Neighbor left a note on my car.....

"unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)" (unclevanos)
04/21/2015 at 16:18 • Filed to: None

Inspired by Doug’s post about his neighbor leaving a note about his Hummer, share any story you have about a ridiculous comment or stupid note left on your car. I’ll share my two stories so far.

1) Snow parking spot wars. Around late February last year the snow had built up any parking was hard to come by in suburbia. As a student I came home late (10 pm) and parked in a spot near a house. Next morning I got nice note on my car not to park in “their” spot. I got irritated since they are not the owners of the street and the town has no law on snow parking. I called the town hall and they said no one owns their cleaned out spot. On top of that these people who own the house I parked at hire a plow truck to clean their length of the street and plow the snow in to a bank where atleast three cars can park. I wrote OK on their letter and left it on the owners doorstep. They could use their garage to park one of the three cars they have including the Escalade Sopranos Edition model they have.

2) My E38 busted a power steering line in front of my house and left a stain. I put towels and bounty rags to clean the best I could. Three months later after a new power steering line, my landlord nags at me for the oil stain after a neighbor left a note at his home THREE MONTHS AFTER THE OIL SPILL. I got irritated that the neighbor didn’t have the gravitas to tell it to me. My street is full of oil stains, the Intrepid next door has marked its spot Exxon Valdez style. And this neighbor has a hybrid GM sedan and solar panels so that explains his petroleum leak witch hunt.

Have a w123 300D for your time.

DISCUSSION (13)

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/21/2015 at 16:37

“the Intrepid next door has marked its spot Exxon Valdez style.” Were you my neighbor? I had an Intrepid, i can verify what you say is true.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/21/2015 at 16:37

I guess I’m lucky. My neighbors and I don’t leave notes on other people’s cars.

Also, there’s a guy with a Hummer who rotates his 6x12 box trailer, camper and Hummer H2 on the street. We get slightly peeved not because he’s parking it on the street, but because it’s parked around a blind curve, and you can’t see it until you are on top of it. So everyone creeps around the corner to make sure nothing is coming the other way. But meh, it’s a neighborhood.

TheHondaBro > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/21/2015 at 16:47

A while back, someone left their RAV4 parked directly outside our house, advertising a garage sale. Normally, I’d be okay with that, except there was an area of nothing next to our house that they could have easily parked by. I left a very civil note politely asking that they don’t park directly outside our house, and use the area next to our house in the future. A couple of months later, they were parked by the area I suggested.

Damn good neighborhood. Sorta upset we had to move, but California is drying up.

Your boy, BJR > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/21/2015 at 17:09

I like the sound of that Escalade.

Roadster Man > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/21/2015 at 17:22

I am constantly battling over the spot in front of my house with my neighbor across the street. We live on a narrow street and while we can, we shouldn’t park directly across from each other. With our houses and driveways aligned, it means only one person can claim the spot in front of their own house at a time. I usually am the nice guy and park off to the side of my own yard. It’s a bummer because I can’t look at my car from inside the house, and it make me nervous because it’s the sport my Subaru WRX was stolen from last year.

But I digress: with their big ass minivan and my tiny Miata, sometimes I get fed up and park wherever the hell I want to.

One time, I was sick of accommodating them and I just parked in front of my house. It was the weekend, the only real danger is for garbage trucks, school buses, and mail trucks. I came out to a note that said: “Don’t park your car across from mine. I just got mine back from the shop. -Jerk Neighbor”

This was the day I got my car back from the body shop after I hit a deer.

On the flip side, I have left zero notes on their cars. I have left one note on a car that took up nearly two spots though. I squeezed in the half spot and left a note that said “You are poor at parking.”

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
04/21/2015 at 17:23

I live in north jersey. Is your intrepid white?

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Your boy, BJR
04/21/2015 at 17:28

It has an Italian flag decal on the back, illegal ass tints all around, and probably a cache of PBA cards in the glovebox.

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/21/2015 at 17:30

No, mine is a silver cube now. It satisfied me a great deal to know that car would no longer be cursing the California roads with its existence.

Your boy, BJR > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/21/2015 at 17:38

WANT

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Roadster Man
04/21/2015 at 17:42

The only time I left a note was in the student parking deck of my school. I parked early in the morning for Calc II and get some breakfast. I came to the deck at 3 pm to leave school and low and behold I could not get into my car. A RAV4 with korean jesus on the dash had parked so close to my car I could not open the door to at least squeeze my twig body. I don’t park like the typical 3 series owner/lease. Within the lines with ample amounts of space on both sides. The amount of space the RAV4 driver side had was ridiculous. A motorcycle could park into his spot. I unload my bag and left a note saying “Great job I can’t get into my car how did you get into our Tech School. Learn to park.” I had to hop into drivers seat through the passenger. It wasn’t a big problem but just infuriating. Whether or not I traded paint with my car’s door is a different story.

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/21/2015 at 20:14

At my previous apartment complex (in snooty Palo Alto, CA) I parked one of my cars on the street outside the building quite regularly. Sometimes I’d end up driving my beater and left the other car on the street for maybe 2-3 days straight - I’d never had an issue with this for years.

One time I did the same, but parked maybe 5 spots down as there were no spots right outside my building, so this time in front of a neighbour’s house. Before even 2 days had passed there was an official city notice citing a city code, saying a car cannot be parked in a single spot for over X days (which I was under), and that it needs to be moved Y distance, consider this a warning - car will be towed if it is still here same time tomorrow.

Not only did this person not have the balls to leave me an actual note, and mention their name and house # to discuss - they actually took time out of their day to complain to some city office and bug them enough to come out and leave a notice (I’d bet they told them the car had been there for WEEKS!).

Some people seem to think that when they own a house, they own all the public property immediately outside it too. I can’t ever imagine being that guy - walking outside your house and being pissed that someone parked on the street in front of you. Sure, maybe “bummer! someone else took that spot” - but never to the point where I actually feel like it’s my property and the person must be punished.

Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/21/2015 at 22:58

I try not to be a jerk...most of the time, but life’s stresses and my neighbor’s inconsiderateness finally overwhelmed me last year. Houses in my neighborhood are pretty close together. Property lines get blurred after over half a century. My driveway is over a foot inside my property line, but my neighbors lawn service guys use it like a public sidewalk.

One day they decided to edge her yard and then drive their riding mower up and down my driveway with two of my freshly washed and waxed cars in my driveway and threw grass and weeds and dirt up covering both of them. Instead of a note, for the next three weeks when they came to cut her grass, they found my 40 foot schoolbus parked directly over the property line ruining that section of “her grass.” They were not happy to work around the bus so on the third week my neighbor came over to ask me to move it for them. That’s when I informed her that I didn’t appreciate having my cars ruined by her employees and it stays if my property is not respected. “If they don’t mind asking you to ask me to move my bus, then they can do the same thing when they see my cars in the driveway.” Three cop visits later (including the Chief of Police) she was informed they couldn’t make me do anything since I broke no laws or ordinances. They have yet to ask me to move my cars and the blowing grass continued. So when I could, whenever I was around when they showed up to cut her grass, I would put a lawn chair in my driveway and sit and watch them work, taking video and pictures.

This year, I think he quit because her new employees are very particular to clean my property when they’re done. No more riding lawnmowers doing doughnuts in my driveway, they use a push mower with built-in bag, and then use leaf blower to blow their debris back in her yard. Its probably costing her more, but that’s not my problem.

Speaking of not my problem, during his visit to my home, the Chief of Police asked me not to run the motor on my bus in my driveway because she could smell the exhaust fumes in her house. I asked had I broken any laws (several times) and his reply each time was “Not that I know of.” Can’t wait to see what happens when I start revving the racecar in my driveway....

Roadster Man > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/22/2015 at 15:11

Well yeah, you had to try the driver’s side a few times, right?