You are parked in MY spot, please move your car!

[DisneyFairytale]

I live in an apartment complex and we are given numbered spots that coordinate to our apartment #, so you are allowed one spot per household. We have visitor parking spots and there's also street parking (if you could get it, those seem to be the most desired spots, as they are right in front of the complex, so your door to your apartment is within a few feet).
We recently got a new car, so now we are a 2 car family. I took the old beat up car today and when I came home there was a visitor spot wide open so I grabbed it. Fiance is due home any minute with the new car....and I just noticed there is a car that is parked in our spot.....this lady does this ALL the time, takes ANY spot she wishes (she is a girlfriend of our neighbor) there is even a no parking zone out front that she occasionally parks in. The thing that gets me though....HE is not parked in HIS spot, so his spot is wide open and she is parked in ours
Please move your car....

I work in a hospital full of very ignorant people. I hate people, yes yes I know and I work in health care I would leave a pleasant note on her windshield.

 

[jlima]

Ummm, what?

Risk management was in our building . . . and employees that were on disability & workmen's comp were in & out of the building ALL the time. Security didn't care when people dropping off WC paperwork would park in the handicapped spots (sometimes they needed to) . . . but I guess the empty executive spots right in front looked too good to pass up. Security had fliers they would leave on illegally parked cars, and I kept a few at my desk for when somebody was parked in my boss' spot. And this was in a complex that had a parking garage for about 500 cars. Plenty of spots, and somebody would park in an assigned space.

 

[wvjules]

Risk management was in our building . . . and employees that were on disability & workmen's comp were in & out of the building ALL the time. Security didn't care when people dropping off WC paperwork would park in the handicapped spots (sometimes they needed to) . . . but I guess the empty executive spots right in front looked too good to pass up. Security had fliers they would leave on illegally parked cars, and I kept a few at my desk for when somebody was parked in my boss' spot. And this was in a complex that had a parking garage for about 500 cars. Plenty of spots, and somebody would park in an assigned space.

So if I am understanding correctly...security would rather people park in the legally designated handicapped spaces than in the executive spots? Granted I don't think they should be parking in either but if I was dropping off something and was only running in real quick, I would park in the executive space and NOT the handicapped space. (If I had to choose between the two.)

 

[MarilIncredible]

OP, I don't understand why you didn't just ask the neighbor to move his car. I would have knocked, let them know they were in my spot, and ask them to move. If they didn't, then I'd go to management.

 

[sbell111]

hahahaha!
IDK, maybe its me, I think I have a "don't trust anybody" mentality about me.

Then you should have not loaned him your colander. However, now that you have established yourselves as neighbors who loan/borrows stuff from one another, you aren't strangers. Knock on his door.

So if I am understanding correctly...security would rather people park in the legally designated handicapped spaces than in the executive spots? Granted I don't think they should be parking in either but if I was dropping off something and was only running in real quick, I would park in the executive space and NOT the handicapped space. (If I had to choose between the two.)

Security likely has a list of cars that are allowed in the exec spots and flags the rest. They likely don't do anything about the handicap spots unless there is a complaint because of the drama surrounding having a car towed, particularly if it turns out that the driver (or passenger) actually is disabled and merely forgot his placard.

 

[lilmissdisney216]

My aunt had this problem at her apartment complex but it wasn't so much a spot it was the problem of having people parking in her car port. People would park in her car port that she had payed for and when it came around for her wanting to use it, she couldn't so I feel how frustrated you are.

 

[cm8]

You should park in her BF's spot! That would be classic! Then if either of them would say anything, just tell them you figured it was OK since your spot was already taken by the GF! LOL!

, I was thinking the same thing, then someone would get the picture!

 

[emh1129]

We had a situation like this where we used to live. A neighbor's sister would come to vist and park her brand-new convertible in our spot because it happened to be closer than the visitor spots over at the other end.
At first I didn't know who was doing it but then I figured it out when I saw her walk to her car one day. I asked her to please not park in any of the numbered spots & pointed to where visitor parking was. She said "oh, okay.." so I thought it was settled.
A few days later, she did it again. So I parked my car right behind her. A little confrontational, I suppose, because she couldn't move her car since she was blocked in. But I was very pregnant and needed to carry a sleeping 2 yr old into the house and then bags of groceries.. so I was not driving to the other end to where the visitor spots were when I should have been able to park right in front of our door.
So a few hours later, I get a knock on my door & it was her, asking me to move my car. I told her she was out of line to park there and she tried to say "oh, I didn't know" and I told her "Yes you did. I explained this to you before. You knew what you were doing and it was inconsiderate. I had a sleeping toddler and a car full of groceries to bring in, and you were in my assigned parking spot. I'll be out to move it in a few minutes."
She turned beet red when I called her on it.. but she knew perfectly well what she was doing, but she was used to slinking in and out, not being called out on her actions. Needless to say, she never parked in any of the assigned spots again

 

[jlima]

So a few hours later, I get a knock on my door & it was her, asking me to move my car. I told her she was out of line to park there and she tried to say "oh, I didn't know" and I told her "Yes you did. I explained this to you before. You knew what you were doing and it was inconsiderate. I had a sleeping toddler and a car full of groceries to bring in, and you were in my assigned parking spot. I'll be out to move it in a few minutes."
She turned beet red when I called her on it.. but she knew perfectly well what she was doing, but she was used to slinking in and out, not being called out on her actions. Needless to say, she never parked in any of the assigned spots again

Awesome!!! LOVE it that you blocked her in.

Amazing that she was there for "a few hours". Just amazing what some people think they will get away with.