Neighbor doesn’t want anyone parking parallel to him on opposite(!) side of street.

I live in a quiet residential neighborhood. Our streets are narrow, but plenty of space for people to park on both sides of the street.

This showed up my daughter’s friend’s car this morning.

The neighbor has taken it to be his personal mission to put notes on anyone’s car that parks across the street from him.

He approached my girlfriend after sitting in his car and waiting 15 minutes for her to finish a phone call… interrogating her about where she lives, and saying he never wants to see her parked there again.

The dude is in his early 50s. He’s never said anything to me directly.

Any advice on the best way to tell this guy to fuck off? I’m inclined to just go knock and tell him I’m going to continue allowing my guests to park in front of my house, and take it from there.

in mildlyinfuriatingby Striking_Nudibranch

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Peterthinking

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How dare you park your car beside mine!... 30 feet away.. across the street...

Striking_Nudibranch

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It’s lunacy.

cathedral68

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Where are you located that his time is correct? It’s 11:15 on the 30th where I am… maybe he’s actually crazy?

Striking_Nudibranch

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I’m in the PNW. He got the date wrong. I assume because he was blinded with rage! LOL

cathedral68

Some people, man! Lol

AccordingIy

Time traveler trying to warn you and save your life. Today a tree will fall directly where your car was. /s

Tclark97801

Maybe giving you 24 hr notice, LOL

No_Bar4441

Probably won't see the car anyway then.

MyFavoriteLezbo420

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OP you can’t fool me with your AI art!

Striking_Nudibranch

/imagine handwritten post-it note from unhinged neighbor complaining about how i park, held in hand, iphone 15, snapshot, interior of car —ar 4:5

Footmana5

PNW.

Yupp that makes sense.

camomaniac

No, he was saying he doesn't wanna see it by tomorrow morning at the time it was written

rdg5220

I just knew you were going to say the PNW.

jonslegos

Australia/NZ…

Peterthinking

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Get a couple friends to park right in front of him and right behind him. I actually had a little problem with my neighbors kids. They both grew up and got cars. And the boy got a girlfriend who drives as well. So they went from 3 cars to 6 in a very short span. So the kids were constantly parking in front of my place even in winter when I had to shovel my car out. Anyway. I took one of my cars and parked it right in front of his house where the father normally parks his expensive truck. I left it there over a week and my wife and I shared her car. When I finally moved it he came running out and moved his truck up from down the street. His kids haven't parked in front of my house since. Have you considered waiting till he goes out and leaving your car parked in his spot for a couple weeks? It really works wonders.

neddie_nardle

Wow, that sounds incredibly entitled. You don't own the space on the road out the front of your place, so as long as they weren't parking across your driveway then they weren't doing anything wrong in the slightest.

TheThiefMaster

However, if you have to clear snow for a couple of hours to be able to park, it's rude to take that space (effectively stealing the work).

r_a_d_

Goes both ways bro. You can have agreements with neighbors that are reasonable and beyond what the law says. E.g. "I won't park in front of your house if you don't park in front of mine" win-win

DarkflowNZ

That sounds less like an agreement and more like a passive aggressive overreaction but I don't know shit

Whole_Vibe420

It is passive aggressive but his saying he’s done that to asshole neighbors

FBI_Open_Up_Now

I live in a place with street parking. All the neighbors kind of have their spots and we all abide by it as much as we can. For the most part we text each other if we take someone else’s spot.

will_ww

Crazy that people think they're entitled to the front of their house for parking!

It may not be illegal, but it's still incredibly annoying when you have to park your car 3 houses down to ~~talk~~ to your house.

Edit: walk.

Dxcellent00

If you’re outside talking to your house.. should you really be driving?

Tclark97801

Happy Cake Day 🎂

IcePsychological13

You are part of the problem

Meretan94

No he’s the solution. If anyone thinks a public parking spot is their property you need to show them that they are in fact public.

clutzyninja

Confused how you think he isn't the problem then. The kids treated the spots as public. He treated the spot as his

insanityzwolf

It reduces the number of times he has to reverse if he has a slot he can nose into for a 3-point turn.

Steve_78_OH

Just to be sure, is it legal where you are to park on both sides of the street? I'm only asking because where I live, and many other cities where I've traveled to, parking was only allowed on one side of a street. I know that's not the case everywhere though, but I didn't see if you mentioned it was allowed where you are.

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Happy cake day

Happy cake day

What if there’s barely room for one car to travel between them?