My selfish neighbour...

[Rubin215]

... waited for someone else to dig their marooned car out of a communal parking area (approximately 10 metres of digging, 50cm deep snow), and then stole the now cleared space as soon as they had moved.

Tonight I parked nearby and noticed that someone has shovelled snow back up in front of it again so they will have a lot of digging to do before they head for work tomorrow...

Childish, yes, but it appeals to my sense of humour.

[Jayho]

Rubin215 said:

... waited for someone else to dig their marooned car out of a communal parking area (approximately 10 metres of digging, 50cm deep snow), and then stole the now cleared space as soon as they had moved.

Tonight I parked nearby and noticed that someone has shovelled snow back up in front of it again so they will have a lot of digging to do before they head for work tomorrow...

Childish, yes, but it appeals to my sense of humour.

I'm sorry... Lol jokes, but I did have to park at someone elses clear space because mine was stolen by a visitor...

[exocet ape]

that's happened to me three times on my street so far. And twice the feckers aren't even from the street.

[darkdrew]

Happens all the time on my street.. but all the cars here are worth crap so no one really cares where they park.

[John D.]

Rubin215 said:

... waited for someone else to dig their marooned car out of a communal parking area (approximately 10 metres of digging, 50cm deep snow), and then stole the now cleared space as soon as they had moved.

Tonight I parked nearby and noticed that someone has shovelled snow back up in front of it again so they will have a lot of digging to do before they head for work tomorrow...

Childish, yes, but it appeals to my sense of humour.

TBH thats the sort of thing I'd do faced with that situation. Lets hope they don't have a shovel.

[anonymous-user]

Happened to me last year, I waited til they left and retook it without retaliation.

[Rubin215]

John D. said:

Rubin215 said:

... waited for someone else to dig their marooned car out of a communal parking area (approximately 10 metres of digging, 50cm deep snow), and then stole the now cleared space as soon as they had moved.

Tonight I parked nearby and noticed that someone has shovelled snow back up in front of it again so they will have a lot of digging to do before they head for work tomorrow...

Childish, yes, but it appeals to my sense of humour.

TBH thats the sort of thing I'd do faced with that situation. Lets hope they don't have a shovel.

She's not the type.

40'ish, massively overweight (so fat, we didn't even know she was pregnant until we met her pushing a pram...) she never walks any further than doorstep to car or car to Tesco (from the mother and baby spaces, of course, even though her son is now 10...).

Her husband is also a large gentleman but has at least lost a few stone since his heart operation...

I don't see them as being shovel owners...

[rottie102]

Rubin215 said:

John D. said:

Rubin215 said:

... waited for someone else to dig their marooned car out of a communal parking area (approximately 10 metres of digging, 50cm deep snow), and then stole the now cleared space as soon as they had moved.

Tonight I parked nearby and noticed that someone has shovelled snow back up in front of it again so they will have a lot of digging to do before they head for work tomorrow...

Childish, yes, but it appeals to my sense of humour.

TBH thats the sort of thing I'd do faced with that situation. Lets hope they don't have a shovel.

She's not the type.

40'ish, massively overweight (so fat, we didn't even know she was pregnant until we met her pushing a pram...) she never walks any further than doorstep to car or car to Tesco (from the mother and baby spaces, of course, even though her son is now 10...).

Her husband is also a large gentleman but has at least lost a few stone since his heart operation...

I don't see them as being shovel owners...

How do they eat their curries then?

[Rubin215]

rottie102 said:

Rubin215 said:

John D. said:

Rubin215 said:

... waited for someone else to dig their marooned car out of a communal parking area (approximately 10 metres of digging, 50cm deep snow), and then stole the now cleared space as soon as they had moved.

Tonight I parked nearby and noticed that someone has shovelled snow back up in front of it again so they will have a lot of digging to do before they head for work tomorrow...

Childish, yes, but it appeals to my sense of humour.

TBH thats the sort of thing I'd do faced with that situation. Lets hope they don't have a shovel.

She's not the type.

40'ish, massively overweight (so fat, we didn't even know she was pregnant until we met her pushing a pram...) she never walks any further than doorstep to car or car to Tesco (from the mother and baby spaces, of course, even though her son is now 10...).

Her husband is also a large gentleman but has at least lost a few stone since his heart operation...

I don't see them as being shovel owners...

How do they eat their curries then?

Greedily...

[GaryGlitter]

Had the same on my street, dug the car out on Thursday night so I could drive in to work Friday morning and came back to find a neighbours car parked in the nicely cleared space. I ended up knocking on the door of another neighbour (who I'd never spoken to until now) and asked if I could park on his (cleared) driveway for a couple of hours while I dig out the 40ft from the road to the garage.

Lazy focker neighbour hasn't even bothered clearing his driveway, instead he's left his car in the same space all weekend whilst watching me struggle with 3ft of snow.

[off_again]

I had this happen to me some time ago. I cleared the space, some tit stole it. So, in the morning when we happened to be outside at the same time leaving for work, I just looked at him and said "sod it, train it is then" and took the train to work. I understand he got caught in traffic, behind a smash and was given a warning about being late (again) for work....

Sometimes karma does work.

[Hartge210]

It's the principle of it though, lazy salad dodgers!

[wildoliver]

Gallon of water poured all over the nice fresh tarmac around 9 at night should do it.

[STW2010]

Rubin215 said:

rottie102 said:

Rubin215 said:

John D. said:

Rubin215 said:

... waited for someone else to dig their marooned car out of a communal parking area (approximately 10 metres of digging, 50cm deep snow), and then stole the now cleared space as soon as they had moved.

Tonight I parked nearby and noticed that someone has shovelled snow back up in front of it again so they will have a lot of digging to do before they head for work tomorrow...

Childish, yes, but it appeals to my sense of humour.

TBH thats the sort of thing I'd do faced with that situation. Lets hope they don't have a shovel.

She's not the type.

40'ish, massively overweight (so fat, we didn't even know she was pregnant until we met her pushing a pram...) she never walks any further than doorstep to car or car to Tesco (from the mother and baby spaces, of course, even though her son is now 10...).

Her husband is also a large gentleman but has at least lost a few stone since his heart operation...

I don't see them as being shovel owners...

How do they eat their curries then?

Greedily...

I reckon they have a trough

[reggie82]

hora said:

Am I missing something here?!! Its a public space- why cant they park there???!

I'm with you on this. If they arrived in a communal car park, would you really expect them to park in a snow covered space rather than a clear one?

I think the bad neighbour is the one that purposely shovelled a load of snow in front of one of their neighbours cars.

[Gwagon111]

If the offending vehicles occupants were purposely waiting for someone to clear the snow, before they then took the spot, the they deserved the consequences of the snow piling shenannigans. If they unwittingly drove into a freshly cleared space, I don't see a problem.

[Some Gump]

I think the best revenge has to be this:
- deice that, ya bastid! I'm sure it's potentially damaging though.

Last year, I attempted to help my wife by arming up her car and moving to front of communal car park. I got stuck. Cue c. 3 hours of clearing a large path back so I could park it again, and another hour clearing the entracnce so we all (communily) had a chance of getting in and out.

During this time, the prick from no. 1 was bhing that my (stranded) car was blocking him in. When I could finally move it, he got in his car, pulled forwards 2 car lengths... and got stuck.

He then asks if I can lend him my shovel. Since he's watched my plight for 4 odd hours, let me do the communal bits on my own etc, I unpolitely declined to share my shovel, and suggested that maybe my selfishness was linked to his. He was out there for feckin ags, and didn't go to work for the next 2 days, either.

[Superchickenn]

Some Gump said:

I think the best revenge has to be this:
- deice that, ya bastid! I'm sure it's potentially damaging though.

Last year, I attempted to help my wife by arming up her car and moving to front of communal car park. I got stuck. Cue c. 3 hours of clearing a large path back so I could park it again, and another hour clearing the entracnce so we all (communily) had a chance of getting in and out.

During this time, the prick from no. 1 was bhing that my (stranded) car was blocking him in. When I could finally move it, he got in his car, pulled forwards 2 car lengths... and got stuck.

He then asks if I can lend him my shovel. Since he's watched my plight for 4 odd hours, let me do the communal bits on my own etc, I unpolitely declined to share my shovel, and suggested that maybe my selfishness was linked to his. He was out there for feckin ags, and didn't go to work for the next 2 days, either.

That's awesome... i'd be well happy with that result.!!

[Rubin215]

reggie82 said:

hora said:

Am I missing something here?!! Its a public space- why cant they park there???!

I'm with you on this. If they arrived in a communal car park, would you really expect them to park in a snow covered space rather than a clear one?

I think the bad neighbour is the one that purposely shovelled a load of snow in front of one of their neighbours cars.

It's a little bit more complicated than my original post.

Selfish neighbours "own" the space outside their house and, apparently, the one outside their carless neighbour too.
They have two cars, neither of which ever go in their garage or even on their drive.

Woe betide you if you are "cheeky" enough to park in front of their house; they will box you in and either refuse to answer the door, or give you a lecture about parking in front of their house.

There have been slanging matches previously...


Our street is an L shaped cul-de sac which does not get cleared in the second half as it is on a steep hill. The first half is on the flat, with a stand of garages and two cummunal parking areas.
Selfish neighbour can no longer get their cars anywhere near their house, so had been parking across the front of the garages, same as everyone else, first come-first served. The communal areas were already full.


When the snowed in car was originally dug out from the communal area, there was now enough space to get two cars in tandem in the space.
Selfish neighbour then parked overnight behind the car which was already there.

The following evening, owner of snowed in car had stupidly driven somewhere, selfish neighbour had claimed both spaces, by parking only one of their cars in a space long enough for two.

Last night, it was blocked in.

Still there today...

[Backtobasics]

I spent half a day clearing tracks on my road (along with another guy who always helps and another neighbour I had not met)

I then got told by 2 neighbours that they were not happy about where I put the piled snow and that it needed moving. I'm am all out of christmas spirit now.

On the plus side I have a few more neighbours I say morning to after meeting them whilst digging!