Would you mind your neighbour’s visitors parking on your driveway?

[fudgiwee]

I don’t have a car at the moment (looking for new car) but my neighbour’s visitors have been parking on my driveway

It is definitely my driveway (has the numbers of the houses in front of the driveway).

AIBU to be annoyed?
She dosent even ask.

Its happened a few times now, if it happens again I am going to tell them to move their car.

AIBU to do this as I don’t have a car at the minute?

VERY rude of them!!!

I’d say “just to let you know, I’ll be getting a car soon so your visitors won’t be able to park. Here’s my number though in the meantime for you to check if my drive is free that day”.
she’s a CF.

If you don’t want them to then I’d mention it now. I wouldn’t like it and I’d ask them not to do it.

If my car was not on it and they asked, no problem but I would have a problem if I didn't have a car and they just assumed they or their visitors could use it.

Can you put a big pot plant on it or just tell them not to use it?

Surely your neighbours have told them to do so, otherwise they wouldn’t know you don’t have a car.

Of course this isn’t ok. Cheeky fuckery all round. If she’d asked because she can see you’re not using your drive at the moment then ok, but to assume is being a CF.

Nip it in the bud otherwise you’ll drive home from getting your new car and the visitor will be stopping you parking it!

Very rude unless they ask you first.

Tell them to ask in future.

We never have a car but we have guests with cars and DH’s cousin always uses our space when he goes to watch football.

If they asked and were having a party or something fine.

Without asking - errrr, no!

It would be shame if someone you knew came to visit (and to stay the night) and parked across your drive and blocked your neighbours visitors in.

Even worse if you both left on foot to go somewhere for the night and thus weren't even around for them to ask if you could move the car blocking them in.

Yes, it's very rude.

Would the parking places allow for a plastic sign saying "Private parking place, access required at all times" or similar. (You can buy them off eBay.)

It’s a bit cheeky but if you don’t have a car I don’t understand why you’d want to cause friction with your neighbour? When you have a car absolutely tell them they need to move.

She should be asking your permission, each and every time. And even if it’s empty, if you say no, she can’t use it.

Put your bins in the way or something.

It's not her causing the friction. It's them.

This would really annoy me! Put your bin there so they can’t drive on. Then get more annoyed when they move it to park there 😂

I would put a sign on the windscreen saying “ you have rudely parked in my private driveway. Please never park here again”

Sorry meant to click yanbu

I don’t think the fact OP doesn’t have a car is relevant. It’s trespassing

I would just be out with the cow shit fertiliser, fertilising my driveway. Lavishly. Regularly. Every time my neighbour was happy to have her visitor inconvenience someone else while she played lady of her manor.

Send them an invoice...

A large pot will stop them using it. No need to speak with them, what you do on your own driveway is none of their business.

Many years ago, I didn't have a car, and my neighbour started parking in my driveway. I didn't mind, I wasn't using it - being asked would have been nice, but I didn't push the matter. This went on for about eight months.

However, what I didn't understand at the time was that repeated use creates a feeling of entitlement, and people get absolutely irrationally bent out of shape if you take something back to which they think they have an entitlement.

When I got my car, she was livid, absolutely livid and would deliberately change her times to make sure she was home first and in the space. When I knocked to have a word, her husband told me that there was no reasoning with her; in her mind, I had taken back something I had freely given, and it just made me a straight-up bitch in her mind.

She became a horrible neighbour.

Yes, rude to park on your driveway. Put your bin at the end , or a plant container.

I'd put your driveway on a parking app (where people pay to use your driveway) and then next time they park there tell them it's £2 an hour 🤣