One Household Turns Two Reserved Parking Spots Into One Extra-Wide Space, Even Though They Only Have A Single Vehicle To Put There
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Paying for two assigned parking spaces should make deciding who gets to use them remarkably simple.
One apartment couple owned a single car, but neighbors repeatedly treated their second rented spot like convenient community overflow.
Instead of leaving more polite notes, the husband adjusted his parking strategy and soon received an angry message of his own.
See whether the neighbors had a point.
AITA for parking across my two paid parking spots?
My husband and I live in an apartment complex which has underground parking.
As part of our rent we pay for two parking spaces, but we only have one car.
The parking area underneath the block is quite tight and one of our spots is next to a corner wall, however when someone parks in the next corner wall it overlaps our spot.
This means it’s quite hard to get our car in and out sometimes.
They don’t want anyone else parking in their parking spots.
Recently people have been parking in our second spot and we’ve had to leave notes to politely ask people not to do this.
To counter this my husband has begun parking across both our spaces (in the middle of our spaces essentially) but the other day someone left us a rude note saying we shouldn’t park like this.
AITA for using both my car spaces when I only have one car?
They’re their parking spots. I don’t see any reason not to use both of them.
Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.
This is a good way of thinking about it.
Another person points out they can do whatever they want with the spots.
Here’s a similar comment, although less flowery.
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It’s the same as parking in your driveway.
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Be prepared for the notes to continue.
To prevent strangers from occupying their second space, OP’s husband parked their only car across both spots included in their rent.
Redditors declared them NTA, reasoning that the couple paid for both spaces and could use them however the property rules allowed.
The neighbors wanted complimentary overflow parking, then submitted a one-star review when the paying customers used their own inventory.
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