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Would you ever park across someone’s driveway?

91 replies

TheStarsComeOut · 10/08/2022 12:57

Even if it was just for 5 minutes?

I live on an old street so the road is narrow and I’d say 25% have drive for 1 car.

The amount of people that park across my driveway is insane - neighbours, deliveries, work vans.

I also don’t live near a school. But I just find the entitlement quite shocking that people think this is in anyway ok. Yet so many do it.

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NippyWoowoo · 10/08/2022 15:35

TheStarsComeOut · 10/08/2022 12:57

Even if it was just for 5 minutes?

I live on an old street so the road is narrow and I’d say 25% have drive for 1 car.

The amount of people that park across my driveway is insane - neighbours, deliveries, work vans.

I also don’t live near a school. But I just find the entitlement quite shocking that people think this is in anyway ok. Yet so many do it.

Delivery drivers LOVE to do this, especially when I'm about to leave to do the school run. The road is wide, there's lots of space just past the drive, but they must just love being twats.

Dalekjastninerels · 10/08/2022 15:37

I always think why?! I'm not even the closest.

I have had to go into the shop and get someone out or I'd be late for work Angry

I have had people do it right in front of my face as I'm moving the car out of the garage 😡

The human race sucks Sad

TenoringBehind · 10/08/2022 16:12

Mochudubh · 10/08/2022 14:57

Was that the 2 farmer brothers that don't get on?

What was the outcome of that? Can you link to the thread so not to de-rail this one?

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Sorry, I have no idea what you’re talking about (so probably not).

girlfriend44 · 10/08/2022 16:24

LucyLoopyLu · 10/08/2022 13:59

No!
We have parking trouble where we live and people are so inconsiderate, it makes me angry.

My parents have this issue as well where workmen are frequently blocking the drive during the day so my mum has to park her car down at the bottom of the road to be able to get out. One of them is a neighbour's gardener who she has asked not to block her in several times over the past few months and he still does it evey visit! Also their house is in the corner of the cul de sac so they're also blocking the turning circle

Why are people like this?

Ask the persistent Parker how he would like it done to them?

DorisWallis · 10/08/2022 16:27

I think @Mochudubh was asking @quicklybeendrivenmad , @TenoringBehind

TenoringBehind · 10/08/2022 16:51

Ah, that makes more sense. 🤣

Jolinar · 10/08/2022 16:57

Yes, if dropping off or picking up something big/ heavy/ awkward or the kids are in the car. Less than 5 minutes.

People do it across our drive for the same reasons and it doesn't bother me.

WireSkills · 10/08/2022 17:22

WireSkills · 10/08/2022 13:56

Our driveway entrance services 3 houses but people still stop in front of it in an otherwise empty road. OK, so more often than not it's a delivery for one of the three houses, but why risk stopping someone getting in or out when there's a space right in front of the driveway.

Oh, and then, when the van needs to leave they have to turn around, so they normally pull forward in to the space they could have stopped in, to reverse in to the driveway to turn around.

I would only ever park in front of a driveway of someone I was visiting, or dropping something off to. Anything else is pure selfishness!

...and, just like that, live CF'ery...

DH just called. New neighbour knocked on the door and said "I'm parking here for 10 mins" and pointed at his car, already parked on our driveway.

The road is still clear. We have parking permits here, but the visitors ones are free!

Think DH was a bit stunned by the sheer entitlement of it but muttered something about it "better not drop oil on my driveway" and looked pissed off (TBF he generally has a pissed off face at the best of times!). Needless to say it was gone within a couple of mins.

what is wrong with some people!?

Laiste · 10/08/2022 17:35

AnneElliott · 10/08/2022 13:00

No I wouldn't as I used to live near a school and feel your pain! If I'm delivering something to a friend/ relative then I might park across their drive to drop it in but certainly not their neighbours!!

Same.

I still do live near a school and it's bloody bedlam twice a day!

SO many delivery vans just plonk themselves across our drive (even half on it, also), and make their deliveries up and down the lane from it! I mean i get it, it's handy, it's a wide drive and a narrow lane with quite a bit of parking. But don't wander miles away and leave your bloody van blocking my car in!

IzzieStevens · 10/08/2022 17:37

Only if I was dropping someone off and not going to be more than 20 seconds - and even then, only if there’s nowhere else to stop on the road. I hate when people park across my drive so I try not to do it to others

Whippetquick · 10/08/2022 17:42

All the time so now I park over my own drive. Sick of getting abuse from people when I ask them to move so I can go to work. Just rude.

I had a bloke try to punch me and spit at me the other week entitled selfish scum

Laiste · 10/08/2022 17:51

I have a confession to make actually.

2 days ago i painted the 2 slopping stones each side of my dropped kerb white.

Loads of people seem to think they can decide for themselves how much of our drive entrance we need kept clear. Or that hanging half their flippin' car over it won't matter. I wondered if maybe a while stone would alert them to the fact that there is actually an edge to observe.

You know what? It's worked so far.

Waiting now for when schools go back and the CFparents return. We'll see.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 10/08/2022 17:52

No, never.

Unless it was someone without a dropped kerb, so a patio with aspirations.

I have seen that isn’t you, but just giving a full answer.

LynneBenfield · 10/08/2022 17:58

I’m sure I have at some point in the past, given I’ve been driving for over 20yrs but I wouldn’t/don’t as a rule, unless it’s the only option.

Plumtreebob · 10/08/2022 17:59

No never.

I have a wide dropped kerb and a bright white line painted in front of it and am still the parking spot of choice for delivery drivers, even when on street parking is available. The Royal Mail are particularly annoying as they park there even when half the street is empty and then do their whole round. I’ve given up asking them to move.

Worst CF was a man who parked up completely over the drive. I lent out the window and told him to move to be told there is nowhere else to park and he wandered off! By the time I’d got downstairs he was nowhere to be seen. He was gone 2 hours later, but the audacity.

Plumtreebob · 10/08/2022 18:00

@LynneBenfield - but it’s not an option for you, doesn’t matter what else is going on.

CharlotteFlax · 10/08/2022 18:05

Only if it was my drive or I was calling in quickly on the drive's owner (and their car was already in the drive)

But never in your situation

SliceOfCakeCupOfTea · 10/08/2022 18:09

No I wouldn't but I did once have someone park on my driveway and another person block them in on the school run.
Person on my drive kicked off at me because they thought I had blocked them in.

That was surreal!

Bananaman123 · 10/08/2022 18:12

I wouldn’t but plenty do here, delivery drivers abandon their vehicle in the middle of the road while they drop off packages etc

itsgettingweird · 10/08/2022 18:20

This is the exact reason your car has a horn Grin

And you always know they've been a caught and are embarrassed because they start acting as if you are wrong for wanting access to or from your own drive!

SlickShady · 10/08/2022 18:20

Sometimes when there's no other choice, but only if I'm right there and I keep a lookout to see if access is needed. And then I move immediately, not at my convenience.

On the very rare occasion I've had to leave my lookout position, I put a note with my phone number.

I see it as similar to double parking. I get very annoyed with people who double park because their time is more important than everyone else's, but I do understand that let's say if they're dropping off their elderly grandmother, she shouldn't be made to walk half a block from the nearest parking space.

Laiste · 10/08/2022 18:25

SliceOfCakeCupOfTea · 10/08/2022 18:09

No I wouldn't but I did once have someone park on my driveway and another person block them in on the school run.
Person on my drive kicked off at me because they thought I had blocked them in.

That was surreal!

Wow!

I was nearly run over on my own drive.

Some effing grand parent decided it would make a handy car parking space while his wife went to pick up their GC.

He reversed up onto it (and turned the engine off!) as me and DD4 as we were walking up it.

We jumped out of the way and he did a sort of double take out of the open window with a face on as if we were the ones in the wrong.
😡

I was so dumbfounded i just said Erm ..... this is a private drive, in a loud voice. And he told me ''we are 'just grandparents' and my wife has gone to get grandson''
I mean 😳Confused ...... oh well that makes it all bloody right then. NOT!

SamphirethePogoingStickerist · 10/08/2022 18:28

Yes, if I am working and reading house names. Never leave the car, just stare at houses hoping that this is the drive I can actually park on.

Otherwise no. Never!

EgonSpengler2020 · 10/08/2022 18:29

Somanysocks · 10/08/2022 13:16

It's infuriating so wouldn't do it unless there was nowhere else and I was literally only being seconds delivering something (I don't mind delivery drivers stopping briefly).

Annoyingly whenever my neighbour calls an ambulance they always park over my drive blocking me in and out, even though they have their own drive. You can't ask ambulances to move so have to suck it up which bugs me.

You can ask, just be polite about it and time it appropriatly. If your neighbour is a regular caller the ambulance crews will know and will be sympathetic to your cause.

gatehouseoffleet · 10/08/2022 18:35

No I wouldn't. I might stop alongside a driveway for a few seconds while someone got out of the car, but I can't really see why you would ever need to park, you just walk a bit further if there isn't space exactly where you want.