09.19.07

Welcome to the Neighborhood?

Posted in rants at 7:23 pm by Pammy

So we’re all moved in, and come Monday morning I find two notes stuck under my car windshield wipers. Oh how nice, I thought, welcome to the neighborhood notes! Oh no, it was nothing like that.

Two residents had taken it upon themselves to tell me I was parked in the wrong parking spot… Let me give you some background information: Before we moved in, our landlord had told us that he didn’t know which spot was ours (they are numbered and with no relation to the units), and that we should just ask one of the other residents. Since we never saw anyone around, we parked in the parking space that always seemed to be open, and were parked there all weekend.

You must be thinking, “Well of course they don’t want you to park in their spot, why are you upset about that?” It’s not that they wrote me a note telling me that I was in their spot, I’m all for open and honest communication, it’s that they wrote me two notes! There is only one parking space assigned to each unit, ie. one spot = one letter. You would think wouldn’t you? I can’t figure out if they were written by the same person. The first of them was rude, stating, “these are assigned parking spots,” and demanding that I “find somewhere else to park!” While the second simply said that the spot I was in was assigned to one unit, and told me which space was assigned to me. Maybe the person who wrote the first note felt bad and wrote a second, more civil one? Maybe they are from a couple who wrote notes separately?

The most amusing part though, is that to this day the spot has been vacant, leaving no one to receive my note in response. Don’t worry, I was nice.

Thanks for being so neighborly, neighbor.

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