We have lived at our new apartment now for almost a month. The parking is not great here. You can either park in the front of the building or the back of the building. The back is kind of scary so we choose to park in the front. The problem with the front is that there is a water hydrant intruding on the availability. Apparently, by law, you can not park within 15 feet in either direction from the water hydrant. 30 feet is a large area that significantly limits the parking area. We have already received one parking ticket for not being 15 feet away even though the measurement was questionable.
A walkway to the next door apartment is located 15 feet up from the hydrant. We have parked there several times. A "neighbor" from that building recently placed a note on our car stating that it was "rude and inconsiderate" to park in front of a walkway.. oh and then added, "Have a Blessed Day" signed "Joy." Today we received another note from Joy stating, "what did you not understand about rude and inconsiderate." No blessing was given this time. Another note was also found under the windshield at the same time as Joys, written on a receipt from KMART with a customer name located at the top. This note stated that they have a handicapped mother and need to use the sidewalk. Of course the note did not fail to say how rude we were for parking there. After looking up the name on the receipt, I found that the only person in Kansas City with that name is a child sex offender.... great!!
As keepers of the law, my husband and I know there is not a rule with our apartment complex for not parking in front of a sidewalk. We also understand that when you are handicapped, you should probably use the handicapped parking space located in the parking lot behind the building instead of in front of the building on the street, which is actually further away from the building.
We actually went over and knocked on the doors in the buidling to find out who Joy was and to tell them to stop touching our car to place notes on it and that there is NOT a rule saying we cannot park in front of a sidewalk. No one answered. Joy was probably at church.
Lessons:
(1) It is interesting that Christians, as I assume Joy is since she said "have a blessed day," can be so judgmental and rude to others when they are suppose to be spreading the Gospel.
(2) You never know who is living right next to you... and a school a block away...illegally until they stupidly place a note on your car. A note written on the back of a receipt with someones personal information on your it. Of course I am going to turn them in.
(3) You should probably go sit, have some coffee, and cool off before you decide to go knock on doors and assert your opinions to assumable sex offenders in your area. After having some coffee, we decided it was probably more Christian-like to not go over there because we probably would have gotten into a screaming match with the people. This would be no better than what Joy did in the first place by calling someone rude and inconsiderate and then telling them to have a blessed day. By going over to assert our side, we probably would not be spreading the gospel and in turn, we would end up doing the same thing they did with us to begin with. After cooling off, we decided to go to the management to lodge complaints about the people leaving the notes on our car.
