Ignorant or lazy?

aileth

Just a bit of a rant really. I know there's nothing we can do about it as they aren't blocking us in, but basically someone has moved into the house opposite and are either super ignorant or plain lazy.

We live on a fairly narrow cul-de-sac and it seems they have three cars. Instead of parking the cars on the road next to the cul-de-sac (still viewable from the house and safe - quiet road), they've decided to crowd the entire cul-de-sac with them, blocking other people's walled drives by overhanging onto them by a foot or two, and for us who live opposite and have our own drive, we have to perform a multi-point manoeuvre to get out of our drive when normally we can drive straight/in/out/reverse, and the number of points to the manoeuvre depends on how far/close they can be bothered to park to the wall.

I should also add that they have also parked such that they have blocked the whole pavement on the main road (the car's !!!! hanging out from the cul-de-sac), meaning that I've seen people with prams and wheelchairs having to go into the main road!

I'm hoping that the people whose drives they are actually blocking will have a word with them as it's pretty frustrating. They have their own driveway for their house, but they refuse to use it and instead cram all three cars down the road, sometimes a good two to three foot from the wall.

They seem to think they own the road outside their house and MUST park there regardless of the inconvenience to others (or they simply can't be arsed to walk the extra 10 foot). Everyone else who has two plus cars on the cul-de-sac parks one on the drive and the other on the road, but these people are too good for that it seems and seem to think they have a right to block others in too!

We get groceries delivered, and when they last arrived the driver had to park way down the road as the three cars meant he couldn't get his van down there, nor could he park it by the side of our house as one of them had brought a works van home so we had to form a conga line of shopping bags down the road.

Grr!

oliverr

So, are they actually blocking your drive or not? Let them settle in first but if it continues I would go over and try and have a friendly word with them if nobody else does.

If they are still parking ignorantly and blocking the pavement then I would have a word with the council as pedestrians should not be made to walk into the road simply because they can't be bothered to park in their drive.

aileth

No, that's why we haven't said anything. They aren't blocking the drive, they park opposite our drive and always so far from the wall on their side that we have to use multi-point manoeuvres to get in or out. It's a nuisance but nothing more than that, just quite frustrating having to do it just because they are ignorant/lazy. They are blocking other's drives however.

Thanks for the advice re the pavement, will keep an eye out.

albionrovers

Stop using your driveway and block their exit route. Just a wee bit, like they do to you.

oldhand

Parking on the pavement is not a good idea,a pram or bicycle could cause a serious scratch along the paintwork......:whistle:

Strider590

Have you tried reversing onto your drive? or do you already do that?

cootuk

Bird seed on their bonnets....
tbh if a delivery van can't get up, then neither would an ambulance or fire engine. report them to the police for obstructing the road and the council for the pavement.

aileth

Strider590 wrote: »

Have you tried reversing onto your drive? or do you already do that?

We do whichever depending on how far/close they park away from their wall.

Strider590

cootuk wrote: »

Bird seed on their bonnets....
tbh if a delivery van can't get up, then neither would an ambulance or fire engine. report them to the police for obstructing the road and the council for the pavement.

My old favourite

Also milk down the windscreen on a warm day, pools nicely in the water drainage channel, which is right next to the cabin air pollen filter

aileth

Very tempted by the bird seed! They don't seem like the most approachable people in the world, considering one time they were all in the garden 'avin a fag while watching us multi-point turn out and didn't seem in the slightest bit bothered that it was their car causing us to have to do this. They gave exactly zero f***s.

fivetide

Step up to iron filings then.

Alternatively, gather the neighbours, get some pitchforks and have a good old fashioned welcome to the neighbourhood angry mob!