Out of Proportion
Our condo is at the dead end of a very short drive within our little community. The dead end is literally a dead end, with the drive ending bluntly straight into a short hedge. Our garage is the last on the row, with the drive ending about ten feet or so past the garage. The entire lane past our garage is painted with diagonal stripes to indicate no parking.
There is overflow parking within easy reach of all the condominiums in our community except for our next door neighbors and ourselves. Since the garages are all one-car garages, nearly all the community makes use of the overflow parking. By tacit agreement, the no-parking area has been used by our condo and the next-door-neighbors.
This is a situation that has stood since long before we even moved into this condo. The people in our condo before us did this. The people in the next door condo before the current denizens did this. It helped avoid long walks back to the condo in the pouring rain or pitch black darkness. Our current neighbors, however, have repeatedly used both parking spaces, frequently leaving cars there for an entire weekend while they take off with friends for long weekends away.
Today I came home with my new Spica splint on my right arm and found both spots occupied yet again by our neighbors. And I’m pissed. I’m angry out of all proportion to the situation. I called The Prof and informed him that the very next time both spots were free we were going to take them both (we are now a three-car family, a story that would have gone into today’s entry except that this breaking news item superceded it). I’ve declared war. If they aren’t going to leave me a parking space, I sure as hell ain’t leaving them one ever again if I can help it.
I can hear Bugs Bunny now…
"Of course you know… this means war."
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are they transplanted ny’ers? sounds like it…i have to park 8 blocks from my apartment because folks around here park so that a space that can fit 2 cars, only fits one…their car!
teach the newbies a lesson every chance you get. perhaps they will learn.
Isn’t it amazing how the little things can set a body off? What’s probably set you off like a rocket is that it’s a continual thing and you’ve just hit your own personal wall with it and I can’t say I blame you.