Neighbours guests using my drive without my permission.

ben501

Put up a sign - Caution Nails on Drive. If it doesn't deter them, then actually put a few down.

Just don't forget to remove them before anyone else, especially the postie or other foot visitors walk along it.:eek:

Davesnave

ben501, get on with your homework! Then you can enjoy the good weather today with a clear conscience.

PhilE

Davesnave wrote: »

I had some sympathy with Phil when he came here with issues about barking dogs and people kicking footballs against his Mum's fence, but here I think he's just being petty and intolerant.

By all means, stand up to others and even spend money if the problem is genuinely worth fighting about, but here the issue is with random strangers who are gone in seconds.

Perhaps Phil doesn't appreciate that millions of us experience similar kinds of temporary infringements and just shrug our shoulders, mainly because they don't warrant raising our blood pressure.

Also, from pure self-interest, we know it's far better to rub along cheerfully with neighbours, even if they're not the people we'd choose to have next door. Phil recognises that to some extent in his post; he was right not to go 'straight around to the neighbours.'

Dave, you've given some good advice in previous posts which is why I'm bothering to reply to you. When its something you care about, you sympathize. When its something you personally don't care about the other becomes 'petty and intolerant.'

I'd just repaired and cleaned my drive, somebody used it without my consent which meant I had to go through the process of repairing it again. That might not bother you, it bothers me. Except
it probably would bother you going by your previous posts, which means your now being hypocritical. A shame because as I said, you have come up with good advice prior to this.

Phil&Michelle

Think this a an overreaction and will cause unnecessary friction with your neighbours. We get people reversing in our drive all day long because we live on a road near a school, not a lot we can do about it unless we install big gates but it doesn't really bother us.

societys_child

I'd just repaired and cleaned my drive, somebody used it without my consent which meant I had to go through the process of repairing it again

You had to repair it again? Have you done it right the second time ?:)

littlerock

Park a large wheelie bin or two on the entrance to your drive

pollypenny

PhilE wrote: »

Dave, you've given some good advice in previous posts which is why I'm bothering to reply to you. When its something you care about, you sympathize. When its something you personally don't care about the other becomes 'petty and intolerant.'

I'd just repaired and cleaned my drive, somebody used it without my consent which meant I had to go through the process of repairing it again. That might not bother you, it bothers me. Except
it probably would bother you going by your previous posts, which means your now being hypocritical. A shame because as I said, you have come up with good advice prior to this.

Cleaned your drive! :eek:

Is this another job that your supposed to do,to show you're a grown up?

We've never cleaned the drive. When we had a kitchen fitted the carpenter swept up any sawdust, bits etc he'd left laying there.

photome

PhilE wrote: »

Dave, you've given some good advice in previous posts which is why I'm bothering to reply to you. When its something you care about, you sympathize. When its something you personally don't care about the other becomes 'petty and intolerant.'

I'd just repaired and cleaned my drive, somebody used it without my consent which meant I had to go through the process of repairing it again. That might not bother you, it bothers me. Except
it probably would bother you going by your previous posts, which means your now being hypocritical. A shame because as I said, you have come up with good advice prior to this.

what damage did they do for you to have to repair it again?

how much of their car actually entered your drive, is there a pavement to cross first

Davesnave

PhilE wrote: »

Dave, you've given some good advice in previous posts which is why I'm bothering to reply to you. When its something you care about, you sympathize. When its something you personally don't care about the other becomes 'petty and intolerant.'

I'd just repaired and cleaned my drive, somebody used it without my consent which meant I had to go through the process of repairing it again. That might not bother you, it bothers me. Except
it probably would bother you going by your previous posts, which means your now being hypocritical. A shame because as I said, you have come up with good advice prior to this.

Maybe it's the other way around; when my advice doesn't match what you want to hear, its poor.

What have I said before that indicates your minor annoyances detailed above would bother me?

I could have plenty of issues with my drive if I wanted to. I won't bore people with details, but we share part with a neighbour who's housebound, which means numerous delivery vans and carers' vehicles every day. It's unfortunate that the repairing obligation is 70% us and 30% them, but I can live with it because I have my health and 3 pensions, while they have next to nothing.

The private entrance leading to our drive would definitely give you apoplexy, because it is the only turn space within half a mile that's large enough to allow lorries to change direction. So, they do. About once a day I hear the 'beep, beep, beep' of some lorry's reversing klaxon. If I yelled at them that really would be hypocritical, because all of us who live in the country take wrong turnings now and again, so we do exactly the same thing!

PhilE

societys_child wrote: »

You had to repair it again? Have you done it right the second time ?:)

Isn't it past your bedtime son?