A man has been left fuming after he caught his busybody neighbour red-handed doing something he shouldn’t outside his home, and sought advice about what to do about it
A man has been left fuming after catching his neighbour meddling outside his home, leaving him unsure of how to handle the situation for the best – as it had been happening for years. He revealed that he has an “ongoing issue” with this neighbour who “thinks he controls the parking spot” in front of his house and brazenly places cones outside to reserve space for himself or others, without consulting him first.
The man vented: “Since I moved here he has never held a job. From 7am to 11pm he sits on his front porch staring at my house and me whenever I’m outside. His butt is permanently imprinted on the concrete steps he sits on so there’s an actual puddle formed whenever it rains. My guests will often tell me he tells them they can’t park in front of my house.”
However, he recently caught the man red-handed, “in the rain, placing a cone” in front of his house to “reserve a spot for one of his friends.”
While he admitted that normally he “wouldn’t care” about the issue, he was less than impressed with the man’s antics due to learning that the neighbour liked to “gossip” about him.
He expressed his anger, saying: “I have him on camera kicking a cone I had placed in front of MY house last month,” which he was not pleased with.
He explained: “It was the only time I’ve ever placed a cone to reserve a spot since I don’t have a driveway and my disabled dad needed frequent trips to the hospital.
“Why can’t people just mind their business?”
In the comments, users were baffled at why the man hadn’t sought to secure a disabled parking bay directly outside his home to prevent others from occupying space needed for his father.
One suggested: “Contact the city and get your own disabled parking spot, right in front of your house”.
Another pitched in, saying: “If your father lives with you, you should be able to get one. If you don’t have a placard for your car, your father should be able to get one for use on whatever car he is riding. My mother had one that we transferred between my car and my daughter’s car depending on who was driving her”.
One commenter pointed out: “In Finland, such a placard (disabled) means that the car can be parked ANYWHERE as long as it doesn’t cause danger. The disabled parking places are ok too, but often they are quite far away from the place”.
Meanwhile, another Redditor humorously remarked: “If a neighbour were a cone in front of my house, it’s going in the trash. No arguments, or finger pointing, just me being neighbourly and helping to keep the road clean and safe. Come behind my gate to retrieve it from my trash can, say hi to my security camera, and meet my dog”.
A different user chimed in with a crafty tactic: “Have one of your friends borrow a car, then drive by your house really slow and have the passenger lean out the window and take the cone, then speed away. Keep doing it until the neighbour gets tired of buying new cones. He can’t blame you.”
One person, however, pointed out that the situation had been dragging on for far too long. They wrote: “You’ve been dealing with this for 15 years and still haven’t told him off or just ignored his cones?
“At some point, you either need to decide if you just don’t care and forget about it or start ignoring his cones and just parking in front of your house. Either decide you’re fine with the situation or decide to do something about it. 15 years and you’re still upset tells me you are way too passive-aggressive on this.”
