I'm on holiday this week and was heading out with the wife and son, walked out of the front door to stick the essentials in the boot and there's a JCB up on our drive about an inch from the boot blocking the whole drive to the extent that you couldn't even walk out of the drive. There's building work going on next door (bought up by the local housing executive) and they were using the shovel on the front of the JCB as a makeshift skip. After about half an hour of trying to find somebody to shift it so we could get out I found the foreman.
Foreman: "Do you want your car out?"
Me: "Yes please, I've been trying to find someone for half an hour and it would have been nice to have been asked if we needed access before you parked up on our land"
Foreman: "I've not got time to knock on every ******* door and it's not on your land"
Me: "It's parked on our drive, look!"
Foreman: "That's a shared drive, if you want the car out you should have ******* asked us"
Me: "It's not a shared drive, we removed 7 foot of our garden and concreted it, it's our drive, private property and we shouldn't have to come to you for access it should be the other way round"
Foreman: "We've a ******* job to do, your car is in the way"
Me: "Look, I'm not standing here listening to you eff and blind at me, I'll speak to the housing executive and get them to sort it out"
Foreman: "You ******* ring them then!"
(This is literally word for word, as tempting as it was to be cheeky and swear at them I held it in)
So, I'm still in the house trying to get out, waiting on the housing executive to ring me back, is there anyone else I can ring to force them to get off my land and give me access back?
Foreman: "Do you want your car out?"
Me: "Yes please, I've been trying to find someone for half an hour and it would have been nice to have been asked if we needed access before you parked up on our land"
Foreman: "I've not got time to knock on every ******* door and it's not on your land"
Me: "It's parked on our drive, look!"
Foreman: "That's a shared drive, if you want the car out you should have ******* asked us"
Me: "It's not a shared drive, we removed 7 foot of our garden and concreted it, it's our drive, private property and we shouldn't have to come to you for access it should be the other way round"
Foreman: "We've a ******* job to do, your car is in the way"
Me: "Look, I'm not standing here listening to you eff and blind at me, I'll speak to the housing executive and get them to sort it out"
Foreman: "You ******* ring them then!"
(This is literally word for word, as tempting as it was to be cheeky and swear at them I held it in)
So, I'm still in the house trying to get out, waiting on the housing executive to ring me back, is there anyone else I can ring to force them to get off my land and give me access back?
