Neighborhood drama WWYD-UPDATE IN REPLIES

[Kristinmo]

Oct 2, 2013 9:51:36 GMT -5 muffin0 said:

Oct 2, 2013 8:43:46 GMT -5 Kristinmo said:

THIS is what you focused on?

It's a pretty obvious solution. If people park in their garages they don't need to fight over street parking

But they shouldn't have to do that.  In a lot of neighborhoods like the OP is describing, the garages are tiny and used for storage.  Or they're one car and the families have more than one car.  

Nobody should have to be afraid to park legally in their own street.

[anodyne]

Oct 2, 2013 8:32:21 GMT -5 vanillacourage said:

Why exactly are people not parking in their garages?  Especially when crap like this is going on?

ETA - or their driveways?

Neighbor A is too lazy to walk the extra 20 feet.  The only time they park in the garage is when they go OOT.  It drives me batty when they complain about parking but never use their garage.  The other neighbors use their garage for one car and the other is on the street.  I park in the garage, DHs truck won't fit, he parks on the street.  

[anodyne]

Oct 2, 2013 8:37:26 GMT -5 Booze Raccoon said:

Did anyone tell the police about the gun? I would call. You have kids. God forbid...

Yes.  I spoke with the police myself.  I wanted to let them know that I am home alone with two young kids and if this happens again, I want a well check.  They said the guy is looney, but not violent. 

[anodyne]

Oct 2, 2013 8:35:27 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

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?

The passenger side line was pulled.  I guess she had enough in the driver side to stop?  i don't know enough about brake lines to know.  She stopped, but in the middle of an intersection.  Thankfully no accident.  

[anodyne]

Oct 2, 2013 8:38:07 GMT -5 sunshineluv said:

Do you own or rent? This is nuts!!

Own.  

To be honest, this is an amazing neighborhood.  It actually won best neighborhood in our city the week all this crap started.  I just got lucky to live in between this dip shits.

[Deleted]

Oct 2, 2013 9:48:32 GMT -5 julez said:

Oct 2, 2013 9:36:15 GMT -5 cjoy said:

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.

What do I do with the other car?

Look at that poor bitch with a one car garage!

i don't even have a garage!

/disney cry

[anodyne]

Oct 2, 2013 8:46:31 GMT -5 snickers said:

You approached them yourself?

I approached neighbor A, while he and his wife have completely fucked up ideas about owning a street spot, they are decent people.  All the others keep coming up to me while I am outside.  I just wanted to get my mums planted yesterday.  Today I was walking home from taking the kids to school.  

[anodyne]

I agree with parking in the garages. These people in particular never use their garage unless they are going OOT, then the second car is in the garage. We both have kids who play together, I have seen their garage. They can fit a car in it. They choose to park in front because it is a shorter walk. The wife has told me this more than once.

While the garages in this area are smaller, they are legally two car garages. You can't fit anything but the cars though, so most people park one in the garage with their lawn equipment. DH has a standard 8 foot truck bed and the garage is 6 inches too short for him to fit.

[flex]

lol at people thinking it's "their spot" on the street. People are so self-centered and self-entitled.

I will admit I got huffy for the briefest of moments when I came home yesterday evening and a car was parked at the curb in front of my house--and in front of my mailbox. Typically I drive up to my mailbox, get my mail, then back into my driveway. That car (who I think belonged to someone visiting the neighbor across the street) had a perfect right to be in front of my house. It's NOT my property--it belongs to the city. I let go of my resentment immediately because it was silly. So I parked in my driveway and WALKED to the mailbox. ha ha

I have an older home and it has a one-car garage. My garage is full of DH's stuff and I haven't gotten around to getting rid of it, so my truck stays in the driveway. And I have a very wide driveway (I think a long time ago part of the lawn was taken out to accommodate to make it wider). So I have lots of room to park more than one vehicle in the driveway.

[catwithspots]

Sept 28, 2013 19:23:48 GMT -5 demelza said:

Do you live in the US? I have never heard these terms: alderman and neighborhood stabilization officer.

we have these terms and issues in the cray-cray land of Chicago

watch the news during the winter time for the lawn chair wars and fights!

as a transplant to this state, i was fascinated by the power of $5 plastic lawn chair!!

[mrsbro]

If this is how to interact over parking in the summer/fall I'm afraid for you come winter. These stories circulate in Boston every winter. People are crazy when it comes to street parking.

[Booze Raccoon]

Oct 2, 2013 10:03:38 GMT -5 anodyne said:

Oct 2, 2013 8:37:26 GMT -5 Booze Raccoon said:

Did anyone tell the police about the gun? I would call. You have kids. God forbid...

Yes.  I spoke with the police myself.  I wanted to let them know that I am home alone with two young kids and if this happens again, I want a well check.  They said the guy is looney, but not violent. 

That's not comforting.  How can they judge that?  I'm sorry you're dealing with this!!  

[anodyne]

I have thought about this more and am not sure I believe the brake line story. To put myself in her shoes, if I even had a tiny thought that someone tampered with my car, I would have a detective out and demanding the car be printed. She stopped me today, one or two days after, to ask if I remembered the names of the officers that were here. I think she is really trying to play the neighbor's for whose side they are taking because she made a fool of herself and she knows it.

Don't even get me started on what it is like here in the winter. We have a guy up the street who plows lots. Our street does not get plowed. He kindly plows our street and these people bitch about having to drive over a small hump to park. I bought the guy a $25 gas card as a thank you, drove by his house and four guys were standing around his truck. I asked, which one of you has been plowing the street? All four looked like deer in headlights. Come to find out he was afraid I was going to yell at him like 3 or 4 people already had.

[elleblue]

Oct 2, 2013 14:15:31 GMT -5 Booze Raccoon said:

Oct 2, 2013 10:03:38 GMT -5 anodyne said:

Yes.  I spoke with the police myself.  I wanted to let them know that I am home alone with two young kids and if this happens again, I want a well check.  They said the guy is looney, but not violent. 

That's not comforting.  How can they judge that?  I'm sorry you're dealing with this!!  

And a looney who happens to have a gun doesn't help either.