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When you live in an apartment building and have a parking spot assigned to you, it is really annoying when someone else parks in it.

That is what happened to the young couple in this story, so he positioned his vehicle directly behind the offending neighbor’s car to ensure it couldn’t get out.

He wanted to make sure the neighbor realized his mistake since he paid good money for that spot. The one reason he felt bad, however, was because his reserved parking sign had been knocked over in a storm, so it is possible that they didn’t even know.

This is a hard situation to judge. Read through all the details below and see what you think of what happened.

AITA for blocking a car in?

My apartment complex doesn’t have assigned parking. It’s stupid and invites chaos, I know.

This is clearly just a way for the apartment complex to make more money.

However, you can pay 35$ a month to reserve a spot. My wife and I begrudgingly pay it each month since our complex has spot snipers who will move their car to a closer space simply because someone else left.

Day or night. It was actually kind of impressive. We only got the reserved spot after living here for a year.

It seems like this area should make parking easy.

We have had this spot for over 2 years now. It’s in a weird spot of the oddly shaped parking lot, so there are only 3 parking spots in our area.

The other 2 spots have since been reserved. I mention this because this block of spots has been reserved by the same cars for 2 years now. Always the same cars. In the same spots.

Maybe someone doesn’t realize that these parking spots are reserved.

Ohhhh, the horror when I came home today and someone was parked in my spot. I backed up my car to their bumper, completely blocking them in (probably can’t even go over the sidewalk either). They cannot leave.

My wife preps our vehicle in the morning (boo anyone who disagrees with this part. It works for us.) so she turns it on and warms it up while carrying our morning coffees out. Then she comes back in, gets her stuff, and we both leave.

If they are paying for the parking spot, they should be able to use it.

I refuse to make my wife walk across the entire parking lot first thing in the morning when we already pay a ridiculous amount of money for a parking spot.

Plus, I hate people who park in my reserved spot. It’s only happened once before and when I started backing up they showed up and moved their car.

Whatever their reasons, there is nothing wrong with ‘enforcing’ your own parking spot.

So it’s part my wife having to walk and part my own vanity. The reason I might be the jerk: Our reserved parking spot sign fell down in a nasty storm last week. I have a maintenance request to put it back up.

I don’t have anything to dig a hole. So, our sign was laying in front of our spot instead of standing up. But I refuse to believe everyone isn’t aware it’s reserved.

AITA?

Does the way he parked also block the driveway? Or make the other reserved parking spots hard to access? There isn’t enough information to make a real evaluation here, but on the surface, it doesn’t seem like he did anything too bad.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about this situation.

I agree with this commenter.

It is reasonable to think that the neighbor had no idea the spot was no longer reserved.

This commenter says he was out of line for parking like this.

Here is a good question.

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This person says he didn’t do anything wrong.

The neighbor likely didn’t even know the spot was reserved, so this was rude of him. Heck, even if the neighbor saw the sign, they might have assumed it was being taken down.

Plus, parking like this could have blocked the driving area, which could be dangerous.