Controversial Stories About Parking Spaces That Split The Internet

From Redditor u/patrickroseapthocary:

I work in student housing at a university. One thing that comes with my job is that I have an assigned parking spot, kind of. It’s really just two spaces blocked off that “RD parking only enforced 24 hours, no exceptions”. For my coworker who lives in my building and me.

One day over break, there was a car parked in one of the spots, and my coworker was in the other. I reported the car, they got ticketed, and the car was moved.

Well, apparently, word got around that the parking office wasn’t going to ticket people without parking passes, so this person thought that meant they could park in the RD spot.

A few days ago, the same car was parked there again, leaving me without my spot. So, I again reported the car. I then got a call from my coworker yesterday saying that the person who had been parking there had gotten a hold of her (coworker) through her (Parker) RA after her first ticket. She asked if she could get permission to park there because her car had been hit by someone who wasn’t paying attention while it had been parked. My coworker said that she was permitted to park there.

I told my coworker that I didn’t mean to be cynical, but the resident could totally be playing here, and even so, it sets a bad precedent for other residents. I added that if she (my coworker) wants to give up her spot, that’s on her, but then let me have the other spot because I didn’t agree to letting a resident have my spot.

My coworker told me I was being a d**k and I should be a little more understanding, and that this makes me look bad.

I’m about ready to take this to our supervisor, but I wanna know if I’m in the wrong here, and I’m fast being an a**hole.

From Redditor u/parkingspace0093:

In our apartment, we’re only given one specific parking space. It’s been a challenge since both my wife and I have separate cars, and finding parking on the street can be a mission sometimes.

Usually, whichever one of us gets home first parks their car on the street so that the other can park inside, since evening is when it gets full.

For the past couple of months, our landlady’s girlfriend has been coming over and using our parking space. And only ours for some reason. Several times we’ve had to come knocking at our landlady’s door to move her girlfriend’s car, and she’d apologize to us.

The girlfriend always acts like she’s doing us this huge favor when we ask her to move.

We both have both talked about this problem to our landlady, and she promises it won’t happen again. Last Friday, my wife was out of town for the weekend. I came home around 10 pm. I was exhausted, just finished working a 12-hour shift, and wanted to get home.

Guess who was parked in our damn spot again? It was late, so cars were already parked all over the street.

This time, I said f**k it and parked right behind her. I didn’t have the energy to go knocking at her door and wait for her to move her car; they don’t even answer. I wouldn’t be blocking anyone else, just her from being able to pull out. Then I went to bed.

Well, the following morning, when I stepped out to water my grass, her girlfriend came at me for making her miss her shift at work.

She said she was knocking on my door for a long time before because she needed to leave and couldn’t. Called me immature and petty when I simply could’ve gone to her to move her car.

I reminded her she shouldn’t be parking there in the first place, and she left mad.

My landlady again apologized and promised to make sure her girlfriend didn’t do that again, but now she’s not talking to my wife, and they’re usually friendly with each other.

My wife’s not happy with me for doing that. Instead of creating conflict, I could’ve tried to find parking in the street or asked them to move like I usually do.

But this time I got fed up and don’t have the energy for it. Was I an a**hole?

From Redditor u/Only-Dance283:

I live in a duplex converted garage/main house. I am in the converted garage. We are both tenants.

My neighbor, Susan, uses a portion of her house as a business. Our driveway has two parking spaces, one for each unit, per our lease. Susan parks on the street, giving her parking space to her clients, and I utilize my space.

The entrance to the parking space is very small and on Susan’s side. So when she has clients come through, more often than not, they block the entire driveway, almost blocking the whole sidewalk. When this happens, I knock on her door or text requesting that her customers move forward.

I’ve been here since October, and it hasn’t been an issue until recently. She started the conversation by requesting that I park on the street during her business hours so she doesn’t have to “police” her clients. Her business hours are 12 to 6, Monday-Saturday. I work 9 to 5 Monday through Friday.

I offered to park on the street Monday through Friday, 9 to 5, but giving up one of my only days off is off the table. I also suggested signage to tell her clients to pull forward.

She wanted me to buy the sign, and after getting her own sign. She kept bringing up how it’s not working.

At this point, I was over the whole situation and told her to stop bringing it up with me because it’s not my responsibility to tell her clients how to use her parking space properly.

So am I the a**hole?

From Redditor u/Bobbleigh:

Hey there! So I am a fairly new driver (I passed around 2 weeks ago), and in our carport, there are two parking spots. I always park in the right spot (this is the one the landlord has told me is mine). I’ve gotten used to it, and it means my side is closest to the wall, so if I get out of the car, I only have a chance of injuring my own car.

The flat above us has a girlfriend who only comes round at weekends who has a MASSIVE car and she parks in both spaces (if I go out I will come back to her in my space) she also has no regard for any space I need to get out my car and today I’ve parked so close to the wall I am very nervous about driving out tomorrow as it’s not in my normal position and a hairs breadth from the wall.

So my question is:  I want to write a note. Just simply asking for her to stick to the other side when she’s here and keep my parking space free, but I fear they might think I’m being an a**hole, as there is a free spot right next to the car?

From Redditor u/F**kcarsnotliterally:

I live near a music and events venue, and at some events, people will park in my driveway. It’s kind of annoying having to park further away and walk.

I drive a total beater of a car; it’s a ’97 Camry. I got home on Jan 2 after Christmas, and I was exhausted after driving 7 hours, and someone had their car in the driveway. I drove up and down the block, and there was no parallel parking at all.

I decided “f**k it” and parked in my own driveway.

The next morning, I hadn’t heard a thing from the car owners, and I took my bike to work because I’m trying to save gas money and lose weight.

Then I went home, and there were a couple of notes, 1 on my car and one on my door. All are asking me to move my car, giving contact info. I called them and said, “Sorry, I haven’t been home. Come by, and I’ll pull my car out.”

A guy came by, and I went to move my car, but it wouldn’t start. I said I thought it might be the battery, could I get a jump start from him, and see if that works. He said no because he was afraid I would damage his car, which was a brand-new Lexus.

I said I’d call my boyfriend and see what he could do. I did, and he wasn’t able to come by till the next day. The guy was mad and wanted my car towed, and I said I didn’t have the money.

So the next day, my boyfriend comes by, and the guy with the Lexus does too because he’s really mad and impatient.

My boyfriend tried to jump my car with his, tested the starter, tested the ignition to see if it was ok, and couldn’t figure out the problem. He looked at a bunch of other stuff, and he just couldn’t figure it out.

The guy is getting really mad, and I say I’ll call my dad, who knows a lot about cars. He’s cussing at me and saying he just wants my POS towed, that there will be legal action, etc. I said, “Just wait for my dad.”

My dad comes by in his truck, and he brings tow straps and tows the car into the street, and it’s all done. But the guy is p**sed that’s not what we started with, that he had no car for days, and then he spent all evening waiting for us to get it moved. My dad tells him to get off my property and not to come back.

AITA for this whole mess?

From Redditor u/tiredofaholesinspot:

Basically, the title.

I pay a pretty penny for a reserved parking spot at my apartment complex, and people KNOW that there are reserved parking spots in the lot. They know that people pay for these spots. My complex has also made it very clear that the owners of these reserved spots have the ability to tow any cars that park in the owner’s spot.

However, all of this does not stop MULTIPLE people from parking in my parking spot. I’ve come home multiple times this week to people in my parking spot.

Every time I call the towing company, they take a bit to get to the complex, and usually, the people move their cars by then. That’s fine, I would kind of feel like an a**hole for towing someone’s car. But I don’t want people to park in my spot in the first place, because it’s really annoying to call up the towing company any time someone parks there (which is often). I also want to avoid any conflicts with neighbors if I can, especially if they might damage my car in return.

So, anyways, WIBTA if I put like a sign or cone or something in my spot when I go out? I’m not sure how effective it will be, but I’m just trying to think of a way to get people not park there.

The space is already clearly marked “reserved,” but I don’t think people care. So I was thinking something that would be more blatant so that there’s no doubt in their mind that they shouldn’t be there.

From Redditor u/Baconbutty2021:

My husband and I live in an apartment complex that has underground parking. As part of our rent, we pay for two parking spaces, but we only have one car.

The parking area underneath the block is quite tight, and one of our spots is next to a corner wall. When someone parks on the next corner wall, it overlaps our spot. This means it’s quite hard to get our car in and out sometimes. Recently, people have been parking in our second spot, and we’ve had to leave notes to politely ask people not to do this.

To counter this, my husband has begun parking across both our spaces (in the middle of our spaces, essentially), but the other day someone left us a rude note saying we shouldn’t park like this.

AITA for using both my car spaces when I only have one car?

From Redditor u/Thin_Preference7943:

Someone left a note on my car saying, “Please move your car (it’s been like a week, dude).”

For context, I live in an apartment complex where each unit is allowed one (covered) parking space that is paid for monthly; all other non-covered spaces are free for all/first-come, first-served parking spaces.

The free parking spaces are somewhat limited, and after about 6, when everyone is getting off work, they do fill up fast, and you usually have to park farther away and walk, which is inconvenient, but it’s just the reality when every apartment unit has 2-3 cars.

I’ve lived here for two years and always parked in the same spot or the other two spots directly next to it. I work from home, so there are times when the car is sitting there for a couple of days. I usually take my car out in the morning several times a week, to get coffee or to run errands, and when I come back, “my spot” is still open, so I park in the same spot again.

While I understand someone getting annoyed if they have to park farther, and they always see my car parked in the same spot (considering it’s first-come, first-served parking).

It honestly baffles me that someone dared to write a note as if I need to inconvenience myself just because they are inconvenienced?? Like, if you have to walk farther, that’s not really my issue; I’m entitled to park here as much or as little as I please.

So AITA for always parking in the same spot, even when I know I may not use my car again for a couple of days? Am I wrong for thinking the person who wrote the note has some serious audacity?

From Redditor u/do0tz:

On the weekend, there is a very crowded party in town that we call “the village”. It’s less than 1 square mile of bars and restaurants. Needless to say, on the weekend, it gets busy.

This is one of the last few spots in town that does not have paid parking, and as you can imagine, it’s always on a first-come, first-served basis.

There are a lot of parking lots and spaces on the street, but when it’s busy (like the weekend), it’s hard to find a spot anywhere, and usually have to park in a side road in the adjacent streets/neighborhood.

I arrived in the area and drove through the lot where I normally park. It was full, which I suspected, so I drove around the block knowing that a space would open. (I don’t mind driving around a bit and waiting if it means parking right next to the place I’m getting food.)

As I came around, I saw a car pulling out of a spot in the lot to my left. I put on my turn signal and waited for traffic to clear before I turned in. As I was turning in and aiming towards the spot (which was the 2nd spot into the lot from the main road), a lady ran over and held her hand up, motioning that she was holding that spot.

I was already 1/4 of the way turned into the spot when this happened, and there was a car behind me also pulling in. I told her she can’t hold a spot; it’s free parking, and it’s the busiest night of the week. She and the guy she was with said that they were holding it for out-of-town family to park, and the car that just left was also her family, who gave up the spot for the other people.

After 2 minutes of sitting, she said, “Oh, there they are! They’re pulling in now!” 2 minutes trying to hold a parking spot on a busy weekend in a hotspot in town.

I refused to move and sat there as cars lined up waiting to also pull in. She said, “Look, there’s another spot down there you can move to.” To which I replied, “Then go try to hold that one. I’m parking here.”

She and the guy with her called me a douchebag, said, “Are you seriously that big of an a**hole,” as I got out of my car.

From Redditor u/ta-parkinglot:

So the other day (Saturday), I went to the mall near my house to run some errands.

The mall is usually PACKED on the weekend, so I was driving around for a good 5+ minutes trying to find parking.

I was driving through a row of parking spots and finally saw an open one.

When I glanced at the spot, there was a man standing partially in the spot on his phone, but then he began walking away. So I started turning into the spot, and all of a sudden someone started literally banging on my tailgate (trunk) and yelling “HEY HEY”.

So, at this point, I’m p**sed because why is some random stranger banging on my car? So I roll down my window, and the person comes up to my door, and I recognize it’s the guy who was just partially standing in the spot.

I was like, “Can I help you?” and he started going off on me, saying how he was saving this spot for his friend, and just walked away for a couple of seconds, so I waved him down.

When he stopped me, I was already halfway into the spot. And also, this mall was BUSY, so I’m not sure if maybe this was his first time here or what? But you cannot “stand in a parking spot” to save it and then walk away for a couple of seconds and not think anyone is going to take it, like WTF.

So I said exactly that to him, “Look, sorry man, but you can’t stand in a parking spot to save it or someone and leave it unattended for a couple of seconds in a busy a*s mall parking lot.”

He started going off on me and cussing me out, telling me to “GET THE HELL OUT OF MY SPOT” over and over again. I said back to him, “No, I’m not moving.”

Then some other random a*s guy came beside him and started yelling at me to move as well, who I’m assuming was the person he was holding the spot for.

Anyway, it was this huge a*s scene. I rolled my window up and began fully parking in the spot, and these two guys proceeded to RUN IN FRONT OF MY CAR and start banging on the hood of it, still yelling “HEY HEY GET THE HELL OUT MOVE”.

Obviously, people in the parking lot saw this huge scene, and thankfully, this man and his son came over and started telling the guys to get the hell out of here before they called the cops.

Thankfully, they both ended up giving up and getting in the one guy’s car to presumably find another spot.

I thanked the man and his son and went into the mall.

Later on in the day, I was on the phone with my mom, and I told her what happened. She started going off on my saying that’s such an AH move, and that I didn’t have to make some huge scene and could’ve just found another spot.

What if they were in a rush or something, since I wasn’t in a rush, etc.? I disagreed. Was this an AH move?

Like, I just don’t think it’s socially acceptable to stand in a parking spot to hold it, but IDK maybe it is a common thing to do, and I’m just an AH?

From Redditor u/picklepals:

Ok, this is insane, but the landlord’s staff insists I’m in the wrong.

Backstory: I (23F) am finishing my first semester of grad school while at my childhood home. My childhood home is in the literal boondocks, so I don’t have good enough internet to be on Zoom for my daily classes. Thus, I drive 30+ minutes to my dad’s (77M) office, where there is high-speed internet so that I can attend my classes. The grad school I attend is in CST while I am in PST, so my classes start before 7:00 am each day.

The problem: I get to my dad’s office, which is in a mixed-use office/retail building, hours before anyone else in the building. Usually, I park as far away from the door as I can because some of the people in the building have regular clients throughout the day who want to park near the front. I get it, it’s cold and rainy here. However, sometimes when I get here extra early to prep for a presentation, I park in the spot closest to the door because it’s dark, I’m a 20-something girl, and I frankly worry for my safety in the empty parking lot with no cameras.

This has caused some problems. The landlord’s staff claims that I shouldn’t park there because of their tenants with clients who want to park there.

Today, they sent an email to my dad of a photo of my car where I am admittedly parked on the line (but still in my own parking spot!) and asked him to tell me to park farther away from the door.

However, the photo taken today, my car is in, literally, the farthest spot from the door where I usually park. So they’re asking me to park further away, but I’m literally in the last available spot, and I walk the whole length of the lot to get to the door before 7:00 AM.

Also, I guess they were so upset by my parking near the front (twice) that they elected to key into the locked office where I was in the middle of my class to berate me for my parking (again in the spot farthest from the door).

So AITA? Even if I park closer to the door, my dad pays rent. Why can’t I park there? And all I usually do is park as far away as possible to be accommodating? But they maintain that they are in the right.

Edit: he pays for a parking space, and I am driving his car in his space. Also, he’s a lawyer, so he also has clients who additionally would have rights to spaces per his agreement.

From Redditor u/kingofthecornflakes:

Well, my university is in a city around 50km away from my home.

I have a good road connection, and I don’t mind driving every day. I rented a room for myself near my university, just for emergencies if I don’t want to drive back (probably more because I’m s**tfaced, but let’s say emergencies). I have this room for around 6 weeks now, but I am rarely there.

Last week I wanted to go out in the evening, so I wanted to park my car, but my spot was taken. I had to park on the street, but saw the owner of the car exiting it the next day.

When I asked him, he got defensive and said that because I am rarely there, he can use the parking spot. I did not want to escalate this, so I just told him to park his turd in his spot.

Well, I checked almost every day now, and the car is still parked there. I also gave notice to the building manager, and she told me she talked to him, but he didn’t show any sign that he would stop parking there.

Yesterday, when I wanted to go out for Halloween, it was still there, so I parked my car in front of his. He really did not like that, and because both of us were pretty drunk, it got really heated.

My question is, would I be an a**hole if I tow his car just outside the property and maybe have it put in an absolute no parking zone, or have it block a street?

From Redditor u/atxdevdude:

I was trying to take my daughter to a children’s park today, and the parking at this location is extremely scarce.

I drove around the parking lot for a while, patiently waiting for my opportunity. I saw a spot open up two cars in front of me, but it was quickly taken, and a lady was standing nearby. I assumed she was with the car that pulled into the newly opened spot.

Once I saw a family getting in their car, I pulled nearby with my blinker on, no other cars in sight (besides those behind me waiting for their opportunity). As I’m waiting for my spot, the lady who was near the other spot earlier walks over next to the car I’m waiting to leave.

That family is all buckled in and starts to pull out. The lady walks into the now-empty parking spot as I’m pulling up. I roll down my window and tell the lady I was waiting for that spot to open up, and she says, “I have been waiting too.”

I reply, “With what car!?” Anyway, she refuses to get out of the spot and starts lining up her friend/husband/someone else’s car that just pulled into the parking lot to park there instead.

I was with my 3-year-old daughter and not ready to make an enormous scene out of something two adults should be able to logically resolve, so I told her she was ridiculous and drove away.

I figured I wasted enough time (30 mins) trying to go to this park, and we drove home (took my daughter to the store to buy her something to make her happy first).

AITA for thinking someone in their car waiting for a spot takes priority over someone who is physically standing in a spot, especially after the car had been indicating it was waiting for that spot?

From Redditor u/noamgold4:

Today I (30M) went to the supermarket, and the parking was a bit full. Since I was with my 1-year-old daughter, I tried to find the closest spot to the entrance. I found a woman (~50 yo) standing there.

I started to park in that place and honked twice to signal to her that she had to move.

She said that I cannot park there because she is reserving the spot.

I answered that she cannot do that and asked her to move.

She yelled at me that she won’t move because her husband is coming and she is reserving that spot for him.

I got out of the car and said that she does not have the right to reserve a spot and that I arrived before her husband, so I’ll park there because I have the right since I came with the car, and she does not have a car.

I kept parking, and she moved, yelling at me that she is registering my car number and she will see me in court. While taking pictures of my car. It was not a special lot; it was a total regular spot.

From Redditor u/chxtterbox:

My roommates and I (all 20-21F) share a house with two parking spots in the back. The problem is, all 3 of us have cars, and we live in a big city where parking is hard to come by. So, we all chipped in $60 each for a garage spot that’s about a 5-10 minute walk away, which we would rotate using weekly, while the other 2 would park behind the house.

Come move in, I find out that this “garage” spot roomie 1 had us get isn’t actually in a garage, it’s in a small surface lot shared by a couple of people in FRONT of a garage.

I own a Hyundai, which is an extremely high-risk car for theft right now, so I’d rather not have it parked where I can’t see it, out in the open for the taking.

For reference, this lot has no security (no gate, no walls, it’s literally someone’s extra-large driveway, which they rent out to college students).

I didn’t want to leave my car there, so I opted to pay for a street parking pass in addition to the spot and just park on the street outside of our house.

The problem with street parking is that it only counts for overnight parking, and I can still get tickets during the day for parking over the allowable time frame (1 hour per day).

Here’s where the drama comes in. Last semester, my roomie and roomie 2 switched off who got to park in back every week, while roomie 1 parked there the entire semester, claiming that because she works a few days a week, she had the most need to park close to home.

I disagree, because I also work a few days a week and use my car the most out of the three of us, so I don’t think she has a good excuse.

This semester, however, both of my roommates have not moved from the back, leaving me to park on the street for over 4 weeks straight now.

I asked roomie 2 if I could park in the back last week because I had already gotten 2 tickets in that time, and she said it wasn’t fair that I hadn’t been parking in the lot, so she wasn’t going to move.

Today (start of week 5), I got a third ticket and sent a message to the group chat asking if I could park in the back since I hadn’t been able to at all for more than a month.

Both girls came at me, saying it’s not fair that I never have to park at the lot and that they weren’t going to move because “we all have to take turns at the lot.”

They think that because I can park on the street, I have an unfair privilege, even though I pay extra to park there, and that my car would be the most likely to be stolen if I parked at the lot. I argue that it shouldn’t matter whether I’m on the street or in the lot as long as we all get our turns to park in back.

The way I see it:

– We all agreed to rotate parking in the back.

– It has no impact on them whether I park in the lot or on the street.

Nevertheless, both of them refuse to move unless I park at the lot for a week straight and continue to do so on a weekly rotation.

AITA for saying that I shouldn’t have to park in the lot and still be able to park in back when it’s my turn?

From Redditor u/tepman10:

Note: This incident happened years ago. I have long since broken up with the woman in the story, but I think about it from time to time and would love to hear Reddit’s take on this.

The Story: On my girlfriend’s 25th birthday, we went to dinner with her mom and step-dad. We drove separately to the restaurant as it was mid-week and we were both coming directly from work. The plan was to have dinner and then head back to her place afterwards. Near the end of the meal, she commented that she “better get her parking spot when we get back.”

About this “parking spot”: This is not a designated, private spot that she owns. She was referring to a particular space of street parking in front of the house she was living in. Anyone can park there, so if a random car was already there, she’d be out of luck. This is also a suburban street that is generally empty, so parking on the street is pretty easy. I’ll note that she does not have access to park in the house’s driveway.

She had mentioned before that she liked parking in this particular spot because otherwise 1) she’d have to make a U-turn to leave if she parked across the street as the road had a dead end, or 2) if she stayed on her side of the street, she’d have to park about one house down due to how the driveways are, but she never acted possessive about the parking spot before.

When she made her comment about a parking spot that’s not actually hers, I thought (mistakenly) that she was joking around and was basically challenging me to a race to get to that spot.

Sure enough, I drive back quickly and park in that parking spot. She pulled up shortly after and, as the street was empty, she parked right across the street from me.

As soon as she parked, she started screaming at me that I’m a f**king a**hole for parking in her spot. She would yell and cry over the next several hours that I was an a**hole and ruined her birthday because I knowingly parked in her favorite spot.

During this time, I apologized and offered to move my car, but she did not take me up on that.

I think she went overboard over a parking spot that isn’t actually hers. In her defense, I may have been the a**hole because it was a special birthday, I misunderstood her comment, and the parking spot wasn’t a big deal to me.

What do you think, Reddit?

From Redditor u/nottherealcoby:

I have a friend, we will call him Kevin, and last Friday, I took his parking spot for about 45 minutes because I had a meeting that was very close to his house (we are in college, I live further away, and his house is next to the building where I had my meeting). This is the first and only time I have done this.

In my defense, I am very close to all of the people who live in this house. They all share parking spaces, with enough for each of them, so I figured since my meeting would be short, I could park there.

I also did not purposely take the spot for Kevin, just a random spot that was open in their back lot. Also, by taking his spot, I did not completely make it so that he could not park, as he could have easily double-parked one of his housemates.

Upon returning from my meeting, I came into the house to say goodbye and say thanks for letting me park, but when I came in, Kevin refused to acknowledge me, apparently because I took his spot.

I apologized to him and said I’d give him a heads-up next time if I planned to use the spot, and he still wouldn’t say anything.

So am I the a**hole? Or is Kevin overreacting here?

From Redditor u/isabelstclairs:

Let me set the scene first…

The building where I work rents out the floors and has multiple companies working in it. It also has 2 entrances. One with a main reception, where guests from all the various companies check in and enter, and a private entrance for employees.

The employee entrance has a larger car park and 6 wheelchair access parking spots near the door. There is a ramp leading to each of these, 3 spots on each side, and a set of stairs in the middle. Some doors only open with key cards. 2 revolving doors and one sliding door. The sliding door needs special access as it’s only for those who need access to the wheelchair parking.

Normally, I never park there. I park a reasonable distance from the door.

I think it’s also important to note that the owner of the building is selling, so most of the other companies have vacated the building. My company and 1 other company are the only ones still in the building. So there are at most 50 cars in a car park that can fit 200.

As I said, there is nearly no one in this whole building. We all know everyone because it’s a ghost town. No one in the office uses these spots, and if a guest came, they would use the other car park by the main entrance and reception.

I also work in Marketing/Events. A few times a month, I have to load up my car with speakers, mics, boxes, t-shirts, etc. When I do this, I park in the wheelchair spot near the door. I use the sliding door when I have a cart filled with boxes and other items.

I try to leave us until right before I leave before I move my car from my regular spot to the wheelchair spot, roll the cart of items down the ramp, and begin to pack my car.

Once I’m done, I’ll leave my car there until it’s time to go. Usually, only about 30 minutes max. I do the same when unloading. And when I do, I always move my car back to normal parking spots after.

A new person started in the 1 other company still using the building. She saw me getting into my car as it was parked in the wheelchair spot and yelled at me. Said I was an a**hole, taking away a spot meant for someone else.

I tried to explain I was only there for a few minutes as I had to load my car, even showed her the boxes, but she said I was an a**hole and that someone else might have needed it.

Even if that was the case, there were still 5 other perfectly usable spaces that someone could use. But I know for a fact there isn’t, there hasn’t been in the 3 years I’ve worked in this building.

If it were the supermarket or something, I would never park in that spot. But as I was loading my car, it was near the ramp and sliding door, so I parked there. It is the spot closest to that door. But this lady would not let up. And the few times I’ve seen her in the hallway, she throws me dirty looks.

I think I was justified in parking there, but is she right?

AITA?

From Redditor u/BlangelaGlop:

I pay $85 a month for this spot in my apartment complex, and the garage is gated off, so random cars shouldn’t usually get in.

They must’ve followed someone through the gate right as it opened and took my spot while I was gone.

If I pay so much for this spot, a d**khead should not try to sneak in here for free. And this is the second time this car has done so in the last two months!!

I took a picture last time, and it’s the same a*s car. That’s why I decided to key it.

Am I the a**hole for fighting fire with fire??