From the WTF neighborhood files.

I would not even attempt to count the number of times in my 50 years of driving that I have turned around by pulling into someone's driveway.

If this is a new housing area, I can believe that a lot of people might be pulling into a driveway to check the directions AGAIN, or confirm that they are really going where they want to go....staying longer because it might involve a phone call or a check of the map. After the neighborhood is established I would anticipate that the number of cars turning around would decline.

Here it's NextDoor and heaven forbid a helicopter is heard anywhere! There will be at least 5 SEPARATE posts asking what the helicopter is doing, it makes me laugh so hard every time!

It’s not snakes here, it’s coyotes.

That reminds me of a few weeks ago when we were going to a restaurant. I told DH to turn into the wrong side street, and he had to turn around in a driveway. A car came down the side street just behind us, and we were a little embarrassed thinking that we turned into their driveway. But no, that car turned around in the same driveway just after we did. Then they followed us into the restaurant. That poor house on the wrong side street must get a lot of turnarounds.

I wonder if we both made it onto their NextDoor?

I don't belong to any of these neighborhood groups, but there has been a big increase in crimes like breaking into cars, stealing cars or their parts, breaking into houses through the garage not to mention package theft so I would be concerned if someone pulled into my driveway at night and sat there for a few minutes. Not call the police concerned, but put on a light so they know that someone is home and awake concerned. My street is wide enough for a uturn so people don't really turn in driveways here so the incident would be unusual enough for concern.

i think a stolen port-a-potty warrants a post on the local page!! how do ya not notice for a week or two... but okay.

i saw someone had a sign by the end of their driveway once saying not to use their driveway to turn around. lol! they were the first house on the first street after exiting a parking lot that you could only turn right, not left. so i guess lots of people get to their house and turnaround.

our local FB page has the coyote sightings (like play by play, "it's on ivy, heading east" followed by "i just saw it, going north on galt avenue").

in addition to complaining about air ambulance helicopters - hey they are pretty loud but is a *minute and a half* of your life and someone is CRITICALLY INJURED!!!

and then nest or ring videos posted of people knocking on their doors and looking around. "that's so shifty", "did you call the police??", "i am scared *for* you!!!".... i recognized the guy, he had been on my street earlier that day... going door-to-door offering gutter cleaning.

people are funny.

This is actually a very common scam and something that people should be aware of www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-10-2012/common-door-to-door-scams.html

I seek nothing wrong with pulling into someone’s driveway to make a U-turn but having someone park in your driveway for several minutes in the middle off the night is a little bizarre. They could just as easily stop by the curb to do whatever they are doing.

There is a Twitter feed about this. twitter.com/bestofnextdoor One of the funniest ones was, "Who keeps farting in my mailbox?"