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)

I walk DH to school. It's a 5 min walk. There are no roads to cross.

So two of my neighbours drive. It's a six minute drive.

They don't work. They are best mates. They go in separate multi person vans which seat eight.

They go to pick up at 2pm to make sure they get the best space for their kids who are old enough to walk home by themselves.

They then run the engine for an hour before the kids get let out, whilst talking to each other in one car.

There are few things that I find more perplexing / wasteful / screwed in the head in life than this mind boogling behaviour.

I'd ask them to turn their engines off

There are still coke cans out there with my sunscreen finger prints on, made from my old car. Factor fifty never bloody comes off.

Would be a shame if you'd just put sun screen on when you look in the car to see if they've left anything identifying so you can contact them.

I'd have fun with your recycling... Unfolded cereal packet and a big message shaming them. Take photos and post on line.

Its madness! 🙈 And the kids are growing up thinking its normal to be ferried everywhere.

The irony (as another person has mentioned) is our school does the daily walk/run when they arrive - thank god they do when there are so many lazy parents out there!

“If the visitor bay is taken he can park behind her , blocking his own drive.
OP is being a bit CF by using a visitor's parking spot as her own second parking space.”

I agree with this. OP is essentially taking up 2 spaces for 1 car. She’s trying to reserve a spot for her partner. It’s a massive liberty for anyone to park in her drive but I think it’s quite a liberty to take up a space on the road when OP’s drive is free. We live in an area where parking is very tight. We park as near our house as we can which is sometimes not that near. That’s how these things go.

Get yourself a cone. Put a lump of bubblegum ontop painted brown.

Just fucking block them in. No one’s got time for this shit!

Good for you.

I love my car, and I will be driving as long as I am able to, and I have zero qualms about it.

I need my car for work, you know, that thing that pays the bills - I have to drive several counties, and I can't see my employer being happy for me to walk. And before you start, if I wasn't doing it someone else would be.

I also require it for home to work commute, and needed it when I had to do 2/3 drop offs in the mornings at more than one school on my way to work, to rear my family and for lots of other purposes that I don't plan to justify to the likes of you with your "car con"!!!

Might take it out for a spin tomorrow, do a few miles, in your honour!!!

Barefoot, and in the snow I suppose?

If they do it again just park across your driveway blocking them in and when they inevitably come to your door, answer it with a glass of wine in your hand. Regardless of the time of day 😂 They don't know you havent actually drank any of it. But as far as they're concerned, you can't get behind the wheel of your car to move it. What a pickle! Might teach them not to be so utterly selfish, brass necked, cheeky fuckers.

Do you not think a man old enough to be married should be able to walk by himself?! 😂

Put up a sign in your garden “£30 a week 3pm -4pm driveway rental. term time only, apply within.”

block them in - fuck them

we threatened to have a neighbors FRIENDS car towed when they parked across our driveway
the neighbor wanted to play dumb 'i dont know whos car it is' until we said cops and a tow truck were on their way. She funnily enough found the owner quick smart, shoes and shirtless in her house - didnt knows whos it was...... sure bitch

You say that like we are talking 4h earlier. Half hour walk is hardly worth posting about.

Yes in the snow actually…we were treated to shoes though 😉My Mum stayed at home in the early years so it was possible. We’ve just become a lazy, jump in the car kind of society (not talking about people who need to go straight to work obviously). Plenty of Mums at our school could walk but choose not to.

Perhaps he had the sorr of Mumsnet mother who thought his brain was not developed enough for him to cross the road. So he never learned and now his wife has to take mummy's place😂

Same happens near me, it's a junction that the school is on and there's just cars scattered everywhere

The ridiculous part? On the same side as the school, next door to it, is a free car park with maybe 40 spaces. It's empty because it's a centre that isn't used until the evening and there is no parking restrictions
People would rather park on the junction and dodge the traffic to cross the road than walk the 20ft from the car park on the SAME SIDE as the school
Baffles me

This is how close it is
Playground visible which is where the school gate is, and red cross is the free car park

Block them in then tell them the car blocking them in is your husbands who has just left for the airport and taken the keys with him...

Really? I didn't realise you couldn't park across your own drive alongside a dropped curb?

We live on a street with hellish parking and are lucky enough to have a drive with space for one car. So one of us parks on the drive, and the other parks across the drive, alongside the dropped curb thereby blocking the car in the drive in.

Everyone with a drive does this on our street. If they didn't then there would be even less parking available for people without a drive.

This.

What an uttee ignoramous. I deal with people like you all the time blocking my car in my drive. Selfish ignorant entitled twats

how long do they park for? 10 mins or less? it’s very petty. you can message local authority to send out ticket wardens or petition to get camera installed
you can also email the school and ask them to intervene. or you can just ignore it as it’s a mere few mins.

Could dh park down the road?

Pathetic isn't it? We walk 25 mins each way to (primary) school and never thought twice about it. Sometimes when my kids have brought friends back for play dates they have complained how far it is to walk, but none of them has ever had any problems at all.