I second this.
I'm glad this thread got bumped cause I was going to search it out after my interaction with my neighbor this morning.
Backstory; First, My apartment complex has assigned parking, one spot per apartment with a handful of visitor spots in the corners of the lot (which isn't big anyways, so walking from a visitor spot isn't a hardship for anyone able to walk 50 yards and not collapse). Second, nobody lives in the apartment to either side of me, nor the one above me.
Now, my mom was in town for a cousin's wedding and she came over to use the internet to check her e-mails and whatnot because my grandparents where she was staying have no access, I told her of the assigned parking, but told her to park in the spot directly to the right of my car since nobody lives in that apartment so it's "free game" I also told her that sometimes one of the other people parks their second car in the spot and if that was the case to park two spots to either the right or the left of my car which are assigned to the apartment on either side of me. She parked directly to the right of me, and left around 9:30 pm to head back to my grandparents.
When I head out to my car this morning the girl who parks her second car in the spot to the right of me was pulling out, but she stopped and rolled down her window.
Girl: Do you know the owner of a Silver Honda? (Mom's car)
Me: Yeah, it was my mom, she was visiting from out of town.
Girl: My husband and I are going to call Leavitt (The land company in charge of the apartments) and complain. She was parked in our spot.
Me: She parked in C10, which is empty. It's not your spot.
Girl: Well we use it.
Me: That's fine, but you have no claim to it. It's a free spot, if anything you are violating the rules by parking a second car in the lot since the lease says second vehicles should be parked on the street.
Girl: We are still going to complain.
Me: Go ahead, my mom did nothing wrong, and you have no claim.
Then she sped off, funny thing is the woman in charge of our complex came in shopping at my job and I gave her a heads up about it and she just laughed and told me that those two are always complaining about ticky tacky shit and not to worry.
Still I was pissed like all day about it.
Man, I do sound like an old man.
Damn you kids, stay off my lawn.
Oh no, don't feel bad at all. I had to deal with something very similar to your sitution.
Backstory: Where my mom lives, everyone has two parking spaces and that's it. There's like 1 or 2 guest parking spaces in the entire complex, I don't know why there isn't any more but that's not really apart of my story. So when I lived with my mom, she would park in 1 spot, which was right in front of the house and I would park in the 2nd spot, which was way the fuck away from the house by the pool. It was pretty much in another parking lot.
So one day, I come home from work and there's someone in my spot and like I said there's where else to park in the complex because everyone has two spots and there's no guest parking really and if I parked in someone elses spot, my car could be towed away. So I double park behind the guy, and go inside to get my laundry and bring it over to the lundry mat...which is way the fuck on the other side of the complex. I figure after a few minutes the person who parked in my spot would be looking for me and I had to pass my parking space anyways to get to the lundry mat.
So on my way, I see this old guy and this other guy (maybe in his 30's) looking around. I figure that one of them own the van that's in my spot and ask.
Me: excuse me, is that your van?
Old Guy: It is, is that your car?
Me: It is, you know you parked in my parking spot.
Mid-30's guy: No he didn't...that's my parking space.
Me: No it's not...it's actually my mom's. We live in Apt. 66, and there's the number 66 painted onto the cement block. It's clearly reads that it's apt 66's parking space.
Mid-30's guy: The realitor told me that it was my spot and I'm going to take this to the housing council and they'll deal with you.
Me: Me, ok but they're going to laugh at you for being really wrong.
Old Guy: You need to move your car before I move it for you.
Me: You won't do a damn thing to my car unless you want to buy me a new one or you want your van towed.
Mid-30's Guy: You can't tow his car.
Me: wanna bet? He's parked in Apt 66's spot. the aparment my mom pays rent for which makes it our parking space. It's clearly labeled as 66's spot on the cement block.
Mid 30's guy: I don't care, I was told it was my spot by the person who sold me the apartment. Do you rent or own?
Me: what does that have to do with anything?
Mid 30's guy: Do you rent or own
Me: Rent
Mid 30's guy: Well I own my place.
Me: Want a cookie? It doesn't matter what you have around here, that's my spot and if another person parks there again, I don't care who it is, I'm having the damn car towed away and it will be either at your friend's or your's expense. Hell give me two minutes and I will find your 2nd parking space for you!
(I start to walk away at this point so I can go put my clothes in the lundry mat)
Old man: Hey! You need to move your car.
Me: I'll move it after I put my clothes in the washer and find your son's (turned out the old man was his dad) real 2nd parking spot.
At this point, the neighbors have come out to view are argument and one neighbor speaks up to the guy and tells him that isn't his spot and his 2nd spot is somewhere else. He then says "really?" and goes inside. The same neighbor says I can put my clothes down for a minute by his door so I can move my car and get my parking spot. After re-taking my spot and putting my clothes in the wash machine. I go and find his spot...then later return to his house to get him.
I knock on his door and when he answers, I tell him "Hi, come on, I've found your other parking space."
The first thing he says he's sorry and that he was wrong. I tell him "I Know, now let me show where your 2nd spot is so you don't have to go through this again." I take him to his 2nd spot, which is no where near his place either and he says "this won't do at all." as I say "here ya go, and have a nice night." then walk away.
