Snooty neighbor tries to charge construction worker $500 a day to park near her house, gets schooled with malicious compliance: 'I took my measuring tape and measured out 15 inches''

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Jun 13, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

Sometimes, owning a car can seem to cause as many problems as it solves—especially when it comes to the issue of where to put it. It's all well and good when it's safely sat in the garage at home, but when you have to park it on somebody else's street? There's no telling what feuds you could accidentally start.

Few are more aware of this than people who work in construction. They are forever having to park in new places to get to whatever they're working on, and sometimes it's a crapshoot as to whether they are going to face a peed-off neighbor as a result.

This is something that one woman learned the hard way after the stuck-up celebrity neighbor of one of the houses she was working on tried to charge her $500 a day for legally parking her vehicle on the street for a couple of hours each day. She didn't waste any time trying to find a way to get her revenge, and the pay off was certainly satisfying. 

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    Celebrity Karen
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    AITA for intentionally being petty? So I am a builder. I primarily do high-end custom homes, 1-4 million price range. I am a female (34), which isn't common in this industry, but I really love what I do and I am fairly decent at what I do. In the past my projects were primarily in rural areas on large ranches, but this particular project is in the middle of a large city, which means there are neighbors in close proximity, which is something new for me to deal with.
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    The neighbors around this area are some of the worse, entitled, nasty people you can imagine, and one of them is a celebrity and his wife (we will call her B), who is also well known. I haven't personally had too much interaction with the couple. When B goes walking every morning I smiled and waved (which I do with everyone because this is Texas y'all) and she would always ignore me, which honestly is whatever. I not going to stop being kind because she is unfriendly, I honestly just started ign
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    My job-site has been really busy the last year, and most of my subs park along side the street in front of the house. We all park on one side, facing the proper flow of traffic. If someone happens to park on the other side of the street the neighbors call the cops or the city building official. I find this incredibly annoying and childish, but whatever. I have my guys move and it's not a big deal.
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    That being said, I stop by my project every morning to line my guys out and check on work that has been done, make my lists, etc. Most of the time I park on the very right side of B's property, which is just to the left of my projects construction drive so my guys have parking in front of the project house. I am not there long, usually 2-3 hours.
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    One day I was outside the house and a woman approached me. I wasn't sure who she was, but apparently it was B's maid. She informed me that I needed to move my car (which was on the correct side of the public street) or B was going to call the cops. I looked at her and said there was nothing wrong with me parking there. The maid then proceeded to tell me that B was going to charge me $500/a day for parking in front of her house. I laugh and told the maid I didn't know they were that hard up that
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    I went ahead and called the police to get "ahead" of the situation. He informed me there wasn't anything B could do about me parking in front of her property, which I knew, but I could get a ticket for parking within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, which is on the property line between my project and B's house. The office informed me I needed to be 15-feet away from the hydrant. I thanked him and he left. So I did end up moving my car.... I took my measuring tape and measured out 15', which put my al
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    Honestly, if she had just come to me in the beginning and asked me nicely not to park in front of her house, I probably never would have again unless absolutely necessary. But the fact she was ok sending "her help" to threaten me really pissed me off. AITA for keeping this going? I don't like when people think that they are "above you" because they are well off. I know billionaires that have better manners than this chick.
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    gotitadeamor76 I have never understood the sheer audacity of people with driveways caring about who parks in front of their house on a PUBLIC street.
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    HMS_Slartibartfast Please tell me you have an oversized truck for rural work that just HAS TO BE driven to the site from now on! Parked in front of the "B" of course! Preferably one that has recently been used to help replace a septic system!
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    Proper_Fact7866 A bright blue ram 2500 aptly named Papa Smurf! Lmao
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    Slackersr For safety perhaps orange cones could be put out at the front and back of your vehicle...
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    ColorsOfTheCurrents I'm petty, i would have the front of her house filled with my employees/workers vehicles all day, everyday. Legally of course.
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    WrenDrake NTA. I see why you call her Ms B.
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    CryptographerMedical NTA! You complied with a police warning about parking! That it annoyed her is cough such a shame...
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    RSGK I feel sorry for the housekeeper who B sent out to confront you. That's disgusting.
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    processed meat We were renovating a house for a guy and instead of having the workers park in front of his house he paid to lease a lot where everyone had to park, a van to shuttle us back and forth, and we had to take down the scaffolding every night to not block his view when he had his morning coffee. In an 8 hour day we did about 4 hours of new work
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    TechnOght Thank you for your public service in attempting to train a Karen to rejoin society.
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    Infamous-Ad-5262 NOT TA. Entitled people are people who have never learned basic human skills. Talk to people with respect, compassion, courtesy. For almost everything there are two types- good/evil, kind/mean, right/wrong, etc... When someone starts with "the wrong approach," it's really hard to undo. Another words, FAFO.
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