Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Return of pet peeves: Parking challenged people

I was reminded of this long-time pet peeve when I got home from work today.

First, some explanations. As I expect is the basic norm for apartment and condominium complexes, my condo complex allocates one space in the parking lots for each unit. Thus, when people find their ability to use their space is being interfered with in some way, they can get rather upset.

So. Arriving home this evening, I found one neighbor's car parked at an angle that left most of it in their space, but which put a major section of the car's left rear quarter within my space. The only way I could have parked in my space would have left my car encroaching into my other neighbor's space, which I was not about to do. I knocked on the door of the condo associated with the angle-parked car to ask them to move it, but nobody answered.

I parked on the street and stomped back to my condo, very irritated.

Ate dinner and went back out to check, and found the badly parked car was gone, so I walked back to where I had parked my car and got it into my space. Frankly, right now I'm just too tired to write out a complaint about all this to send to the homeowner's association, but I'll see how I am tomorrow morning.

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