Fuck you, that's my parking spot!

The BBQ Pit
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We had an unholy mother of a snowstorm this weekend. On Friday, it was miserable. It was too bad for me to drive to work, so I took a cab and left my car in my parking spot at home. When I got home on Saturday morning I had about a foot of snow to shovel.

My landlord comes over later in the day to remove the snow, but I really needed to get my car out to be able to do some things, and since I work nights I needed to get it done in the daytime, not the evening. So, I got home from work and shoveled. I ended up shoveling the entire parking lot and driveway, mostly because I had to to get the snow moved where it needed to be, because there was just so MUCH of it.

I spent two hours shoveling, before I got to so much as sit down for five minutes after I worked all night. I shoveled out my own parking space. My upstairs neighbor did not shovel out his space. It’s full of the same snow it was full of yesterday. I did not pile any of the shoveled snow in his space, but I wasn’t digging his out for him on top of everything else. I was exhausted.

I drove to work last night, and came home at 7am this morning. The fuckwad is parked in my spot. There is literally nowhere else free to park. Everywhere else I could park is either full of a foot of snow, or I would be blocking other cars or the plows if I parked there.

I tried to go upstairs to knock on his door, but he’s locked the outer porch so I can’t even get up there. I don’t have a phone number for him, either. It’s 7AM on a Sunday. I would feel bad going up there and waking people up, but the guy is parked in a spot I froze my ass off to shovel.

The fuckhead KNOWS I park there. He parked there sometime after 11PM when I left for work. Well, my car is now blocking him in, because there is nowhere else I can park, so if he needs to get out, he’s going to have to come knocking on my door.

We’re supposed to get another major snowstorm starting in a few hours.

I am so pissed off I really can’t even rant properly. I wouldn’t be angry if I hadn’t shoveled the thing out myself, only for him to park his fucking car in the spot I killed myself shoveling.

Fucking sorry excuse for a goat-vomit truffle. That’s my fucking spot!

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Not sure you have any recourse since you don’t have assigned parking, but agree that he’s unbelievably rude. And I’d be mighty ticked, too.

For what that’s worth.

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Is it assigned parking? I kind of gathered it is. I managed rentals for years, and parking spots are always a huge fight. Ignorant goat-vomit truffle like your neighbour should be towed. If I was your Property Manager, and it was your assigned spot, and he did that, I would definitely tow the fucker.

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Find an outside hose. Set the water to a low trickle, or better yet a fine misting sprinker. Put in on top of his car. By morning, it should be encased in a few tons of ice.

I am not responsible for any property or bodily damage that may result from this prank :slight_smile:

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I only just started driving the car a month ago, but the car itself has been here and been driven in and out, always parked in that spot since August. It’s not officially assigned, but I have never parked anywhere else, and I was given a parking spot here by the landlord when I moved in.

The upstairs neighbor also has a parking spot, and always parks in that spot. He has never parked anywhere else, except for this time.

It’s a bit of a weird situation, as it’s not really officially a parking ‘lot’, but it’s not just a simple driveway, either. It’s a driveway with a whole bunch of extra space that makes up a sort of ‘lot’, where we park.

I’m going to call up the landlord on Monday and ask that we be officially assigned the spots, since we always park in the same spots anyway, because it’s really freaking unfair that I shoveled out everything and now have nowhere to park.

It might be a problem because the upstairs tenants are ‘family friends’ of the landlord, though. Grr.

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Perhaps leaving a note on his door or car, something along the lines of “sorry I had to block you in, I really had no where else to park. I shoveled the spot you are parked in and much of the driveway and after work came home exhausted, I really could not shovel any more. Please let me know when you are pulling out so I can park in that spot.”

Trying to diffuse the situation may make life better in the long run.

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I think this fits your thread title well: Before I moved to my current home, I lived in a section of St. Louis where all we had was on-street parking. Of course, it was all public, first-come, first-serve type stuff, but the convention in our neighborhood was that you had ‘firsties’ on the spot in front of your own house. We’d had about 8" of snow one day, so I went out and shovelled out ‘my’ parking space, loading most of the snow in the back of my old F-100 (it weighs down the truck for better traction and tends to melt away when you don’t need it any more). The next time I got home from work, one of the nuns up the street had parked in the only snowless spot around…in front of my house. I just pulled in behind her car and started shovelling out this new space. Since the truck was already full of snow, I just piled all the newly dug snow around the sister’s car. Her car was stuck there for over a week and she never parked in front of my house again.

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That sucks, and I am behind you in your rage. However, I learned long ago that having a shared driveway/lot is just an invitation for people to take the easy way out when it comes to shoveling and spaces. We share with our upstairs neighbors, and when we shovel, we do the whole thing, specifically because there’s no guarantee that the cleared out spot(s) will be free when I return. It’s not quite fair, but without assigned spots it’s the best I can do to assure that I won’t come home royally pissed to a lot with one space piled in snow.

I do think, though, that parking them in was 100% justified. They can come down and get you if they need to get out. Or, better yet, if you left them a few inches to navigate, they can shovel out their half and navigate around you.

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You are SO going to burn in hell. :smiley:

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I actually did leave a note on their windshield.

It said, “Please don’t park in my spot. I spent two hours shoveling yesterday, and arrived home from work with nowhere to park. I don’t mind you using the spot, but make sure the car is moved before I get home at 7AM if you park here.”

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I’ve never had a car before, so unfortunately a lot of this stuff is new to me, and I’m getting kind of a crash course. I got my license literally a day before all the really bad snowstorms here started. (I’d been practicing for a while, but I only had my permit until then).

After posting, I actually had to go out and get some gas this morning before the snow got too bad (you live in the Burlington area, I’m over in Winooski, so I’m sure you know what I mean), and when I came home I parked on the street as close to the curb as I possibly could without getting myself stuck, at least to keep myself there temporarily until I could get them to move.

They ended up moving while I was cleaning inside, and I never saw them do it. But at least they moved. I was finally able to get my car in.

The other part of what really pissed me off was that I purposely made sure not to pile snow in their spot, so they could clear it out. If they don’t shovel their space today, I may go out and shovel it, just in case they take my spot again while I’m at work.

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HA! Yeah, sure, but not for that. My next-door neighbor saw me doing it and came out and yelled, “You can’t do that to nuns!”. I told him he couldn’t, being Catholic and all, but I’m an atheist and to me, they’re just a bunch of single women with weird headgear. Besides, the sisters knew I’d had some heart attacks and they stole my space anyway. (NB: we got along fine before and after this. It never came up in conversation; the discussion was limited to our actions in the parking lane.)

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Verbal Thank You/6 pack of beer/ homemade cookies/etc MAY* be in order to make sure the note doesn’t bring any bad blood between you two. It doesn’t take much to pit neighbors against each other and when it happens it gets uglier and uglier. So a simple “Hey thanks for moving your car, I spent all morning shoveling that space out” You never know, they may have had a decent reason to do it. “Sorry, I wouldn’t have parked there, but I left work really sick and was about to puke, I ended up falling asleep on my couch”** or “Sorry, I was just running home to take a quick shower and I ended up getting sucked into a Lifetime movie.”

*I say ‘may’ since I don’t know they dynamics of your relationship with them.

**I’m a benefit of the doubt/what if kinda person.

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what the FUCK? Buying the guy beer or making cookies because he finally got around to leaving the spot SHE shoveled???

I can see not escalating it further, but fucking GIVING him things for moving his douchebag car? I say this as an admitted pushover: what the fuck kind of pussy ARE you?

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Buy a Jeep, drive right over the snow. I stopped shovelling unless I absolutely had to about 5 years ago and never looked back. The neighbor’s a dickhole, but escalating it will you nowhere.

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FUCK OFF. Maybe, just maybe, the guy had a good fucking reason for parking there, he DID move his car when asked. Why don’t we find out what the reason is behind it. Maybe the guy just had to run inside for a minute and was planning to be gone but then the OP pulled in behind him and he was upstairs stewing all day about being parked in.

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I love the way you think!

JoeyP, hell to the no! Maybe a thanks for moving it, but no way a gift! The neighbour should be apologizing and buying Leah M the 6 pack/cookies…

Leah M, have you tried talking to your neighbour first? As has been mentioned, if at all possible, your life would be much easier and happier if you and your neighbour had a good relationship. If you already have issues with him though, just go through the landlord.

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BTW, I did also mention as an option, just running up and saying thanks. Also, that little bit of human contact will probably ensure it won’t happen again.
This was directed at zweisamkeit not FarmerChick.
A gift maybe a little over board, but for the reasons I mentioned, I still think a thank you is a good idea.

My wife is a gift giver so that’s where that comes from. You snowblow for us, here’s a plate of cookies. You watched the baby for a few hours, have a bottle of wine etc…

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I lived at one apartment where the exact situation you described was a problem. I was tempted to fill their tires with water. What a rough ride. Ice tires.:slight_smile:

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Yup, as a PM, I always preferred the tenants worked it out and got along. Usually a few words and some common sense fixed a lot of potentially ugly situations. BUT some people are just assholes.

Joey P, you and your wife sound like someone I would have loved to have as tenants! or just neighbours! Common sense and manners, excellent combo.