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.

@HelloThereMeHearties

Wow, well done on shaming that bastard carer! We all know that they have plenty of time to park and to get to and from appointments!

Really funny the way you threatened to make him late for his [checks notes] next client in need! Hee hee hee!!

I mean, he shouldn't have parked on your drive. But to threaten a carer with calling their boss?

What’s wrong with that? It’s a good idea. He’s an entitled rude twat, not an angel with a halo. And by this silly logic if OP was a carer and was late too, then what? OMG what if she was a dr in a covid ward?

And by this silly logic if OP was a carer and was late too, then what? OMG what if she was a dr in a covid ward?

Her car was not blocked in.

So those who think as he’s a carer, the OP should have been more lenient/nicer .... it would be ok for him to park, but if a mobile hairdresser, someone popping to the shops, meeting a friend, dropping something in at a friends and parked there - they’d get OP’s response and that’s ok? Loving the double standards here.

OP has paid for her house, her drive, her land with her own hard earned money - someone’s job title does not entitle them to trespass and park on her hard earned property.

Sure. Because that will teach him a lesson and make sure he doesn't do it again

Teach him a lesson? Blimey.

@HelloThereMeHearties

And by this silly logic if OP was a carer and was late too, then what? OMG what if she was a dr in a covid ward?

Her car was not blocked in.

No. But I had to cause an obstruction by parking behind him. This is turn meant my NDN couldn't get out. I can't park on the road because it's permit parking and we aren't entitled to a permit. I can't park miles away and walk as I'm recovering from an ankle fracture. So yes, it was a huge inconvenience and totally unnecessary on his part.

@Sparklingbrook

Sure. Because that will teach him a lesson and make sure he doesn't do it again

Teach him a lesson? Blimey.

Yes. Teach him to respect private property. To not trespass. To not park and cause a huge inconvenience to other people.

That's exactly what I will do @Hoppinggreen. Should it happen any time soon. Been here 20+ years but it hasn't yet.

There's a working class person put in their place, well done!

sparkling ... yes teach him a lesson ... in manners, respect, and respecting other people’s privacy and property.

Yes. Teach him to respect private property. To not trespass. To not park and cause a huge inconvenience to other people.

Such drama!

He shouldn't have parked on her drive. He did owe her an apology.

He didn't deserve to be humiliated or to be threatened with a call to his boss.

We all have our worries, our struggles, our mistakes. We could all do with a bit more understanding, compassion and respect.

I hate that people think being a key worker is in any way an excuse for parking like a twat.

I have a family member who is a community nurse, she travels to patients homes and has an nhs marked vehicle so it’s clear from a distance she is an nhs frontline worker and when in that car she has the authority to park on double yellow lines and in ‘non parking’ areas, she would 100% never park on someone’s drive or in anyway that may inconvenience someone, because she isn’t an arsehole.

@Frazzledbutcalm

So those who think as he’s a carer, the OP should have been more lenient/nicer .... it would be ok for him to park, but if a mobile hairdresser, someone popping to the shops, meeting a friend, dropping something in at a friends and parked there - they’d get OP’s response and that’s ok? Loving the double standards here.

OP has paid for her house, her drive, her land with her own hard earned money - someone’s job title does not entitle them to trespass and park on her hard earned property.

No double standards. She threatened to call his bosses, which is horrible imo. Not to mention threatening to make him late for his next appointment, which will impact on someone who needs care.

Well done OP, you did fantastic.

For all those complaining that as a key worker, he had a reason to park on private property and cause the op inconvenience, maybe she should have stood on the drive and clapped for him for a minute..

@Needsmustnow

He shouldn't have parked on her drive. He did owe her an apology.

He didn't deserve to be humiliated or to be threatened with a call to his boss.

We all have our worries, our struggles, our mistakes. We could all do with a bit more understanding, compassion and respect.

I feel the same, but accept we are in the minority. It's a parking thread after all.

@Needsmustnow

He shouldn't have parked on her drive. He did owe her an apology.

He didn't deserve to be humiliated or to be threatened with a call to his boss.

We all have our worries, our struggles, our mistakes. We could all do with a bit more understanding, compassion and respect.

Hear hear!

OP has said that on-road parking was difficult. He made a call, it turned out to the the wrong one. He apologised.

hello Of course him parking on her drive was not horrible at all. No, he’s a key worker after all 🙄

Well done OP.

The guys job is completely irrelavent! Je parked on your property, and clearly does it a lot at his visits and this is first time he has been caught

She threatened to call his bosses, which is horrible imo. Not to mention threatening to make him late for his next appointment, which will impact on someone who needs care. All of which he caused.

Some of you are very free with OPs driveway!

@Therealjudgejudy

Well done OP, you did fantastic.

For all those complaining that as a key worker, he had a reason to park on private property and cause the op inconvenience, maybe she should have stood on the drive and clapped for him for a minute..

Literally no-one has said that.

We have everything brought into this thread don’t we! Key workers, carers and now working class. This has nothing to do with any of those, we don’t even know if this guy is any of them. He’s just a guy who parked like an idiot. Being one of those groups (if he is) doesn’t change that or give him the right to do it.

@CuriousaboutSamphire

She threatened to call his bosses, which is horrible imo. Not to mention threatening to make him late for his next appointment, which will impact on someone who needs care. All of which he caused.

Some of you are very free with OPs driveway!

Nobody is free with her driveway. Have you actually read any of the responses that you don't agree with?

We are just pointing out that it is shitty behaviour to threaten a carer with calling their bosses, or making them late for their next appointment, when they have already apologised profusely and said they won't do it again

hello .., he made a call?? 🙄😂

He parked inappropriately, disrespectfully on a private drive! Only doing so because he thought the OP would be out all day and therefore he’d not get caught ... if she had been visibly home, he wouldn’t have parked there ., says it all. He knew he was wrong.

Have you actually read any of the responses that you don't agree with? Yes... I have. And expecting OP not to be pissed off because the idiot parker has a particular job is ludicrous!

Profusely? Really?

@BlokeHereInPeace

There's a working class person put in their place, well done!

Holy extrapolation Batperson! This a thread about CF parking - how did you get it to class warfare?