No one likes having to shovel their driveway or sidewalk, but we also don’t like trekking through snow to get to our cars.

It’s a rough life, I know.

In this story, a neighbor figured everyone else would have to deal with her car blocking the sidewalk so she could avoid the snow.

These neighbors, though, weren’t having it.

Check it out.

Woman blocks her sidewalk with a car, asks us to call the police.

My neighbor blocked the sidewalk with her car during the last two snowstorms.

This meant (1) so she claims, she didn’t have to shovel a path from her car to her house and instead was able to step directly on her shoveled sidewalk (which she pays someone to shovel) and could then walk to her front door and (2) she didn’t need to shovel the sidewalk that her car blocked because no snow landed there and (3) she didn’t shovel the sidewalk between her car and the edge of her property — about two feet — because once people have to walk around her car in the street, who cares about the last couple of feet?

She shoveled the sidewalk until her the driver’s side of the car, but not the passenger’s side.

They tried asking nicely.

So my wife politely knocked on her door, explained that forcing our kids to walk around her car meant they walked in the street and that wasn’t safe, therefore could she please drive her car fully into her driveway, as required by law?

The law doesn’t permit someone to block a sidewalk.

We didn’t want to make this into a big deal, but as neighbors asked if she could be a normal human.

The woman said no, then claimed it wasn’t safe for her to pull at the way into her driveway because that would force her to step in snow.

My wife said if that was a concern she should shovel a path on her grass from her driveway to her front door.

The woman then claimed she is not feeling well.

My wife pointed out that she did this two months ago during the last snow storm and that she goes to work daily.

If she really was sick she’d be stuck in the house.

Additionally, not feeling well doesn’t preclude a person from parking in their own driveway or walking in snow.

His wife wasn’t afraid to escalate things – and neither was the neighbor.

She did shovel the two feet of sidewalk.

I suspect the police did speak to her and reminded her that not shoveling a sidewalk is a fine from the building department, not the police, and if we were willing to call the police, we’d probably call the building department too.

(We had planned on it, but they were closed on the weekend when this happened.)

She now pulled further up, still partially blocking the sidewalk, but at least we don’t need to walk around in the street.

Of course, if she does this again, we won’t be asking her politely to move the car and will call the police instead.

Not that entertaining, but ask us to call the police, happy to.

That seemed to mostly take care of things.

This person had an idea.

And here’s another one.

I need a map or something.

It really is quite annoying.

Just do the right thing without having to call the cops!

This one was kind of anticlimactic.

I wonder what Reddit thought.

If you liked that post, check this one about a guy who got revenge on his condo by making his own Christmas light rules.