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My house is on a corner lot, on a hill. The front of the house is at the top of the hill, then the road curves around and goes downhill. My driveway comes in behind the house, so when you pull in there you either have to go into the walkout basement or climb the hill to the front door (I hope that makes sense).
Our neighbors are okay, we rarely see them. The mother is polite enough, her grown daughter has never spoken to me, and the guy who lives there (I think the daughter's boyfriend) waves and smiles. I don't mind them not being super-friendly, it suits me.
They have a driveway where they could fit all three cars easily. But there is only ever one car there, the mother's, and when she's at work the driveway is empty. The daughter parks in front of their house. The man parks in front of our house. There is room for two cars in front of their house; because of the way the road curves there is only room for one in front of ours.
Now, I know the road is public property and anyone can park there. And most of the time I don't mind, we park in our driveway. But this guy leaves his car there ALL THE TIME. It moves maybe once a week for a couple hours. I don't know what he does for a job but his car is always there.
I don't mind like I said, except a couple times a week when I come home with loads of groceries and have to unload them in the basement and carry them all up the steep stairs to the main floor, instead of straight to the front door and inside. Or when we have company and have to play car Tetris in the back to get everyone fitted in and they have to park on our grass (I assume this is why they don't park in the driveway, no one wants to be blocked in, but his car rarely moves anyway...). He also parks with two wheels in our yard so mowing can get annoying when you're trying to get close without scratching his car. It's one of those minor irritations that everyone has.
So this morning, after an ice/snow storm last night, I got a secret snicker when I saw the man outside, trying to shovel his car out. See, our road is a snow emergency route and all cars have to be off the street after the snow. And because it's an emergency route, snow plows were driving up and down the street all last night, throwing snow to the sides, and completely blocking his car in with a wall of dirty snow and ice. It took him 45 minutes to dig out, and his car hasn't been back because, you know, snow emergency. I don't know where he parked it because it's not in the driveway (neither is the daughter's car, I don't know where it is). Should have parked it in the driveway last night, since we've known this was going to happen for days now!
And this was your moment of schadenfreude for today.
(I felt bad about it afterward, but it was 6 am, the kid had been up since 5:30- after having nightmares that meant none of us got more than 4 hours' sleep- and the husband was still asleep so I couldn't go out and help like I should have)
Our neighbors are okay, we rarely see them. The mother is polite enough, her grown daughter has never spoken to me, and the guy who lives there (I think the daughter's boyfriend) waves and smiles. I don't mind them not being super-friendly, it suits me.
They have a driveway where they could fit all three cars easily. But there is only ever one car there, the mother's, and when she's at work the driveway is empty. The daughter parks in front of their house. The man parks in front of our house. There is room for two cars in front of their house; because of the way the road curves there is only room for one in front of ours.
Now, I know the road is public property and anyone can park there. And most of the time I don't mind, we park in our driveway. But this guy leaves his car there ALL THE TIME. It moves maybe once a week for a couple hours. I don't know what he does for a job but his car is always there.
I don't mind like I said, except a couple times a week when I come home with loads of groceries and have to unload them in the basement and carry them all up the steep stairs to the main floor, instead of straight to the front door and inside. Or when we have company and have to play car Tetris in the back to get everyone fitted in and they have to park on our grass (I assume this is why they don't park in the driveway, no one wants to be blocked in, but his car rarely moves anyway...). He also parks with two wheels in our yard so mowing can get annoying when you're trying to get close without scratching his car. It's one of those minor irritations that everyone has.
So this morning, after an ice/snow storm last night, I got a secret snicker when I saw the man outside, trying to shovel his car out. See, our road is a snow emergency route and all cars have to be off the street after the snow. And because it's an emergency route, snow plows were driving up and down the street all last night, throwing snow to the sides, and completely blocking his car in with a wall of dirty snow and ice. It took him 45 minutes to dig out, and his car hasn't been back because, you know, snow emergency. I don't know where he parked it because it's not in the driveway (neither is the daughter's car, I don't know where it is). Should have parked it in the driveway last night, since we've known this was going to happen for days now!
And this was your moment of schadenfreude for today.
(I felt bad about it afterward, but it was 6 am, the kid had been up since 5:30- after having nightmares that meant none of us got more than 4 hours' sleep- and the husband was still asleep so I couldn't go out and help like I should have)
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