Sure hope I don't have to go anywhere tonight

[golfgal]

I just looked out the window because we are supposed to get some snow and noticed that the people across the street must be having a party, there are lots of cars parked on the street. Well, one car is parked across my DRIVEWAY. They left me about 3 feet of my driveway, no way I could get my car out. They could have parked on the other side of the driveway, there aren't any cars right in front of our house. Gee, thanks.

 

[Tina]

I get so mad when people do that to me. If I had my way, I'd just have them towed, but DH always holds me back. He's too nice to rude people.

 

[golfgal]

I get so mad when people do that to me. If I had my way, I'd just have them towed, but DH always holds me back. He's too nice to rude people.

Well, if I had my way I would back out of my driveway into their car, but that would dent my car too so I don't .

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Our neighbor (I call him FOAD, don't ask...) parked in back of our van the other day. If I had of backed out and hit him, I wonder who would have been responsible.

 

[Tina]

Yea... that would be a bummer for you!!

I once had a rude person block my driveway for a yard sale. There was plenty of parking elsewhere on the street, but she chose to block my driveway instead. I needed to leave, so I just got in my car, backed up to the edge of the driveway and LEANED on the horn until she came over and moved it. Boy, did she shoot me a nasty look.

 

[aprilgail2]

I had that happen to me once..my daughter was an infant and I got up at 2am to get her a bottle and a car was parked across the back of my driveway, completely blocking me in...the kid across the street was having a party...I figured by the morning they would be gone so no big deal...well I got up at 8 amd at 9 am it wasstill there...the kid that lives across the street was outside picking up beer cansand cigerette butts in the front yard and I called across to ask her to ge the kid to move the car...she looked and said "oh crap, he was drunk so we drove him home last night and he has his keys with him..."....oh great....she drove over to his house to get his keys and move the car but by then I had just driven across my front lawn and went down my neighbors driveway to get my car out...

 

[Kahana-ri]

You're much more patient. DH would of had the neighbor move the car by now. He does 24-hour service and wouldn't hesitate 'moving' the car himself at 2am if he got a call. It boggles me that people are so oblivious to this. Our neighbors have parks blocking our driveway several times? I feel bad just for parking in front of peoples homes that I don't know. Who wants to look out of their front window at a strangers car?

 

[gshanny]

A big part of the reason we moved last year is this very problem. We had renters on all sides of us(was not that way when we bought). We would get a few good ones once in a while, but most didn't care. There was a couple of young girls across the alley once. They would park in our driveway and we told them they needed to move they told us it wasn't anyone there. It suddenly became theirs when we had their landlord tell them we were getting ready to have it towed. The next kid sprayed my yard, with kids in it, with gravel, parked in our spots, blocked the entire driveway with cars, constantly sped and fishtailed down the alley and even hit a neighbor's garage. The final straw was the ones who would get their souped up mower out at 2am and have fun on that and the trampoline yelling and blocking the alley when they weren't racing down it..
We now live on a dead end area with very little traffic. We have really nice neighbors and no more problems with people parking us in.
And just to note, I am not biased against renters. I was once one myself. We just had people who lived there for shorts times and didn't care about getting along with anyone. We had one family we loved and I cried when they moved. They were the dream idea of neighbors. Both our kids could walk in to either house and we actually asked for their toddler to come over. I still wish for someone like that to live next to again.