What are your red flags for neighbors?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neighbors who have parking in front of their home, AND a driveway - but park on the street across/down from their own home, in front of someone else’s house - because their 20 yr old Toyota Highlander has an oil leak. So they park there so the oil puddles don’t stain their own driveway or street parking.


We live on larger street in a Kensington neighborhood, west of Connecticut Ave and south of Knowles Ave.

And I’m pretty sure she reads this forum.

Why do you care if they park in the street? Is that not what the purpose of on-street parking spaces is?

Stop acting obtuse. Park in YOUR driveway or in front of YOUR house. Especially if you are leaking oil.

I'm genuinely not acting obtuse. I have never ever understood why people care about cars parking in the street if they're not blocking a driveway or a hydrant. People who park on the grass of a house that's not their own -- I get that! People who block the driveway? I get that. People who park so inconsiderately that it makes it difficult to get through? I get that. But I don't care if they park in the street. Oil leaking sucks, but the street isn't my house -- if it's not leaking on my lawn or my driveway, why do I care?

Really, genuinely curious. Do you feel like it affects the look of your house or something?

The first time you get out of your car in front of your house and step in a puddle of oil that leaked out of your sh!thead neighbor’s POS car that they keep parking in front of your house because they don’t want puddles of oil in front of their own house, you might understand. And if that doesn’t drive it home, it will when your kids start tracking oily footprints inside your house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neighbors who have parking in front of their home, AND a driveway - but park on the street across/down from their own home, in front of someone else’s house - because their 20 yr old Toyota Highlander has an oil leak. So they park there so the oil puddles don’t stain their own driveway or street parking.


We live on larger street in a Kensington neighborhood, west of Connecticut Ave and south of Knowles Ave.

And I’m pretty sure she reads this forum.

Why do you care if they park in the street? Is that not what the purpose of on-street parking spaces is?

Stop acting obtuse. Park in YOUR driveway or in front of YOUR house. Especially if you are leaking oil.

I'm genuinely not acting obtuse. I have never ever understood why people care about cars parking in the street if they're not blocking a driveway or a hydrant. People who park on the grass of a house that's not their own -- I get that! People who block the driveway? I get that. People who park so inconsiderately that it makes it difficult to get through? I get that. But I don't care if they park in the street. Oil leaking sucks, but the street isn't my house -- if it's not leaking on my lawn or my driveway, why do I care?

Really, genuinely curious. Do you feel like it affects the look of your house or something?

The first time you get out of your car in front of your house and step in a puddle of oil that leaked out of your sh!thead neighbor’s POS car that they keep parking in front of your house because they don’t want puddles of oil in front of their own house, you might understand. And if that doesn’t drive it home, it will when your kids start tracking oily footprints inside your house.

Well I can just park in front their house where there’s no oils.

Also if you have oil that thick on the street in front of your house call the city or county, sounds like an environmental issue.

If it’s not a leaky car, you don’t mind tho?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neighbors who have parking in front of their home, AND a driveway - but park on the street across/down from their own home, in front of someone else’s house - because their 20 yr old Toyota Highlander has an oil leak. So they park there so the oil puddles don’t stain their own driveway or street parking.


We live on larger street in a Kensington neighborhood, west of Connecticut Ave and south of Knowles Ave.

And I’m pretty sure she reads this forum.

Why do you care if they park in the street? Is that not what the purpose of on-street parking spaces is?

Stop acting obtuse. Park in YOUR driveway or in front of YOUR house. Especially if you are leaking oil.

I'm genuinely not acting obtuse. I have never ever understood why people care about cars parking in the street if they're not blocking a driveway or a hydrant. People who park on the grass of a house that's not their own -- I get that! People who block the driveway? I get that. People who park so inconsiderately that it makes it difficult to get through? I get that. But I don't care if they park in the street. Oil leaking sucks, but the street isn't my house -- if it's not leaking on my lawn or my driveway, why do I care?

Really, genuinely curious. Do you feel like it affects the look of your house or something?

You sound even more obtuse with your follow-up.

It’s a genuine question. I live in nw dc where most houses only have one parking spot in the alley and some have none, so the norm is to park on the street and no one keeps track of who is parked in front of what house and depending on the time of day you might have to park on an intersecting street or another block. My sister lives in the burbs in Houston and her now ex husband used to rage about the neighbors parking in front of their house and when I’d ask why he’d never really articulate and now they’re divorced… maybe there’s a tree that is dropping pollen or something in front of their house or a contractor was parked when they got home or the kids wanted to play basketball in the driveway - the street is owned by everyone, why shouldn’t they take advantage of it?

Again, this is serious - what is the etiquette and why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EVs, healthy snacks at Halloween, white lights for the winter holidays, don’t shovel their sidewalks.

I've lived in Del Ray since 1997 (when it was actually poor and dangerous) and have watched Halloween go from not celebrated at all, to celebrated traditionally with candy, to celebrated with sugar free snack and trinkets with lefty political catch phrases.

I hate these people except for how much money they've made me off my house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:EVs, healthy snacks at Halloween, white lights for the winter holidays, don’t shovel their sidewalks.

I've lived in Del Ray since 1997 (when it was actually poor and dangerous) and have watched Halloween go from not celebrated at all, to celebrated traditionally with candy, to celebrated with sugar free snack and trinkets with lefty political catch phrases.

I hate these people except for how much money they've made me off my house.

Are they bad neighbors? Seems more like a kid problem if they get sugar free snacks. If it matters to you, you could give out sugar snacks.

[Anonymous]

When they call the police bc the ice cream truck is too loud

[Anonymous]

When they put up 4 signs saying dogs don’t poop here for their 4 foot x 8 foot lawn

[Anonymous]

When they put up the high pitch anti dog noise maker and does not take it down when all the parents complain that it is hurting their kids ears.

[Anonymous]

Neighbors who use their garage as the man cave.

What is annoying is that every Friday night they move their cars from the driveway to street parking. Our neighborhood has very limited street parking. I've had to go pick up guests a few streets away because that was the nearest parking they could find.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EVs, healthy snacks at Halloween, white lights for the winter holidays, don’t shovel their sidewalks.

If white lights at Christmas is your “red flag” I can only assume you’re someone’s nightmare neighbor.

[Anonymous]

When they write very terrible racist sayings in the dirt that's caked on their truck for all to see.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:EVs, healthy snacks at Halloween, white lights for the winter holidays, don’t shovel their sidewalks.

what problematic thing does all that signify?

Anal-retentive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Trump flags year round. For years.

Trump flags ever.

Or those insufferable “hate has no home here” or “in this house we:”. Anyone with one of those in their yard is not only a closet-racist but also can’t read the room.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For me, it's an overly manicured front lawn.

There's a difference between having a nice looking house and being psychotic about a lawn and spraying it with chemicals. Anytime you see two houses where there is a huge difference in lawn color, going in a straight line along the property line, you know the one with the unnatural green side is unhinged.

Curious as to what your yard looks like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:EVs, healthy snacks at Halloween, white lights for the winter holidays, don’t shovel their sidewalks.

what problematic thing does all that signify?

Anal-retentive.

NP. Anal retentive people don’t shovel their sidewalks?