It can be both a blessing and a curse to have a driveway. On one hand, it's incredibly useful to have somewhere to park your car, but on the other – you always have to worry about someone else nicking your space.
One woman, who lives close to a school, is in the middle of a frustrating situation where she wants to leave her driveway free for her husband to park when he comes home from work – but parents are always blocking it when they pick their kids up.
It's got to the point where she's so fed up she's plotting her revenge.
The anonymous mum posted her frustration on popular parenting forum Mumsnet, and wondered if she was being too petty about the whole situation.
In a recent post, the mum explained that during the school rush parents sometimes cheekily use her driveway – or block it entirely – when picking their kids up from school.
She continued: "I work from home and usually park in the visitor pay outside my house so my partner can park on the driveway he gets home 3.30-4pm.
"However recently people have been parking on my driveway. Last week I caught someone pulling in. [I] knocked on their window and they argued with me saying they need to pick up their child. Eventually they did move, but moved to where they were just half way blocking my drive way and halfway blocking my neighbour, so no one could access it!"
The mum has reported it to the school, but all they can do is ask parents not to block residents in.
As revenge, the mum is now considering making them taste their own medicine by blocking them in, if they were to try it again.
She added: "If I did block anyone in it would only be for 30 minutes to cause a bit of stress and a lesson learned."
Fellow forum users in the comment section supported the woman's revenge plot, and labelled the other parents "outrageous".
One person commented: "Absolutely do this. They'll soon stop."
Another added: "Parking on someone's driveway is top tier CF [cheeky f***er] behaviour. I'd do the same if I were you."
"The entitlement, how dare someone park on your driveway. That is outrageous. I'd block them and also shame them on local Facebook groups," commented a third.
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