October 6, 2025 at 1:15 pm

A Woman Tried to Get Into Her Neighborhood Park Without A Key, But This Resident Wouldn’t Let Her In

by Matthew Gilligan

woman in a public park

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We’re living in interesting times, folks…

And that’s not always a good thing…

So you can understand why some people have serious safety concerns!

Check out what this young woman had to say on Reddit and see if you think she did anything wrong.

AITA for not letting a random lady into my neighborhood park?

“So I (18F), my boyfriend, and my sister went to my neighborhood park the other day near my house.

The park was just renovated a couple of months ago and a fence with a locked gate was put up to prevent homeless people, and people from the apartment complex across the street from getting in.

There have been some problems…

There are also cameras in the park.The kids in the apartment complex ripped a children’s seesaw from the ground right after it was renovated before the fence was put up. And homeless people kept sleeping on the benches and park tables.

The HOA provides key cards to all of the residents of the neighborhood after you registered for them and paid for them.

Anyways, as we we’re leaving the park to walk back to my place an unfamiliar lady pulls up in a car outside the gate and asks to be let in and claims to have left or misplaced her key card. But then she immediately contradicts herself and asks how to get the key cards.

I explain that I’m not entirely sure as my parents were the ones to receive the cards but that I knew that you had to go through the HOA to receive them. She then asks if I could let her in to let her child play.

Sorry, nope!

I apologize and tell her that I don’t want to risk getting in trouble with the HOA as I don’t know their policies on people without keywords being let in unsupervised (you can have up to 2 guests per keycard).

She pushes a little and I reiterate what I had already told her.

She then relents and gets back into her car. The three of us (my sister, boyfriend, and I) then leave the park and close the gate behind us. This is when I get a little skeptical.

The lady hesitates and watches us leave before I see her leave the parking lot and then turns out of the neighborhood entirely and towards the apartment complex.

But still I can’t help but feel a little bit bad.

AITA?”

Here’s what Reddit users had to say.

This person said she’s NTA.

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Another individual agreed.

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This Reddit user shared their thoughts.

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Another person weighed in.

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And this reader spoke up.

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She wasn’t about to break the rules for this woman!

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