'Parking like she pays rent for it': Mom calls a tow truck on a former playdate friend when she parks in her $250/month private driveway, getting payback for badmouthing her daughter

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
May 16, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Being a mom is complex. 

You love your child fiercely and would do anything to protect them, especially from mean people, other moms, and their snobby friends, but there's a line that mustn't be crossed. Vindictive behavior against your child's aggressors hardly ever works out in your favor, but for this mom in our next story, Fate would toss an opportunity that was too good to pass up right in her lap… Or more specifically, in her driveway.

Never give a mama scorned a chance at revenge, because she might just take it.

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  • This woman paid extra each month to have a driveway and a garage in her unit. While there was ample street parking, she preferred the convenience of having her own space to count on each night. Until now, she'd never had a problem with a parking spot thief, but then soon realized that the mom who recently badmouthed her daughter also felt entitled to her parking spot. The gloves came off when she realized exactly whose car was blocking her driveway and decided to watch the security footage to be sure. Lo and behold, this ex-friend was not only a cruel playdate friend but a bad seed in the community.

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  • AITA for towing my neighbor's car for blocking my driveway (even though the cop said I should've just driven over my grass)? So here's the tea. I live in a neighborhood where parking is a
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  • little tight but there is a copious amount of space around the block. It's not impossible or a super far walk. I pay more rent than most around my home (Somewhere around $100-$250 dollars extra) specifically
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  • because I have a driveway and a garage. Like a whole a garage. It's not a mystery that it's there. It's not hidden at all. It's very visible and my driveway has grass along it but is still noticable as a driveway as i've lived here
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  • for 2 years and use it semi regularly. The other day, I left my house late (around 10:30 pm or so) to grab something from the store and visit a friend. I came back
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  • around 12 am and boom-my driveway is BLOCKED. Not like they slightly nudged into it. I mean parked right in front of it, like they own the place. It was street sweeping so the street parkers moved their cars to our side street. (I live on a corner.)
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  • I checked my security cams (I have multiple, because I'm not new to neighbor nonsense), and saw what happened but I could barely make out that it was a woman, but not who exactly it was. This woman, who I now
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  • know lives on the next corner across the street, used my driveway to turn around (rude) and then decided to just park there. Bold. There were multiple spots available on the street at the time. I have receipts.
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  • Oh, and some light backstory: our daughters used to be friends, but after a kid drama moment, this woman told her daughter not to play with mine anymore. Okay, fine. My daughter and I moved
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  • on. But now this? Now she's parking in front of. my driveway like she pays rent for it. Anyway, I waited. I gave her time. I hoped she'd come move it. She parked at 10:30pm. I tried to be a
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  • good neighbor and parked elsewhwere. At 8:00 AM, I had someone coming to help me fix my car (you know, IN MY DRIVEWAY), and her car was still there. So I called the cops at 8:30, who called a tow company
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  • and had it taken. No warning. Just . Consequences. Why would I be neighborly when they weren't even courteous to me. Here's where it gets fun: The cop who came gave me flack for it.
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  • He was like, "Well, you could've driven partially through your yard, up on the curb to get in." Sir. Sir. No. I'm not damaging my grass or squeezing past someone else's car and damaging both just because you don't want to wait for a tow.
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  • Then he said he didn't want to tow it because there was a car seat inside. Cool? Should've parked legally then. The baby can't drive.
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  • Then, and this is where I almost popped off, he said, "Don't be surprised if they retaliate." Oh? Retaliate against me for... using my own driveway? I told him, "That's why y'all are here."
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  • And then I found out who the neighbor was. Found out they are from Jamaica, and was inclined to give them a pass if the rules were different there, but surprise, it's ALSO illegal to block driveways in Jamaca. So like... you already know better, girl.
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  • Anyway, she hasn't said anything to me, but she did come out as it was being towed and probably paid a cute little bill. Should have moved your car if you were awake then. I feel 0 guilt. Some neighbors said I was mean for doing that. So now I'm wondering...
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  • Tldr: AITA for towing the car instead of knocking on her door (again, despite not knowing initially who it was, and knowing this wasn't an accident and she had other parking options)? Or was I
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  • just enforcing boundaries that other people conveniently ignore? Also, how do I handle her and other neighbors who may be upset with me because of it?
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  • Reddit, drag me or clown me. I'm good either way. Also I wasn't about to go around knocking on doors at midnight or early in the morning. Like tf? People are crazy. Update/answering some of the questions.
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  • 1. I am the same race as the person who's car was towed, just not the same ethnicity. She is Jamaican, I am a black American. I mentioned it because perhaps the laws there are different and I was going to give her a pass. They aren't.
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  • 2. For those asking why I didn't go door to door and find out who's car it was that night... It was after midnight. My camera's view cut off at a certain point, so I could not see who it was that night but saw her near her car that morning when it was being towed and realized who it was.
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  • 3. I don't owe anyone anything, and there was alternate parking on the street where my driveway is, and there were 2 spots available, including the one I was forced to park at.
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  • 4. My driveway leads to stairs and to my back door. (Corner house) My kids don't always want to walk up the stairs, so sometimes I park in the front of my house. Which is why I park in my driveway semi- regularly. In the winter I always park in my garage.
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  • 5. For the few criticizing me for the status of my driveway, I'll remind you I rent my house. I don't own it, so any clean up of the grass, so I would be nice to my landlord, but nothing I'm in a rush to do.
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  • 6. I've lived in my house for 2 years, she has lived in her apartment for even longer than that with her husband. She very well knew that was my driveway.
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  • 7. For those of you upset because I called her rude for turning around in my driveway, need to understand that the street has the width of a 5 lane highway. There wasn't a need to use my driveway at all especially since I
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  • pay renters insurance and am liable for anything that happens in the driveway. I mostly called her rude because she used it to turn around and then proceeded to park in front of it.
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  • 8. I am not a pleasant neighbor. On my street, we keep to ourselves. That is the appeal of where we live. Some neighbors will gather on porches if they have preexisting relationships, but it's mainly
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  • parents going to work and minding their business. Hence why after 2 years here, I barely know who's car is whom's. Everyone minds their own here. Thanks for all the replies and votes!
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  • StayOne6979. Nta and ignore whatever that cop was saying. So weird, thats like calling in an order for pizza and the person answering the phone being like:
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  • "Wow really? A pizza order? You know you can just buy all the ingredients to make it? No brick oven? Ever heard of digorno?"
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  • supertwicken NTA. You were nice enough to wait until morning even; I would've called at midnight because I do not tolerate entitled AHs like your driveway-blocking neighbor.
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