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Live CF parking thread (with diagram!)

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lovesapinot · 07/08/2019 10:16

So NC for this as not sure if neighbours are on here.

I am off today & woke up to the sound of doors banging and loud voices.

Have a glance out of bedroom window & there are 2 vans & a land rover parked on my ACTUAL drive!

Now I guess it's easily mistaken as a public car park Hmmso don't say anything immediately but once I'm up and toddler is dressed I go downstairs to see.

My next door neighbours are away on holiday. But of a weird driveway as their house has its own but it's round the back of ours and ours is at front so if you use sat nav it brings you to ours as their house is other side of our driveway ifyswim.

Diagram to show you what I mean.

Anyway they are unloading tools etc onto big sheets on my drive and walking over grass to neighbours

I said to them it was a private drive and could they move onto neighbours and they said they won't be long Angry

I was too shocked to say much more than 'no please move now'

Grrrrrrr!

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ColdToesHere · 07/08/2019 13:13

I can't get over the cheek of someone in a commercial van!

I once had a van push in on traffic and nearly hit me. And gave me the finger when he saw my shocked face. So I called the number on the side & back of his truck and watched him pick up the phone (no handsfree!) as he was directly in front of me. Told him it wasn't very sensible to drive like a dick when his phone number was on the side of the van. He was quiet, and then apologised. arsehole.

Damntheman · 07/08/2019 13:15

No Jasmin, OP said earlier in the thread that you just need to drive further along the road to get to neighbour's drive. I assume it's a curved road.

jasmine1971 · 07/08/2019 13:15

Because a man has parked on someone else's driveway and is refusing to move, most likely because OP is female and he doesn't really give a fuck that he is on her property. I would bet good money that he would've moved sharpish if a man had told him to. Women have had enough of the "yeah alright love in a minute" response to being told to fuck off of our property.

This. Exactly this.

AlwaysaLittleBitTired · 07/08/2019 13:15

This would cause me so much anxiety, but I would be angry too. It just isn't polite to ignore a mistake that you have made, and which has been pointed out to you in a reasonable manner. The van driver is being incredibly rude and inconsiderate at best.

I would leave the van blocked in, with a note attached to say I will be available from 'X o'clock' if he needs to collect his van after that time.

(I agree that they are great diagrams!)

dimdarkashian · 07/08/2019 13:16

I'm with you @boomshakalak

jazzandh · 07/08/2019 13:16

I'd let his tyres down.

jasmine1971 · 07/08/2019 13:16

Ah okay Damntheman, I have RTFT but clearly skimmed that bit Blush

Malbecfan · 07/08/2019 13:17

Great diagram OP. Send them a bill for parking. Put a (very) small sign on your house saying 15 minutes free parking then £100 per hour. By now you must be up to £300. Think of all the prosecco & gin you could enjoy with that Gin Wine

Treaclesweet · 07/08/2019 13:17

Men in works vans are horrendous. Yesterday one drove up so close behind me
in the overtaking lane I thought he was going to ram me off the road. I had to pull over to calm down it was absolutely horrendous.

I hope you make him regret messing with you. Is there a number on the side you can call and make a fuss?

Damntheman · 07/08/2019 13:17

Easily done Jasmine! Happens to me a lot too ;)

Bluetrews25 · 07/08/2019 13:18

I think we need another diagram, OP, can you show us where the road is?

boomshakalak · 07/08/2019 13:19

Honestly I cannot begin to see why this is causing SO MUCH ANGER!!

I really find it interesting that people get this wound up about it.

It's a driveway (that no one is using) with a van on it. It doesn't matter. If OP needed it then it would be different.

Life is much easier when we let the small stuff go...

Kazzyhoward · 07/08/2019 13:21

Men in works vans are horrendous.

They're often pretty bad doing the work you pay them for too - it's a lottery whether they turn up as agreed, constant tea breaks, making a mess and not tidying up after themselves, and then of course, the shoddy work that your paying them for.

It's about time the trades were valued again and more better quality people were encouraged into the trades. Far too often, it's the unqualified/untrained dross who go into the "trades" because there's a shortage and people are desperate for tradesmen.

SunshineCake · 07/08/2019 13:21

Thank you pinkypoo.

MyOtherProfile · 07/08/2019 13:22

I expect you need a long nap right now.

StealthPolarBear · 07/08/2019 13:22

Theyre being inconsoderate wankers but I don't think op should be calling the police to say she's scared. Unless I've missed a post from her.

Damntheman · 07/08/2019 13:22

Boom if you just let it go when someone bullies you, they will never stop bullying you and that's no fun at all. Why on earth would let someone bully you without standing up for yourself?

Kazzyhoward · 07/08/2019 13:25

If you think this case is bad, I had one a couple of years ago when the neighbour was having their scaffolding taken down and I came back home to find they'd reversed the huge scaffolding lorry down our drive (only wide enough for a car), so there was no way past it besides climbing over it. They'd left the cab on the pavement so the driver could get out. When I asked them to move it, they had the cheek to say they'd not be much longer. I had an errand to run, so I left them to it, but when I came back an hour later, it was still there and the cheeky sods were sat on my front lawn having a tea break. I went ballistic at them. Scaffolders are a different breed of entitled/arrogant pricks!

YouKnowOneDayAtATime · 07/08/2019 13:26

I don’t understand why he’s still there and I don’t understand why you’re so chilled about it?

He’s on private property and is refusing to move. I’d have called the police by now to get him to shift.

Sparklfairy · 07/08/2019 13:26

Boom is clearly the type of entitled CF that pulls this shit. 'oh you're not using this, I'll just use it myself even though it's not mine and I have no right to but it's convenient for me' Hmm

howdyalikemenow · 07/08/2019 13:26

There are times to let the small stuff go but when you've pointed out to a person that they've parked in the wrong property and THEY LEAVE IT THERE ON PURPOSE then they are being deliberately Goady and don't deserve any kind of leeway whatsoever. ,

SchadenfreudePersonified · 07/08/2019 13:27

Thay messy dog path is obviously where the dog turned in circles before having a poo.

(Thank you Pinkywoo for publishing the extra diagrams).

Those ARE crabs, OP - you can't wheedle your way out of this one.

Now I'll read on . . .

QualCheckBot · 07/08/2019 13:27

boomshakalak Honestly I cannot begin to see why this is causing SO MUCH ANGER!!

I really find it interesting that people get this wound up about it.

It's a driveway (that no one is using) with a van on it. It doesn't matter. If OP needed it then it would be different.

Life is much easier when we let the small stuff go...

Do you not respect other people's property then either...?

M3lon · 07/08/2019 13:27

boom I'm on the fence. On the one hand what you say makes some sense, on the other hand a lot of people are attached to their property and their land, and view it strongly as their personal space and deeply dislike people invading it without permission.

I mean in theory there is nothing awful about someone walking into your house through the back door, sitting in your kitchen and responding to a request to leave with 'I'll just be a moment' then staying for 2-3 hours.

I mean if you aren't using the kitchen then so what?

But almost everyone would find that invasive and stressful. Most people would find a stranger sitting in their garden invasive, and I still think more people than not feel the same way about their driveway - especially if it can be closed off as the OPs can.

I don't feel massively attached to my driveway as it goes straight to the road, but I would still react at least a little if someone parked on it and wouldn't move!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 07/08/2019 13:28

the correct response when they want you to move / unlock is 'I'm having a tea break will only be 15 mins

That is, of course, a builders 15 minutes . . .

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