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)

Your house has a designated visitors' space? Give over.

@SliceOfCakeCupOfTea agree they just wouldn't.

So many weirdos on here relaying their petty fantasies

I can't believe some people think there is any justification for parking on someones drive 🙈

OP i would definitely block them in!

Quite common in restricted/residents parking areas

Call parking enforcement to come and ticket them, they have targets and are happy to come.

@Applepiesmum they are public, they're for visitors. For the visiting public. Otherwise they'd have an owner.

Block them in. The entitlement of some people thinking they can just park on your parking space. I'd leave a mobile number saying you are in my space so had to park in road. Go for a long walk and ignore the ringing from the mobile. Then way you come back move car and be polite but firm that they were in your private space.

Well if so they should have thought of that before parking on someone's driveway then!

Place your wheelie bins right at the entrance to your drive. We have 3, a rubbish bin, a recycling bin and a green/garden waste bin. Place them between your drive and the footpath.

Anyone who parks on your drive, you ask fir the parking fee of eleventy Brazilian pounds a minute. Then you park behind them and block them in.

My school gets community support officers around every now and again for the streets around the school. Itbusualky deters them for a while. Can you maybes pit some cones there?

I live near a school and it is a sight to behold. The mums aren’t working and rushing for that reason, they’re there from 2pm onwards with the engine running to bag the spots closest to the doors. Regularly get them on the drives where it’s closer to the school, rather than up the street where there is space and nobody is being inconvenienced. My drive is frequently chosen because I don’t have a car. I’ve only ever confronted a couple of them when I’ve had someone coming who needs my drive, and every time I’ve confronted them it just becomes a mega mix of “I’ll only be two minutes” (when they’ve already been there for 35) and “it’s so haaaaaaaard being a parent, you’re not even uuuuuusing your drive”.

The only way these people will change is if they’re inconvenienced themselves. They don’t care about inconveniencing you. YANBU OP and ignore the #bekind lot.

So if it's your visitor space why can't your husband park there when he gets in?

Our street has recently changed to a restricted parking zone to allow parents to walk their kids to school more. There’s a camera and I think on second infringement you get a fine. 2 NDNs haven’t been allowed permits to park their own cars there outside the restricted time zones, unsure why that is.

Still doesn’t stop parents parking where they’re not allowed to.

One wanker who isn’t a parent but lives in private flats behind us (with an underground car park) obviously cba to park in his own street but parks in ours as there are spaces.

It was like wacky races before with cars parked in the street and for an hour or so before school pickup and parents would cause arguments with you sometimes! You’d think if you parked outside my home (yes I don’t own the space!) you’d have a bit of respect if you “borrow” that space to pick up your precious child from school.

You need a residents permit to park in the visitor spaces outside my house. Because they are for the houses,not random parking.

In our case its to stop people parking there and catching the bus to the airport.
Outside PILs its because if a hospital.

Okay, great oracle, I wouldn't. 😂

Yeah it's just strange! It's always the same stuff: I'd get the local rugby team to intimidate them/move the car/I'd drop eggs all over their car/I'd break a glass right behind their tyres/I'd erect a marquee and host a 5 year olds birthday party around the car.

No, you wouldn't.

I don't drive and don't have a driveway, so have no horse in this race, but these people are stupid, selfish tossers. Yes, block them in. But be aware that since covid especially, people seem to be hugely aggressive, and it seems to be far worse among drivers. So only do it if you are prepared for confrontation.

I agree completely which is why at the very start of my post I said the OP should block in anyone parking on her driveway without permission.

For the record my inlaws live next to a school and for years I lived with them. They also provide my childcare on work days (the rest of the week we walk - 30 mins there and back) so I witness first hand how annoying it is having parents park really badly outside. I’ve seen people block their driveway and even try and park on it and when confronted often get aggressive.

I’m just pointing out that there is a lot of pressure on parents who need to go straight to work after drop off. It is a problem for that just seems to worsen every year and I feel like really the schools need to try and take control of the issue. Not sure how. More funding for morning clubs maybe? Or staggered start times for different years? Again I am aware a lot of the striking action happened due to underfunding so parking for parents is probably bottom of a very big pile.

This is why the street next to mine which does have driveways, most of them have cars parked all the time or gates to them.

I agree a lot of parents are rude on school pickups which is why I avoid that time and thank god they’ve introduced a restricted parking zone!

Grow up !!

bloody norah - get a grip. I've made several, increasingly, daft suggestions.
none of which are serious, several other posters have done the same. Are you exasperated at all of us?

or is it the penguin bollards comment that ticked you off? You probably need a nice cup of tea or something

If parents have to start work straight after drop off surely that’s their issue and no one elses?

I can’t believe this has become about the visitor bay… I don’t feel like I need to justify this at all but there’s enough visitor bays for all the houses on my road

i don’t always park there not that it matters but it’s only really myself or visitors that park there occasionally someone else does and I’m not overly bothered as it’s a visitor bay

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.

@GonnaGetGoingReturns

THANK YOU!

People need to set their lives up so it is at least possible.

Society as a whole needs to drop the long hours culture, stop rushing everywhere and buying tons of shit.

Long commutes everyday are not compatible with a healthy, functioning society.

This has bought back memories of when my husband’s (properly parked) car was blocked in at work and he needed to get to hospital urgently (can’t remember if I’d gone into labour or for one of the children).He was incandescent at the person who did it as was a fair delay before he could get off.

Someone parking on your drive is high level cheek. I wouldn’t block them in in case of emergency but I would send a picture of their car to the school and ask them to name and shame.