I have a circle drive and nothing pisses me off more than to come home and see tire tracks in the grass where some dumbass couldn't make the turn or worse yet was pulling a trailer and ran it off the concrete .

Not at all inappropriate in my book. Damn, what's the BFD?

Just turning around at my driveway entrance no big deal. But one the other hand it does not happen often at my place

That was one thing among many that really pissed off my father. Parking on the lawn and dripping oil on the driveway were close seconds.

I do it on occasion when I am looking for a house and have apparently passed it. It is not something that really bothers me. Parking on the lawn does annoy me however.

My former residence had a semi-circular drive way and it was very close to the corner of my house. Quite a few people would cruise it at all hours and at speed too.
It was a matter of time before the house would be hit. I ended up blocking off one end of it.

I can see the configuration of the drivaway and the lot making a big difference. If our place was configured differently and I had lookyloos driving down my driveway to near my house, I wouldn’t be very happy about it. As there is a large wide area to allow trucks to get straight and get through the gate and we are near a freeway on ramp and of ramp, I don’t mind folks pulling off to make a call or text, or frankly take a nap as long as they aren’t blocking the gate. I’d rather have them safely occupy “my asphalt” than cause an accident.

It's one thing to hold a different opinion, quite another to get angry and call someone names for holding a different opinion.

The views on this seem to be pretty divided here, so you are clearly not uniquely unreasonable in yours.

 
Does't bother me. There is very little traffic on our street to begin with. Our driveway is 300 feet to the house, and our entire 6 acre lot is fenced except for the driveway, plus a square off the driveway for guest parking and utility access. Personally I don't do it. A K-turn is almost as quick. I can see how opinions (including mine) might be different in a close-in urban setting.
 

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I live in a neighborhood. I really dont mind if someone turns around using my driveway, but if you park in front of my house and get out on my lawn, cross it and walk thru my raised flower bed, kicking the mulch and toss your cigarette on my lawn your taking your life in your hands. I have no issues with letting them know its my property. I have been known to turn on my sprinkler and let the inside of their car get soaked! Inconsiderate trolls.

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Originally posted by GaryBF:
I have done it and will likely do it again, but only when necessary. Sometimes there is no other reasonable option.

this is my position also

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I try to avoid it, but I don't feel bad if I have to.

Well, it irks the hell out of me when it happens...because there's a huge cul de sac 150 feet past my driveway. And let's not even touch on the school bus that made a u-turn through my front yard a couple years ago, leaving a couple hundred bucks worth of sod repair and three broken irrigation lines. Thank god one of my neighbors took cellphone pics of the bus in the yard, its ID number, and the driver, or I likely would have never been reimbursed for that damage.

I would not mind if someone did it in my driveway. I’ve done it and it surprises me that someone would get tore up over it. Of course in today’s world I don’t know why I’m surprised.

I known of a person that has signs up at his driveway entrance and he also has large boards with large spikes attached to catch drivers turning around in his drive way. I have seen several times tow trucks towing cars from his driveway with all four tires flat. I have seen this for several years now and can not believe the owner has not got into some civil problems over it.

It is on my Route I must drive to work. The owner appears to move the spikes each time he comes and goes to his own property. What a pain that must be.

Are we talking about momentarily dipping one's front tires partway into the first couple of feet or so of another's driveway for the sole purpose of making a U-turn?

That's what people are upset about? Well, I think I'll continue to keep that one off of my list of things to get butthurt about.

I live way too close to Ohio. Of course many on the gulf coast do also. We get a sample of the worst drivers in the world, often drunk or over here trying to get that way. Inconsiderate is a mild way of putting it. When they get this far out of town, they're lost. But they feel entitled because they're over here for some reason. Many use one of my neighbors drives. Some even pull all the way up to his house, which gets my attention, and carry piece. Most are just stupid then exceed their skill level to back out. Oh,yeah, the phone pole next to his drive.

The rest drive up to my house and take the advantage of my 3 car wide drive. Its not that hard, people. But they seem to make it that way. I live on a corner. They could just use the side street, but that seems too simple, and none, absolutely none are capable of backing out into a sometimes busy street.

Down that side street is my other drive. It also has a phone pole way to close. The paint traces on the bottom make me feel warm and fuzzy. I'll allow that some might not be from clueless buckeyes. But the newer, rough surface lives its life with rubber shards scuffed into the surface. Its a self cleaning type of surface, as in any time we get a few good rains it seems to kind of go away. I'll bet they even complain about the poor tire life they get. Yes, I've contemplated stop sticks for my driveway.

That same side drive allows them to shine their bright lights into my bedroom. I've been giving thought to buying some LED bright spots and replacing the "side" trim lights with lights to blind the folks who like to use that to turn around. On a motion detector, of course. If it flustered them, they might also clip my phone pole. Serves no purpose anyway. I'm kind of calm about it because the fools are lost. Just for fun, I can think up all kinds of ways to retaliate.

I'm more apt to do it when driving the ambulance then my personal vehicle. Sometimes finding addresses on country roads in our county is a pain in the rear and we do from time to time miss a house. We usually always turn around at the first available spot even if it's a driveway. Now, in my personal vehicle, I'll look for a road or some other non-driveway spot to turnaround and usually can find one pretty easily.

As far as my driveway, We live on a corner lot on a short street that's a cul-de-sac, so I don't think I've ever noticed anyone turning around in my driveway. They usually just go down to the end of the street and turn around.

Now what I do hate is when the neighbors have a yard sale and people park on the street IN FRONT OF MY DRIVEWAY. That's quite annoying.

At my old house (we still own it - fixing it up to sell) people would do this at least a dozen times per day. There is only parking on one side of the street. I had the only driveway on the non parking side of the street and it's nice and wide. Instead of driving the extra 100' to the end of the block and just taking the street down, every lazy fucker that parked on the street (none park in their own driveway) would turn around in my driveway regardless of the time of day. It'd piss me off even more when it is winter and I hadn't moved the snow off the driveway yet.

Shawn

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Originally posted by brecaidra:
The views on this seem to be pretty divided here, so you are clearly not uniquely unreasonable in yours.

Surprising the vehemence on this topic. There's a big different in a turnaround and parking of course.

I'm in the camp of not doing it myself unless there's not other option within the next 1/2 mile for an intersection, etc. If I do, I'm conscious of it and don't linger, also would never do in a driveway where someone is standing just to avoid confusing them. Or, apparently, running the risk of them popping off a couple rounds to take out my trespassing tires!

No big deal as far as I'm concerned.

A cop friend told me that unless you have your property fenced, then people are allowed to go up to your front door (walking, that is).

People who do it are lost. Now, if I go midway down the block everyday and make a three-point turn around using a neighbor's driveway, I should expect him to stop me the next morning I do it again.

The times when I've done it is when I've turned into a wrong street of the main thoroughfare and I need to get back.