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)

This is the [High]way. For the past ten years, probably more, the people (I wouldn't call them neighbours) have zealously guarded their 'right' to park their two cars in front of their house. Well actually, one in front, and the wife's in front of next door's.

What happens is, the husband drives his car out of 'his' space, then gets into his wife's car and moves that between the two potential spaces so no-one else can park there. When he come back the process is reversed. Sometimes, the wife will drive off, and he'll do the same thing with his car.

He claims he has the right to do this because he 'pays road tax', so I guess his neighbour, who also has a car, doesn't.

A neighbour at work once turned up with large lightly coloured streaks down his big black jag. It had been doused with paint stripper due to his shitty parking. Which he freely admitted.

So people very much can and do take parking vengeance.

Given the horrors humans are capable of I'm rather surprised anyone doubts this.

This is what you need:
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Totally ridiculous

Block them in and wave from the window.
With a tinkly laugh.

Parents at my daughters school do this all the time!! It is so rude and inconsiderate. One homeowner came out to confront a mum and the mum told her to fuck off! The school do send emails out, but the parents with no morals chose to ignore it. Yes absolutely block them in!!

would the council fine people for parking in your driveway? Have you spoken to them about doing a check through the street around that time? Or could you put up a sign stating you will take photos of the licence plates and report them?

Crutcher, I'm not so sure cars are a marvellous invention, and you ask, what about if its raining? Wear a rain coat

You park your car on private property and it gets damaged then it’s your problem. At your own risk

The parking rows at my children's primary were quite entertaining lol.

There was one totally-up-herself mum who was a physio and thought she was god's gift. She always drove a Porsche SUV. She was always "that one" who took it upon herself to organise parking on the mornings when it became difficult, like some kind of traffic warden.

Her DH who ran his own business from above an off licence tore the bollocks off some mum in a parking row, and made the school's Parent Newsheet for his behaviour.... I believe there was swearing involved...

Googled it and seems it’s trespassing
can’t believe how anyone would have the cheek
so I could bring my family and have a picnic in your front garden thrn? can’t be right, I’d phone the council or police for advice

And yes, block them in. And go out for a nice long coffee.
An Irish coffee. You'll be in a fit state to drive in six hours or so.

the mums at our local school turn up at 2.00o/c and wait with their engines running until 3.15.
I hate it when people needlessly idle like that. If it was outside my house I'd be wedging a potato in the exhaust.

Surely it's not against the law to put a layer of nails or even a police style stinger across the front of your drive as long as there is a warning.........

No I agree that’s not the primary reason. But we don’t know the OP’s full circumstances and getting blocked in might be problematic for her for other reasons. Even if it was only problematic occasionally, that still demonstrates that just using the drive isn’t a tick box solution.

My point was really that aside from being perfectly entitled to park on the road if she wants, putting the car on the drive can cause other issues.

The failure of people to respect others, and to just park with a bit of consideration really is mind blowing.

This. What you're doing is a very inefficient use of apparently scarce parking resources in your area.

YANBU to be cross that someone is parking on your drive, but it does seem a bit unreasonable to me permanently to tie up a visitor space that could be used by other people (unless you own it?) while your own driveway is mostly free.

Block them, deny all knowledge and tell them that your car is probably just another parent on the school run and that it happens all the time - then get your husband to move it when he gets back so they don’t know it’s you!!

😂

This. I find it hard to have sympathy in these circumstances. The school mums are being CF’s so they don’t have to walk further to their car, and so are you and your H by permanently blocking a visitor bay ( which needs to be used by tradespeople, care workers, health care workers, relatives and friends with disabilities, you get the picture).

You’re CF space hogging behaviour has ironically created the ( literally) space for the CF school mum behaviour. It’s quite karma in action really!

You’ve got no moral high ground here, OP.

Get one or two of the lockable cones to put on your driveway. Then whenever you park your car, just lift them up. I wonder if any CF would have the nerve to ask you to move them… 😂

@Thedarkestblue @Goldbar , @Applepiesmum owns the spot
It's their private parking bay, they are not inconveniencing anyone
She has every right to park there and leave her drive clear

I'm on the side of karma for unnecessarily blocking a visitors' parking bay.

It's a visitor bay, not a private parking bay.

The op has already said there is a visitors bay outside her house; there is one each for all the properties. So if care workers or whoever turned up to see someone in those houses, they would park in the visitor bay corresponding to the house they are visiting. Regardless of that, the visitor bays are there for the properties, not for random school parent who doesn't live there, and isn't a visitor.

Heresy!

No @premicrois , it's a private visitors parking bay for her house only
So unless you've got business at her house you shouldn't be using it
It's quite common now