I look out of the window to notice our neighbour, Dave, is backing his van out of the drive. He stops, gets out & looks at the back of the van, gets back in & reverses another couple of inches.
The problem? Someone has managed to park across his drive blocking his exit. This is a particular problem for him as he is often on call & needs the contents of his van to respond to an emergency.
He has his car parked in the street. He gets in that & parks parallel to the offending car. Now the offender driver will not be able to get into their car without talking to Dave first.
Half an hour later someone comes from the nearby houses. She looks flummoxed. Eventually she rings Dave's bell. I suspect she got a good telling off before Dave would move his car to let her into her car to get away.
Knowing Dave I suspect she was told, very calmly & politely, the trouble she could have caused parking as she had. I suspect too it will be a long time before she parks across a drive again.
We used to have this problem in our previous house. We lived across the way from the railway station. People often parked across our driveway, then got on the train to be away for the day, even days. We ended up ringing up the police several times to move a car in order that we could get out. Eventually we persuaded the council to paint white lines across the entrance of the drive to draw people's attention to the fact that they should not park there. They still sometimes did.
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