Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in a neighborhood where there are driveways, but they only fit one car. We have three in our household, so street parking is kinda a big deal.

Our neighborhood doesn’t require permits, and there are no limits on parking.

One of our neighbors (I can’t figure out who) has been parking their van with a big CAPITOL PEST on its side, right smack in front of our house for the whole week! Like, leaving for work, coming back, and intentionally parking in front of our house even though there’s plenty of other spots on our street.

I am seriously annoyed, even though I feel a bit ridiculous being so peeved about this. One, it’s taking the spot right in front of our house, and two, it looks to all the world that we have a serious pest problem...

What would you do? I don’t want to be passive aggressive about this, but jeebus.

Ask him to stop being a pest and park elsewhere.

🤣🤣🤣

Love this pun!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it’s there all week, your neighbors, mailman, etc. know whose van it is. Why would you care what anyone else thinks?

It’s an eyesore. It’s a gigantic ad for pest control that I have to see right outside my baby’s nursery every day.

UGH.

You must have a pretty good life if this registers as a problem.

Lol you will also find many aspects of parenting to be quite challenging, and will no doubt burn out very quickly, if you keep sweating the small stuff.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it’s there all week, your neighbors, mailman, etc. know whose van it is. Why would you care what anyone else thinks?

It’s an eyesore. It’s a gigantic ad for pest control that I have to see right outside my baby’s nursery every day.

UGH.

Are you for real you sound like a big ass baby because you don’t wanna have to look out and see a van that says pest control??
are you for real ??? are you really really for real ??

this would drive me nuts. why would anyone be ok with a pest van as their view.

Because it's funny?

If Pest Neighbor isn't leaving room for OP to park there and could, I'd definitely ask, politely, if they could park so there's room for my car, too. If not, I'd just park in front of their house.

If I was the owner of the van and a homeowner confronted me about parking in front of their house because my vehicle was unsightly, that would be my permanent parking spot for life. In fact, I might even ask the boss if I could bring another van home!

I would also troll Craigslist for the cheapest, ugliest POS car possible and park that baby right out front too. I would make sure it ran and had all the necessary stickers and whatnot. I would move it around but always make sure to park it right in front of your place. I would even let my kids go to town with a couple of cans of spray paint to decorate the car.

So before you confront the driver, consider they may just be a passive aggressive petty jerk like me who could make things worse for you (and totally legally worse).

Anonymous wrote:We already switched our car parking places so that the person who is home most of the day has one of the two street spots in front of our house, the person who gets home latest (me) gets the driveway. But that leaves our cousin living with us high and dry. She usually gets home after the Pest Control person. She's forced to park in front of someone else's house and she feels terrible about it.

Wait - you have an extended family member living with you, and you are cranky that she doesn't get to park in a spot in front of your house? That your neighbor is parking his truck there?

If you were really concerned about being a good host, OP, you'd let your cousin park in the driveway, and you would park elsewhere. I'm sure it isn't that far.

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Anonymous wrote:The person who stays home needs to park the middle so that there’s just enough room for your cousin to park between that car and the driveway, but not enough space for the large van. Hell, put a cone there, if you like. Then when cousin comes home, she can park there.

What an ass. You put a cone on a public street?? And you can go to a whole lot of rigmarole park and funny and then somebody get a come out another person comes home and doing a whole bunch of bullshit just so a particular van doesn’t park in front of your house because your ass can’t just park across the street or down two spots and walk your happy ass up to the house ! what a barrel of idiots!!

I would consider that abandoned property, and a free cone.

Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP that this is a problem as the neighbor has several other open spots from which to choose.

OP: Consider buying a low cost car and parking it in front of your house so that the space is taken.

If you think this through for 30 seconds, you may realize that it won't solve the problem.

I swear, some of you don't have three brain cells to rub together.

We have no driveway, and around half our neighbors don't either, so we have to park on the street. A work truck has been parking in front of my living room window every day for weeks, and not moving during the weekend. We are on a city with no front lawn or garden, so when I say in front...well, if it's a tall truck, that's the view.

My husband has a strong idea of parking etiquette, i.e. the strip in front of our house can fit 4 cars between neighbor driveways, so he thinks you should always park at one of the end spots if open to help fit the most cars. (They arent individually marked within the parking box, so bad middle parking jobs mean only 3 can fit.) He usually parks in the front of the box, in front of our next door neighbor who doesn't park on the street at all. Our window looks out on the second spot. I've started parking there even though it's against my husband's idea of etiquette because I am tired of being overly polite just to reserve that second space for a work truck that isn't even for a business on our street, and that's so big it makes it hard for 4 cars to fit anyway. Petty? Maybe.

That said, I think it would be a bit obnoxious to insist we should get 3 out of 4 spots, which sounds like what OP wants. I am not very sympathetic to households with limited parking and an above average number of cars. This all happens because people want more cars than the infrastructure is built for.

Agree with OP that this is a problem as the neighbor has several other open spots from which to choose.

OP: Consider buying a low cost car and parking it in front of your house so that the space is taken.

Anonymous wrote:We already switched our car parking places so that the person who is home most of the day has one of the two street spots in front of our house, the person who gets home latest (me) gets the driveway. But that leaves our cousin living with us high and dry. She usually gets home after the Pest Control person. She's forced to park in front of someone else's house and she feels terrible about it.

If you do have 2 spots in front of your house, park poorly with the one car that is there all day so it is double parked until cousin gets home. Kind of a jerk move for other neighbors, but would solve your problem

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The person who stays home needs to park the middle so that there’s just enough room for your cousin to park between that car and the driveway, but not enough space for the large van. Hell, put a cone there, if you like. Then when cousin comes home, she can park there.

What an ass. You put a cone on a public street?? And you can go to a whole lot of rigmarole park and funny and then somebody get a come out another person comes home and doing a whole bunch of bullshit just so a particular van doesn’t park in front of your house because your ass can’t just park across the street or down two spots and walk your happy ass up to the house ! what a barrel of idiots!!

No one wants their children crossing the street to get in the car. I never want my young kids in the street - the first time they do it themselves to go get a forgotten toy or something could mean they get run over. Drivers are often not paying attention - staring at their phones while driving - making neighborhood streets very dangerous places.

So park farther down the street, use your driveway, or just move to a rural area where you don't have neighbors.

I mean, you don't get to claim the street in front of your house because you have young kids. And I have young kids.

Anonymous wrote:We already switched our car parking places so that the person who is home most of the day has one of the two street spots in front of our house, the person who gets home latest (me) gets the driveway. But that leaves our cousin living with us high and dry. She usually gets home after the Pest Control person. She's forced to park in front of someone else's house and she feels terrible about it.

Ok, now you're being ridiculous. Parking in front of someone else's house is something that happens. Feeling "terrible" about it? Really?

I hear you. Our neighbors have a big ugly truck with a huge platform trailer behind it and some sort of racing car on the platform. (It's a junky one with stickers all over it). They constantly park in front of our house and it's such an eye sore. It's public parking though, so nothing we can do about it. We park our cars mostly in the garage but sometimes use street parking so I try to grab the main spot when I can but then they'll just park in front of me.

It’s funny how some posters feel it’s fine to lecture another adult, but don’t you dare to suggest that neighbors should be neighborly.

Anonymous wrote:We live in a neighborhood where there are driveways, but they only fit one car. We have three in our household, so street parking is kinda a big deal.

Our neighborhood doesn’t require permits, and there are no limits on parking.

One of our neighbors (I can’t figure out who) has been parking their van with a big CAPITOL PEST on its side, right smack in front of our house for the whole week! Like, leaving for work, coming back, and intentionally parking in front of our house even though there’s plenty of other spots on our street.

I am seriously annoyed, even though I feel a bit ridiculous being so peeved about this. One, it’s taking the spot right in front of our house, and two, it looks to all the world that we have a serious pest problem...

What would you do? I don’t want to be passive aggressive about this, but jeebus.

OP, I had a similar reaction once when someone's vehicle was parked outside out house and people flamed me and told me that the street is open to park for everyone. If it's temporary, it will be okay but if it's all of teh time I would try to do something about it discreetly after some time has passed.