Lived next door to my neighbours for 15 years. Good relationship, I value it. We can ask each other favours and it's nice and reciprocal. They are probably mid 60s, us mid 40s.
They got a cat a couple of years ago and are very attached to it. I LIKE their cat. I like animals generally and have loads of my own, we have shared neighbourly pet visiting exchanges where they look after some of my small animals while I'm away and I feed their cat.
Anyhow....recently a couple of times my neighbours have made comments about the 'speed' within which I come into the drive and how they 'nearly fell off their ladder' and comments about how I need to check in case there are branches on the drive from where they have trimmed their tree.
Which made no sense to me because: we live in a cul de sac on a bend, I have an offset drive with a lamppost on one side and I reverse park into it carefully so as not to hit the lamppost on one side or the wheelie bins stacked at the back of the drive.
Believe me I am not speeding into my drive. Just navigating it at the same speed anybody does when reverse parking.
My neighbours don't know how to reverse park, fine, not my business.
Anyway - they have recently come round and asked me to kill my speed when I come into my drive.
My AIBU is - how can I 'kill' it further? I have a rear view camera, drive as per the (tricky) parking conditions. I like their cat, I don't want to drive over it, but if it's on my drive below my camera do they expect me to get out and check for it?
Can any cat owners advise? I like animals and don't want to hurt one but I'm reversing at like 1 mile per hour onto my own driveway, what more can I do other than physically push the car onto the drive?