I live in a condo with my family: my mom, dad, and older sister. We have 3 cars and 3 parking spots. We have a big car, medium car, and small car. My sister and I use the medium and small cars for going to school, work, etc., and we switch which one of the two we’re using every 2-3 weeks or so.

Anyways. For the past few weeks I’ve been using the medium car. The condo garage is used by all the residents, and has support columns at every 3 parking stalls. Big car and little car are together in the right and middle stalls of a set of three with a pickup truck in the left stall, and medium car is in the middle stall of another set of 3, with no vehicle on the left and a very big pickup truck on the right.

The other day, I was spending the night at my boyfriend’s and we quickly went back to my place to pick up some of my stuff, and it was around 12pm on a weekday so I parked quickly in my stall without much consideration for my neighbour because a) it was 12pm on a weekday, he usually gets home at 4pm, and b) it was a quick in and out while I was grabbing a few things. Regardless, I was in between the lines of my stall. No ifs or buts about it, I was IN MY STALL. The wheels were not touching the line between mine and my neighbours stall. It was in the middle.

When I say I parked without much consideration, it’s because I swear on my life that I always try to park as close I can to the left boundary of my stall since he has a really big truck and we don’t want any accidental collisions and just generally trying to make his life easier.

When I come back downstairs, my neighbour was there and my boyfriend (who was waiting for me in the car when I left) was standing outside of the car with a troubled look on his face. I asked him if everything was okay, and before he responded my neighbour said, pretty exasperated, that, “I’d really appreciate it if you could park closer to the other stall since there’s no vehicle there, I’ve got a big truck and it makes it hard to park.” At that point I didn’t know what had happened so I kindly said, “yes of course, we were just leaving really quick here.”

Once my neighbour is walking to the door to go up to his condo, my boyfriend tells me that my neighbour was cussing him out immediately when he got there, that apparently he’s always struggling to get in and out of his truck because we always park so close. He thought my boyfriend owned the car. At that point I got pissed off and was about to say something to my neighbour but my boyfriend told me that “it’s okay, I can tell he just had a long day and I explained everything to him calmly”.

I’ve seen this neighbour in the garage a few times and he has never expressed frustration at the way we park. He has never left a note asking us to park tighter to the left. And I literally always make a conscious effort when I’m parking that car to give him space to get in. Maybe it’s my sister that’s parking too close, but one thing I know for sure is that we always park between the lines of our stall. If I want to, I could park as close as I fucking desire to the right and he can’t complain because I’m in MY STALL.

Anyways, WIBTAH for reporting this to the condo management? I understand he probably had a long day and that just ticked him off but yelling at and cussing someone out as a first resort is unhinged. Especially because it was A GUEST, not even the owners of the car.

And before any dummy asks, no. I cannot park in the right stall nor can I park over the lines. We’ll get a ticket for not being in our assigned spot.