A HOMEOWNER who left a note on a neighbour’s car has come under fire for being “entitled”.
People have blasted the resident who moaned about her limousines losing their parking spot if someone parks in front of her house.
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instagramThe note was posted on Instagram with caption ‘Won’t someone think of limousines?’[/caption]
Parking rows are a common sight with neighbours quarrelling over precious spots to leave their cars.
Finding somewhere to park your vehicle can often either be costly, time consuming or even impossible with many restrictions around it.
Although leaving your car in residential area and in front of someone’s house isn’t illegal, it can sometimes be seen as bad manners.
But in this case, the homeowner who put out a long list of reasons why no one can park in front of her property has been under fire.
One woman in Adelaide, Australia, left her car in a residential street in the morning but discovered a rude note when she returned from work to collect her vehicle.
Laura posted a picture of the “entitled” letter on Instagram where it gained the attention of fellow drivers.
The typed-out page asked that Laura stop parking her car in front of the home gate.
The passive-aggressive resident demanded that Laura find a new place to leave her car as it was obstructing the vehicles of the homeowner’s cleaner and gardener.
The letter read: “Hi, non resident of Godfrey Terrace.
“Please find a new location to park your car.
“You have created problems for my gardener to park his car and trailer today, my cleaner yesterday and my guests to park their cars in front of our home/gate.”
But what shocked Laura the most was the last paragraph of the cocky request.
In anticipation of an important occasion, the resident moaned that their limousines wouldn’t have space to park.
The note continued: “We have several celebrations including a VIP event coming up and prefer your car is not parked opposite our pedestrian gate especially so that the 2 limousines can park nicely opposite our home.”
Following that, the picture was posted online with the comment: “Won’t someone think of the limousines?”
Locals quickly expressed their shock and astonishment, siding with Laura with one person saying: “Is this a joke?”
Another person left a tongue-in-cheek comment saying: “Let’s all park there and commute to our jobs.”
“Surely someone isn’t that out of touch and this is a p**stake?” said someone else.
“So precious they won’t even let their gardener or cleaner use their driveway,” read a comment.
One person pointed out: “Appealing to someone’s better nature to make more room for your limousines seems counterproductive.”
But some people have agreed that the resident had a right to complain – albeit went about it the wrong way.
“While I’m not excusing the passive-aggressive and entitled tone of this note, we have commuters that regularly park on our street and it does my head in,” someone said.
“Yeah I get that it’s a rule of thumb not to park directly outside people’s houses but these people are ridiculously pretentious,” another wrote.
Meanwhile, the sentiment of most users was that the homeowner had no place to leave the demanding note.
One person said: “You as homeowner/renter are not entitled to the spaces in front of your property.”
“Anyone can park wherever they like/can as long as they obey any signals around parking. If there are no signs, it’s up for grabs for anyone to park there,” someone else weighed in.
Parking in residential areas has long sparked debates among people whether it was reasonable or a bad etiquette.
In one such case, people’s opinions were divided when a man had revealed a savage note that a neighbour left on a car on their road.
The “polite notice” message blasted an offending car for being outside their house for “days on end”, despite them accepting it is legally allowed to be there.
Fuming neighbours in Bristol have also been leaving “sinister” notes furious at motorists allegedly taking their parking spaces overnight.
One parking row has exploded over cars on the grass outside homes with a ticked-off local sending an aggressive letter to neighbours saying “Merry Christmas you Grinch“.
But one man “cracked the code” as he found a way to stop his neighbours from ever parking in front of his home.
He was fed up with a neighbour who continually left his car in front of his property, and figured out a petty revenge.
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