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[quote=Anonymous]I posted about something similar! I live in a residential area that happens to have a medical care facility in it. Their staff and patients park us in - sometimes slightly and sometimes completely - ALL OF THE TIME.

I leave notes because I have no way of knowing who is doing it. But if it were my neighbors, I'd take a walk over and have a friendly talk. No need to get rude, but I'd say hey, I'm not sure if you've ever noticed it, but you are parking me into my driveway pretty frequently. Perhpas it looks like there's more room than there is to get out, but I really have a tough time getting out when a car is over the driveway. I just wanted to let you know, because maybe it wasn't obvious.

I'd say most people would apologize immediately and stop doing it. If they say oh come on, you have room to get out, you say, you know, I am not going to argue about whether or not I have room to get out. I'm telling you that I don't. And I didn't want to go here, but legally, you're actually not allowed to park over any part of my driveway. This happens all of the time, so we're going to start asking the city to ticket there. I wanted to give you a heads up before we do that.

End of discussion. Keep it friendly. Bonus points if you take cookies over. Repeat as needed with all of the neighbors.

And, if you're passive aggressive, you could leave the cookies on the doorstep with a note that says "hi, we are your neighbors at 1803. We're getting parked into our driveway fairly often and wanted to ask people to be careful not to block us in. Thank you so much and sorry to be a pain! I'm sure you didn't realize it was making it hard for us to get out." But I'd do it in person, though I understand not everyone has an appetite for that discussion.

Sucks that they do this.   [/quote]

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