'She thinks [...] he has a right to park there': Roommates confront student's boyfriend who keeps hogging shared parking spot

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 7, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Fighting over limited parking spaces is one of those universal experiences that connects even the most different individuals. Here, we have a group of five college students whose off-campus apartment included just two parking spaces in their driveway, which unfortunately meant that three of the tenants needed to rely on street parking regularly. 

One of the students who claimed one of those two desired spots at the beginning of their lease had their car towed. However, instead of giving her spot to one of her other roommates (who desperately needed it), she decided to give it to her boyfriend. This ungrateful dude spent most of his time at his girlfriend's apartment, using their WiFi, eating their food, and most egregiously, hogging that parking space.

It got to a point where the other roommates had to band together to confront this guy and reclaim their rightful parking spot. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more tales of parking drama, check out this story about a truck that blocked eight handicapped parking spots.

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    AITA for not allowing my roommate's boyfriend to park his car in our driveway?
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    I am an undergraduate college student and live with four other undergraduate college students, all of us 20-22 F. We have a pretty decent 5 bedroom house with a small yard and 2-car driveway with a garage--which we use for storage. For a college town, we live in a pretty nice area, but parking can sometimes be a nightmare. All five of us have long-term boyfriends.
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    Four out of five of us have cars. When we moved into the house last summer, we agreed that the driveway spots would go to two of the roommates. Our fifth roommate, "A," was one of the roommates that was promised a spot. Unfortunately, she was T- boned just before we moved in
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    and her car was totaled. Even though she really needs one to get to her classes and internship, A's parents do not want her to buy a new one and she can't currently afford to buy one herself. Instead, she has her boyfriend drive her wherever she needs to go.
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    A's boyfriend parks in the extra spot in the driveway whenever he comes over--and he is over for at least six hours a day, every day, and sometimes overnight. We (the four other roommates) have asked A and her boyfriend numerous times to park elsewhere--like, at least six or seven times. We have talked to both of them separately,
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    and together, to no avail. No matter the amount of conversations, A's boyfriend continues to park his car in the one remaining driveway spot. This has been going on for almost a year.
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    We (the four other roommates) have all told our boyfriends not to park in the driveway, and they have abided by our requests. A sees nothing wrong with this situation, as she was promised the spot at the beginning of the summer, and she thinks that since they're "sharing" a car, he has a right to park there. However, since the circumstances just happen to be that she doesn't have a car right
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    now, the other four of us think that if the spot should go to somebody, it should be someone whose name is on the lease for our house, as three of us could REALLY use that extra driveway spot. When A's boyfriend isn't parked there, we rotate who gets to use it--of course, this rarely happens.
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    It got pretty heated today as one of my roommates came home to see A's boyfriend in the driveway again, and she said that if it happens one more time, she will be calling the police. I really don't want the cops to get involved, but I am kinda fed up of him parking there, and feel a little disrespected that she won't just ask him to move. Maybe I'm just being too harsh. Are we being unfair? AWTA?
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    Edit: here is some more info regarding why we promised her the spot: We originally agreed to let her have the spot because she had a small sedan, and we did not know if any of the remaining three roommates' cars would even fit in the driveway (two pickup trucks and a large SUV). This was prior to us moving in. Once we moved in,
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    however, we realized that the driveway was long enough that any of our cars could fit (granted only 2 at a time), and we loosely started who rotate got to park in either of the parking spots. This was until her boyfriend started parking there, and she claimed that he shouldn't have to move.
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    finallyinfinite 15 hr. ago Certified Proctologist [27] NTA. The parking is for the people on the lease. If the person on the lease is no longer parking there and there's no plans for that to be changing any time in the near future, the parking space should go to someone else on the lease. 4.3k ☐ Reply Share
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    samuraintj . 15 hr. ago ΝΤΑ. Those who actually reside there should get the spot. Visitors don't get a spot, especially when residents don't have space to park.
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    I wonder, even if we say NTA, how do you intend on proceeding and enforcing? Seems tricky...I might take it up with the landlord before going to the police... Also, I'd clean up the garage, since 2-3 of you are still left without a spot. 924 Reply Share
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    ext2523. 15 hr. ago INFO Why was she promised a spot and not the other three roommates? 343 Reply Share
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    moo_moo_mother 14 hr. ago OP. We originally agreed to let her have the spot because she had a small sedan, and we did not know if any of the remaining three roommates' cars would even fit in the driveway (two pickup trucks and a large SUV). This was prior to us moving in. Once we moved in, however, we realized that the driveway was long enough that any of our cars could fit (granted only 2 at a time), and we loosely started who rotate got to park in either of the parking spots. This was until he
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    • coldgator 15 hr. ago ESH but this could be solved by having whoever gets the driveway spots pay slightly more in rent (which means the other people's rent would be slightly less). 228 Reply Share
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    miyuki_m. 15 hr. ago "A," was one of the roommates that was promised a spot. YTA. A was promised a spot but isn't using it herself because she no longer has a car. Instead, her BF is driving her, so he gets to use her spot. Unless you revoked her right to use the spot and it's no longer hers, she gets to have the person providing her transportation use her spot. 208 Reply Share
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    burneraccount __96. 13 hr. ago So the dude who doesn't pay rent and is there constantly, I'd assume eating using the restroom and not doing any sort of chores also gets one of two parking spots? If she were borrowing the car, that would be one thing, but why does dude doing pick off drop-off service deserve that spot more than people paying to live there? He's not even doing the rotation like the other roommates just laying claim 252 Reply Share
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    Sea_Bar8885 · 15 hr. ago YTA. You promised A a spot in that drive way without an exception. Since she is using her boyfriend and his car as a vehicle to get around, in her mind it shouldn't be a problem to park there. The vehicle he drives is being used because it's a necessity to her you said yourself. You shouldn't walk this back during a time she needs help the most. 122 Reply Share
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