'You need to move your car': Couple parks on neighbor's driveway, retort ‘we're not parking here' when asked to move

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Eleonora Bader
Aug 13, 2023 7:00 AM EDT

'The apple doesn't fall from the tree' does not only apply to family situations but also to friends. People say that if you look at a person's friends, you'll know who they are, but that isn't always the case. See, even when you are lucky enough to land a house with good neighbors, their guests aren't always so polite. In this case, u/cycloscott dealt with the usual, run-of-the-mill Karen, after finding his entire driveway blocked thanks to her and her husband parking their car on it. OP approached him, asserting himself. At first, he was polite, even though they were clearly, and I mean clearly, in the wrong.

Even though I can't relate to OP in terms of owning my own driveway, I totally get rude, entitled Karens making your life unduly difficult. If I were in his place, it would have been hard to keep my cool. Their car was basically sprawled across his entire front lawn. Call this Karen sensitive if you will, but her response to OP's polite and fair request was less than satisfactory. People really don't know how to take criticism nowadays. To see how she responded, and what happened next, you are going to have to scroll down a bit. Enjoy your scrolling, and next, check out this retired engineer who used his skills to get even with his neighbors.

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    Plant - "You are LITERALLY blocking my driveway."
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    Font - Posted by u/cycloscott 14 hours ago Entitled girl blocks our driveway S The usual BS with an entitled Karen. Couple of houses on
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    Font - the street are having renovation work done, so street parking is tighter than usual. Our driveway is VERY visible. Prominent curb cut, brick pavers that start at the sidewalk, you really cannot miss it. I come home from running a
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    Font - couple of errands and a Subaru is parked across our entire, and I mean entire, driveway. They couldn't have centered their car any better if they tried. So I grab another spot and schlep my into the house. Couple minutes later I see a couple S
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    Font - leaving the rental across the street and getting into the car. They're not renters there, maybe just visiting. I'm not a complete a and I like the neighbors that live there, so I step onto the porch, get their attention and in a very nice tone of
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    Font - voice, give them the "Hey folks, just a heads up if you're back, you're parked in my driveway." The dude looks up, sees they were clearly in the wrong and says "Oh sorry man, I didn't even notice. My bad." Which, meh, if that's how poorly you
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    Font - pay attention, you probably shouldn't even be driving, but I let it slide. Karen on the other hand. "Don't worry about it, we're not parking here." uh, yeah, you dumb s you ARE parked there. But I'm
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    Font - still being at least a little nice. "Well, whether you're staying or not, you're still blocking my driveway." K: "It's not a big deal, you don't have to be a d it.' 11 about
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    Font - Me: "Oh, if I wanted to be a d you'd know it." K: "Well we're not parking here, so you don't have anything to b about." Me: ...done being nice... "Do you see that silver car parked right there? I had to
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    Font - park there because you were ALREADY blocking my driveway. So once again, you are CURRENTLY parked here." f f Dude apologizes again, tells Karen to STFU and just get in the car. We share a little nod and away they go.
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    Font - I'm kind of hoping that they visit more so I can just have her towed next time.
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    Font - Allosauridae13. 13 hr. ago Definitely tow next time! People like this are so insufferable!!! You were a LOT nicer than my fiancee would have been ↑ 761 Reply Share
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    Font - katehenry4133 14 hr. ago That reminds me of when I lived in a student housing complex. All the parking in our lot was clearly marked 'residents only'. We all had parking stickers on our cars. Across the street was the stadium for the school.
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    Font - On football nights we would have tons of people who would park in our lot. Since these cars didn't have parking stickers on them, we knew who was illegally parked. So us residents would come out and carefully let the air out
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    Font - of one tire for each illegally parked car. After the game there was a tow truck in the parking lot that charged each car $100 to fill the deflated tire. After 2-3 games word must have gotten around and people stopped parking in our lot.
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    Font - katehenry4133 · 14 hr. ago That happened to me one time. A neighbor was having a party and people were parking all over the place. Someone decided it would be ok to block my driveway. Well, my husband opened their car
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    Font - door (fortunately it wasn't locked), released the parking brake and pushed their car into the middle of the street then locked the door. Then he called the police to complain about a car parked in the middle of the road blocking traffic.
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    Font - The car was quickly towed by the police. ↑ 199 Reply Share MSK1659 hr. ago I miss manual transmissions 22 Reply Share
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    Font - ShenaniBatman · 16 hr. ago I love how almost EVERY time it's one of these situations, you have a couple where one is maybe absent minded and half-apologizes while the other one acts like they're above you.
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    Font - I'm always wondering how good the s has to be for the former to stick around with the latter... 4 78 + Reply Share
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    Font - 13auricles 15 hr. ago "We're not parking here". However, they stopped the car, put it in park, turned off the engine, and walked away. That's called "parking". Reply Share 93
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