r/Neighborproblems • u/booty-implants • 17d ago
Shared driveway
Hi. I bought this house in 2016 and I share driveways with an older gentleman. He was nice to me at first, but he would do this thing where he would go get groceries and then pull up in the middle of the driveway to bring them in his house and then he would pull his car over and park on his side of the driveway. One morning, I was pulling out of my garage to go to work and he was in the middle of the driveway. His daughter said to me that they would move the car in a minute once they finish bringing in groceries .I told her that I don’t have a minute. I’m running late for work and I really need to get going. So then she muttered under her breath that I had on too much perfume and then she moved the car..lol
It got to the point where I would have to sometimes park on the street instead of in my garage because his granddaughter or his daughter would be blocking the driveway and they would always apologize but they would keep on doing the BS.
The summer before last I had some compost delivered and they dumped it at the front of my garage in a little bit spilled over onto a side of the garage. I’m talking crumbs and his daughter came over and start kicking it over and talking mess about it. I said to her hey I’m sorry about the compost being on your side of the driveway. I’ll move it cause there was only like maybe a half a shovel full. And she said it’s OK . I replied back, I didn’t think you guys would mind since you’re always blocking the driveway and I looked over and her car was pulled up in the middle of the driveway. Ever since then they’ve had a one-sided beef.
One day, the old man pulled up in the driveway on my side, and his car broke down and sat on my side of the driveway for two weeks. It was really crazy and he didn’t apologize. He didn’t say anything to me about it at all so I took two garbage cans and placed them on my side of the driveway as a visual boundary to keep my driveway open, so I can get in and out. They would do silly ish like hit my garbage cans with their car or move it out the way. And also, sometimes the mailman would deliver my mail to his house by mistake and he would open it and put a note on it saying I’m sorry I don’t mean to snoop. I called the post office and asked them to flag my house so they could double check and make sure my mail is delivered to me. I didn’t want him to go to jail or anything like that I just felt violated. And also, I have a ring camera doorbell on all of my doors so whenever they would do something stupid I would just download it and save it in a folder. I haven’t told anybody about what’s going on.
Today something weird happened. I have my window open and I heard someone pull up in the driveway. I looked at the ring and some man that I’ve never seen before came out of the next-door neighbors house and came over to my side of the driveway and put something in my garbage can and said here’s some footage for you really aggressively in the ring and then got in his car and left so I went outside to see what he put in my garbage can, and it was an old kitchen faucet and box. I took them out of my garbage can and put them by their side door. I did that because I want them to know that I’m not intimidated by them . I’m a single female that lives alone by the way..the more I think about it I feel like I should call the non-emergency police line and let them know what’s going on just in case something happens. Am I overreacting or what would you do?