I Believe You Have My Stapler.
June 26, 2008 – 6:48 amYesterday afternoon when we came home from comic shopping, we found that someone had parked in the space in front of our apartment. Since the apartments are one story and there is only a porch between the parking spot and my front door, it feels pretty invasive to have a mysterious Ford Explorer occupying the parking space directly in front of my dwelling.
As of this morning it’s still there. I put a note on it politely asking them to not park in my space. If it is still there when I get home from work, I am going to knock on doors until I find the owner. If the owner isn’t here, I’m contacting the apartment management to have it towed.
EDIT: I came home to find a different car in my spot, a van actually, but the note I left was responded to and stuck to my door. Apparently, the owner of the Ford is my new neighbor and my Escort was parked in their spot. Fair enough. So I moved my Escort and my van. After a few hours, they moved their van and I eventually moved my van back to my spot. I have yet to see this new neighbor, but there is proof they exist and they can be reasoned with. I think we can overcome the initial setbacks.
One Response to “I Believe You Have My Stapler.”
I had a similar thing happen to me when I lived in San Francisco. We had 1 spot given to us when we moved in. Many months later we noticed this BMW was parking in our spot so we put a note on the car asking them to stop parking in our space. We got a note back tell us that the spot belonged to them. So we went to our leasing office only to find out that that spot we were using was never in our lease and it had been given away. This was their fault for making the mistake and ours for not making them put our car spot in our lease. It took weeks for them to find us another spot. We were very angry about this because finding a spot on the street was almost impossible. They ended up giving us a spot slightly farther away. I guess the worst part was that they wouldn’t give our spot back even though we had had it first and for so long. :(
By Gary on Aug 30, 2008