He Parked in a Charging Spot He Didn’t Need — So Someone Called Him and Said His Car Was Being Towed
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If you own an electric car, you gotta play by the rules, baby!
That means that you understand the etiquette around parking, charging stations, etc.
But the JERK in the story you’re about to read apparently thinks that the rules don’t apply to him…
Check out how another electric car driver got some petty revenge on him.
Parked like an entitled jerk so I ruined his yoga session.
“My city has charge ports for electric cars in public lots.
I can’t install a charger for my car at my apartment building, so I rely on these public chargers for a hybrid car. When the program started, the parking spots had signs that read “Electric Vehicles Only.”
It’s pretty cut and dry…
Because if a gas-powered car takes the spot, the charger can’t be used as the cords don’t go any further.
Most cars blocking the spots could be reported to the police for towing. But certain entitled drivers of electric cars decide that these are their own personal parking spots.
They wouldn’t actually plug in to charge – they didn’t need the free electricity!
They just think their car being electric is giving them the equivalent of a handicap placard for a nicer spot.
There is no towing them since they obeyed the sign, their car is electric. (And it’s always a Tesla.)
One morning I was driving up to a set of the charge ports because my app said one was free. While waiting at the nearby red light, I could see the spot was just taken and the driver was walking away.
Bummer!
He wasn’t charging his Tesla and I wouldn’t be able to charge.
I had no actual recourse to get the guy a ticket or towed like I could with a gas-powered car. So I waited about 20 minutes.
Then I called the yoga studio he had walked into, right around the point when I figured his session had safely been going for a little while.
I said to the woman picking up, “A person in your class drives a Black Tesla, plates ______. There’s a tow truck about to hitch up the car for blocking a charging spot. You should really let them know immediately.”
She was immensely grateful like I’d just done this jerk a huge favor.
Shortly after he came barreling out of the studio and around the corner to save his car. It was obviously fine.
It was sweet, petty revenge…
I took pride knowing I’d not only thrown off his yoga session, but that he was also responsible for interrupting the class for everyone else and that they would all silently judge him.
I mean, who wants the license plate of a bad driver read out during yoga?
Sometimes when I need a pick me up, I like thinking about how he went back to do yoga, fuming that someone was screwing with him.
Since then, the city realized these drivers ruin things for everyone and replaced all the signs to say “Electric Vehicles Only While Charging.”
It’s not the same joy as ruining yoga, but now I can I can just call the cops and get them ticketed for my petty revenge.
Which I do every single time. Entitled brats.”
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Poor guy…he had his yoga class interrupted…
But maybe he learned a valuable lesson!
Actually, he probably didn’t…
Sometimes, the pettiest revenge is the most satisfying…
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