Man, me and a buddy used to live a block away from West Alabama Icehouse. Those streets would fill up like a m***er f***ker. You get used to it but gets annoying also. Our neighbor would go ape **** if you blocked his driveway. He removed someone's back bumper one time to fit his car in his driveway and left it sitting there with a note that said he did it and knock if they objected. Dude was a beast ex military.
That's an excellent story. We can't do anything about parking here but I also go ape **** when people block the driveway. It's like, where was this person raised exactly? I would never do that. I may have to keep that bumper removal idea in the option list. ... Though, truth be told, I am neither a beast nor ex military. If some pencil-necked scientist is removing somebody's bumper, that might not end well.
Parking in front of someone's driveway is an unforgivable sin. But just parking in front of someone's house? The note writer needs to get a grip. Unless this is an every day occurence, then I could see where it becomes annoying, but unless I wanted to park in the street I don't think I would care.
I have the same problem here. I have this idiot neighbor who lives on the other side but he parks his car on our side of the of the street. The guy even have his own freaking drive way too. I know we don't own the street but why don't they park on their side? Not only that when we have heavy snow our side doesn't get shovel by the city because the idiot blocked it with his car. It's not that they park there for a few hours but they park there for like a whole day. They no longer parking there now because I think they got warned for blocking the street during heavy snow. Seems like your friend have friends over too often by the sound of it. Best thing to make peace with your neighbor is to ask them if you can there like some others have suggested.
If we are talking about parking in front of someone's driveway, or even partially blocking it, in pretty much every municipality I've been to that is against the law and certainly grounds for towing. That is different though than parking on the curb. Where do you live? In Minneapolis and St. Paul you can get towed if you are not following snow emergency (pretty much anytime it snows 4" or more) parking regulations.
Do you have street parking permits by Zone where you live? If so, anywhere on the street is fair game provided it's not a street cleaning day.
does he own the street? don't listen to these ppl saying 'waaaah its disrespectful' just dont block his driveway
He looks remarkably like the image posted by Invisible Fan. Click on the spoiler... it's amazing! :-D-
From my experience, people who live in rural areas like Texas and in the suburbs are generally more suspicious of outsiders since they have little interaction with people who aren't their immediate friends or family. So they are usually less friendly and open to people they don't know. In places like NYC and SF and other major cities, you are forced to interact with people of all races on a daily basis in closed spaces (like the subway, bus) so it generally makes one more tolerant of an outsider since you are a bit more comfortable with their presence. Thus you don't really have issues of people yelling over parking on the street in these major cities since there is a greater sense of community and acceptance of strangers.
Story gets more interesting. He's left notes on the cars of two other neighbors and of a landscaper. Dude seems like another George Zimmerman
Aside from throwing away their note and not talking to them, this covers every way I would handle this situation. Nice post.
hes a sensitive guy with sharing issues that probably started when he was a kid. That said, hes your neighbor. You can get all tough and indignant about it but at the end of the day, you gotta live next to him. Take b-bobs advice and talk to him directly. Try not to view your neighbors like they are zimmerman. Almost all neighbors have these little turf disputes if you live next to them long enough
