Would you live in a community where there aren’t any reserved parking spots, but there are more than enough parking spots to go around?

If you had your car parking in your go to parking spot but the HOA wanted you to move your car so they could set up for a celebration, would you argue with them about it, or would you be neighborly and move your car?

In this story, one neighbor shares a story about an annoying man who didn’t want to move his car.

It really backfired when he technically got what he wanted.

Let’s read the whole story.

Don’t want to move your car for one day. Lose your convenient parking spot for a year.

This happened on last 26th January and today the malicious compliance was done not by me but the committee of the society where I live.

This drama conveniently happened in front of my window.

In my city the residential complexes are managed by housing societies much like the HOA system in the USA, just not as horrible.

Each society has their own committee to manage day to day affairs.

Also, as my society has much more parking spaces then it has cars, it has no designated parking spots allotted to the residents.

Anyone can park their vehicle wherever they want but it must be a marked parking spot.

People mostly park their cars in the same parking spot just because of convenience and habit. Everyone mostly respects each others spot and I have never seen any confrontations happening because of the parking.

There are two parking spots worth noting.

So, those of you who don’t know, 26th January is the Republic day of India and all over the country the day is celebrated by flag hoisting ceremony in the morning.

The flagpole of our society where the flag hoisting ceremony will be held is just in front of main gate of society.

There are two parking spaces just under the flag pole. All other parkings are further away from main gate and you have to walk some distance to reach there from the main gate.

The thing to note is that these two parkings are very very convenient for all the flats which are facing this flagpole.

However, out of respect people have left one of the parking for one elderly person whose flat faces the flagpole and the other spot is taken up by a annoying kind of person who never moves his car from this place, else someone will steal his spot.

If this person wants to get into his car he just has to walk a dozen feet from his front door.

The annoying guy didn’t want to move his car.

On the evening of 25th January committee members asked this person to move his car for a day so that the decorations and other arrangements for the next day’s flag hoisting can be made.

Someone had already moved the car of the elderly person.

However, the annoying guy was too frustrated about moving the car and first argued alot with committee people saying that there is no such rule in society rule book that someone has to move their car for any kind of festivities and if you want to move his car you have to write a rule in the rule book.

After a lot of arguments and interference of other people he finally moved his car.

The decorations were done in the night and next day a small but beautiful ceremony was held.

The annoying guy got what he asked for but not really.

AND in the evening of 26th everyone in the society received a message that there was an emergency meeting of the committee.

The rule book has been amended and it has been decided that those 2 parking spots have to be converted into one and anyone who wants to park in that one spot has to take prior permission from the society committee.

As expected only two people applied for that parking spot- the elderly person and the annoying guy.

And today the committee unanimously decided that the elderly person is in much more need of that convenient parking spot because of his age and that spot has been allotted to him for one year.

It’s a hard lesson to learn.

Now the annoying guy has to park his car far from his front door for at least 1 year (pretty sure that he is not going to get the spot next year too).

He is not going to like this more in the coming rainy season. As we live in Mumbai which is notorious for its horrible monsoon rains each year.

All this just because he didn’t want to move his car for one day.

Wow. I bet he’s really frustrated about this rule change.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This is even worse!

Exactly!

This is probably what will happen.

This is a good question.

He really should’ve just moved his car.

Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it!

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