not neighborly, i confess.

[fox]

I have just had someone towed from my parking space.

Look, it was late and it's dark and cold and rainy and there weren't any open unreserved parking spaces, and I paid money to reserve that parking space, so coming home and finding that someone else had parked in it ... yeah, sorry, I called it in, because I don't know whose car it was and it's frankly not my job to go around the complex knocking on doors waking people up to encourage them to move their - wait for it - S-Type Jaguar from the parking space that has been reserved by someone else.

Somehow the fact that it was such a fancy car makes me feel less sympathetic about having it hauled away. If it had been an old beat-up Civic or something I'd think it might have been an honest mistake, but in this instance I suspect the kind of entitlement that actually makes me wonder why such a person is living in this building in the first place.

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[juice]

I'm always surprised when people put far more money into their cars than they do into a place to live. Some of the most rundown parts of town here are lined with Mercedes. Not that your complex is rundown (I can't imagine you living there if it were) but clearly their priority is a really expensive car rather than upgrading their living space.

And yes, I would have had it towed too. Once I let the air out of all four tires of the car parked in my spot, when I had an apartment. We had assigned spots that correlated to our apartments, so it's not like they made a mistake. And they didn't do it again, either.