If you asked your neighbor for a favor and they said “no,” what would you do if they later asked you for a favor? Would you also say “no,” or would you agree to help them out?

In this story, one person is in this situation and decides that if his neighbors aren’t going to help him, then he’s not going to help them. He thinks this is perfectly logical.

However, when his neighbors ask for a favor and he says “no,” they ignore his answer and do what. they want anyway.

Keep reading for all the details.

AITA for not allowing my neighbours to use my extra parking spot and telling them to get lost?

I have 2 parking spots that belong to my unit.

I often have family/friends come over a lot so it was easier to pay the extra for an additional spot than having them park blocks away and walk all the way to my condo.

For clarification, I already have 1 spot by default, I pay for an additional one.

“No” means “no.”

Long story short, my neighbours asked me if they could use the spot from Friday morning till Sunday evening because they had relatives coming over for a short stay.

I said no, but they went ahead and let their relatives park in it anyway.

I called management the moment I noticed it on Friday when I was on my way to work and management clamped the car immediately, so the neighbours had to fork out 100 bucks to have it unclamped.

They banged on my door the moment I got home from work in the evening and cussed me out for calling management and having their car clamped. They are now repeatedly demanding I pay them the 100 bucks they spent to unclamp the car.

It was kind of revenge.

The one and ONLY reason I said no to them was because a few months ago, when I was trying to submit something before a really close deadline, my wifi stopped working and when I asked them if I could just borrow theirs for a few minutes so I could submit my work, they said no and shut the door on me.

By the time I got in my car and drove to a nearby cafe, I missed the deadline.

They just knocked on my door again today to bring it up again and I told them to back off and get lost during our heated argument, which has made them even angrier.

He’s wondering if he should apologize.

My train of thought here is that they didn’t help me out, so why should I help them out?

They’re even more upset because other neighbours have used my additional parking spot before (with my permission) so they don’t understand why they weren’t given the same treatment.

My friends think I should apologise here and try to defuse the situation as to not escalate the issue any further and cause more tension.

AITA here for being petty in the first place, as well as telling them to back off? Should I apologise?

They asked. He answered. They ignored his answer. That makes the neighbors wrong. He doesn’t have to let anyone use the parking spot if he doesn’t want to, and he doesn’t owe them an explanation.

Let’s see if Reddit agrees.

One person thinks an explanation is in order.

Another person loaned out a parking spot, and it didn’t work out well.

This person thinks the WiFi situation makes all the difference.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a landlord who took action after a resident refused to respect an assigned parking spot.

Another person says to ignore the friends.

It sounds like everyone thinks he made the right decision. If the neighbors don’t want to be neighborly, they shouldn’t expect him to be neighborly. Sharing works both ways.