Karen neighbor accuses biker of trying to reserve the best spot, malicious compliance ensues: 'Ok, I'll stop parking both my bikes in one spot'

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
May 5, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

Ahh yes… Parking disputes. A source of disputation between neighbors for as long as man has employed means of vehicular transport that needed to be stored somewhere in times of disuse. The need for storage space has long been a source of petty territorial badgering, especially when your neighbor has stored their carriage in the most convenient part of the communal space where you had been intending to store yours. The level-headed thing to do would be to park yours in the less convenient place until a more convenient area opens up, but then what other mild inconvenience would you blame for your unhappiness?

This Karen neighbor complained to this biker about how they had been parking multiple bikes in a single parking space, accusing them of trying to keep the best spot permanently reserved when really it was just an attempt on their and their roommate's part to conserve space and not take up additional parking. After handling enough of the Karen's complaints it was time to get even and have a little fun doing it…

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  • 01
    "An hour later, I had all 7 of my motorcycles [...] sitting in front of the apartment building, taking up every prime parking space in front."
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    Karen says "stop cheating to reserve the best parking space in front of the building!" SOC A karen neighbor of mine complained that my roommate and I park in the same parking spot, which is right next to the walk way up to the apartment building. Both of us ride motorcycle and both motorcycles belong to me, but my roommate rides one to get to work.
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    She accused me of using my second bike to get a defacto reserved a parking spot when nobody in the complex has one, and said that what I'm doing is not fair and it's cheating. I said "Ok, I'll stop parking both my bikes in one spot." She seemed satisfied with that and left.
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    An hour later I had all 7 of my motorcycles, 5 of them from inside the garage I rent but it's half way across the apartment complex, sitting in front of the apartment building taking up every prime parking space infront of the walk way to to my hall in the building. She went to straight to the management to complain. The management came out and knocked on my door.
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    "We can't have you using up every parking space" "Let me guess, Karen complained?" "Yes." "Yeah she told me I'm not allowed to have two bikes in one parking space to reserve a space. I'm not doing it to reserve a space. Both my roommate and I ride both of the bikes we park in that one space, all the bikes belong to me but I gave the keys to
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    one of them to my roommate to ride for commuting to work. The other one is my bike for going where ever I need. We park both in one spot to be nice and conserve parking spaces so other people have somewhere to park. I was just showing Karen what would happen if I'm only allowed one bike per parking space. The other 5 bikes are generally in another parking space, in my garage where I keep the bikes I that don't ride frequently."
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    The apartment manager said "I understand. You made your point and I'll talk to her, please put the other 5 bikes back in the garage." "No problem" I said. It's been a few weeks, haven't heard from Karen.
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    (EDIT) Since so many people are inventing details not in the story, assuming those details are true, and then getting upset over what they imagined, let me clarify something. This happened at 1 in the afternoon on a day both my roommate and I had off. Most people are away at work during this time. What's more, with the exact topography of the apartment complex, there are only 2
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    apartments per walkway without going up stairs on my side of the building, but 4 on the other sides because it's up a level and the building is built into a hill. What this means is that MOST people park on the other side of the building, leaving MOST of the parking spots in front of my building free and open except for very late at night. How the heck do you think I took up the 7 closest spots with all 7 bikes if the parking lot was full of people trying to park? Think about it for just a secon
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    BOTH BIKES are away from the apartment complex AT THE SAME TIME for a MINIMUM of 4 hours a day. We didn't engineering the situation where my roommate gets home between 3 to 4 in the afternoon and thus gets first pick of the parking spots. We also could both be driving cars instead of riding bikes. Then there'd be two spots taken up instead of 1. I could just choose not to rent a garage and park all 7 out there forcing people into overflow parking, but I don't.
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    Also the garage is beyond the overflow parking. It's not fair to expect me to always park in the garage and walk even further because you don't want to park next to my bikes and have all of 2 extra feet to walk to reach the concrete walkway to the building.
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    • H1king33k 10 hr. ago This reminds me of a story I once heard. I can't find a link, so it may be apocryphal. The story goes, San Francisco was trying to increase revenue from parking meters downtown, so they passed an ordinance saying only one motorcycle could be in each space on the street, instead of doubling, tripling, or quadrupling up as was normal.
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    So the riders coordinated to all bring their bikes downtown on the same busy weekday and each took up one space, filling up every space in the downtown area for miles around. As you can imagine, it was chaos because none of the car drivers could find street parking and had to opt for much more expensive garages, and/or driving around for hours looking for a space. Needless to say the ordinance was repealed.
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    Critical Traffic7686 10 hr. ago We rode our motorcycles to watch a hockey game and we tried to only pay for 1 parking spot since we could easily fit 4 of them in 1 spot. They forced us to pay for each. So we took up 4 prime spots. The attendants were mad. The people we mad. I've been to baseball games and I was let in to park for free on my motorcycle while cars still had to pay.
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    • Jeffrey_Friedl · 10 hr. ago The main take-away from this is that OP has only 7 motorcycles. Good luck, good sir, toward achieving the number you need. (N+1) Ghost_Alice OP 9 hr. ago The N+1 problem is why I have 7. I'll eventually have 8, and then 9... etc.
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    rob_1127 9 hr. ago In downtown Toronto, you can park multiple motorcycles in one on-street parking space, at a 45- degree angle, backed in, and none of the bikes need to pay for parking. Where are you going to safety display your paid parking stub? It would either blow away, or someone would just take it for their own parking space.
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    I asked a Cop about this, and he had to call into the station and ask for a parking enforcement staff member to confirm it. And it was confirmed. And yes, I took the officers badge number, and he recorded the interaction in his notebook, just in case the Parking Authority officer (we call them Green Hornets, cause they hover around and sting you with a fine and wear green uniforms) decides to give out tickets. Then we have some paper trail to fight the ticket.
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    Occasionally, some do-gooder will squawk that we need parking passes. A quick mind your own business, it's legal, look it up, is not enough for these ass hats. But, we just walk away.
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    Wooden-Quit1870 10 hr. ago At some point in the '90s, NYC decided to 'crack down' on motorcycles sharing spaces- apparently they felt these bikes were avoiding parking fees that the city was being cheated out of. In response a huge mob of bikers descended on the City at 5am, and parked one to a space in midtown, effectively taking up all the parking. I participated, even though I didn't work in the city. It was generally considered the only time that the Giuliani Administration backed down on a
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    Overall-Magician-884 10 hr. ago Perfect! I once lived in an apartment complex with assigned parking. Our neighbors were the stereotypical jock lacrosse players for the college nearby. All of their friends would take all the "prime /assigned parking" and the handicap parking. Our downstairs neighbor was a nice old lady, and never wanted to start trouble. I'd asked them a couple times to not park in the handicap spot since it was the elderly ladies. Somehow a nail ended up under one of their tires
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    RhoOfFeh 8 hr. ago I was once parking my bike at work, and someone who was forced to walk a long distance complained to me that I was taking up a parking space with only a bike. I asked her how many people her car had brought to work that day.
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