@AngelonTopoftheTree

At 6.45 I think I'd be telling him that you're gaming so can't move the car!

Good plan.

@AcornAutumn oh I would love to say something and will if I bump into them. DP doesn't like conflict and does not like upsetting people, he's the one they messaged.

I have a double length driveway so two cars can park easily. My new neighbours have taken to walking across it as a short cut to their house. It pisses me off, the guy says hello if he sees me but his wife makes no eye contact at all. She always looks the other way to avoid eye contact. I feel Iike saying hello very loudly the next time I see her to force her to acknowledge me.

If you're trespassing on my property, the least you can do is say hello. The entitled bitch, I can't stand people like this. Fine if you have social anxiety and don't like talking to people, not a problem. Stop trespassing on their property and you won't have to say hello.

I would park at the top of your drive to prevent the son from parking in your husband's space. Or be evil & call DVLA to say a stolen car's been dumped on your drive!

@Chailatte20

I have a double length driveway so two cars can park easily. My new neighbours have taken to walking across it as a short cut to their house. It pisses me off, the guy says hello if he sees me but his wife makes no eye contact at all. She always looks the other way to avoid eye contact. I feel Iike saying hello very loudly the next time I see her to force her to acknowledge me.

If you're trespassing on my property, the least you can do is say hello. The entitled bitch, I can't stand people like this. Fine if you have social anxiety and don't like talking to people, not a problem. Stop trespassing on their property and you won't have to say hello.

I would park at the top of your drive to prevent the son from parking in your husband's space. Or be evil & call DVLA to say a stolen car's been dumped on your drive!

How does it give them easier access to the house?

I’d hate this.

I always say it’s my dream to have a house but maybe it’s not!

Its dreadful behaviour and you need to be firm about it and tell them that they cannot park in your driveway again.

For goodness sake, it's your driveway, it's your child and it was your lie in- just tell them they aren't allowed to park on your driveway again and could they stop giving your child sweets.

*@AcornAutumn they walk straight across my driveway and into their garden if you see what I mean. They can't be arsed walking 2 metres along the pavement and down their own drive and path. I hope this makes sense.

The woman is very anti social, dead eyes no smile and visibly looks away if she sees me. But not so socially awkward to use my drive as a cut through. They've missed off the neighbours on the other side by dumping their rubbish in next door's bins instead of using their own bins.

[quote Chailatte20]*@AcornAutumn they walk straight across my driveway and into their garden if you see what I mean. They can't be arsed walking 2 metres along the pavement and down their own drive and path. I hope this makes sense.

The woman is very anti social, dead eyes no smile and visibly looks away if she sees me. But not so socially awkward to use my drive as a cut through. They've missed off the neighbours on the other side by dumping their rubbish in next door's bins instead of using their own bins.[/quote]
Oh lord, people who use other people’s bins!

Would you put a fence up between the drives? I would.

House design baffles me, it really does.

@LizzieSiddal I've told her about the food, thankfully now winter has set in we're spending more time indoors so it's not so much an issue. It was always before tea time too.

My plan is to tell them this face to face if I bump into them.

Block her number.. And get them told you need your drive.

Build a 6’ ( at least) fence around your garden as a priority and tell them either next time you see them or next time it happens that they / their relatives are not to park on your drive at all .

A quick knock on the door to tell them that the son parking on your drive was a huge inconvenience to you and you will let him off for that one incident but to never park on it again under any circumstances

I'd of told you were both playing an x box game and couldn't now then let him out 12 hours later.

Sorry I think I’d be looking at the expensive solution of Gates

I mean the mumsnet answer is penguin bollards but that won’t stop her walking across with bags etc potentially bashing your car.

Why are you letting them park on your drive? Find your balls and speak up.

It's weird set up. We have 3, 3 storey houses which are on the roundabout (new estate) and we live in the middle one. Then the 3 garages and drive ways are in a block at the side of the 3rd house so no fence or gate can be put up.

I think I'm going to knock after they are home feom work today. Im pregnant too so very moody!

@Lipz I didn't they parked there whilst I was out and text DP to tell him. They then didn't move it when we asked them too.