3 days ago
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.
