I live in an urban residential area where homes have detached garages but most people park on the street. While most people try to park in front of their own homes, it is not always possible. Neighbors A think the space in front of their house is theirs and theirs alone. I have on many occasions heard the wife yell, in a I'm just joking way, at her own friends for parking in her spot when they came to visit.
Thursday night neighbor B pulled onto the street, there was no parking in front of his house so he pulled in front of a open space in front of neighbor As house to begin parrelle parking. As he is stopping at the car in front neighbors A pull onto the street. They pull right up on him so he couldn't back up and "ask" if they could have their spot. He says not and won't move, neither will neighbor A. So they call neighbor C to have her back her car up so they can pull into their spot. Neighbor B goes ape shit, lots of yelling. Then busy body neighbor D gets into yelling at neighbor B. neighbor B had a friend in the car, he parked it on a side street. Then they both went inside.
yesterday neighbor B has a loogie on his door handle and is pissed and I overheard him on the phone tell someone his is going to piss in their mailbox. Later that night he and Neighbor D get into another yelling match.
this morning he is telling another neighbor (I think we are on E now) how he is not gonna take it, shows a handgun he has strapped to him.
All of this over a fucking parking spot. I have two little ones, neighbor A has a little one, there are kids everywhere around here. What the hell do I do, if anything? We have a very attentive alderman and neighborhood stabilization officer. I just don't know if I should go to them, or the police, if anyone with some first, some second, and some third hand knowledge. I just don't want to see a kid get hurt because these fucking adults are too lazy to walk and extra 20 feet and park in their damn garages.
Although pretty much all parties sound like assholes, he's obviously a loose cannon.
Ding ding ding!
i really don't want to involve myself in this. I have spent the last two days laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. But when I heard about the gun I stopped in my tracks.
I wish my biggest worry in life was where my car was parked.
Not excuses for not calling, but I am hung up on two things. 1- DH travels and the kids and I are here alone all but 6 days out of the month. 2-neighbor E who told me about the gun, just moved in a week ago. I have no basis for her level of honesty.
I have a friend who is a patrol officer in our district. I am going to get the kids in bed, talk to DH and call my friend.
I've never watched Good Times. Living in an urban area with mostly just street parking available is probably the lousiest thing about city living isn't it? Unless you have great public transportation and don't even need a car.
My sister lives in Denver right now and her neighborhood is experiencing major growth. Her and her boyfriend have one car and I was there last year visiting. They have added so many new buildings there in the last year in her block I can only imagine how hard it is to get a spot now. Plus there is a bunch of rules about where you park on the certain day every week when they have the street sweeper go through. What a headache.
I spoke with neighbor A about the gun threat and how this is getting out of hand. He spoke with neighbor B, said he could have handled it differently, and said that he would not be bothering him again and hoped neighbor B could do the same. Both seemed willing to keep to themselves and their issue was over.
Then neighbor B and D start screaming at each other across the street again because neighbor D wanted Bs mother to know they have concealed carry permits. The police come and talk to everyone. Then the bidding for "sides" begins. Everyone keeps stopping to talk to me about their side of the story. I don't want to hear it, all of them are acting like children.
Neighbor D just stopped by to let me know her break line was pulled on her car. She was on a busy road and had little to no breaks. There is no concrete evidence that it was pulled by a person, but it is a little suspicious.
I am now going to be a hermit. I can't take anymore of this crap.
That is ridiculous. Have you contacted your alderman yet? Maybe they could come in and have a discussion with the neighbors about all this. If it were Me I would be parking in my garage and staying as far away from all that drama as possible.
While I get that they are detached, I don't understand clinging to a spot on the street when you have a garage.
Back to the madness that is going on, it sounds like you live among a bunch of wingnuts. And if Neighbor D lost her brakes, how did she stop? Did she get into an accident?
Post by onomatopoeia on Oct 2, 2013 8:43:47 GMT -5
Is this for real? There are adults who actually act this way? I couldn't get past the loogie, let alone the flashing of concealed weapons and allegations of brake tampering.
Situations like this make me very glad I don't have neighbors. Is this a neighborhood you've settled in, OP, or are you thinking of moving?
A couple of things - Aldermans are definitely a US thing - we had them in Chicago. In an urban area, many people may use their garage as storage, because houses are small, yo. We had permit parking in Chicago, you pay the money, get the permit and park on the street knowing that your car will get bumped, scratched, etc. We just accepted it as a part of city living. If you don't have the permit and you park there, you will get a ticket or get towed. No one ever tried to call dibs on a space, that would just be ridiculous.
Ooooooooooh, you're supposed to park your car in the garage? Mind blown. For five years I've been staring at that building behind my house wondering what it was for.