A vent about parent's safety (or lack thereof)

[MonkeyPrincess]

I have rules in my contract about safety issues for parents like no letting your vehicle idle in the driveway, don't leave kids in the car, not to let the kids touch my vehicles, not to block my driveway and specifically- if you have to park on the road, park in front of the house next door, or on the side of my corner house, where there is room for 6 cars to park- don't park on the corner. In order for parents not to block my driveway, they will park on the corner. I have mentioned it to all parents, but one still parks on that corner.

Yesterday, it snowed tons, and the plow came by and blocked my driveway. DCgirl was the last child and her mom was due any minute so i got her dressed to come outside with me to shovel the snow. Mom shows up and parks on that corner. As she is getting back in her car, a car comes around the corner and honks at her. DCmom mumbles to herself something like 'Didn't you see me, I have have my hazard lights on! Don't honk at me.' So i said to her "see, that's why i am not comfortable with anyone parking there'. Then she laughed when that other car got stuck in the snow. :no: As she goes to put the DCgirl in the car, I saw that her other kid was in the car. :ohmy: So i said 'Ok, I can't have anyone park there anymore' and I pointed out the spots where she CAN park.

OMG, what if that car hit her car! The kid would have been injured! Besides, do you not remember reading that part in my contract! I hate when parents 'forget' the rules you have set out.

[5 Little Monkeys]

When my fiance used to drive to work (he walks now), I had it in my contract and explained to all parents that they could not park behind the garage as he had to get out. One mom parked there all the time but one day he opened up the garage door and it JUST about hit her car!! I told her that if he hit her car we would not be paying for the damage since I had told her not to park there and we even had a "do not park" sign on the garage door. She didn't park there anymore after that lol.

Some people just don't get it!

[Lou]

I have a grandma who I found out has been parking in our neighbour's driveway to pick up her grandson!! I had no idea until I saw her one day. I told her that she could not park there as that is getting frustrating to my neighbours (they actually hadn't said anything, but I had to drive a point in) and she acted dumb (or is dumb) and couldn't see what the problem was. She said she didn't like to park on the street because she doesn't want to cross the road with her grandson...it's a dead end residential street...you can't block people's driveways...get over it.
I would send out a newsletter email explaining that you are getting complaints from the neighbours about parking on the corner where there is heavy traffic flow. Explain that it is a nuisance , not to mention a safety hazard, and that you do not want your business affecting the relationship with your neighbours.