Finding free parking in a metropolis might feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. Even if we live downtown, there is one location where we should all experience secure parking: our own houses. Sadly, a woman did not appear to realize that when you walk away from a building or neighborhood, you no longer have the right to park there. Scroll down to read the whole story to know what the woman decided to do and do you agree with her?
Source: Reddit
I (21F) live right on the edge of my cities downtown. Parking is scarce, or I should say, FREE parking is scarce. I lived in an old house converted into 8 apartment units, and it had its own mini parking lot with 8 spots for the tenants. I had a neighbor (F) who got a job working nights a few blocks away from our apartment which worked out great because she could just walk to work and didn’t have to pay for parking. F didn’t renew her lease when it was up and moved out to a nicer apartment farther away.
I noticed that F was still parking in her old spot, but it was taking forever to fill her old apartment so I didn’t really care because no one else was parking there. Well they finally found a new tenant about two weeks ago and he has been filling that parking space. Well unlucky for me, I happen to get off of work right after F starts work, and she has continued parking in our lot, which means that I don’t have a place to park when I get home. I’ve been having to park on the street and pay for parking until I notice that she’s gone and then I move my car back to my spot.
I finally caught F after her shift a couple days ago and let her know that she needed to stop parking in the lot now that we have a new tenant because she was parking my space and it was really inconvenient for me to have to pay for parking at my own home and that I’m pregnant so the walk from the street up to the back entrance of the house was getting hard for me. F apologized and said that she can’t really afford to pay for parking for her whole shift but she wouldn’t park there anymore. Cue the next day, I get home from work and lo and behold, her car is parked in my spot again. I’m not going to lie, I was angry. I was really tired, and my back and feet were killing me and I just wanted to go inside and take a hot bath.
I called my fiancé and he called a tow truck. The guy came and took her car, and I pulled my car in and went inside. At about 6 AM F started pounding on my door.
When I answered she started screaming at me, asking where her car was, she said she had just worked a 14 hour shift because one of the morning shift had called out and that she was exhausted and needed to get home. I told her that her car was in the tow yard and that I was also tired and needed MY parking spot.
She started crying and told me that I needed to drive her there and pay to get her car back because she can’t afford it and couldn’t get home without it. I told her tough luck, she shouldn’t have parked in my spot when I asked her not to, and she’ll need to figure it out herself and shut the door. She stayed out there for another thirty minutes before she left. I don’t know where she went after that but I’ve been getting a lot of sh*t from other neighbors and mutual friends (We went to the same high school) for leaving her stranded and apparently she still hasn’t gotten her car two days later because she doesn’t get paid until Saturday so she’s had to take the bus to and from work.
The woman continued to update the post to clarify details as new information came to light
Edit: so what our mutual friends have been saying is that our land lord was going to bump her rent when she renewed her lease so she moved into a place that was slightly more expensive but a lot nicer than the apartment she was living in. I guess she bit off more than she could chew and wasn’t sure if she could cover rent for this month. I would have been way more understanding if she had just been upfront about it, and we could have worked something out, but for her to say that she wouldn’t park there anymore and then she turns around and does so anyways really said something to me about her character.
Edit: I do want to point out that even though she CAN take the bus, she’s like, tinie tiny. I’m not sure she’s even 5 feet tall, and our town has a fairly high crime rate, so riding the bus in the early hours of the morning is not ideal. And the bus stop downtown is really creepy, girls tend to avoid it when they’re alone. I don’t blame her for wanting to drive.
Edit: holy cow! I just woke up to 200 notifications! It’s gonna take me a little while to read them all.
Edit: I should mention that the land lord does have signs up saying “private parking violators will be towed at owners expense.” So while I didn’t specifically say that I would tow her for parking in my spot, she did know it was a possibility.
Edit again sorry: a neighbor caught “someone they didn’t recognize” keying my car this morning when they left for work. Person apparently ran off before they finished I no longer have sympathy for this girl, she can figure it out herself.
