Parking on our drive

[Gemini]

Several times a week a taxi parks on our drive at around 7.30- 8am.
It is picking up the one of the two daughters of the family next door. Sometimes it is there some time, waiting for her. There is nothing to separate the two drives, but it is obvious which is our drive and which is theirs.
We think it is a cheek and invasion of our privacy to park on our property when not picking us up!
Twice OH had phoned the taxi firm to complain. They say this woman works for herself, so they cant really tell her what to do.
We don't want to involve our neighbours as we got on well with them, and it is not their fault.
I feel we should invest in some traffic cones, OH thinks some sharp tacks!

Would this annoy you?

[Daisy]

Gem - it would annoy me if she left the engine running, or started it up noisily and it woke me up. Otherwise I don't think I'd bother. You could push your poor little car to the end of your drive though, so she couldn't get on. That might get the message across to her.

[Oma]

I thought the same Daisy put the car far enough down the drive so that she cant get on your side ,
Have you spoken to this lady ? although it may be obvious to you she may not be giving it a second thought ,

I would find it annoying I must admit , sometimes our neighbour a few doors down has lots of visitors and they double park making it difficult to get up the street , the man across the road had to knock on their door a while ago as he had hired a van and couldn't get passed , they also park on the footpath so not ideal , they were good about it and moved the cars up to the top of the street where there are spare parking bays , it was laziness actually as these bays are always empty but it means they cant see them from neighbours window and have to walk about 10 yards back down street

Some people just don't think do they x

[Shemadee]

Ask the company for her badge number! They are supposed check licenses of any drivers they give work to. If the company takes the booking for the job then they have some responsibility. Even if she is self employed all you’re asking them to do is speak to her!

[Plantaholic]

I would find that annoying Gemini, good advice from the others.

[Gemini]

Oma we haven't spoken to her as we are never up that early! By the time we saw her from the bedroom window and got dressed she would usually be gone.
It's just not right. Not one single taxi driver in the 9 years we have lived here has ever parked on the drive to pick us up! Blooming cheek to park on someone else's drive.

Parking our cars to the end of the drive is a good idea! We park one in front of the house and one in front of the garage, up to the doors, leaving space for a visiting car or for us to each get in and out without the other car having to be moved.

[WeeGranny]

We have a similar problem with our neighbour Gem ! We live in a courtyard with four house arranged round a square with a circular garden bed in the middle. We get visitors' cars parked right outside our kitchen window where we park and he parks his car between his garage door and the circle so no one can get round.Does this every week when he washes his car and he often spends time checking goodness only knows what even if the car hasn't been out all week. Yesterday was a classic, Tesco delivery arrived and parked out side his garage, out he comes and directs him to park outside outside our window while he delivered. We didn't have a car out, but there would have been a problem if we'd just come in. This is the same neighbour who's never around when they have parcels delivered. Maybe I'm becoming a grumpy old woman ( OH would say I already am one!), but I can understand how neighbours fall out. Annoying to say the least.

[Plantaholic]

That sounds like a very annoying neighbour WG. Everything to suit him, I wonder what he does, or did, as a job. Perhaps a car park attendant.

[WeeGranny]

Plant, he's a digital whizz kid of some kind or another as is his wife both doctors but not medical! Very intelligent, but no common sense nor sense of humour! He asked OH a while ago to help him put up a gazebo in the garden for a party he was having for his Salvation Army group. Wouldn't have minded but we weren't even invited! Anyway, he obviously thought better of it and said someone else was coming to help him. Very strange couple. I met someone recently who referred to them as ' The Holy Couple'.

[Gemini]

You can't ask someone to help put up a gazebo then not invite them to them party! Some people have no idea, have they?!

[Nana]

The cheek of some people. Honestly! All that's needed is kindness.

[Daisy]

Nana - but that takes empathy and common sense - which WG's neighbours don't seem to have.