114. Parking Wars
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My old neighborhood was really tight on parking. It was in central Austin and during the pandemic, thousands of quasi-rich douchebags from California moved in.
My across-the-street neighbor was one of them and would leave his car parked in front of my house for weeks at a time. He had a maid and nanny, and they must have instructed them to always park in front of the neighbors’ houses, too because they always did.
It was infuriating. I (very nicely) asked him to maybe not do that and he was like ‘It’s not against the law’ in a super condescending tone.
Little did he know… I own a moving and logistics company, lol. I have a fleet of work trucks. I put my rattiest 26-foot U-Haul-style box truck right in front of the Joe Brogans house for days.
He came storming over. ‘I’m not breaking any laws’ He called the police, they told him the same thing. I told him (not very nicely this time) to move back to his own side of the street from now on, or I’d start parking my trucks there on the daily. Never parked in front of my house again.
