Tenants and their stupid Sense of Entitlement

[Banrion]

My house has alot of trouble with people thinking it's OK to park in front of our driveway. It's a two-fold problem, My house has 6 appartments and the driveway is 6 cars wide and 2 cars deep. Kinda a mini-parking lot, each apt gets 2 spots, and you argue with your roomie over who is getting parked in for the night. The other half of the problem stems from the fact that across the street from me is a locally owned coffee & bagel shop that is WONDERFUL, but they only have a parking lot to accomodate 4 cars. So without fail, from 6:00am - 2:00pm on Sat & Sun there is between 1-3 EW's parked blocking the driveway. It is such a problem that the town put up signs on both ends of the driveway to no avail. When you tell these people that they are blocking the driveway and can't park there you get the standard "It's only gonna be a minute" response. The problem is, it is NEVER a minute, this shop is so busy that you are lucky to get in, get a coffee and bagel, and get out in 20 mins or less. The landlord is to the point that he is considering getting a tow truck on standby for Sat & Sun mornings. It can park in an empty lot up the street, and have a car up and out of our driveway in a minute or less. Maybe then people will learn we are serious. On more than one occasion the landlord has been prevented from getting to work due to these EW's.

[ArenaBoy]

I live near the main area of my town, its one of those blink and miss towns also. Every summer around the 4th of July we have a carnival. I live down the street from the activity and that means that idiots are going to park in my frontyard or driveway. I park up front because my driveway is small and I'd block my parents in also. One day during the fair, I came home to find an idiot parked in my usual parking place. I went inside my house, got a sheet of paper and wrote: "I know you want a close spot to the fair but there are a few parking lots with plenty of space that are just as close if not closer. If you want to know why I put this on your car its because I live here and I don't appreciate it when someone parks on MY property just so they can get to the fair. Sincerely, an Angry Resident."

It actually worked on the guy too.

[powerboy]

Once when I was living with my ex, something like that happened to us. Our neighbor had a party, and ofcourse, a jerkoff parked in our driveway. I asked them if they could move the car, and ofcourse they didn't. What I ended up doing was having the car towed away. The car's owner comes running out, and pissed off, because of it, and wanting to fight me. The tow truck driver, said if he didn't park there in his driveway, then none of this would have to happen. Ofcourse our neighbors stop talking to us, and moved shortly after that.

[jb17kx]

When a friend of mine lived in a unit with parking prblems, we solved the problem of asshats taking his one space by fitting a bollard. Only people with the key could remove it, and his space was always free.
It was also entertaining when some fool would try to take the spot (when my friend had gone out at night) and hit the bollard.

[Jester]

Regarding the girl in the OP, it frankly didn't matter if she had a parking tag or not, as she was BLOCKING IN SOMEONE ELSE! Parking tag or not, that is rude, inconsiderate, and goes against common parking sense. Your Boss would have been well within your rights to tow her for that alone. As for her screaming at Boss, well, if that had happened to me, once she started screaming, I would have simply walked away and called the tow truck. End. Of. Story. And something tells me she might just have learned her parking lesson for the day.

Myself, I have had the opposite problem happen to me twice. With limited parking in both my current complex, and even less in my former one, I often park on public streets near home. No problem: I know I come home later than most people, so tough noogies to me, I get to park further. No problem, right?

Wrong. Twice, once here and once there, I have had residents get upset because I parked in front of or near their home. Not in front of their driveway....but on PUBLIC PROPERTY, in no way blocking them...other than preventing them from parking in that spot on a PUBLIC STREET, where no No Parking signs are posted. The more recent one left a note which was fairly polite, but the first one came at me screaming their heads off when they saw me the next day how "THIS IS OUR SPOT AND WE HAVE TO FIT REALLY LARGE VEHICLES IN HERE AND YOU CAN'T PARK HERE" and on and on. All this on public streets. I was not very impressed with these people having their entitlement issues about "owning" part of a public street. Keep in mind, when I say public street, I mean a street where everyone parks on the street as common practice, pretty much wherever they can, as long as they are not parked in a No Parking zone or blocking a driveway. Urgh.

[Tanasi]

I've had all sorts of neighbors park on my property. One neighbor'ss daughter was have her wedding reception in their backyard. Not a problem with the reception but I did with their parking arrangements. They cut a five strand barb-wire fence and pulled up two steel posts and parked in my pasture and ruined about 5 acres of grass. Had they asked I would have said yes and even helped with the parking. Anyways I stacked about 20 1 ton bales of hay across their impromptu drive-way and then left for the evening. The cars were still there the next morning when I moved the hay. Other than a few messages on the machine nothing was ever said.

Another neighbor parked his rather large Hummer in my drive-way and completely blocked it. I called and asked him to move and he told me perform things upon myself that I'm not physically able to do. So I took my largest tractor hooked to it and drug it into his yard. All four tires had flat spots and he needed a new tranny.

[Cyanocobalamin]

This was back when my mom and I lived with her longtime boyfriend. The house we lived in has a private swimming club across the street and during swim meets or whatever, folks parked along the street wherever there was room.
But our deterrent to people parking in our driveway was a Dodge Ram 2500 (Mom's fairly large truck) and a Land Rover with an NRA sticker on it (BF's)... Now whenever I pass by the old house, there are always two Mercedes parked in the driveway just kinda amusing to me since the land is worth about the cost of those 2 cars and the actual house isn't worth doo-doo.

[shenzee]

...you get the standard "It's only gonna be a minute" response.

I've gotten this on a few occasions where I've seen someone other than a tenant parking in our parking lot. I simply tell them that I have the towing company on speed dial and that it'll "only take a minute" to tow her beater out of there. That usually results in the bird being flipped at me and a couple of unoriginal "F you" s but they certainly move their cars fast!

[shenzee]

And to that girl-- I wouldn't have given any warning, I'd just tow the damn car. I have low tolerance for rude and ignorant people. "My mommy is gonna be mad!" That's disgusting. That sounds like a little whiny five year old. She needs to grow up.

If it was up to me, we'd have a tow truck back there five times an hour towing cars without hang tags. But alas I'm not the owner so I don't have a say in it.

[Tigress]

We used to have problems with people parking on campus at NCCU. If you didn't have the sticker on your windshield, you got towed. Simple as that. But some students thought that paying the $100 for the sticker (which guaranteed your parking priviledges for the entire year) was simply too much and then got surprised when they were towed.

The colleges around us charged up to $500 for their permits and some of them only guaranteed parking for the semester. NCCU also issued more permits than there were spaces (another problem in and of itself), so it wasn't like they ran out.

These were usually the same chickenheads that spent $300 for a perm and nail job without batting an eye, yet could never scrounge up the money for school supplies.

[El Barto]

NCCU also issued more permits than there were spaces (another problem in and of itself), so it wasn't like they ran out.

My high school did that. If I remember correctley they have about 140 student parking spots but they gave out around 200 student parking permits. And the school's administration could not figure out why they had a problem with student cars being parked in the teacher's lot everyday.

[Mighty Girl]

Ok, here's my experience.....

We live right across from a very popular park. It has a baseball field, basketball courts, tennis courts, pavillion, wading pool and state-of-the-art playground. So, come summer time, when there is an event at the park, there are cars EVERYWHERE. Here's where it ticks me off-

-The park has a decent sized parking lot. But for some odd reason, rather than park in the lot, they would much rather park like drunken idiots in the street. We live on a corner, and the one side doesn't have a sidewalk or anything, it's just grass up to the street. It is absolutely guaranteed that they will park with part of the car on the grass. Excuse me dipshit, where the grass begins, the street ends, keep your car on the street.

-If it hasn't rained in a while, we turn on our sprinklers in the evening, whether or not people are parked in front of our house (not my problem). You should see the ticked off expressions as people try to dodge the flying water to get into their vehicles. Next time, try the parking lot.

Oh, and lest I forget. My husband and I went out for dinner a while back, we left the kiddo with a sitter and had a really nice time. Well that same night, our neighbors had a party. Sure enough, we arrive back home and one of their guests was parked in our driveway, and got really snippy when we politely asked them to move.

The nerve of people never stops amazing me.

[alphaboi]

Is it really legal to block people's cars in if they park on your property? Of course if you block them in with your own car(s) you can always claim you didn't have a choice, but what if you decided to put a boot on it? And if the trespassers do manage to get the police to come ask you to move your car all just say "Officer I've had a few drinks so clrealy I can't drive." What cop is going to order a drunk person to drive!

[JustaCashier]

After being in the parking business for 15 years, (out 8 now) I have no tolerence for idiots that park illegally, whether on public, or private property, when there is adequate, clear, signage.

That "just a minute" that you will be dropping of your kid at the Daycare, for example, even if it's literally a minute, may be the same "minute" that the person for whom the space is reserved may show up. Especially at 8:00 a.m.! That person ain't gonna be happy, and will likely rip me a new one, or call Bldg. Mgmt. or my Company and bitterly complain, resulting in me possibly getting reprimanded.

How I wish I could have been more assertive on those occasions, and known that my bosses would have backed me up. I'm not talking about saying "Hey you Effing Deehead!! Move your GeeDee car! All I would ask is that I could have been allowed to be extremely verbally forceful, if needed, and not worry about getting into trouble with the bosses if the idiot complained that I was rude.

All I could do, was fantasize about sending the jerk to

Mike

[Tigress]

What about the idiots that like to park in the fire lane in front of a store? I see that all the frickin' time and it irritates me. Even if it's "just a minute," that "minute" you take to get your cheese could be the "minute" a fire breaks out in the store and a fire truck needs to get in that big, space you are occupying in the front of store to put out said fire. The stores don't mark these areas for fun!