A man says his "entitled" neighbours won't give back a parking space on his driveway he had been allowing them to use. According to the Daily Mirror, the man's son had to intervene and help his dad out of a sticky situation with his next-door neighbours.
His dad had allowed them to use it for a spell but once he asked them to give it up they point blank refused. He explained on a post on Reddit that his 62-year-old dad only has one car that he keeps in his garage and doesn't use very often.
Because his neighbours have four cars and not enough room for them all, he allowed them to park one of their vehicles in his driveway, in front of his garage. But when he asked for the spot back, he was left infuriated by their response.
In the post online, he said: "My dad doesn't drive that much right now, but from time to time he likes to go back to our hometown and just spend the day in the places he and my mum used to go. Problem with this is that he can last a month or so without moving the car and thus his neighbours – a married couple in their 20s – use his driveway because they own four cars and don’t have the space.
"My dad doesn't have that much of a problem with it since he leaves his car in the garage and told me that whenever he needs to get it out, he just calls the girl, and she moves the other car."
But the arrangement stopped working when the woman wasn't home one day, so he had no choice but to ask her husband to move the car - which he only did after over an hour of waiting.
The man continued: "It was fine until a few months ago when apparently the girl is nowhere to be found and the guy is home all day. My dad had asked him a few times to please move the car and the dude just says, ‘yeah, sure', and takes an hour or two to do so, by which point my dad can't drive it because it's already too dark for him to see properly."
And the neighbour's bad behaviour didn't stop there, as the same thing happened during the man's recent visit to his dad's, when the neighbour once again refused to move the car until he felt up to the task. So instead of waiting around, the man decided to teach the neighbour a lesson – and had his car towed away.
He added: "My dad wanted to drive his car but the neighbour had his in my dad's driveway and so he went to ask him to please move it. He said yes, but after 30 minutes of not seeing him, I called someone to get it towed.
"The man obviously freaked out when he saw what was happening and asked what I was doing. Apparently he doesn’t have the right documentation for the car and can't get it back because he doesn't have the money. But man, my dad was doing him a favour and he acted like an entitled p***k."
Commenters on the post sided with the man, with many insisting his dad was doing his neighbour a favour and the neighbour "overstepped" his boundaries.
One said: "Your dad was doing him a favour, giving him a privilege which he overstepped on. Not to mention if the dude has four cars and can’t park them, then he needs to sell some or find a proper place to store them."
While another added: "This guy was obviously taking advantage of your father's kindness. By your own account, this isn't the first time this guy has taken his time to move the car and left your dad stuck. Clearly being nice wasn't working."
And a third posted: "He was asked politely, didn't do it, so he has to handle the consequences. Not your fault his paperwork wasn't in order, sucks to be him."
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