Imagine living in a townhouse community where there is a big parking lot that’s pretty far away from your townhouse and a small parking lot close to your townhouse. Would you be upset if someone who lived in a townhouse closer to the big parking lot took the last available spot in the small parking lot close to your townhouse?

In this story, some neighbors are dealing with this exact situation, and one of them decided to ask the person parking there why he parks so far from his own home.

Now, she’s wondering if it would’ve been better not to confront him.

Let’s read the whole story.

AITA for asking a neighbor to park closer to his own house?

We live in a townhouse. It’s on the first of nine rows of townhouses. There are entrances to both sides.

One road down has parking on both sides, and a larger parking lot attached about halfway down around rows 5-6.

The road on my side only has parking on side.

There aren’t quite enough parking spots.

For my row there is a grand total of 5 parking spots for 7 houses.

There are three families with small children (us included), a woman on disability because of back issues, and three elderly people.

In total we all have 6 cars for the 5 spots.

Someone always had to park about 500 meters away at a gravel overflow parking lot.

Why would anyone want to park far away from their home?

About a year ago, our postman moved into our complex on row 7. He started parking his car by our row (1). He starts work and gets off early so he’s always home in time to nab one of the spots.

All the neighbors on our row constantly speculate as to why he parks so far from his own house, especially as he is by the large lot where there is always plenty of spots.

Some think it’s so he can smoke a cigarette on the way home, some think it’s to get his steps in, others think he just wants to be as close to the exit as possible.

This would be so frustrating!

The resident board has asked everyone to park as close to their own house as possible, and sent out a map of where each row should be parking. However they can’t enforce anything as there is technically no assigned parking.

One neighbor has already pointed the rule out to him but was ignored.

So the other day i was pulling in right behind him and he pulls into the last spot on our row. I had the kids, bags from daycare, a stroller, and a box to carry in and I had to go park at the gravel lot and make multiple trips carrying everything. Again.

I saw him walking to his car while I was taking out the trash and finally asked him why he parks so far from his own house. I told him we all actively wonder and discuss it on our row as it inconveniences the rest of us (especially our disabled neighbor).

He went postal!

He blew up saying he has the right to park anywhere he wants.

I said he has the technical right but that the board has asked us to avoid this and it’s really inconsiderate to us since we have fewer spaces than all the other rows.

He called me a lazy jerk for not wanting to park half a kilometer from my house.

I told him I don’t understand why we all should have to park further from our houses because he wants to park further from his own.

She’s wondering if she messed up.

He made an angry post on the Facebook group.

One of my neighbors said I shouldn’t have confronted him (because he’s our postman), while the others are grateful. I dunno if I should have just kept my mouth shut.

AITA?

Could he at least answer the question? Why does he want to park far away from his home and inconvenience people who want to park close to their own homes?

Let’s see what Reddit has to say about this story.

One person offers some advice.

This person has a theory about why the neighbor reacted the way he did.

Another person thinks the neighborhood itself is the problem.

Here’s something else to consider.

It’s like he’s going out of his way to be inconsiderate.

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