Well, yes but come and give me some thoughts on it anyway please.

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I live on a private road, it is a dead end and at the top is a house, the family who live there have a terminally ill, grown up daughter who is visited by nurses regularly.
Parking is pretty tight on the road and there are sort of unwritten rules which we all stick to. I don't expect visitors to know these rules but considerate parking is common sense.

I have noticed a particular nurse will park her vehicle in the middle of the road, the middle of the turning circle, at an angle across two houses etc which is basically more than a little unhelpful.

I don't want to make a scene about it as I don't want to upset the family of the ill lady however the other week after being unable to turn and having to reverse about 50 metres I put a polite notice on her windscreen about parking considerately in light of the narrowness. It started with Please and ended with Thank You and I didn't think there would be anything else to do.

Another time I asked her to pull forward as she was across mine and my neighbours houses, she told me she pays road licence and will park where she likes. I had to wait until she went.
I found out shortly after that she had put the note through my neighbours door with 'HA ha ha' written on the bottom.

Since then I have really noticed her parking which seems to be targeting me and yesterday she had blocked my car in by parking up against my bumper about 3 feet out from the curb - I had to mount the curb to get past as my other neighbour was parked behind me and do a seven point turn to get back out again - my tyres were spinning in the snow. She is clearly doing it to annoy, so I have continued to ignore it.

But it is making my life difficult now as she is going further and further and is always there when I am trying to get ds to school.

It is private property so I could call the police/have her towed but that really feels like overkill.
What would you do? Am I just being peevish to be annoyed by her?

i would make a list of when she's purposefully trying to agrivate you. taking photo graphic evidence of her trying to purposefully block you in if its really really that much of an issue.

then present it to her and warn her if she continues you will take further action. no idea what the further action would be. but perhaps this will scare her off.

or if you can be very very polite and respectful about it have a word with the family.

or is this a private nurse/nhs nurse or agency?? does she have a uniform?? complain to whoever she works for???

or just let it go.

as you say the lady is terminally ill. this will not be a permanant annoyance. just put up with it.

or get yourself some cones around your car. and if she tries to remove them. go out and take photo's while she does it. making sure she sees you. this may make her back off.

Her behaviour is very unprofessional and presumably she is making these calls in a professional capacity. I would write a polite and balanced letter to her manager, stating your admiration for the wonderful work her organisation does, listing the problems (not forgetting the worst) and pointing out that this type of unprofessional behaviour reflects badly on the organisation as a whole.

I have every sympathy for the family in question but the nurse is being unreasonable IMO and it would get up my nose too. Next time she blocks you in and you need to go out sit in your car and honk your horn. Alternatively, report her unprofessional behaviour to the relevant surgery.

YANBU at all. If she is there in a proffessional capacity then i agree with cory about the polite letter. This would get right up my nose too.

With all sympathy to the patient she is visiting, you have to live there too.

Ring her emplyers and complain - maybe the local GPs surgery or your health care trust - you must be able to get the info from somewhere!

Or go and knock when she has done it and ask the owners of the house to ask her to move it - you do it enough times and she will piss them off enought to ask her not to do it in future.

She has a duty of care to them to not piss their neighbours off - you shouldn't worry about knocking - she should understand that they are in a difficult situation and she is making their lives more difficult not you.

Paying road tax does not give you the right to park where you like, caring for someone doesn't give you the right to make everyones elses life difficult, i'd find out who she works for and complain.

Call the police and have a police aware notice put on her car if she blocks your drive.

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a friend of mine had a very similar complaint with her nieghbour, who insisted on blocking her in, and even did it when she was 9 months pregnant,tosser..anyway, one day she got her dad to come round with his landrover and he towed the nieghbours car out of the way and into a small tunnel type thing betwwen 2 houses, was funny when he came out of the house, scartching his head and wondering how his car got there!!
have you got a freind with a landy???!!!

One business near me got so fed up of people parking in their private car park that they took to using wallpaper paste or school glue to stick A3 size warning notices to the front and rear windscreens of cars who were parking illegally. One bloke called the police claiming criminal damage but as the car clearly wasn't damaged and the notice could be removed with a bit of time consuming hard work and warm water the police advised him it was his hard luck for parking where he knew he shouldn't.

Probably worth checking the legality before you try it though. This was a few years ago and the law may have changed.

Confused if she's blocking you in on your own drive, or just on the public road, so this may not help you

If she is blocking you in when you are parked on your own drive, then it is against the law. If she blocks your drive when you aren't on it, it isn't illegal. Have just asked a taffic cop friend this question only last week, thanks to stupid parking of a neighbour of mine.

It's not a drive, it's a private road and each section of road belongs to the house it is in front of. If I am out when she arrives, she parks accross both mine and my neighbours house taking up the space for two cars. She also parks at an angle to the curb ensuring maximum inconvenience. If I am in when she arrives, she has taken to parking in a way that blocks me, ie partially accross my bonnet.

I should point out that there is a courtyard just off the turning circle belonging to the house of the invalid lady so theoretically she doesn't need to be doing this at all.

I am going to take the line of pitying her, she probably is a 'neighbour from hell' and has no friends so it is her problem not mine. She is just an inconvenience, thats all. If she ever completely blocks me in I will report her to the police and to her employers for trespassing on private property.

Thanks for your thoughts everyone - nice to know I am not being totally unreasonable but you have talked me into taking the higher ground.

Report to her employers and if that doesn't work report to the police.