• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    8 months ago

    Devil’s avocado: People used to turn around in my driveway all the time at my old house. If they stayed on the pavement, that’d be one thing. But half of them cut into the grass, and it turned it into and stayed a rutted, muddy mess.

    Granted, I would never start taking pot shots at people turning, but I did put up a sign.

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      8 months ago

      Thus the giant rocks I see on either side of the end of some driveways. Possible car damage seems to be a helpful deterrent to driving through the grass.

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        8 months ago

        I have big boulders for inflicting car damage if someone goes off the driveway.

        Otherwise I don’t care if someone turns around in my driveway.

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        8 months ago

        That works too. lol I just didn’t have any handy, and I thought cinder blocks would either look trashy or get stolen.

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          8 months ago

          They only look trashy until they get stolen.

          Win/win? Lose/lose? That’s for you to decide.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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          To prevent people from parking in front of and blocking my driveway, which happens often due to the location, I cast some traffic cones out of concrete and spaced them so parallel parking anything larger than a motorcycle is impossible but you can pull in between them nose first or in reverse. They weigh 180 pounds each, and look squishy… until you strike them with a vehicle.

          Watching morons clonk into them is hilarious. But they seldom do it twice.