AIBU to block in school mums parking on my driveway?

[Applepiesmum]

i live down the road from a school and during the school rush parents park everywhere it normally worse in the afternoon at 3pm

I work from home and usually park in the visitor pay outside my house so my partner can park on the driveway he gets home 3.30-4pm

however recently people have been parking on my driveway last week I caught someone pulling in knocked on their window and they argued with me saying they need to pick up their child eventually they did move but moved to where they were just half way blocking my drive way and halfway blocking my neighbor so no one could access it!

I didn’t bother confront them again but in future I’m just thinking to block them in… is that too petty

I have reported it to the school but all they’ve said is they’ve already asked parents not to block residents in so I’m not sure what else to do.

(if I did block anyone in it would only be for 30 minutes to cause a bit of stress and a lesson learned)

100% block them in. Loads of parents do this at my kids school it's awful

'Just 30 minutes'? You're being unreasonable. Block then in then go on holiday for a week. They're too tier CFs.

yeah I have made a series of stupid solutions - what's your idea?
just accept it?

This

Well then you're a bit of a CF too tbh. Different type of CFery but CFery all the same.

But I'd also block them in.

Take photos of them parked on your drive and email them to the school. Advise that your next step will be the police (though they of course won’t care). Also post pictures on your local Facebook group (or the schools Facebook page if it’s accessible to you) and attempt public shaming.

Our school posted a photo of someone’s illegally parked car in the weekly bulletin, number plate clearly visible, to illustrate their plea to parents to park considerately. It made me chuckle.

And yes, block them in. And go out for a nice long coffee.

Can’t you get one of those pop up bollards (so DP can unlock it and put it down when he gets back)?

interested now - why should OP give a flying monkey's that someone who is parking on her drive, might miss an appointment?

But they're just dropping their kids off and they'll only be a minute 😉

Get a bollard at the bottom of your drive and just flick it up when they’ve parked? Surely no different to a payment barrier from leaving a car park. Your car isn’t then illegally parked by blocking a driveway

Thank you I do feel vindicated! I’ll try putting my green bin out first the only problem is it’s not always full and gets blown over but worst case I’ll come on here and update how blocking someone in goes!

Or, you could sit on the roof or bonnet when they come back?

I'd take a book or some embroidery. If they complain, point out that you're on your own land?

I'm a mardy cow though

Surely a nice big traffic cone would be your friend here.

I see this happening on the road dds school is on everyday. People are so bloody rude and inconsiderate.

I have it too - I live across the road from a shop
and people often block my drive to go there. I had someone the other day call me rude for asking them to move so I could get my car out of my drive as they were eating a sandwich they had just bought there. One time, I came home to someone parked in my drive loading in some bags from the shop with my next door neighbour telling them they shouldn’t be parked there.

People can be wankers.

I’d just park over your drive. No issues with blocking . I’ve resorted to this

Do you think the police will come just like that?
Is it wise to cause a big scene like that, where you never know these days if you'll get stabbed or not.
It's perfectly possible to sort this by taking the legal route if a polite request is not adhered too.
The things some people come out with on her says alot about their personality and mentality.

Block them in and let them explain to your partner when they arrive why they cannot park on their own drive.

Them trying to justify why they should be allowed to park there should provide some entertainment value and if they have any slight sense of reasonableness about them they won't do it again.

Why should the OP have to spend time and money making her driveway look like a public car park, just to stop some lazy cf squatting on her property.

Serves them right if they’re inconvenient - they don’t give a flying fuck about inconveniencing the person whose property they are trespassing on!

Something tells me you’re one of THOSE parents @Tinypetunia 🤣🤣

@dottypotter

The twat in her drive is causing the scene

Yes I'd block them in but I also wouldn't hog a visitor's bay when I'm not a visitor. If that spot had been free the CF might have had somewhere to park.

I'd say I was gobsmacked by the CFery of parking on someone's actual drive, but yesterday I saw a parent literally park in the middle of the road outside school, because there were already cars parked up on both curbs. Just stopped the car, engine off, waiting for their kid. Queue of traffic behind them backed up to the T-junction, beeping. Those of us on foot just agog. After another driver spent a while explaining why they couldn't do what they were doing, they angrily moved their car up across the pavement and half in someone's drive to allow cars to pass.

People are weird.

I'd advise penguin bollards per PP, or a gate. But they'll probably just park fully on the pavement outside instead. Infuriating!

But the CF isn’t visiting the OP’s housing development. It’s a visitors space, not a ‘picking up from the nearby school’ space. So while the OP is a bit of a cf to be basically reserving it and stopping any other visitors using it, it’s absolutely not for the CF school mum to use!!

We did this at work when someone parked on our private yard next door to a sandwich shop stopping any other cars from getting on and off.

Someone had a seriously ill parent at the time who refused to eat unless she went and fed them so they used to pop to the care home every lunchtime to feed her mum (had to be in a half hour time window) so the "I'll just be 10 minutes" had a massive impact on her.

Our local school is private and the parents are rude, obnoxious and entitled. The houses nearest the school got so sick of it they campaigned for permits. They now have to pay to park outside their own homes because of lazy entitled parents who's little darlings can't possibly walk a few yards. Once parents couldn't park there anymore they all commandeered the pub car park so his customers can't park there. Eventually the landlord will get sick of it and make it customer parking only. Then they will move down the road to us and start taking the piss with our residents only parking area. At which point they will find themselves repeatedly blocked in with several huge industrial waste bins with lockable wheels. Most inconvenient....

I'd put a massive cone there and cover the top with WD40, hopefully the cone alone will stop them from parking there, but if they do try and move it, it will fall on their foot and make their hand very oily.