86. Don’t Park On Our Property
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Back when I was a wee kid, we lived across from a popular public pool on a tiny street, so parking was premium. One afternoon coming home from school, this person had the audacity to park IN our driveway, IN our garage… My dad was dumbfounded.
We went over and put a message out, and this woman in her 30s came over in a huff and said she would fix it when she had finished her exercise routine. So my dad just parked behind her, and we went out for dinner for 4 hours or so.
She was pissed, but the story does not end there. She kept doing it. Usually, 2-4 times a month. Eventually, my Dad would not think twice about parking her in and letting her out at his own leisure.
No problem by us, lots of problems by her. She once called the police on us, to which they just told her to not park on private property and wrote her a citation. But wait, there’s more.
One Saturday morning, she had the gall to block us in our own driveway. Dad had had enough. He made sure she was doing her laps, grabbed a coat hanger, jimmed the car open, and dismantled the passenger seat.
Taking it out and leaving it on the curb in front of the pool exit. He then sat on our front deck, sipping his tea as she came out of the pool to get her car.
She walked passed the passenger seat without a second glance and scowled at him as she opened her car and got in. She then did a double take as she went to put her bag on the seat. She freaked out, realising that my Dad had had access to her car and belongings this entire time and done nothing about it until now. She ran over, grabbed her seat, put it in the boot, and drove off. Never heard from her again.
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