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)

Why is it petty to not want cars parked over your drive, blocking you in, mounting pavements where kids are walking, parking on double yellow lines, driving at the lollipop lady (who recently resigned as she was tired of the regular abuse) and the other myriad of driving offences just because there is a school?

Do people who live near train stations football stadiums, hospitals etc also deserve it?

A lot of the complaints are actually about parents not taking care around the children. All the while, there is a massive parking area, without double yellow lines, 2 minutes walk away

@Blanketpolicy

You're advocating driving off, at speed with a flat tyre and a child in the car in an urban area.

They could just, not drive it until the tyre is reinflated?

www.tyreextinguishers.com/why-are-you-doing-this

Haven't done it myself

What a bunch of arseholes. I have what could be described as a pretend SUV (SUV shaped but not for off road). It's smaller than the hatchback it's based on and has lower emissions than many smaller cars. I suppose idiots like 'tyre extinguishers' are too thick to think of that. With any luck someone will catch them committing criminal damage and treat them accordingly.

Dickheads, like their supporters.

Can you just get yourself a heavy chain and padlock across your drive ? Easy to fit and move when you need , and unless your CF parker routinely travels with bolt cutters , very effective

On of my neighbours has a fold down bollard , no idea why , I don;t think the parking at their end is a problem.
Pain in the arse though when its laid out flat on the pavement

There's absolutely no need to puncture or deflate tryres .

I thunk too many people live in houses with insufficient drive spaces for their vehicles, a house with 2 spaces would be better for OP. But yes parking on someone else's drive is very CF behaviour! Reasonable to block them in.

Putting a lentil in the valve/cap starts the tyre deflating slowly. So the risk is they drive off with knowing, they could be on a main road by the time they do.

Ridiculous thing to suggest anyone interferes with a vehicle in a way that could result in an accident after they pick their child up from school.

There are some real twats out there 🙄

Or people buy too many cars / more than they can store.

I'd quite like to see a system like they have in some areas of Japan, where in order to purchase a car you have to prove you have somewhere off-road to park it - either on your own drive or in a designated spot in a car park if you don't have a drive. That leaves the roads free for traffic and those making deliveries etc, rather than the current system we have in lots of places London where roads are choked to single carriageway width to accommodate vehicle storage on both sides.

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

Yes, and they use SUVs for two mile school runs in towns and cities.

I've never stuck a lentil anything other than a soup mix, but I can see why they do it.

We really, really need to change car culture. It's been done it plenty of other places and we're really not as special as we think. We can do it too.

@Lockheart

There are many reasons that the Japanese have such longevity and higher standards of living. This is one of them

Block it yourself. Bloody cheek!

I mean, I can think of thousands of other reasons to use a car that are not work commuting and dentist visits twice a year.

Owning a car is not entitled, whether one wfh or not. My Dad has retired, should he give up his car?

If you think it's acceptable then you're as bad as them.

I use my car for my 4 mile commute to the office. Not far but I have no other way of getting there. How do you know that people aren't going on somewhere afterwards? You don't, you are just blinded by your hatred of cars.

It is also cowardly and frankly pathetic. While I understand the concern towards SUVs it is absolutely no excuse for you to encourage anyone to interfere with a vehicle on their drive that someone will be driving their child in.

I'd quite like to see a system like they have in some areas of Japan, where in order to purchase a car you have to prove you have somewhere off-road to park it - either on your own drive or in a designated spot in a car park if you don't have a drive.

That's OK in principle, but I live in an terrace with no parking. I need my car to get to work. What do I do? Give up my job because I can't afford a driveway? I can't afford to move (and don't want to anyway) so that system wouldn't work for many people.

This is the logic used by the entitled mums who use my drive every bloody day - apparently if you don’t have a car, you forfeit the right to your drive in some people’s minds!

Idiotic behaviour

They mightn't realise until it was too late?

I'd quite like to see a system like they have in some areas of Japan

Systems like that work there because people don’t consider their own convenience to be more important than wider society. You could have a system like that here but people would just work hard to get around it. We’re much too selfish for it to work.

QuertyGirl, you honestly make me want to just sit in my car with the engine running for no reason...

I might even upgrade to an SUV

We’re much too selfish for it to work.

What's selfish about wanting to be able to get to work?

No, they’re for VISITORS of the housing development that they are in! They’re not just extra public parking!

With our public transport system no one would be going anywhere. That’s where we fail. I’d happily commute by train/ bus if the networks were more efficient, reliable and could get me where I needed to be

Why did you rent/buy a house with no parking??

I genuinely don't understand that one!