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News.com.au
2 days ago
- Automotive
- News.com.au
Neighbour's passive-aggressive notes massively backfire
A heated tit-for-tat between neighbours has erupted over a series of snarky Post-It notes left on a car. The driver, who recently moved into the apartment complex, found four handwritten notes in red text on their windscreen, written by a disgruntled resident. The first note declared: 'RESPECT YOUR NEIGHBOUR. Stop parking in their paid, assigned spot. It's just rude!' When the driver failed to move their car, the angry neighbour continued their paper-based barrage. 'I've tried to be kind, but you ignored my note,' a second note read. 'You could've been towed a week ago. PLEASE let me park in the spot I've had for years. THX.' And a third said: 'NOT YOUR SPOT, PLEASE STOP taking it! THANK YOU'. 'I PAY FOR THIS SPOT and would like to use it. Please and thank you,' the final note read. Sharing the bizarre incident on Reddit, the car owner explained that the spot had actually been assigned to them when they started renting the apartment. 'I have been parking in my assigned place … one day I came out and found these notes plastered across my windshield and window,' they explained in the thread. Being new to the building and unfamiliar with the layout, they initially thought that they might have parked in the wrong spot. But after speaking with the real estate agent, they confirmed that it was indeed their spot. In light of this, the post's author then removed the notes from her car and left a message of her own. She said something to the effect of 'I checked with the office and this is my spot. You should check with them too'. Several hours later, she checked her car and the note was nowhere to be seen. 'No new notes have appeared,' she shared. Instantly, hundreds of commenters weighed in with their thoughts on what had happened. Many believed the neighbour leaving the notes had been parking in the wrong spot for years. 'If I was wrong and I did this, I would be so embarrassed and offer an apology and probably a gift,' said one. 'The irony of being mad that someone took the spot that you've actually been the one stealing,' chimed in another. Others believe that the angry neighbour was aware they had been parking in the wrong spot all along and were just upset the jig was up. 'The 'parking here for YEARS' gives it away,' said one. 'They just feel entitled to this spot even though it isn't assigned to them'. 'They were trying to intimidate them into moving,' suggested someone else. 'They knew that wasn't their spot, but they'd probably been using it while it was empty and are now p*ssed that someone moved in and claimed the spot they'd been using'. Meanwhile, some thought the note writer might have been innocent. 'For all we know, the other driver didn't even make any mistakes. The office could have told them years ago the wrong spot number, and they've been parking there ever since, but nobody told them,' theorised one user. A surprising number of people agreed with this, explaining that they'd faced similar issues in their own apartment blocks when parking spaces assigned to specific units had been misallocated, only discovering it when new tenants moved in. Others suggested a better approach would have been to request a formal letter from the real estate agent confirming the spot was theirs, and then put it on their car.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Daily Mail
Driver's response after disgruntled neighbour leaves passive aggressive notes on her car
A series of snarky notes left on a car parked in an apartment block has sparked a war of words between neighbours. The driver, who only moved into the complex earlier this month, found four handwritten post-it notes scrawled with red marker on her windscreen by a disgruntled neighbour. The first of the intensely written notes read, 'RESPECT YOUR NEIGHBOUR. Stop parking in their paid, assigned spot. It's just rude!' When the driver didn't move her car, the angry neighbour began leaving more notes. 'I've tried to be kind but you ignored my note,' they said in the second note. 'You could've been towed a week ago. PLEASE let me park in the spot I've had for years. THX (sic).' 'NOT YOUR SPOT PLEASE STOP taking it! THANK YOU,' a third note read. 'I PAY FOR THIS SPOT and would like to use it. Please and thank you,' a fourth said. But there seems to be twist. In a Reddit thread titled 'I was parked in my spot' the driver explained that the spot was actually an assigned car space that came with the apartment. She explained that she had recently 'moved into the complex... and have been parking in my assigned place'. 'One day I came out and found these notes plastered across my windshield and window,' she said. Being new to the building, the woman's initial reaction to seeing the notes was that she must have accidentally parked in a neighbour's spot. 'I immediately worried that I'd been parking in the wrong spot,' she said. But after contacting the real estate's office, they confirmed it was indeed her correct assigned parking space. Accordingly, the woman removed the neighbour's passive aggressive notes from her car and left a response on her own windshield. 'I was saying something to the effect of "I checked with the office and this is my spot. You should check with them too." 'Several hours later I checked and the note I left was gone... No new notes have appeared,' she added. The post shared on August 13 quickly erupted on Reddit, with more than 400 comments. The Reddit thread about the apartment car spot attracted hundreds of replies. But there was a divide among commenters about whether the note-writing neighbour had been intentionally parking in the wrong spot, or, if they had been simply mistaken about the spot being theirs The consensus was that the person who started leaving 'rude' notes had been parking in the incorrect spot for many years 'If I was wrong and did this, I would be so embarrassed and offer up an apology and probably a gift,' one said. 'The irony of being mad [that] someone took the spot that you've actually been the one stealing,' added another. But there was a divide among commenters about whether the note writing neighbour had been intentionally parking in the wrong spot, or, if they had been simply mistaken about the spot being theirs all along. 'That "I've been parking in for YEARS" gives it away,' suggested one reply. 'They just feel entitled to this spot even though it isn't assigned to them.' 'Seems like someone just parked there for free since the complex hadn't sold it. Now they're sad to see it go and were hoping that you were parking there for free, too,' speculated another person. '[T]hey were trying to intimidate OP into moving,' theorised another. 'They knew that wasn't their spot, but they'd probably been using it while it was empty and are now pissed that someone moved in and got assigned the spot they'd been utilising.' On the other side of the coin, numerous sympathetic responses pointed out that the note-writer might not have been in the wrong either. 'For all we know, the other driver didn't even make any mistakes. The office could have told them years ago the wrong spot number, and they've been parking there ever since, but nobody told them,' one person mused. A surprising number of people agreed with this theory - explaining that they'd experienced similar issues in their own apartment buildings when parking spaces meant for particular units had been misassigned, with the mistakes only caught once new tenants moved in. 'This reminds me of when we first moved into our current place and the property manager at the time told us the wrong space number so we were just.... unknowingly parking in someone else's spot like an a**hole for a few days,' added another. 'My old building absolutely did this. They gave our spot to a new tenant, not realizing it was already assigned - but it was an accident, not malicious.' 'When I first moved into my apartment they gave me someone else's spot. The lady was so angry with me for blocking her spot,' one person replied. 'I checked with the management, yup - that's my spot. But then so did she and it was her spot, too… seems like it could have been the same thing going on here.' Another person helpfully suggested that a better approach would've been to request a formal 'letter' from the rental office confirming the spot assignment and to then display it prominently on the car. One person asked if there had been any further updates or confirmations on any of the theories floated amongst the replies. But the original poster responded saying there had been no more developments. 'Hopefully they're either just embarrassed (if it was unintentional) or they accept that their ploy didn't work (if it was intentional),' they wrote.
