'She couldn't get it out': Lazy neighbor pays the ice when her car gets snowed over after stealing her neighbors' already cleared spots

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Jan 10, 2024 7:00 AM EST

In stories, when a character has done something wrong or displays a glaring personality flaw, there's generally a direct price that is played at some point in the story, usually soon thereafter. In life, there are relatively few times when the lesson or moral to the story of your wrongful actions is quite so clear. No, usually, we get away with being generally lazy, cruel, entitled, or plain old wrong for far too long before that karmic pendulum swings back in our direction… sometimes, we may even be rewarded or flourish in spite of our misdeeds. Very seldom does the lesson literally fall down from the heavens above.

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  • Well, in this story (which presumably happened in real life), this neighbor found herself learning a very valuable and obvious lesson after she refused to clear her own parking space in the neighborhood where she lived. Instead, she relied on being able to drive her car out of her snow-covered spot before preparing in a spot her neighbors had cleared where their own cars were. This worked great for her until a heavy snowfall made it impossible to get her car out of its space, foiling her plan; the stuck car then continued to be piled with snow.

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    "She couldn't get it out."
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    My neighbour asked me why i bothered M OC Hello Reddit, long time no see. Where i live we get snow in the wintertime and i have a bad back so i bought a snowblower. I live in a 4 family house and we park our cars on a public street. When the snow plough clears the street it leaves a good "treshold" (or snowbank if you will) on the sides of the street towards all our parked cars and we go out shoveling it away so we can get our cars out. Well, most of us do, but not all, especially one of my neig
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    comes back she conveniantly parks in a spot that cleard, by ME and my machine. Last week she tried to wiggle her car out from the spot and over the snowbank and i stood watching her from inside for about 15 minutes before she got her car out. The snow made it hard for her and it doesnt help that she cant drive... SMH Last year when i was outside clearing the snow she came out and started her car but she couldnt get it out of the snow. I told her to get out and then i reversed it out from there f
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    During the winter last year she started parking in cleared spots and didnt lift the shovel to clear any snow one single time. I wasnt out to do it every day, my other neighbours did it when i didnt, but not her, not at all. Well, this week we had a massive snowfall, we have had about 3 feet in 3 days so clearing the street and walkway to the house has been essential, but why should i bother to do it? Like stated above, i like getting my car out, but this year i havent done anything at all to hel
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    Oh, the best of it is that we have a cold front here, forecast says -4°F the upcoming days and that will make all the hard packed snow into ice. So, neighbour, why should i bother...? Edited to add link to a picture: https://ibb.co/TOYFRYr Link edited but you have to copy and paste it, sorry
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    ((c. 6poundpuppy. 2 hr. ago I think I'd buy a shovel, put a big red bow on it and lean it up against the car-igloo of hers. A very unsubtle hint. Vote Reply Share TheHorizonLies. 2 hr. ago A shovel you'd find in a set of children's beach toys Vote Reply Share
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    4eva28 1 hr. ago Bravo. I used to live in a house that only had parking on one side of the street and I had one of the few houses without a driveway. I had 1 car, and my neighbors across the street had two, so they always parked in front of my house. The space could comfortably fit three cars but had to be properly cleared on swow days to do so.
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    They never properly cleared their spots, but I had 4wd and could practicallly drive over anything, even if I had to shovel a bit. It always insured my spot was mine. I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed it one day when they managed to get into my barely shoveled spot and couldn't get out the next day until they cleared all of the compressed and refrozen ice/snow. Vote Reply Share
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    No-Comfortable-3918 40 min. ago This reminds me of a similar situation years ago but I didn't have to do anything special. We had a huge snowfall that and I cleared my driveway and the windrow by the afternoon because I worked from home due to the storm. I have a nice snow blower. A neighbor came home later and parked in my driveway because he couldn't get into his. I assumed he was doing this temporarily until he could clear his. Then his wife did the same. Like your neighbor, they never helped
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    anything. It snowed again heavily (the heavy wet stuff) overnight and I woke up to see both their cars still in my driveway. The city plow came by in the overnight hours and there was another windrow on my driveway and a supersized one on his. They were icy and hard packed by then. I sat around at home until they finished clearing his driveway and digging out a portion of mine before I got dressed and went out to fire up the snow blower. Vote Reply Share
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    Liveand Love Llamas 12 min. ago I would have gone and knocked and told them to move I had to go somewhere Then I would back halfway down the driveway so you couldn't fit another car in behind and gone back inside Im petty Vote Reply Share
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    buildersent 2 hr. ago Nice! and when she does dig out and take someone elses cleared parking spot, take the snowblower and pile her snow from the old spot around her car and the spritz it with a spray bottle of water for a bonus. Vote Reply Share
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    RedditAdminAreMorons 2 hr. ago Most old ladies bribe you with free babysitting and cookies, makes all the men in the area move mountains for them by hand. Not this one. She didn't even bother asking. Vote Reply Share
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    MrBeer9999 4 days ago How do you remove the snow on a car when the encasing igloo turns to ice? I don't live in a snowy place so I don't know the procedure for really troublesome quantities of snow. Reply Share Vote drzowie 36 min. ago At that point, mostly just wait for warm weather. Vote Reply Share 02K30C1 34 min. ago Wait for spring Vote Reply Share
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    Frosty_Guarantee6369 2 hr. ago Spray some water on the snow around the car Vote Reply Share Kirkuchiyo 2 hr. ago Add yellow food coloring first... Vote Reply Share CoderJoel 2 hr. ago That's a golden idea ✩ Vote Reply Share
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    Swiss_Miss_77 . 47 min. ago Man, this could go to petty revenge so easily with the use of a supersoaker full of hot water at 3 am.... Vote Reply Share Mossemannen OP. 40 min. ago It could, but i have no interest in that. The woman in question is a good neighbour albeit a little lazy. I had no idea that it would come to this exctent but noone controls the weather. Vote Reply Share
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