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)

We could back and forth about this all day. My original post still stands and I wonder how busy the visitor bays really are after, say 3:30-3:45pm. These CFs you refer to are just normal people, trying to go about their lives, taking their children to school (if I were to move to a house near a school I would expect a busy road around school time).

I'm surprised no one has questioned why the OP even needs a car when she works at home and her partner gets home at 3.30pm.

If she wasn't so entitled as to insist on having one, she wouldn't need a parking space ...

People have but no answer.

Every car is "essential" in discussions like this

The CFs aren't the OP's problem.

So your point really is that the OP should have saved a parking space for a CF, rather than saving a space for her husband.

I very much doubt you would take that approach in the OP's position, and frankly if you would, I'd be asking whether you were a ceramic object with a handle, commonly used for drinking hot drinks out of.

I don't have a car. You still can't park on my drive, because it's my private property and that's trespassing. If I pay for other parking outside the house, then I have a right to that spot. If l otherwise own parking bays because of my house, then those would be mine too. You wouldn't have a picnic in random front gardens because nobody's there, why would you think it's ok to use any other part of someone's property?

Why would OP care about inconveniencing someone so cheeky and entitled?

No, my point is that the OP doesn’t need to deliberately move her car at 3pm when she knows the road is busy, when she has her own drive and her husband doesn’t actually get home until 3:30-4pm by which time the school cars have probably moved anyway.

And no, I’m not a mug. Nice.

Another good one. Remember that video clip of a farmer muck spraying a car parked in their field. If only that was possible here.

That's irrelevant @Toasted , it's a PRIVATE parking bay.She is well within her rights to do it

If the road was generally clear enough at 3:30/4pm for her husband to find a space easily, I doubt she would bother doing this.

You have my sympathies OP. I think if I lived near a school I would have to be really zen about the drive blocking thing. Use every ounce of what little chill I have to not allow it to get to me.

That's the kind of daily stress that will eat away at you, and have a really negative impact on your health.

I live near a school and my road is extremely busy at drop off/pick up time which is expected but if anyone had the audacity to park on my drive I'd have a few choice words for them. Someone else's parking issues are not my problem.

OP, this is what my cousin used to do. Buy a black cable cover strip and put nails through from underneath carpet nails /tacs and lay it across your drive, halfway down away from the pavement.

If they drive on your property and puncture their tyres they are already trespassing so its their own fault.

Pop a small warning sign on the wall even, they can't do squat.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/d-line-cable-cover-light-duty-floor-cable-cover-1-8m-black/9345f

I think@MRex has the absolute best answer. It does not matter if you aren't using it, others can't just help themselves.

Jeez, why would anyone risk getting themselves into an aggressive situation or potentially legal action when they could just as easily put out a couple of cones?

I have no idea. Batshit crazy.

A child or an animal could be hurt too.

There’s something severely fucked up about a person who would actually do this.

Anyway why can’t the DH park a bit further away? He has the use of his legs presumably? I think it’s mean of the op to park in the street where space is at a premium and she doesn’t need to! And then complain when someone uses her empty driveway?!

If you read the whole thread the visitors bays appear to be designated by house; there is no public parking.

Is commuting to work the only purpose to have a car? I don’t think it is!

And then complain when someone uses her empty driveway?!

Her driveway. Not a public parking space. Her driveway that is part of her property.

We’re the same, the school is at the end of the road. No one has parked ON the driveway but the regularly park over it. We have a dropped curb but there is less than a metre of curb between us and next doors drive and they park there. After putting up with it for 10 years or more At our own expense last year we had that bit of curb dropped and H bars painted and finally no one parks there anymore. When we moved in the infant school has 2 classes per year and the parking at school times was fine. Then they added an extra class to reception so over the years the school has got bigger and bigger and of course eventually the junior school has 5 extra classes too so now there are cars left everywhere. Even on the corners, just left there!

If you're working at home all day, there isn't a huge need for a car during those hours on a regular basis.
And having a car just to (e.g.) go to the dentist every 6 months for a check up seems rather unnecessary.

I do agree that this is irrelevant to the point about CFs parking on the drive (and agree they shouldn't be able to do it, even if OP and her partner had no cars at all).

@BellatrixLestrangesHeatedCurlers @QuertyGirl

You are actually advocating rigging a car tyre to slowly deflate while a parent might be driving at speed with their child in the car?

The property owner can do what they like inaccordable with planning regulations with their property. So if the owner wants to put a strip of nails down they can. It’s their property.

Did you not think about this when you moved to a road with a primary school on? I work in a primary school and honestly, the locals are so petty. I agree they shouldn't park on your drive, but equally you chose a house on the same road as a school. It was going to happen.

Maybe the OP predates the school? A new one was built on my road about five years after I moved in. So I didn't "choose" to live near a school, it chose to live near me.