My wife and I live in a small neighborhood with assigned parking spaces.<\/p>\n
We have two vehicles: my everyday car and a specially modified van that my father uses because he’s in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n
Both were registered with our property management company.<\/p>\n
Our neighbor, Linda, hated that we had two vehicles.<\/p>\n
One morning, she left a note on our windshield.<\/p>\n
“ONE CAR PER HOUSE. FOLLOW THE RULES.”<\/strong><\/p>\n I checked our parking agreement. We were allowed two spaces, so I ignored her.<\/p>\n Three days later, I woke up to the sound of a tow truck.<\/p>\n By the time I got outside, both vehicles were being taken away.<\/p>\n Linda stood on her porch smiling.<\/p>\n “Maybe you’ll listen next time,” she said.<\/p>\n I called the towing company immediately.<\/p>\n The manager explained that someone had submitted a removal request claiming to represent property management.<\/p>\n That someone was Linda.<\/p>\n Then things got worse.<\/p>\n The driver had improperly secured Dad’s wheelchair-accessible van, damaging its custom lift mechanism.<\/p>\n The repair estimate came to almost $25,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n When I showed Linda the paperwork, she stopped smiling.<\/p>\n The real property manager confirmed she’d never authorized either tow.<\/p>\n We filed an insurance claim and submitted the documentation to the towing company.<\/p>\n The company recovered our vehicles, agreed to investigate the damage, and began looking into Linda’s false authorization.<\/p>\n The following week, Linda received a letter from their legal department.<\/p>\n She hasn’t complained about our parking since.<\/p>\n And Dad’s van? We’re still working through the repairs.<\/p>\n All because someone couldn’t mind her own parking space.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My wife and I live in a small neighborhood with assigned parking spaces. We have two vehicles: my everyday car and a specially modified van that my father uses because he’s in a wheelchair. Both were registered with our property management company. Our neighbor, Linda, hated that we had two vehicles. One morning, she left …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10656,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions\/10656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}