It's a Parking One

[ILoveFlumps]

Ok mumsnetters I need some ideas.
I popped out for 10 minutes this morning and come home to a random car on my driveway (outside my house). This is private property and allocated parking for a New Build. The Main Street it's off is permit parking only - this car has a permit.
The only place I can park is blocking it in causing a semi obstruction which I've done.
Police won't help as a civil matter.
Note has been left on the car by me telling them it's private property.
What else can I do?! Immediate neighbours have no idea whose car this is.

Regardless of whether the parker learned a lesson the OP has every right to express frustration and annoyance at his inconsiderate behavior. There was no emergency. He determined that it was worth the chance of inconveniencing the OP on her own property just bc he didn’t want to be inconvenienced. The OP didn’t yell, scream,

Why does everyone think a key worker/cater/low wage worker/working class person deserves better treatment than anyone else? What if the OP herself is a working class key worker, would that make a difference?

@Needsmustnow

Oh god, I think that's awful that you said that to him and humiliated him in that way. So much for Key Workers.

😂😂

Are you going to call the company he works for, to report him?

Can't believe how many people are saying you did the wrong thing!

As if being a carer means you get to plonk your car outside someone's front door and you have to put up with it!!

He's a carer, not a feckin ambulance!!

Just ridiculous.

Well done, OP! You dealt with that well and I doubt the cheeky twat will do it again.

@Toorapid

I had my drive blocked only recently. I couldn't get back on it. I was annoyed and hooted loudly as I could see driver was in the car. She opened to door to show me she was feeding a newborn. I could have yelled at her that I didn't care why she'd felt the need to park so inconsiderately and insisted she move, baby or not, but instead I parked down the road a bit and walked back.

I'm going to guess both our days were improved as a result.

OP, did he actually stop you going anywhere you'd planned to be?

The difference being there was nowhere else for me to park other than behind him ensuring my neighbours cannot get out themselves. Then also meant I had to postpone a work zoom call whilst I moved my car later on. So yes, it did affect me.

You obviously got a kick out of humiliating this young man.

@ILoveFlumps your assumption is incorrect.

This thread is full of intolerance and unkindness. If it wasn't the first time I'd be on board, but it's just so unnecessary and over the top.

Seems you're all having a ball discussing this great crime though, so I'll leave you all to it.

Hit send too soon. The OP didn’t yell, scream, damage the car, or do anything else a lot of others might have. The whole exchange took 3 minutes at most.. Why does OP’s job or social class give him the right to ruin a stranger’s day? For all he knew the OP could have been a disabled minimum wage hospital worker with a seriously ill child waiting for her care. Would that change things? You can’t just be an arsehole to strangers to make your life that bit easier.

@HelloThereMeHearties

Are you going to call the company he works for, to report him?

If you read all of my posts and not just the parts you want to argue with, you'll know the answer to that question.

I’d hate for your work to know you park like an inconsiderate arsehole

It’s really not nice to make threats in regards to peoples’ livelihoods in precarious times like these. Was on your side until this.

I didn't say you shouldn't have blocked him in, I said that was sufficient. Making him call himself a tit was a step too far IMO.

@LindainLockdown

You obviously got a kick out of humiliating this young man.

If anyone feels "humiliated" when you point out they are doing something wrong, blame their parents, not the ones telling them off.

Oh dear! I was Team OP until I saw the conversation that transpired! It made me think of a woman's name that has been cruelly hijacked and starts with K and ends with N. But hey ho, in 100 years no one will remember this and we'll all be dead.

And now he's being called a 'twat'.
Jolly good.

Write up an invoice for parking on your property, put their registration in Google, sometimes it comes up with owner.

If you read all of my posts and not just the parts you want to argue with, you'll know the answer to that question

Yes. But he doesn't.

Back in the real world, do you think many people would actually say to someone parked on their own drive "oh please carry on, I'll park elsewhere for your convenience"?
😂

take the comments with a pinch of salt and picture the real world, not some bored posters trying to argue for the sake of it online.

@Iknowwhatudidlastsummer

Back in the real world, do you think many people would actually say to someone parked on their own drive "oh please carry on, I'll park elsewhere for your convenience"? 😂

take the comments with a pinch of salt and picture the real world, not some bored posters trying to argue for the sake of it online.

I do actually exist in the real world, as well as on here.

And no, I wouldn't humiliate and threaten a care worker who had already apologised.

If he feels humiliated, he has only himself to blame.

If he HAD been breastfeeding a baby I’m sure OP would have been more sympathetic

if hes a carer he should have left a note at least-he had a permit he could have parked in another street but just didnt want to

@StamfordHill

And BTW the parking on someone's driveway is bad enough, but what made that 'key worker' a right tit is not leaving a note.

I've had people blocking my driveway many times. It's always annoying, but when they leave a note and move as soon as I call them, I don't say anything. That's just being part of society.

But blocking someone else without even leaving a note is total arsehole behaviour.

It’s not always so black and white and bit of mutual understanding never goes amiss. Yes, he was in the wrong parking on her drive, but was perhaps under tight time constraints from his employer and was held up at his last client etc etc.

It’s much better for your mental wellbeing if you don’t assume everyone has bad, selfish intentions all the time!