Guy spends 45 minutes shoveling 8 inches of snow from cars, neighbor steals his parking space: 'I must have poured about 10 gallons of water on his car... it sat like that overnight'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 1, 2025 3:00 PM EST

With 8 inches of snow covering the ground, one guy got to work shoveling. It's not the most fun job in the world, but someone's got to do it! 

For most people, shovelling snow is one of those reasons they dread the sight of any snowfall. While kids get to frolic around in the snow and build snow forts, the adults are stuck sweeping the snow from pathways and using those ice scrapers to de-ice the windshields. 

This person had not only one car to save from the 8 inches of snow, but two! They report that it took them roughly 45 minutes in freezing cold temperatures to get the two cars shoveled out. That explains their reaction when they realized their neighbor did them wrong! This neighbor had the audacity to steal that freshly-shoveled spot with their own car. That's just asking for trouble! 

Next, read about the employees who are driving their coworkers crazy with their incompetence, like one woman who is "manually deleting… 180,000 emails." 

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    It was a cold winter day. 8 inches of snow had fallen the night before, and the windchill made it feel as if it were in the negatives (Fahrenheit). I drive an all wheel drive SUV so I have no issues getting out. My wife on the other hand drives a Prius, which slides with the smallest amount of moisture on the road.
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    My car was down at the time, so we had to take my wife's car. I spent 45 minutes in the freezing cold shoveling that car out so we could get to the store. We were gone for an hour, and when we came back, our neighbor had taken the spot I had shoveled.
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    Our apartment complex doesn't have assigned parking, but in the winter, it's understood that if you shovel a spot, it's yours. So when I saw his car in the spot I had just shoveled, I was pretty p ed.
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    I went inside and filled two gallon jugs of water. Went back out and poured them on his windshield. Rinse and repeat. I must have poured about ten gallons of water on his car. Being how cold it was, it was already freezing by the time I poured the last gallon on. It sat like that overnight.
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    The next morning, I got to watch as he helplessly tried to scrape all of these layers of ice off his windshield. Don't take my parking spot.
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    Not every commenter thought this person did the right thing, so the original poster defended their actions

    Edit: you guys need to chill. This isn't r/AITA. I'm not looking for judgement because I already know I'm an ah le. The point of this sub is to tell stories of petty revenge. I'd say I was being pretty petty
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    Edit 2: sorry, I find it so funny people telling me I committed vandalism. No damage was done except for wasting like 5-10 minutes of his time. Ever hear of freezing rain? It does the same thing I did to his car. Never does any damage. This was also many years ago, and the cops haven't come to arrest me yet. I think I'm good.
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    [deleted] My dad was petty af. The winter of 96' in the Philly area. He had shoveled a spot out from the few feet of snow we got. I can't remember why his car was gone for a minute but when he got back someone had parked in his spot. My dad was MAD. So he shovels
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    himself a new spot, and piles all the snow up on and around the car in his original spot. He then shovels the neighbors some spots and did the same thing. Couldn't even see the car when he was done.
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    spaghettirodrig... In Pittsburgh we've mostly all agreed on the "parking chair" system. If you shovel it, you put a folding chair or something similar in the spot. If you're someone looking for a spot, you do not violate the sanctity of the parking chair.
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    HalfaManYouAre A few years ago, we got a foot or two of snow in Philadelphia. I lived in the not so good section of west Philadelphia. People would put cones and trashcans on spots they shoveled out. One idiot had the b s to move the cones and trashcans and park in the spot. Guess who didn't have tires when they came back.
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    t3hnhoj I love the OPs Edit. "Guys, I know I'm the ah le here. F him and f you all too." I'd gild this post if I could.
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    This story is outrageous

    thats4metoknow Years ago, working for Digital in the 80s on one of the online forums somebody told the tale of an a h le landlord they had in Chicago. When they left the apartment, in winter, they had a waterbed that they
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    needed to empty, which they did by using a hose as a siphon. They ran the pipe out of the window and onto the landlord's car. Apparently, the car was entombed for the rest of the winter.
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    N.. This is amazing. It's common knowledge, if your complex doesn't handle snow removal, don't be a and shovel your own spot. My old apartment before I bought a house, a couple of the kids would actually knock on doors and collect 2-3 dollars per person and would shovel a spot for every apartment that paid. Lol
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