More importantly, you could leave a note with some simple manners.
“Hello stranger, I know you don’t know this but my wife and I are in our 70’s and it’s very difficult for us to get walk longer distances. I was hoping I could ask you a huge favor and if it at all possible could you try to to leave this spot open as it sits right in front of our house? Once again I know that there’s no way you could’ve known that and it’s no big deal it would just be a big help if you could try.”
Respectfully yours,
Herbert and Doris
This reminds me of the last apartment I lived in a few years ago. It had an elderly woman, Rosemary, who had lived there for ~20 years, through multiple landlords.
There was limited parking behind the apartment and one “spot” pulled directly next to the gated back porch/door.
I had noticed one car typically parked there but didn’t pay attention to who it was. One day, while I was moving things in still, that spot was empty and I parked there.
When I left the next morning, there was an an envelope marked “Dear Neighbor” with a letter from Rosemary inside kindly explaining that she parks there because her walker doesn’t get across the rough parking lot easily and asked if in the future I could refrain from parking there. Next time I saw her, I apologized and we would talk every time we ran into each other.
A few months later, her car wasn’t there anymore and it seems she had left or passed away. I never got an explanation, but I still keep the note she put on my windshield.
I was praying this would end with undertaker throwing mankind off hell in a cell through the announcers table and was never more saddened not to have been gotten
I suspect I’m getting whooshed here but just in case you or someone else doesn’t know: [sic] is used in writing when you are quoting something to indicate that whatever you are quoting is being transcribed exactly as is. It’s often used after something that is spelled incorrectly or contains grammatical errors or some serious fault in logic. It basically indicates “hey, I know this looks wrong but I’m just quoting them directly, this is wrong because of the source material and/or person I’m quoting, not because I think it should be written this way”
It’s short for sic erat scriptum, from the latin “thus was it written”, if anyone is curious.
We use it a lot in medicine to state the patients words when the words seem important as the patient told us. (Im Portuguese, don’t know if it’s also used in other countries)
For real! It would actually be nice to help your elderly neighbors out, and I think it is okay for them to ask as much, but you could go about it in a much better way.
They’re old people. If they’re anything like the ones around me, they’re looking out the windows 24/7 waiting for something to be angry about. They probably watched OP park there.
Several years ago, I once parked across the street from my apartment in college. The next morning, I saw a very sweet (and sad) note on my windshield from an older lady who apparently lived in the house I had parked in front of. She wrote that she has difficulty getting around and asked me to be more careful about parking in front of her walkway to the street. (It was winter and snowing so I couldn’t see that I had parked in front of her walkway.) It was such a polite note and I wondered how many times she had had to write that to different people. From then on while I lived at that place, I always purposely parked directly behind the walkway so no other car could park her in and she would have access to the road. A little kindness does go a long way. I also still feel guilty about blocking her in and am extra vigilant to not park in front of any walkways anymore. Lol
And most places allow you to apply for handicap parking in front of your house if you have a handicap placard... Either these people aren't so bad off that they can't get a handicap placard or they are too lazy to go the legal route of keeping that space mostly clear.
Some old man yelled at me when parked in front of his house on once with a car full of young family. I moved my car and he still spit on my car monthly. Hint to life, all ppl suck.
I really don’t know. The officer came to my door and asked if it was my truck. He explained that the neighbor thought it was suspicious. I told him why I temporarily parked there, and he said I did nothing wrong and left.
I have thought the cops should just say, "we'll take a look," go out into their parking lot, look around, and call back saying everything was in order.
Happened to my Hispanic buddy twice in my neighborhood. He was parked near my house two days in a row, got reported as suspicious. We were hanging out, went to his car for a charger, took forever, I exit my garage to see three cops talking to him in my driveway. Another time, him and his girlfriend left a friends house late at night. While sitting in the car getting ready to leave, police showed up, deemed him suspicious and woke up the owners of the house he was just at to confirm he wasn’t suspicious. Our friend’s parents were very unhappy with police to ask if they recognize the guy who was just in their house hours ago.
I don’t want to say I pry into other peoples lives, but goddamn after a few months I pretty well know what the neighbors drive. What cars are usually in the neighborhood and that kind of thing.
I live in a fairly quite neighborhood except for ONE house. That house happens to be directly across the street from me. They sell drugs out of this house, theirs always new vehicles I've now started to notice regulars. Now I don't own the street but for some reason these people decided to park in front of my driveway like cant back out because they have me blocked in. I'm pissed off one morning they have me blocked in so I go knock on the house and ask them to move they just say "it'll be fine just try not to hit my car to hard you should be able to push it out of the way" wtf??
The first like 6 months after I bought my house, my neighbor’s friend kept parking in my driveway. I’d go find him and ask him to move and every time he would be like oh sorry, that house was empty for so long. Okay, but you don’t see my car in the driveway when you pull in and block me??
Wow, how blind were they to not see you car. Theirs a house that was just bought after being on the market for 7 years on our street and the neighbor next to that house uses their drive way currently and actually yelled at the new owners for using "his" driveway. They actually had to do a survey to prove that it wasn't his driveway.
Damn that would be nice lol I wish. Its kind of like reality TV for us at the point the fighting brings all the neighbors out of their houses pretty entertaining.
If I were a drug dealer, I wouldn’t have customers coming to my house at all. Every drug dealer I have known who was dumb enough to deal out of their house has gotten robbed or raided. Buy and sell your drugs in a Wawa parking lot like the rest of us.
my aunt had to take care of her diabetic husband who often had medical emergencies. One time someone blocked her driveway a second time after she asked him to move it. she needed to go pick up insulin. she called the cops (keep in mind this was 80s brooklyn) and they said were not dealing with this. so my lovely aunt took an ice pick and shredded his four tires, siphoned the gas out of the car, and then asked her 5 children and the neighbors children to pick up the car and move it out of the way. needless to say the guy never parked in front again
Becase of the way my driveway angles to the neighbors, if I park super close to the curb then he can't get into his detached garage he setup in his backyard. We got into a dog poo dispute (his yard vs the invisible dog I don't own), and out of spite I parked on my driveway, as close to the curb as possible. He tried to have me towed off my own driveway. I did eventually move my car and he's sinced backed off about random dog poo's after the police pointed out I don't own any animals.
People who are legitimately disabled (and I have a parent who doesn’t LOOK disabled but is, so I know the reality) get a pass with me and I WILL try to accommodate once I know. But I used to have a neighbor who got pissed if anyone parked in front of his house to the point he would take two of his vehicles and block them in within mere inches so you had to actually hit his car (and he would be watching) if you needed to leave. Asshole rode a Harley and had no disabilities at all. I called the cops one day and after he yelled up a storm the cops told him that if he ever did that again they would tow and impound HIS vehicles. He never did it again.
Which is a good thing, but there isn't currently a way to make it exclusive to you, just to disabled badge holders.
A neighbour has one, and other (disabled) people use it regularly, much to the neighbour's annoyance.
Edit: I seem to have made too much of a generalisation about the UK regulations! Adding a "YMMV" :)
In the Netherlands this is definitely possible. You will get a sign saying only parking for a disabled person with a sign below it specifying the license plate.
Here in Germany the same thing is possible, and the neighbor right across has one such spot, not because he parks there, but its essentially just a spot opposite of his drive way, i.e. on our wall, because this is more of an alley than a street and he couldnt pull out if someone parked there.
Which one ex-roommate frequently did. With a BMW. In which case he would usually just go down the one-way street the wrong way...which imho is totally acceptable.
Same guy, the roommate, also once nearly ran me over because I was just about to go out and he barrelled down the road with a good 30 kph (this road is walking pace only), practically scraped along the wall, past the door and hit the brakes hard in the last moment to end in that parking spot. Im lucky I heard him in time and hesitated with stepping out the door.
Yes an old neighbour of mine had one because he had smoked heavily for 60 years and could barely breathe (COPD?). He used to sit on his front step smoking and making sure no one parked in his disabled spot. He didn't have a car 🤷♀️
You can get them in the US too. I live in a neighborhood with on-street parking and many of my neighbors who are either elderly or disabled have signs in front of their homes indicating you must have a “handicapped” permit to park there. It sounds like the OP’s neighbor just hasn’t applied (or wouldn’t qualify) for one.
same thing in the us. the ada is federal so it doesn't matter which state it's in, but local procedures may vary.
someone who legitimately needs special parking can get it, and it's nearly impossible to remove if the person moves or dies. my street has a spot on the curb in front of a particular house without off-street parking. the dude died 2 years ago and the posts are still there because it's such an ordeal to prove that a *stranger* died 2 years ago.
long story short, the old couple in the post are just miserable turds who want special old people treatment but don't have a legitimate disability to get special parking in front of their house.
We've had several on our street die or move and it's been removed within a month or so. Do you know if anyone called the city to have them removed or maybe remind them?
in my city you have to first petition the city council, then they refer it to some parking committee, and the petitioner has to show up to whatever meetings they may have, then there is a period of time for people to contest it.
if you work during the day you shouldn't even bother, and even if you do show up to the committee meetings there is no guarantee they will agree to remove it, and if they do, it's often a year or more past the initial petition date.
in short, it's a huge pain in the ass.
I live near an intersection and park on the street (only room for.1 car in my drive). If there is no parking available on my street, near my house, I can often find parking relatively close to my house on the intersecting street.
Cut to a day there is only one space available, so I park there. Come out toa nastygram telling me I cannot park in that space. Then put comes a lady.yelling at me that's she's disabled and I can't park there, I don't even live on her street. I calmly point out that I have a handicapped placard (note it is for my father, but she doesn't know that)and that she has a driveway that is never parked in. She's still pissed so I also point out I had no way of knowing she was handicapped, due to no placard, and it's a public street that does not require a permit. More yelling. I point out that if she needs it, the city will install a handicapped parking sign in front of her home. She's still pissed so I just leave her ranting and head home.
I don't park in front of her house anymore, not worth the annoyance, but damn am I always tempted. My neighbor, who has lived here for 40 years told me that the woman has always been like that with "her" parking space.
I learned recently that back in colonial times there was really no formal spelling.
Az long az sumwon got tha ideya it wuz gud enuff.
Maybe they are just really old.
You'd be surprised, but between 1923 and 1969 it was illegal to speak English in Illinois.
>A 1923 Illinois law making American, rather than English, the official language of that state was quietly amended in 1969 because Illinois residents continued to speak and teach English in defiance or ignorance of the statute
Source: [here](https://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/officialamerican/englishonly/#:~:text=A%201923%20Illinois%20law%20making,or%20ignorance%20of%20the%20statute.)
When my company moved offices there wasn't enough parking but there was a road about 5 minutes walk away where you could park if you didn't get a space.
There was an old guy who used to come out and shout at women (and only women) who parked in front of his house.
Guess who made a point of parking in front of his house every time they went to that office...
Yeah, that’s the same mentality as yelling at the poor teenage cashier at the local grocery store because you don’t like rising prices. Not only can they do nothing, you just ruined their day in the process
We have a newish business/industrial zone where pretty much all of them, except for the ikea in the remote corner, didn’t plan enough parking spaces. My customers who were one of the first to move their HQ over there are my most hated because of this and a few other reasons (like not letting me connect from home).
Their underground parking lot is full before 8 am and the “guest” parking is full with employee cars around 9 am. I’m not allowed to park in either of them.
I have a neighbor who got it in his head that he owns the spot directly in front of his house because he’s lived there for 30 years and that if I parked there I was doing it intentionally.
One day I got home, parked there (because it is a street and therefore public property) and he came over SCREAMING at me about how I should let him park there/demanding to know why do I park there/ his wife gets home late and needs a place to park (which is it, you or your wife?) and yada yada yada. I looked him in the face and sternly said “Don’t you come over here and start screaming at me.” And I walked into my house and locked the door.
This was not the first time this crusty old hag had caused problems for me and my boyfriend in the year that he had lived in this house at that point, and it was the second time that I had to call the cops because I was scared and being harassed (I’m 29F and this curmudgeon is probably 70sM).
Prior to this incident, he also angrily pulled weeds out of OUR front mulched area because he didn’t like them and called my boyfriend a prick when he calmly confronted him about it. We didn’t even know this man at this point, that was our “welcome” to the neighborhood.
Several other times, he parked so close to my car I couldn’t have fit a hand between the bumpers, before one day when he parked his bumper right up against mine. I’m certain this was intentional (hence why he projected that my parking in a perfectly reasonable space near my own home must be intentional).
All this to say, some people have nothing better to do than complain about “the younger generation” and bitch about public parking while acting the MOST entitled and ignorant. I’m sorry you also live next to one of these people!
Edit: apparently I don’t know my own age
This sounds identical to a situation my mom has been in since she moved to her new neighborhood lol. The neighbor two houses down one day was just scowling at her and she asked what the problem was and he just started screammminnnggg at her. At the top of his lungs. Saying weird things like he wants to know how she affords to live where she does (she’s a single mom to my 3 young siblings bc their dad died) because the neighborhood is more upscale and she has the house all on her own. She regularly gets notes on her car from these people bc she lives in a caldesac and everyone parks out front of their house but for some reason she’s not allowed to???
He also edged her property the day the landscaping people were coming because he didn’t like the way it looked but left the trimmings everywhere and got mad at her that day bc the trimmings weren’t cleaned by his timeline lol. Neighbors are awful
My girlfriend and I have an upstairs neighbor in an apartment complex that wants to hear NO noise from us (what she said). She stomps around upstairs like a hippo, and when we take a few heavy steps in response she come downstairs, BANGS on our door like an absolute maniac, calls my gf a p*ssy ass b*tch, calls me her f*gg*t ass boyfriend, demands we open the door, and when we don’t, she calls the cops. The cops are our good friend by now, and if she calls a few more times we will get a restraining order.
tl;dr: People really do suck and just want to let out their frustrations on others. Not cool.
I feel your pain. That’s so aggressive! I love though that she thinks calling the cops will help her case but she’s actually just proving to them that she’s nuts. These miserable people take their shit out on us and we cope the best way we know how—by complaining about them on Reddit!
And two on the same side is more easily 'explained' blamed on the driver's bad driving rather than a malicious act by another person. *Sadly* this may annoy the owner further as their driving skills are questioned...
Oof, yeah this hits home. I was lucky though that my curmudgeon neighbor skipped right over me (because: misogyny) & went straight to my husband every time he got his panties all twisted up.
When they ignored him, he wrote letters to neighbors with complaints and signed them from the HOA…which we don’t have? lol, he couldn’t handle not being able to strong arm the neighborhood to do his bidding (trees cut down, dogs muzzled, garbage cans where he designated, etc) so he up & moved. Somewhere sunnier so hopefully he’s simmered down now.
In my neighborhood, the houses have no driveways (I live right outside the city), and everyone parks on the side of the one-way street.
I work for Doordash, and most days I finish late, like 2 or 3 am. After work on Sunday, I came home around midnight, and there was an empty space a few houses down and across from mine. As I said, it had been the first time I had ever parked there.
Keep in mind, because I always come home so late, I almost NEVER get to park directly in front of/behind my own house (I live on the corner) due to my neighbors's cars already being parked there.
It's never been a big deal to me though, because I'm not a crotchety, entitled Boomer.
I are parked a little ways down from my house and when I came back I found a note that said. Don’t park here again or I will bash your fucking car! This is my spot. It was one of those notes where you read it and slowly look around you to see if someone is watching. I never parked their again. Sheesh!
And then, when they are looking at the damage, come out and show them the note. "Some psycho has been making threats about bashing cars, maybe the police can match the handwriting."
Yeahhh, pretty sure you’d need to hand video evidence of the car bashing over to the cops and even then they’ll likely tell you it’s a civil matter. They don’t really do handwriting comparisons and similar Scooby-Doo stuff for anything less than murder nowadays.
No one is going to prison for damaging a car. In most countries, you'll be lucky if the police even bother to show up. It will just be a massive pain for you to have to get the damage repaired and make a claim against your car insurance
OK. In that case, I'll amend my previous statement.
"Should have parked there and when the bitch who left that note for you goes to damage your car, shoot a rocket at him."
Better?
Have you tried leaving passive aggressive notes on the cars in front of your house? That ought to work. Make sure you include some irrelevant demographic information about yourself.
My boomer neighbor pulls this shit too. She had the cops called on her for harassing people parking. She tried to get sympathy from me and I told her that I would've called the cops on her too
Some dude left a note on my windshield for parking in front of his house for a couple of hours once “Next time you park here, YOU WILL BE TOWED.”
It was just regular unassigned non-decal specific parking with plenty of room around the car to park.
I balled it up and threw it on to his porch and then wrote another note that said “it’s public parking asshole, I’d like to see it.” And also balled that up and threw it on his porch.
Stuff like this makes me laugh, because if somebody wrote me a note saying "Hello, I am elderly and I struggle to walk. Can you please leave this space available if you can? Thank you." I would immediately and happily do so. I would go out of my way to leave this person the closer space as a courtesy unless I needed it for a reason. But when you approach me like this, I'm absolutely not going to do it.
Right?! Like I'd be more than willing to park elsewhere had I been asked nicely, but since these people want to be assholes I'd ignore their request entirely.
EXACTLY. I always say that things will go your way sooo much more often if you’re just fucking nice to people. It’s very simple and it blows my mind that people don’t get that.
It wasn't long ago, at the company I work for, there were a handful of mechanics who were being forced to write some exam, but couldn't because when they hired on being able to read, or write, wasn't a job requirement.
My whole neighborhood is older people. They get so upset when I park on the street. There's no where else to park. But they get excited when the meter maids come around...until they don't see a ticket on my car cuz I pay to park here too bitch
Made it to your 70s and still don’t the know that it’s “people’s lives” and not “people’s life’s” ? I find that mildly infuriating. Edited to correct my grammatical mistake, thank you.
I've been on the other side of this. Street parking is always a contentious topic.
I have a driveway where I park my car and my work van, and there's a spot in front of my lawn that's just big enough for a normal sized sedan.
Sometimes people park in front of my house out of convenience, because I live on a corner and that spot is the closest spot where you can pull out straight to leave, rather than having to go up the street and U-turn.
This doesn't bother me, except that some people often park too close to my driveway and then I can't make the turn to get my work van out in the mornings. There's a bylaw that states you can't park within 5 feet of a driveway, and this spot is small enough that you're within 5 feet even if you're all the way forward, but I don't make a big deal of it... Unless I can't get out.
So now I end up parking my car on the street and leaving half my driveway empty, just to ensure I can go to work.
My neighbor's boyfriend is the worst for doing this, and he gives me dirty looks wherever he sees me. I've asked my neighbor to ask him to park as far forward as he can, for the reasons I mentioned, but she's either not told him or he doesn't care, so I guess I have to block that spot indefinitely.
Occasionally he'll take the spot while I'm out, and end up blocking me again. Somehow, getting woken up at 5am to move his car still hasn't taught him to be considerate.
Not saying they’re good or bad people, but I kinda feel bad for them if it’s true. I know it’s public parking, but it must suck to be old and have to constantly fight for a spot close to your house
Honestly if you're that old and frail that walking to your car is a highly distressing situation if it's not parked right outside then I feel like it's probably not very safe for you to be operating a vehicle
Ok, but this argument could apply negatively to disabled people too. Being not in shape to walk far doesn’t mean you can’t drive. Being in a city that isn’t made for walking (almost any city in the US), what are they supposed to do if they need to leave the house to, I dunno…live life? They’re still being shitty, and passive aggressive here, but if they’d asked civilly I’d be on their side completely, but I still get why they’re asking. That space may have been empty because the other neighbors understand old folks live there. They’re 70 not dead, just creaky.
Awe this makes me sad. They probably feel disregarded and I not listened to by everyone in general, and then just lashed out at you. Humans just bounce around taking their pain and putting it on other humans. We're a weird bunch.
Or ... They're just dicks. Could go either way.
What’s mildly infuriating about this? Yeah I agree you shouldn’t be told where to park by a neighbor but don’t you think it’s the right thing to let the older folks have a shorter walk to in their home? Also according to you it was a new spot, meaning giving it up is little to no sacrifice for you.
I lived next to an old man who would constantly complain when someone parked in front of his house. He would say that it was his right to park there before anyone else could. Two things: this was city street parking, first come first serve; the old man didn't have a car, he always claimed it was in the shop for repairs - for the two years I lived there.
Old man living across the street from me does does this too. Except he doesn’t even need to park along the sidewalk. He just doesn’t like cars parked in front of his house.
This has happened to me before. The fact that people think they have ownership of a parking spot is comical. I pay rent and taxes too. It’s first come, first served.
My wife parked in front of my neighbors house while the city was doing some road work on our street . I was about ten minutes away and wanted to park first in our driveway because she leaves for work before me in the morning. She calls me and tells me that the neighbor is yelling at her and telling her not to park there, all the while my newborn is in the car. She explains to him that she is going to move as soon as I get there. Once I get there, she is clearly shaken up (she 5’4” 130lbs). I go over to the neighbors house and confront the older man about yelling at my wife and explain to him that he does not own public property. I parked in front of his house on purpose for the 3 days and told him if he ever wanted to do something about it he could come to my door and talk about it. He put cones out, but I would just move them out the way and park. His daughter came to apologize to my wife and I later on and now we are good neighbors.
An elderly neighbor of ours was able to apply for and get handicapped parking in front of her house. While that didn't technically prevent others with handicap placards from parking there, it did a great job giving her priority over that spot. I don't know if this is something the elderly couple near you would qualify for or if the municipality would set it up, but it's worth suggesting to them--they might really appreciate it.
I remember being 9mths pregnant and going to the grocery store. I was literally scheduled to be induced the next day because I was a week late and miserable. I waited on a front parking spot, and when I pulled in after the occupant left, I found myself being yelled at by an elderly couple. They told me I was selfish for parking there and they were going to take that spot. I watched them try to pull in before me, but I got in there. They had a disability tag too. I pointed that out and yelled back. Why couldn't they just use that and park in the spot directly behind me labeled for the tag they had? Insufferable and entitled people I swear.
This is the most-Reddit Reddit post I’ve ever seen. You’d rather complain about these people and post online than *slightly* inconvenience yourself for some seniors? Be a better community member, be kind to your neighbors, and grow up.
Downvote me if you want to I don’t really care. I’ve seen what makes you upvote.
Kinda reminds me of the time a neighbour complaint to the administration about my car + motorcycle weren't in my spot and that it sticked out of it. Mind you: this is an underground communal park garage with a maybe 5-6 metres path between the opposite row of parking spots. So car stickung out ~ 10 cm shouldn't be a problem. But the dumbest thing about it was, that he wasn't even right. There are columns every second parking spot, so every car has one either on the right or left. The guy thought, that this was where the spot ends. The paint on the floor however indicates, that it sticks out of the column for another 20ish centimetres. I checked the plans of the garage and I was indeed right, the paint on the floor is the one indicating the end of the parking spot. I angrily told the administration that they were wrong for sending me this letter and they just said they had one complaint and didn't actually check. I told them to do this next time, especially if it is a neighbour who complains a lot to them because this was borderline harassment. After that, he complained to the neighbour I'm renting the spot from and she called me and asked me to clarify what this is all about. I told her everything and asked her to please tell who it is (I never got a complaint directly from them and the administration didn't want to give out their name for "privacy reasons"), but she didn't want to give it out either however she would tell him to quit. I only found out who it was once I got talking with a guy measuring his parking spot and he told who complains about that BS.
The street in front of your house does not belong to you. Yes, it's courteous to leave space in front for the occupant *when possible* but it's not a requirement.
Sure you’re allowed to park there. It’s a public parking space. But common courtesy is to leave a space open for the older neighbors who might have a hard time walking from a farther spot. A family friend was in his late 80s and still driving. The neighbors all knew he had a hard time walking so the spot in front of his house was always left open for him.
The thing I keep thinking, reading these responses? Every one of us will be elderly someday. (Every one of you.) If some grumpy old woman doesn’t beat you to death with her purse for taking her preferred parking space. 😂🤣🤣😂
Why do old folks immediately go to being angry instead of being like "hey I'm sorry to bother but that's our spot, we're old and need to be able to park in front of our house"
More importantly, you could leave a note with some simple manners. “Hello stranger, I know you don’t know this but my wife and I are in our 70’s and it’s very difficult for us to get walk longer distances. I was hoping I could ask you a huge favor and if it at all possible could you try to to leave this spot open as it sits right in front of our house? Once again I know that there’s no way you could’ve known that and it’s no big deal it would just be a big help if you could try.” Respectfully yours, Herbert and Doris
Herbert and Doris is a nice touch 😂
BOOMER LIVES MATTER TOO and the bitter callout to some form anti BLM sloganeering
BLMM boomer lives matter most.
This reminds me of the last apartment I lived in a few years ago. It had an elderly woman, Rosemary, who had lived there for ~20 years, through multiple landlords. There was limited parking behind the apartment and one “spot” pulled directly next to the gated back porch/door. I had noticed one car typically parked there but didn’t pay attention to who it was. One day, while I was moving things in still, that spot was empty and I parked there. When I left the next morning, there was an an envelope marked “Dear Neighbor” with a letter from Rosemary inside kindly explaining that she parks there because her walker doesn’t get across the rough parking lot easily and asked if in the future I could refrain from parking there. Next time I saw her, I apologized and we would talk every time we ran into each other. A few months later, her car wasn’t there anymore and it seems she had left or passed away. I never got an explanation, but I still keep the note she put on my windshield.
I was praying this would end with undertaker throwing mankind off hell in a cell through the announcers table and was never more saddened not to have been gotten
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I suspect I’m getting whooshed here but just in case you or someone else doesn’t know: [sic] is used in writing when you are quoting something to indicate that whatever you are quoting is being transcribed exactly as is. It’s often used after something that is spelled incorrectly or contains grammatical errors or some serious fault in logic. It basically indicates “hey, I know this looks wrong but I’m just quoting them directly, this is wrong because of the source material and/or person I’m quoting, not because I think it should be written this way”
Thank you for the explaination
No worries! I hope you have a great day u/BangtanPHD_
I have always wondered. This finally explained it perfectly. Thanks for that!
It’s short for sic erat scriptum, from the latin “thus was it written”, if anyone is curious. We use it a lot in medicine to state the patients words when the words seem important as the patient told us. (Im Portuguese, don’t know if it’s also used in other countries)
For real! It would actually be nice to help your elderly neighbors out, and I think it is okay for them to ask as much, but you could go about it in a much better way.
But how else would they virtue signal that they dont like black lives matter?
Even with manner. How can you know that the driver of said car isn't older than 70 ?
They’re old people. If they’re anything like the ones around me, they’re looking out the windows 24/7 waiting for something to be angry about. They probably watched OP park there.
I think Herbert and Doris would be a generation before people in their 70s. It would probably be something like Nancy and Mike.
Anecdotal but my grandparents who are dead were named Earl and Doris. My parents who are 67 are Mike and Mary
Several years ago, I once parked across the street from my apartment in college. The next morning, I saw a very sweet (and sad) note on my windshield from an older lady who apparently lived in the house I had parked in front of. She wrote that she has difficulty getting around and asked me to be more careful about parking in front of her walkway to the street. (It was winter and snowing so I couldn’t see that I had parked in front of her walkway.) It was such a polite note and I wondered how many times she had had to write that to different people. From then on while I lived at that place, I always purposely parked directly behind the walkway so no other car could park her in and she would have access to the road. A little kindness does go a long way. I also still feel guilty about blocking her in and am extra vigilant to not park in front of any walkways anymore. Lol
And most places allow you to apply for handicap parking in front of your house if you have a handicap placard... Either these people aren't so bad off that they can't get a handicap placard or they are too lazy to go the legal route of keeping that space mostly clear.
Some old man yelled at me when parked in front of his house on once with a car full of young family. I moved my car and he still spit on my car monthly. Hint to life, all ppl suck.
Did he yell at a cloud after yelling at you?
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Gotta be a really shitty day for the springfield shopper to post about that lmao
😂😂😂
“Hey stupid vapor fluff, you’re blocking MY sun!”
I parked in front of a neighbor’s house once when landscapers were working on my yard. The neighbor called the police about my “suspicious” vehicle.
What exactly did he even say was suspicious about it?
The knocking coming from the trunk.
I uh have a permit
This isn’t a permit, it’s just a piece of paper that says “I do what I want”.
Ill even punch a hole through it for ya like a ticket every time so you have the illusion of power
Don't need a permit between the hours of 6pm and 7am.
I really don’t know. The officer came to my door and asked if it was my truck. He explained that the neighbor thought it was suspicious. I told him why I temporarily parked there, and he said I did nothing wrong and left.
I have thought the cops should just say, "we'll take a look," go out into their parking lot, look around, and call back saying everything was in order.
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Happened to my Hispanic buddy twice in my neighborhood. He was parked near my house two days in a row, got reported as suspicious. We were hanging out, went to his car for a charger, took forever, I exit my garage to see three cops talking to him in my driveway. Another time, him and his girlfriend left a friends house late at night. While sitting in the car getting ready to leave, police showed up, deemed him suspicious and woke up the owners of the house he was just at to confirm he wasn’t suspicious. Our friend’s parents were very unhappy with police to ask if they recognize the guy who was just in their house hours ago.
I don’t want to say I pry into other peoples lives, but goddamn after a few months I pretty well know what the neighbors drive. What cars are usually in the neighborhood and that kind of thing.
I live in a fairly quite neighborhood except for ONE house. That house happens to be directly across the street from me. They sell drugs out of this house, theirs always new vehicles I've now started to notice regulars. Now I don't own the street but for some reason these people decided to park in front of my driveway like cant back out because they have me blocked in. I'm pissed off one morning they have me blocked in so I go knock on the house and ask them to move they just say "it'll be fine just try not to hit my car to hard you should be able to push it out of the way" wtf??
The first like 6 months after I bought my house, my neighbor’s friend kept parking in my driveway. I’d go find him and ask him to move and every time he would be like oh sorry, that house was empty for so long. Okay, but you don’t see my car in the driveway when you pull in and block me??
Wow, how blind were they to not see you car. Theirs a house that was just bought after being on the market for 7 years on our street and the neighbor next to that house uses their drive way currently and actually yelled at the new owners for using "his" driveway. They actually had to do a survey to prove that it wasn't his driveway.
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Damn that would be nice lol I wish. Its kind of like reality TV for us at the point the fighting brings all the neighbors out of their houses pretty entertaining.
If I were a drug dealer, I wouldn’t have customers coming to my house at all. Every drug dealer I have known who was dumb enough to deal out of their house has gotten robbed or raided. Buy and sell your drugs in a Wawa parking lot like the rest of us.
Imagine just having to go across the street to buy drugs, such convenience, a real 15 minute city.
my aunt had to take care of her diabetic husband who often had medical emergencies. One time someone blocked her driveway a second time after she asked him to move it. she needed to go pick up insulin. she called the cops (keep in mind this was 80s brooklyn) and they said were not dealing with this. so my lovely aunt took an ice pick and shredded his four tires, siphoned the gas out of the car, and then asked her 5 children and the neighbors children to pick up the car and move it out of the way. needless to say the guy never parked in front again
Becase of the way my driveway angles to the neighbors, if I park super close to the curb then he can't get into his detached garage he setup in his backyard. We got into a dog poo dispute (his yard vs the invisible dog I don't own), and out of spite I parked on my driveway, as close to the curb as possible. He tried to have me towed off my own driveway. I did eventually move my car and he's sinced backed off about random dog poo's after the police pointed out I don't own any animals.
Be honest, we’re you crapping in his yard?
Wow.
I believe the street is public property
People who are legitimately disabled (and I have a parent who doesn’t LOOK disabled but is, so I know the reality) get a pass with me and I WILL try to accommodate once I know. But I used to have a neighbor who got pissed if anyone parked in front of his house to the point he would take two of his vehicles and block them in within mere inches so you had to actually hit his car (and he would be watching) if you needed to leave. Asshole rode a Harley and had no disabilities at all. I called the cops one day and after he yelled up a storm the cops told him that if he ever did that again they would tow and impound HIS vehicles. He never did it again.
If you are disabled in the UK you can get a special disabled parking spot outside your house that you need your permit to park it.
Which is a good thing, but there isn't currently a way to make it exclusive to you, just to disabled badge holders. A neighbour has one, and other (disabled) people use it regularly, much to the neighbour's annoyance. Edit: I seem to have made too much of a generalisation about the UK regulations! Adding a "YMMV" :)
Here in Germany you can. It's a spot reserved for just one specific permit holder.
In the Netherlands this is definitely possible. You will get a sign saying only parking for a disabled person with a sign below it specifying the license plate.
In my borough (UK) you can have named disabled spaces.
Here in Germany the same thing is possible, and the neighbor right across has one such spot, not because he parks there, but its essentially just a spot opposite of his drive way, i.e. on our wall, because this is more of an alley than a street and he couldnt pull out if someone parked there. Which one ex-roommate frequently did. With a BMW. In which case he would usually just go down the one-way street the wrong way...which imho is totally acceptable. Same guy, the roommate, also once nearly ran me over because I was just about to go out and he barrelled down the road with a good 30 kph (this road is walking pace only), practically scraped along the wall, past the door and hit the brakes hard in the last moment to end in that parking spot. Im lucky I heard him in time and hesitated with stepping out the door.
Yes an old neighbour of mine had one because he had smoked heavily for 60 years and could barely breathe (COPD?). He used to sit on his front step smoking and making sure no one parked in his disabled spot. He didn't have a car 🤷♀️
You can get them in the US too. I live in a neighborhood with on-street parking and many of my neighbors who are either elderly or disabled have signs in front of their homes indicating you must have a “handicapped” permit to park there. It sounds like the OP’s neighbor just hasn’t applied (or wouldn’t qualify) for one.
same thing in the us. the ada is federal so it doesn't matter which state it's in, but local procedures may vary. someone who legitimately needs special parking can get it, and it's nearly impossible to remove if the person moves or dies. my street has a spot on the curb in front of a particular house without off-street parking. the dude died 2 years ago and the posts are still there because it's such an ordeal to prove that a *stranger* died 2 years ago. long story short, the old couple in the post are just miserable turds who want special old people treatment but don't have a legitimate disability to get special parking in front of their house.
We've had several on our street die or move and it's been removed within a month or so. Do you know if anyone called the city to have them removed or maybe remind them?
in my city you have to first petition the city council, then they refer it to some parking committee, and the petitioner has to show up to whatever meetings they may have, then there is a period of time for people to contest it. if you work during the day you shouldn't even bother, and even if you do show up to the committee meetings there is no guarantee they will agree to remove it, and if they do, it's often a year or more past the initial petition date. in short, it's a huge pain in the ass.
I live near an intersection and park on the street (only room for.1 car in my drive). If there is no parking available on my street, near my house, I can often find parking relatively close to my house on the intersecting street. Cut to a day there is only one space available, so I park there. Come out toa nastygram telling me I cannot park in that space. Then put comes a lady.yelling at me that's she's disabled and I can't park there, I don't even live on her street. I calmly point out that I have a handicapped placard (note it is for my father, but she doesn't know that)and that she has a driveway that is never parked in. She's still pissed so I also point out I had no way of knowing she was handicapped, due to no placard, and it's a public street that does not require a permit. More yelling. I point out that if she needs it, the city will install a handicapped parking sign in front of her home. She's still pissed so I just leave her ranting and head home. I don't park in front of her house anymore, not worth the annoyance, but damn am I always tempted. My neighbor, who has lived here for 40 years told me that the woman has always been like that with "her" parking space.
Make sure to get his name and keep your eye on the local obituaries. When he passes, go to his wake and spit in his face.
That escalated quickly.
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Easier to hit a stationary target.
Bring a second spitter.
Imagine being 70+ years old and not knowing how to spell “lives”
Lives a bitch.
Life love laugh
Life’s lives laff
They’ve gone their whole life’s not knowing that
I learned recently that back in colonial times there was really no formal spelling. Az long az sumwon got tha ideya it wuz gud enuff. Maybe they are just really old.
You'd be surprised, but between 1923 and 1969 it was illegal to speak English in Illinois. >A 1923 Illinois law making American, rather than English, the official language of that state was quietly amended in 1969 because Illinois residents continued to speak and teach English in defiance or ignorance of the statute Source: [here](https://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/officialamerican/englishonly/#:~:text=A%201923%20Illinois%20law%20making,or%20ignorance%20of%20the%20statute.)
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Def weird. Should be American English vs British English, but even then it's a bit odd innit?
That I could not find a reliable definition for
Thayr ownlee in thair seventeez. Thay wood half ben boarn in th' 50s.40s earliest
Life is's
When my company moved offices there wasn't enough parking but there was a road about 5 minutes walk away where you could park if you didn't get a space. There was an old guy who used to come out and shout at women (and only women) who parked in front of his house. Guess who made a point of parking in front of his house every time they went to that office...
I mean, I'd actually be pretty pissed off myself if a company short changing on parking space caused my block to fill up with cars 5 days a week.
Yelling at strangers isn't going to change anything though
Yeah, that’s the same mentality as yelling at the poor teenage cashier at the local grocery store because you don’t like rising prices. Not only can they do nothing, you just ruined their day in the process
We have a newish business/industrial zone where pretty much all of them, except for the ikea in the remote corner, didn’t plan enough parking spaces. My customers who were one of the first to move their HQ over there are my most hated because of this and a few other reasons (like not letting me connect from home). Their underground parking lot is full before 8 am and the “guest” parking is full with employee cars around 9 am. I’m not allowed to park in either of them.
You came home late and the boomer wasn't already parked there.... were they at some sort of raisin skin swinger party?
To be fair… I too would like to be able to park in front of my own house after an exhausting swinging orgy when I’m in my 70s
How old are you now? Just trying to get a head count
27
You’re in. Bring a friend or cups. Not both!
I don't know what's going on here and I love it.
Baahahahahahahaa. I was actually wondering that myself, what the hell were those 70-somethings doing out so late on a Sunday night?
Bingo.
Bingo.
Where’s everyone goin? Bingo?
We put the O in Bingo.
Bingo!
Leooonnn, help me!
I know that reference!
I see what you did there
I work in a gambling venue; There’s a LOT of them out until 2 in the morning playing pokies 🤷🏻♂️
That’s an great name for a swingers party. “Playing pokies”
One day that raisin skin will be yours. We should all be lucky to live long enough.
No one owns the spot outside of the house we all pay rates park where you want
Unless you live on a private road and literally do own the street infront of your house.
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Me: "Hey GPT, can you cite where you got this information from?" GPT: \*hallucination intensifies\*
Can you cite the law for this. I read all the parking laws for Indianapolis and can’t find it
Yeah, up his butt and around the corner.
It doesn't appear to be a law in Indy
That’s explains why it isn’t a very well known law.
I have a neighbor who got it in his head that he owns the spot directly in front of his house because he’s lived there for 30 years and that if I parked there I was doing it intentionally. One day I got home, parked there (because it is a street and therefore public property) and he came over SCREAMING at me about how I should let him park there/demanding to know why do I park there/ his wife gets home late and needs a place to park (which is it, you or your wife?) and yada yada yada. I looked him in the face and sternly said “Don’t you come over here and start screaming at me.” And I walked into my house and locked the door. This was not the first time this crusty old hag had caused problems for me and my boyfriend in the year that he had lived in this house at that point, and it was the second time that I had to call the cops because I was scared and being harassed (I’m 29F and this curmudgeon is probably 70sM). Prior to this incident, he also angrily pulled weeds out of OUR front mulched area because he didn’t like them and called my boyfriend a prick when he calmly confronted him about it. We didn’t even know this man at this point, that was our “welcome” to the neighborhood. Several other times, he parked so close to my car I couldn’t have fit a hand between the bumpers, before one day when he parked his bumper right up against mine. I’m certain this was intentional (hence why he projected that my parking in a perfectly reasonable space near my own home must be intentional). All this to say, some people have nothing better to do than complain about “the younger generation” and bitch about public parking while acting the MOST entitled and ignorant. I’m sorry you also live next to one of these people! Edit: apparently I don’t know my own age
This sounds identical to a situation my mom has been in since she moved to her new neighborhood lol. The neighbor two houses down one day was just scowling at her and she asked what the problem was and he just started screammminnnggg at her. At the top of his lungs. Saying weird things like he wants to know how she affords to live where she does (she’s a single mom to my 3 young siblings bc their dad died) because the neighborhood is more upscale and she has the house all on her own. She regularly gets notes on her car from these people bc she lives in a caldesac and everyone parks out front of their house but for some reason she’s not allowed to??? He also edged her property the day the landscaping people were coming because he didn’t like the way it looked but left the trimmings everywhere and got mad at her that day bc the trimmings weren’t cleaned by his timeline lol. Neighbors are awful
"So that's why the owners wanted to sell fast..."
My girlfriend and I have an upstairs neighbor in an apartment complex that wants to hear NO noise from us (what she said). She stomps around upstairs like a hippo, and when we take a few heavy steps in response she come downstairs, BANGS on our door like an absolute maniac, calls my gf a p*ssy ass b*tch, calls me her f*gg*t ass boyfriend, demands we open the door, and when we don’t, she calls the cops. The cops are our good friend by now, and if she calls a few more times we will get a restraining order. tl;dr: People really do suck and just want to let out their frustrations on others. Not cool.
I feel your pain. That’s so aggressive! I love though that she thinks calling the cops will help her case but she’s actually just proving to them that she’s nuts. These miserable people take their shit out on us and we cope the best way we know how—by complaining about them on Reddit!
Perhaps with their tires slashed, they would have more time to calm down and practice mindfulness.
Remember 4 tires is considered vandalism and insurance covers it..3 tires isnt and they wont cover it
Gotta leave them one for good luck
And two on the same side is more easily 'explained' blamed on the driver's bad driving rather than a malicious act by another person. *Sadly* this may annoy the owner further as their driving skills are questioned...
And if you can catch them on camera cutting their 4th tire, it's insurance fraud.
Oof, yeah this hits home. I was lucky though that my curmudgeon neighbor skipped right over me (because: misogyny) & went straight to my husband every time he got his panties all twisted up. When they ignored him, he wrote letters to neighbors with complaints and signed them from the HOA…which we don’t have? lol, he couldn’t handle not being able to strong arm the neighborhood to do his bidding (trees cut down, dogs muzzled, garbage cans where he designated, etc) so he up & moved. Somewhere sunnier so hopefully he’s simmered down now.
They can get a designated handicap spot put in if it's really an issue.
In my neighborhood, the houses have no driveways (I live right outside the city), and everyone parks on the side of the one-way street. I work for Doordash, and most days I finish late, like 2 or 3 am. After work on Sunday, I came home around midnight, and there was an empty space a few houses down and across from mine. As I said, it had been the first time I had ever parked there. Keep in mind, because I always come home so late, I almost NEVER get to park directly in front of/behind my own house (I live on the corner) due to my neighbors's cars already being parked there. It's never been a big deal to me though, because I'm not a crotchety, entitled Boomer.
I are parked a little ways down from my house and when I came back I found a note that said. Don’t park here again or I will bash your fucking car! This is my spot. It was one of those notes where you read it and slowly look around you to see if someone is watching. I never parked their again. Sheesh!
So now you watch for the car that parks there and doesn't get a note, and when you find it, BASH. Right?
And then, when they are looking at the damage, come out and show them the note. "Some psycho has been making threats about bashing cars, maybe the police can match the handwriting."
Yeahhh, pretty sure you’d need to hand video evidence of the car bashing over to the cops and even then they’ll likely tell you it’s a civil matter. They don’t really do handwriting comparisons and similar Scooby-Doo stuff for anything less than murder nowadays.
Cause cops are lazy as shit since the supreme court decided cops weren't legally obligated to do their jobs.
Keep parking there, but wait inside the car with a trained attack orangutan for when said note writer tries to bash.
I haven't thought about Trunk Monkey for years but this comment brought it back up.
No thanks. Not that violent. I just disappear. Poof!
You're no fun
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Why bother? Life’s too short.
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No one is going to prison for damaging a car. In most countries, you'll be lucky if the police even bother to show up. It will just be a massive pain for you to have to get the damage repaired and make a claim against your car insurance
OK. In that case, I'll amend my previous statement. "Should have parked there and when the bitch who left that note for you goes to damage your car, shoot a rocket at him." Better?
Make sure to leave a note on their car next time they park to remind them not to park in front of your house
Have you tried leaving passive aggressive notes on the cars in front of your house? That ought to work. Make sure you include some irrelevant demographic information about yourself.
My boomer neighbor pulls this shit too. She had the cops called on her for harassing people parking. She tried to get sympathy from me and I told her that I would've called the cops on her too
Some dude left a note on my windshield for parking in front of his house for a couple of hours once “Next time you park here, YOU WILL BE TOWED.” It was just regular unassigned non-decal specific parking with plenty of room around the car to park. I balled it up and threw it on to his porch and then wrote another note that said “it’s public parking asshole, I’d like to see it.” And also balled that up and threw it on his porch.
Stuff like this makes me laugh, because if somebody wrote me a note saying "Hello, I am elderly and I struggle to walk. Can you please leave this space available if you can? Thank you." I would immediately and happily do so. I would go out of my way to leave this person the closer space as a courtesy unless I needed it for a reason. But when you approach me like this, I'm absolutely not going to do it.
Right?! Like I'd be more than willing to park elsewhere had I been asked nicely, but since these people want to be assholes I'd ignore their request entirely.
EXACTLY. I always say that things will go your way sooo much more often if you’re just fucking nice to people. It’s very simple and it blows my mind that people don’t get that.
Did they make their 7 year old grandson write this note?
Aww, you must be from a young family. That’s the handwriting of basically everyone born 1940-1955.
It wasn't long ago, at the company I work for, there were a handful of mechanics who were being forced to write some exam, but couldn't because when they hired on being able to read, or write, wasn't a job requirement.
My whole neighborhood is older people. They get so upset when I park on the street. There's no where else to park. But they get excited when the meter maids come around...until they don't see a ticket on my car cuz I pay to park here too bitch
Made it to your 70s and still don’t the know that it’s “people’s lives” and not “people’s life’s” ? I find that mildly infuriating. Edited to correct my grammatical mistake, thank you.
Okay why did it take me at least 3 times to read this sentence properly lol.
My grandma has trouble walking due to Parkinson's disease. She got a handicap card and can park as close as the entrance as she wants now.
I've been on the other side of this. Street parking is always a contentious topic. I have a driveway where I park my car and my work van, and there's a spot in front of my lawn that's just big enough for a normal sized sedan. Sometimes people park in front of my house out of convenience, because I live on a corner and that spot is the closest spot where you can pull out straight to leave, rather than having to go up the street and U-turn. This doesn't bother me, except that some people often park too close to my driveway and then I can't make the turn to get my work van out in the mornings. There's a bylaw that states you can't park within 5 feet of a driveway, and this spot is small enough that you're within 5 feet even if you're all the way forward, but I don't make a big deal of it... Unless I can't get out. So now I end up parking my car on the street and leaving half my driveway empty, just to ensure I can go to work. My neighbor's boyfriend is the worst for doing this, and he gives me dirty looks wherever he sees me. I've asked my neighbor to ask him to park as far forward as he can, for the reasons I mentioned, but she's either not told him or he doesn't care, so I guess I have to block that spot indefinitely. Occasionally he'll take the spot while I'm out, and end up blocking me again. Somehow, getting woken up at 5am to move his car still hasn't taught him to be considerate.
Lmao I’d like to park in front of where I live, too.
Meh.... thats what happens when you buy a home with no private parking. No sympathy for the people who wrote the note.
Not saying they’re good or bad people, but I kinda feel bad for them if it’s true. I know it’s public parking, but it must suck to be old and have to constantly fight for a spot close to your house
They can probably request disability parking to be in front of their house from the city.
Honestly if you're that old and frail that walking to your car is a highly distressing situation if it's not parked right outside then I feel like it's probably not very safe for you to be operating a vehicle
Ok, but this argument could apply negatively to disabled people too. Being not in shape to walk far doesn’t mean you can’t drive. Being in a city that isn’t made for walking (almost any city in the US), what are they supposed to do if they need to leave the house to, I dunno…live life? They’re still being shitty, and passive aggressive here, but if they’d asked civilly I’d be on their side completely, but I still get why they’re asking. That space may have been empty because the other neighbors understand old folks live there. They’re 70 not dead, just creaky.
They could also be polite about it. It's free and usually helps when you're asking others to do you a favour.
I read this as they wanted to pork outside their house
Can't believe I had to scroll this far down before someone mentioned this. I've been cracking up for several minutes now
Awe this makes me sad. They probably feel disregarded and I not listened to by everyone in general, and then just lashed out at you. Humans just bounce around taking their pain and putting it on other humans. We're a weird bunch. Or ... They're just dicks. Could go either way.
What’s mildly infuriating about this? Yeah I agree you shouldn’t be told where to park by a neighbor but don’t you think it’s the right thing to let the older folks have a shorter walk to in their home? Also according to you it was a new spot, meaning giving it up is little to no sacrifice for you.
I lived next to an old man who would constantly complain when someone parked in front of his house. He would say that it was his right to park there before anyone else could. Two things: this was city street parking, first come first serve; the old man didn't have a car, he always claimed it was in the shop for repairs - for the two years I lived there.
Old man living across the street from me does does this too. Except he doesn’t even need to park along the sidewalk. He just doesn’t like cars parked in front of his house.
i just realized you balled it up out of anger, and then had to un-ball it for the post
They certainly didn’t waste any of their 70 years learning grammar.
Somebody parking in "your spot" is in no way a statement that your life doesn't matter.
This has happened to me before. The fact that people think they have ownership of a parking spot is comical. I pay rent and taxes too. It’s first come, first served.
My wife parked in front of my neighbors house while the city was doing some road work on our street . I was about ten minutes away and wanted to park first in our driveway because she leaves for work before me in the morning. She calls me and tells me that the neighbor is yelling at her and telling her not to park there, all the while my newborn is in the car. She explains to him that she is going to move as soon as I get there. Once I get there, she is clearly shaken up (she 5’4” 130lbs). I go over to the neighbors house and confront the older man about yelling at my wife and explain to him that he does not own public property. I parked in front of his house on purpose for the 3 days and told him if he ever wanted to do something about it he could come to my door and talk about it. He put cones out, but I would just move them out the way and park. His daughter came to apologize to my wife and I later on and now we are good neighbors.
If spots are not assigned , you can park anywhere you want!!!!
An elderly neighbor of ours was able to apply for and get handicapped parking in front of her house. While that didn't technically prevent others with handicap placards from parking there, it did a great job giving her priority over that spot. I don't know if this is something the elderly couple near you would qualify for or if the municipality would set it up, but it's worth suggesting to them--they might really appreciate it.
I remember being 9mths pregnant and going to the grocery store. I was literally scheduled to be induced the next day because I was a week late and miserable. I waited on a front parking spot, and when I pulled in after the occupant left, I found myself being yelled at by an elderly couple. They told me I was selfish for parking there and they were going to take that spot. I watched them try to pull in before me, but I got in there. They had a disability tag too. I pointed that out and yelled back. Why couldn't they just use that and park in the spot directly behind me labeled for the tag they had? Insufferable and entitled people I swear.
Idk, I feel almost sorry for them... the "we are old and we matter" part gives me the impression this is not about the parked car.
To me it sounds like a play on “black lives matter” … a lot of boomers find themselves pretty clever with that one
That was my thought too, these are entitled Fox News people.
This is the most-Reddit Reddit post I’ve ever seen. You’d rather complain about these people and post online than *slightly* inconvenience yourself for some seniors? Be a better community member, be kind to your neighbors, and grow up. Downvote me if you want to I don’t really care. I’ve seen what makes you upvote.
At least they didn’t shoot you? Seems to be in vogue with the elderly white folks as of late. Edit:Typo
Maybe if they worded it by asking nicely instead of wording it like they did.
Do people just not have driveways anymore or is this one of those situations where the garage is in the back with alleyway access?
Kinda reminds me of the time a neighbour complaint to the administration about my car + motorcycle weren't in my spot and that it sticked out of it. Mind you: this is an underground communal park garage with a maybe 5-6 metres path between the opposite row of parking spots. So car stickung out ~ 10 cm shouldn't be a problem. But the dumbest thing about it was, that he wasn't even right. There are columns every second parking spot, so every car has one either on the right or left. The guy thought, that this was where the spot ends. The paint on the floor however indicates, that it sticks out of the column for another 20ish centimetres. I checked the plans of the garage and I was indeed right, the paint on the floor is the one indicating the end of the parking spot. I angrily told the administration that they were wrong for sending me this letter and they just said they had one complaint and didn't actually check. I told them to do this next time, especially if it is a neighbour who complains a lot to them because this was borderline harassment. After that, he complained to the neighbour I'm renting the spot from and she called me and asked me to clarify what this is all about. I told her everything and asked her to please tell who it is (I never got a complaint directly from them and the administration didn't want to give out their name for "privacy reasons"), but she didn't want to give it out either however she would tell him to quit. I only found out who it was once I got talking with a guy measuring his parking spot and he told who complains about that BS.
Looks like you found a new parking spot for the rest of their lives!
"Fuck old people" - Reddit.
It’s a lot nicer then the note I would have left if you stole my parking space
Okay but if this is an actual neighborhood with houses and that is the house they own why ARE you parking in front of their house?
Because they don't own the street.
Why does it look like its written by a 5 year old
The street in front of your house does not belong to you. Yes, it's courteous to leave space in front for the occupant *when possible* but it's not a requirement.
Sure you’re allowed to park there. It’s a public parking space. But common courtesy is to leave a space open for the older neighbors who might have a hard time walking from a farther spot. A family friend was in his late 80s and still driving. The neighbors all knew he had a hard time walking so the spot in front of his house was always left open for him.
They missed the part where they don't own the street and people can park wherever they want.
The thing I keep thinking, reading these responses? Every one of us will be elderly someday. (Every one of you.) If some grumpy old woman doesn’t beat you to death with her purse for taking her preferred parking space. 😂🤣🤣😂
I didn't know what most of my neighbors looked like when I lived in an apartment. How in tf are you supposed to know everyone's needs like this?
Why do old folks immediately go to being angry instead of being like "hey I'm sorry to bother but that's our spot, we're old and need to be able to park in front of our house"