Whoa! Those are some big words for a little bird!
Ow! Hey stop hitting! Just kidding ya…sorry you had such a rotten day.
Buys Little Bird a coffee
Oh for the love of fuck people. I live in Iowa. IOWA. It’s not rural, but people aren’t slitting throats for parking spaces either. There are perfectly good spots for the kid’s friends to park across the street, down the street, where the fuck ever! I don’t mind when people park here on a game day (I could spit on the University’s football field from my living room), I don’t mind when people park there when there is a party, or even occasionally when there just isn’t a spot for them at their house. I do mind coming home from work every night of the week and there are two cars in front of my house and no where for me to park. Is it really such a breach of common courtesy to ask my neighbor’s son’s friends to maybe show me a little consideration? It’s not like they have to carry in groceries or lead in a dog. Fuck!
Gonna fucking egg all your houses and cars little consarnet mumble mumble…
For all of you that supported my position, thank you.
What with the Tom of Finland reference, I’m more concerned about where he’s carrying all of that!
Paul Thorn. For those unfamiliar with this classic, listen to it on your way to work. It just makes you feel a little better about everything.
Considering it’s a punk teenager’s friends that are taking your spot, yes, I believe you have a right to be angry. My neighbors back home all have their loser grown ass kids living with them (neighbors across the street and next door) still with 2 cars a pop and when I come home for breaks loaded down with shit I have to park down the street even though everyone has a wide 2 - car driveway and room in front of their houses. I know my name isn’t on my spot, but it’s not even the spot directly in front of my house, its the one on the other side of the driveway. My neighbors take the spot in front of my house (and hah they get all the bird shit on their cars). But when they have tons of friends over, all one to a car, and park in MY spot, it pisses me off. They can park farther down the street near people’s houses who’s owners don’t have to park in the street.
And if anyone ever eggs my car or otherwise vandalizes it, I will kick their stupid ass. That is just ignorant. Cars are expensive pieces of personal property and I believe in the golden rule in that situation - unless you’d love to wake up and go to your car and find egg or scratches from keys, whatever on it, don’t fucking do it.
Man, you know what stinks if you put just a couple of drops in a car’s vents? This stuff. Whew!
Whoops, posted this to the wrong thread. I meant to post it in the, um, “Liquids Which Are Assish in Odor” thread over in MPSIMS.
Yeah, that’s the ticket…
Man we had some kids on our block that were vandalizing all the cars. We called the cops and they never could do a thing about it.
Then I got that Bill Gates email, forwarded it to everybody on my contact list, and those kids have been washing every car and mowing every lawn on the block since.
I’m not saying it will work for you…
Yeah, in front of someone else’s house. How courteous of you to your other neighbors that the front of your house should be sacred, but fuck them, let everyone park over there.
I see, so when the two people who parked there saw that those were the only two spots left, they should’ve driven around the corner and parked a block away so Queen You wouldn’t have to take extra steps when you got home? And of course everyone else in the neighborhood, including everyone’s friends, should somehow glean that parking in front of Your Holiness’s house is somehow verboten, or at least “discourteous” to you.
If there was nowhere for you to park, then obviously there was nowhere else for them to park when they got there, or, gee, maybe they would’ve parked somewhere else, ya think? Or maybe those were the closest spots to where they were going – why should they have to walk further just to “save” a spot for you? What, are we in 3rd grade now?
Is it really such a breach of common courtesy to ask you to show your neighbor’s son’s friends a little consideration and not force them to abandon a perfectly good parking space in favor of one across the street in front of a different neighbor’s house so that they’ll have to be inconvenienced?
I’d’ve egged your damn car, too (or at least would’ve wanted to).
There’s one in every thread…
After reading the entire Al Sharpton thread last night, all I have the energy to say is that I agree completely with Shayna’s post. People who whine about people parking on a public street in front of their house should be forced to park in North Beach every night for a month.
Fuck you Shayna. Fuck you right up your ass. Is that what you wanted from me? Is that the reaction you were going for? I never said they can’t park in front of my house. I never said they should be forced to park in front of someone else’s house. There’s a lovely open area from the university at the end of the block they could park in front of. Perhaps they might decide to car pool. I don’t fucking care! All I ask is ONE SPOT. One spot in front of my house. If they choose to disregard my plea (as they did today) I am not going to tow them, call the cops, etc. I will park farther down from my house and walk. I will deal with it. I was the polite one in this situation, I simply asked them to leave me a spot. As of this point they have now harassed me, egged my car, and disregarded my wishes entirely. Of course, I deserved all that, didn’t I, Shayna? I was just asking for it all. Fuck you again for good measure. Why don’t you wander off and key someone’s car.
Oh, and fuck you too, Troy, just for good measure.
Here’s one more little tiny vote for the OP. I’m taken aback at all the opinions that she shouldn’t assume that she can park in front of her house. It sounds like I grew up in a similar neighborhood in Oklahoma City, in your basic residential area. The only people who generally parked there were residents, visitors, and tradespeople, so parking was rarely at a premium.
It was just considered impolite to consistently park in front of someone else’s house at the expense of the owner being able to park there. If you were going to have a party with a lot of guests, it was the neighborly thing to do to knock on your neighbors’ doors to let them know.
No, we didn’t own the street in front of our house, and no one thought we did. It’s just manners, you know?
Long day, Little Bird?
What is a good measure, anyway? Like, a foot and a half? A yard? Or is it metric?
Dude, parking is first come, first serve. You don’t have the slightest bit of claim to any public property. If you have a favorite bench in the park and you ate your lunch there every day, would it be rude if someone failed to vacate it when you came out to eat? What if you really like the seat across from the door on the bus? It is rude if someone stays in it rather than get up when you get on?
So great, there’s a lovely open spot at the end of the block. What in the purple fuck makes you too good for it? Why in the purple fuck would they skip over a perfectly good parking spot right near their front door to go park at the end of the block? Answer that fucking question. I’ll repeat it.
Why would someone see a vacant, public parking spot right by their front door and pass it up for one farther away?
They might not wish to be an asshole?
So they’re an asshole because they didn’t bow to your convenience?
It’s just common courtesy not to take the last parking spot in front of a person’s house, if you know they are unable to park on the driveway and must park on the street. It’s not a matter of forcing others to bow to one’s convenience, it’s just part of being neighborly. One is free to do otherwise, of course, but absent a compelling reason, and especially if done frequently, doing such would be the act of an asshole.
Well fuck you right back. Right up your tight little ass. Is that the reaction you were going for? Do we feel more grown up now?
No, you just think they’re disrespectful if they dare to park in front of your house instead of the “perfectly good” spaces in front of other people’s houses or at the end of the block, and then have the nerve to actually ask them not to park where it’s perfectly legal for them to park, just because it might inconvenience you, nevermind that parking further away would inconvenience them.
Like I said, let them be inconvenienced for your selfish benefit. That’s mighty neighborly of you. Why don’t you carpool so you don’t have to worry about trying to find parking when you get home? Or take the bus. I’m sure they don’t fucking care either! Why are all your solutions to inconvenience other people instead of making your own concessions?
No, you were the rude one in this situation. They’re as free to park there as you are and it was obnoxious of you to even approach them on the subject.
I don’t believe you deserved to be harrassed, but I totally understand their desire to show you the scorn you’ve earned by your unneighborliness. Besides which, they’re teenagers – what did you expect?! Of course they’re going to disregard your wishes – you were out of line to even ask.
I own a house, too, and I also have to park on the street. I don’t always have the convenience of parking directly in front of my own house because either neighbors, their friends, or people going to the beach will often park there. I frequently have to park a little way up the street or across the street from my own house. If I have a carload of groceries or something else to take in, I’ll temporarily pull in the driveway, unload my car, then go park somewhere else on the street (I can’t stay in the drive because it cuts across the public sidewalk). It would never in a million years enter my mind to ask my neighbors not to park in front of my house so I could be a lazy, selfish ass at their expense.
What a load of crap. If there’s a parking space available on the street, they have a perfect right to park there – be it in front of someone’s house or not. Period.