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MotheroftheworldII

Public street = public parking. Miss B can just deal with it.


RedFiveIron

Not always, where I live some streets are public but the parking on them is by permit for residents only.


Thedeadnite

Even with ones like that generally contractors are an exception.


datagirl60

And only at night.


BorderlineWire

That probably depends where you live. They aren’t around here, if they’re not currently loading/unloading from the vehicle they’d need to be using one of the various things that would allow them to park in a permit area 


Thedeadnite

I said generally, from what I’ve experienced it’s about 80%.


BorderlineWire

In my experience as the guy writing the tickets, it’s entirely the other way 


cosp85classic

Apparently he has never lived in a different city and thinks parking laws are the same everywhere.


BorderlineWire

It seems that way. In this guys experience, anyone who has something different is wrong. 


Thedeadnite

A guy writing the tickets would do so in a single city with a single rule set….


Academic_Nectarine94

Dun, dun, DUUUUUMMMMM


BorderlineWire

We don’t cover a single city, I’m just one branch of a company covering multiple towns and a city out of several covering a large area of the whole country.  We do tend to have fairly consistent rules across the whole country though some areas have extra. Just like your experience is one way, other people’s may be another. Your experience is likely in one city and may not be the city in which the people you are replying to live.  However contractors thinking they’re exempt? I’d say that’s probably a common ground.


BeowoofsMiMi

She spoke to the police. It is perfectly legal in the city she is in. It’s perfectly legal in the 9 cities I’ve lived in. It’s legal in all the cities I’ve visited - I make sure when I’m going somewhere that I know the laws/rules. You can stop being pendantic about “your” job and cities since it doesn’t apply here, nor to the people who’ve responded to you. Are you related to “B”?


tangerineballantine

Yes but that isn’t the case in this story.


SailorSpyro

Even if that were the case, those jurisdictions have permits for contractors to park on the street, and I'm sure OP being a professional who has to pull permits for this would have been aware if that was necessary and gotten what they needed.


MotheroftheworldII

There are some streets like that in my city. And even then there are open hours so people can have work done on their property.


OptmstcExstntlst

Then that is not considered public parking; it's permit parking.


RedFiveIron

Yes, that is what I am saying. Just because a street is public doesn't mean parking on it is public.


Lay-ZFair

And they are generally posted that way on signs on that street. Keeps you from having to guess!


lokis_construction

But they have to have signs saying "Permit required"


AustinBennettWriter

But even then, there's usually a two hour limit for non residences and a meter maid type person will come by an issue a ticket. I live in SF.


StarKiller99

But this is probably some place like Austin.


gotitadeamor76

I have never understood the sheer audacity of people with driveways caring about who parks in front of their house on a PUBLIC street.


SailorSpyro

I had my roof redone a few weeks ago, which started the day after we had off street parking added to our lot so we no longer parked our 2 cars on the street. The roofers used a spot for the small dumpster and a spot for their car. Our neighbor, who has no off street parking and whose house used to park FIVE cars on the street before their roommates moved out, had the audacity to come out screaming at my husband for the roofers taking up 2 spots. Two spots that had been taken by us for 2 years before that point, so not even 2 additional spots.


Arokthis

How many of your discarded nails "accidentally" ended up in your neighbor's driveway and yard?


SailorSpyro

They don't have a driveway, and their yard is tiny as is with dogs in the house, so I would never endanger their dogs by doing that. I've been tempted to just park on the street still instead of in my driveway


Kencleanairsystem2

That would work. My neighbors across the street (busy one-way street) have parking for 6 cars in their driveway, but choose to park on the street. It's annoying, but it's their right so....yeah. just letting it go.


SailorSpyro

A lot of people on my street do this. When we moved in, every house had parking in their back yard except mine and this neighbor. And yet every spot on the street was always taken. Got easier in the winter, people preferred parking in their own driveways when it snowed. The one that really pisses me off is the house with a handicap spot on the street. Pretty sure the elderly woman that the spot was for died, haven't seen her in 2 years. Even if she's not dead, she isn't the one using her plaque or spot, which isn't how that's supposed to work. Her kids continue to use the spot, but only in nice weather. They park their car in their driveway all winter and it's not an accessibility issue for them. But because they keep her plaque and the spot, they are guaranteed an on-street spot always reserved for them.


boppitywop

I used to live in a house that had both a driveway and a couple of spots in front of the house that were indented in towards my yard, so not curb-side, there was no sidewalk, but probably public spots. Whenever someone would park in the spots in front of the house, I would have this weird territorial anger briefly rise. Don't know why, it was practically street parking, but seeing cars there would trigger some primitive turf instincts. I of course realized this was completely irrational and never did anything about it, but I can understand that instinct.


curlytoesgoblin

Neighbor has a daughter in college so when she's home for the summer she always parks in front of our house. And I don't say shit or complain because it's a public god damn street and she's parked on the side that you're allowed to park on.


PSGAnarchy

If the car is destructive or makes it hard to use your property is the only way I see it being a problem.


Narrow-Chef-4341

I can’t imagine a valid use for your property that requires you to use the public roadway. Other than ignoring requests to (eg) not park for heavy equipment access, what are you thinking about where a homeowner is entitled to exclusively use the public road?


PSGAnarchy

Parking across driveways? Parking across access ways? Making it difficult to use said areas. Parking so there is no space for bins. There are plenty of reasons but you just need a bit of common sense and it's all good. And I'm not saying exclusive use. I'm saying "don't be a hazard or stop function"


SailorSpyro

Our street doesn't have room between cars for garbage bins. The garbage men know how to get them anyway, it's never been an issue. We have actual spots painted on the street. Even so, I always felt weird parking next to a bin, and try to keep my small car further one direction or the other in the spot to make it less likely they'll overlook a bin.


Y_N0T_Z0IDB3RG

Not to mention the mailbox. USPS won't deliver if they can't get the car close enough to the box to reach out and put mail in.


Fresh-Highlight-4899

My main issue is when they park poorly and park in a way that makes so instead of at least 2 cars only one can fit. Edited to fix typo.


j2142b

Wait until your neighbor parks his truck and 20ft long lawn mowing trailer in front of your house...every day...all year long...because he doesn't want it in front of his house. That was my life for 2 years, you change your tune pretty quickly.


StarKiller99

Oh, he'd have bird shit all over his lawn tools.


Academic_Nectarine94

If the o3rson in the house has to park on the street because there's only space for one car in the driveway, and there's 3 cars in the household... Or they just don't like some bum parking his questionable van in front of the house. I completely agree that it's not a "I'm gonna call the cops" situation, and OP handled this, if not appropriately, then certainly with legality and in like kind with the idiot. I'm just saying there are legit reasons in general that people need their part of the street.


Lay-ZFair

Or if they park too close to your driveway and impede your access when there are cars directly across as well as both sides of your driveway. There is a legal requirement for distance from a driveway which is what annoys me when it happens. I prefer my maneuvering in video games not real life potential car damage situations.


Academic_Nectarine94

If we're going to the virtual realm, just give me a bulldozer LOL


processedmeat

We were renovating a house for a guy and instead of having the workers park in front of his house he paid to lease a lot where everyone had to park, a van to shuttle us back and forth, and we had to take down the scaffolding every night to not block his view when he had his morning coffee. In an 8 hour day we did about 4 hours of new work 


Notdoingitanymore

That’s some expensive morning coffee


WokeBriton

Some people have no fucks to give about how much their morning/daily/etc routine costs them because they have enough money to pay for it without denying their bank accounts in any way.


tofuroll

Even if I were that rich, I can't imagine such waste.


archangelzeriel

After a certain point, spending money isn't really "waste" in any meaningful way unless you're using your bank balance to keep score. Really, it's just applying marginal utility theory from the other direction--as each additional dollar in your account is "worth less" in terms of the additional utility/happiness it can provide, you'll naturally be inclined to solve smaller and smaller "problems" by throwing money at them until they go away.


_PM_ME_YOUR_ANYTHING

This is exactly why I started ordering more food and grocery deliveries when I got a higher paying job. The logic is, why spend an hour driving to the shops and paying $60 for groceries. When I can pay $80 for groceries to be delivered to me within 30 minutes. And I can do other things in the meantime. I am fully aware that that $20 is a ridiculous delivery fee. But when you don't need to keep track of your daily living expenses. $20 isn't a delivery fee that I need to stress about. it's the cost of improved quality of life for me. Spending more based on your wage is a trap though. Because someone who is earning less, who goes to the shops and doesn't pay that delivery fee, can save more money even though they earn less. TL;DR we should teach basic money skills in school. The amount of manager I have had who complain about living paycheck to paycheck is insane. I'm talking 6 figures and having to wait for their pay to hit their bank account before they could go get lunch at the office.


archangelzeriel

I started doing the same, then realized that I got more utility anyway because the supermarket I prefer is entirely a pain in the butt for me to drive to, but it's easily worth $20 for someone else to do it. Meanwhile, I tried paying for lawn maintenance, but turns out I actually like the weekly walking around in the sun with music on, so I ended up just buying a really nice electric push-mower instead. =P


Alblaka

> I am fully aware that that $20 is a ridiculous delivery fee. But when you don't need to keep track of your daily living expenses. $20 isn't a delivery fee that I need to stress about. it's the cost of improved quality of life for me. This is one of the things I just can't drill into my mom's head. Bit on the older side, and still very thrifty. To the point that she will go out of her way to do additional shopping trips on her way to/from work, spending like 10-15 minutes to purchase singular items with a coupon to save... a buck? (And, in some instances I feel like that the extra money spent on gas is eating up the savings anyways.) Saving that little money is not worth the time investment to me and whilst I understand where that behavior is coming from for her, she's by now well-off enough that she should value her time better... but I suppose old habits die hard.


stalextite

She might also enjoy the thrill of the hunt at this point!


HMS_Slartibartfast

Please tell me you have an oversized truck for rural work that just HAS TO BE driven to the site from now on! Parked in front of the "B" of course! Preferably one that has recently been used to help replace a septic system!


Proper_Fact7866

A bright blue ram 2500 aptly named Papa Smurf! Lmao 🤣


Srirachelsauce009

OMG, I love it! Lol! 👨‍🦳🍄


Narrow-Chef-4341

Tell your trades that spot is reserved for the plumbers and honey wagon. Karen will be thrilled. Paparazzi might love to know as well, for giggles.


EllaMcWho

This happened a long time ago in a galaxy far away, but I attended a baby shower for a friend at her mother-in-law’s very nice home. It was next door to the home of Pat Robertson’s son (Pat was a very famous television evangelist). He (PR’s son) tried to have my car towed from city street, at the front of their house. One of the guests saw the tow truck pull up and notified the host to help identify whose vehicle was at issue. Yes, my piece of crud 20 year old rust bucket was the winner! When I came outside, the tow truck driver was telling PR’s son that he could not legally tow me without a police officer’s instruction as I was on city street and not obstructing the property of PR’s son. Cue the “don’t you know who I am” tantrum and threats to end the employability of the poor tow truck driver! To his credit, the poor tow truck driver bore up well under the pressure and offered to call the police for PR’s son to get external confirmation that the tow truck driver was not authorized to steal vehicles simply for their being eyesores in view of rich people’s homes. When I returned to the party, my friend, her family and the host were all very entertained by my recreating the confrontation. The host said she’d expect them to come chastise her later for trashing up the neighborhood with her guests but oh well! Anyway I hated PR before that but his entitled son now was on my list.


Aggregatorade

> Pat Robertson’s son (Pat was a very famous television evangelist) Good thing you clarified, for a moment there I had Robert Patterson in my head lmao


Arokthis

You're lucky the tow truck driver has a conscience. Many will just straight up steal your car and charge you for the privilege of getting it back.


StarKiller99

Not if it's actual theft.


ShadowDragon8685

The problem with that is that very often, the tow fuckers are in tight with the law, and the judges, and you'll have a massively uphill battle proving that they unlawfully appropriated your vehicle, and even harder proving that they did it in bad faith - as opposed to it being a mistake, where the judge will order them to v release the vehicle but won't even assess them your attorney fees. During which time, of course, you do not have a car. Most people will just pay them to get their cars back, because it's an order of magnitude more expensive to get remedy through the courts, and you'll likely have to fight *twice,* once to establish they took your vehicle improperly, and again to sue them for your attornicator fees.


Routine-Improvement9

Wyatt's towing (Denver) has entered the chat.


WrenDrake

NTA. I see why you call her Ms B.


Proper_Fact7866

Hehehe you caught that?


johnandahalf13

Since the husband and wife are both well known, my first thought was David & Victoria Beckham. Ms B indeed.


dudeloveall2814

I hated dealing with the entitled neighbors when I did cabinets. They were only nice when asking how much we charged or how long our waiting list was.


Slackersr

For safety perhaps orange cones could be put out at the front and back of your vehicle...


DizzyCuntNC

😂😂😂


ejdjd

Ooooo, drop some tea!! Houston, Dallas or Austin and then can we guess who these "celebs" are??


ExtraSpicyGingerBeer

I'm going to assume Westover Hills in Fort Worth. I live two blocks outside the township in Fort Worth proper and walk my dog through the neighborhood daily. The amount of people with beautiful, manicured lawns and landscaping ruined by cheap hideous no parking signs isn't a lot, but there's still a couple and it just makes me laugh.


RSGK

I feel sorry for the housekeeper who B sent out to confront you. That’s disgusting.


ColorsOfTheCurrents

I'm petty, i would have the front of her house filled with my employees/workers vehicles all day, everyday. Legally of course.


Techn0ght

Thank you for your public service in attempting to train a Karen to rejoin society.


WokeBriton

Richest (in money terms) person I ever met was extremely down to earth, and looked down on those rich people who treated less well off folk like shit


kittycatty88

I honestly don't understand why people get pissy about other people parking in from of there house, as long as no one is blocking your drive way I wouldnt care. Seems to be a big thing in America


onionbreath97

It's not that big of a thing. It's selection bias. You don't hear about the millions and millions of reasonable people who have no issue with this.


binx64

NTA but you’re in the right community even if you happened to be


OriginalHaysz

This is malicious compliance, not AITA lol


CryptographerMedical

NTA! You complied with a police warning about parking! That it annoyed her is *cough* such a shame... 😁


PlatypusDream

Lokigif: yes, very sad; anyway ...


DizzyCuntNC

NTA. When the universe chooses you to deliver some karma to a Karen you must deliver it.


Infamous-Ad-5262

NOT TA. Entitled people are people who have never learned basic human skills. Talk to people with respect, compassion, courtesy. For almost everything there are two types- good/evil, kind/mean, right/wrong, etc… When someone starts with “the wrong approach,” it’s really hard to undo. Another words, FAFO.


meteorchiquitita

Say her name say her name


nerdgirl71

I loved your response. Hard up, lol.


dadavedavid

Sneer at her that if she’s not rich enough to afford her own private street, that’s her problem and not yours.


Elestriel

I read the headline as "AITA for intentionally being **pretty**?" and re-read this, like, three times to see what the hell being pretty had to do with it. Yup. Time for coffee. It's too early for reading comprehension.


Proper_Fact7866

The struggle is real. I can’t do simple math before coffee. 🤣


tru_madness

She charges you $500/day for parking. Okay: you charge her $1000/ a day for each bill she gives you.


kcoinga

She can pound sand. Park where you need to legally. She'll have to deal with until you're done.


Arokthis

It's a shame that seeding her lawn with poison ivy, bamboo, or kudzu will only hurt the people that work for her.


Head_Razzmatazz7174

Texas you say? This wouldn’t happen to be in Austin or Houston by any chance? There are a lot of celebrities that call those two places home.


Wjjj62

Perfect Malicious compliance!


LoubyAnnoyed

People can be so unhinged about public street parking. Just nuts.


fireside60

I think you need a larger vehicle sometimes...


The_Sanch1128

An Abrams?


Great-Grade1377

Who’s the celebrity? I think the tabloids might like to pay for your story?


Duckr74

Who’s the celebrities? You can’t leave us hanging?


SuperHair69

It's either Michael Moore or Beyoncé. Chuck Norris or Ike Turner would have just kicked her ass for parking there.


dreamfin

No Parking sign leaves the street where Chuck Norris parks his car.


Overall-Tailor8949

Norris would have told the house to finish building itself. And it would have, without the workers.


Snoo_44245

The maid thanks you!


teddasherjr

Name her! Shame her!


DracoNatas

Your last sentence is the telling of the true story. I do chemical lawn maintenance and the rudest and pickiest and cheapest people were what I call the pseudo rich. While this was a little bit more then ten years ago. Those are the people who live in an almost 2 million dollar home. The actually truly rich, for the most part, didn’t complain about the cost, understood you are the professional, and let you do your job without trying to tell you how to do it.


RJack151

NTA. Public place, entitled RB has no say.


Fury161Houston

She wants this project to come to a SPEEDy ending?


ChestyGardner

Keep up the good work...!


SemperSimple

why did I know this was in Texas. Are there no other states building insane ranches in the country side!?!


Scaly_Tomato

If it was me. I would be tempted to buy a junk car, park it there and "lose the keys"


LuciferianInk

Piscer whispers, "My favorite thing to do is build a home. I live in the city now, and my house is pretty nice, but I still enjoy making things. I'm not a huge fan of the idea of having a big yard, but if we need to make it bigger we will. I've been doing some DIY lately, mainly on the roof. I have a few pieces of furniture, but I'm not into the whole "furniture thing.""


Groundhog_Waaaahooo

Name and shame!


aquainst1

I knew I liked you. My long-lost daughter!


assirac7

For sure! I'm still giggling like a school girl 🤣


aquainst1

I SO wish you were in SoCal. We'd meet up on Taco Tuesday and share construction stories. You sound like you're so very INTERESTING!!! Of course we'd close the place. *(I've never been in the construction biz, but hubs and I have done stuff, plus I have friends that I can halfway understand and talk with, but I'd LOVE to hear your stories!*


Proper_Fact7866

😂 there are a lot of stories for sure.


FeistyIrishWench

If you were in Florida instead, I'd love to meet up for lunch somewhere for the same reason. I speak trades and would understand you. Or I'd ask if you want to hire me to do your admin for you. Or both.


aquainst1

Oh my goodness, I hope you're ok, what with all the flooding going on there!!!


FeistyIrishWench

My area is not in the storm zone. But lawdamercy we need rain over where I am.


bc60008

I'm gonna guess Tati & James from YouTube. 🤔😝


hurling-day

My SIL said she thinks it is rude to park in front of someone else’s house. I laughed. I live on a street with parking only allowed on 1 side of the street. We fit 3 of our 4 cars in our driveway. We cannot park on my side of the street. Where should we park our 4th car? My SIL lives in a $$$$ house with a 3 car garage and driveway parking for about 10 more cars.


UnlikelyChemist3859

There’s gotta be more lol Did she call cops? If so what happened? We NEED to know 😂 lol


Full_Disk_1463

NTA


RedditAdminAreMorons

Wrong sub. You're looking for r/AmItheAsshole But no, you've dont nothing wrong. Legally or morally.


awhq

You called her "B" because her name is Barbara, right? /s


YankeeWalrus

you'd better delete this comment before she sues you to keep this incident quiet


Utisthata

My only question is how is a single new home build taking a year?


Proper_Fact7866

It’s a huge, high end custom home. Plus Covid.


Utisthata

Not trying to be *that b* but as a fellow woman with 30 years in the construction industry can I ask, is the project on schedule? What’s the square footage? And also just for fun, what’s your favorite feature about this build?


Proper_Fact7866

I appreciate your questions. The job is close to 9,000 sqft. The project was projected to take 2 years (no selections were made before we broke ground, no interior designer at that time either), but it broke ground at the beginning of Covid when lumber prices soared and lead times on items like windows went from 8 weeks to 8 months, so we are about 6 months behind. The main issue on those project is that none of these neighbors wanted this house to be built. The lot they are building on had a small house that was torn down and this large home was built in its place. This neighbor (Mrs. B) had made her husband leave his large estate with lots of privacy to live in town with no privacy making the husband really mad….. so she is having to deal with the fallout from that, but it is still not our clients problem. My fav part about this project is that it’s an architectural style of house that’s not seen much in our area so it is very eye catching and beautiful.


Utisthata

It sounds beautiful and I truly feel for you dealing with the slowdown on materials due to Covid. It was catastrophic. At the point I was having to pull hardware from 3 separate suppliers just to do a lockout, while looking at $120/sheet OSB, it seemed like maybe it was time to just throw in the towel!


Proper_Fact7866

Those were crazy times.


StarKiller99

NTA


Praezin

Wrong sub I think, but you NTA


moemat2000

i am going to guess celebities are tom segura and cristina p being the karen.


Slackingatmyjob

This is compliance, and it's malicious, but it's not malicious compliance


YankeeWalrus

...How the Kentucky-fried fuck? Is this that meme with Patrick, Manray and the wallet?


ncslazar7

Construction workers on my street park blocking the corner of my drive, block both lanes of traffic, and when I put my garbage bins out, parked directly in front of them without even thinking to move them where the garbage men could still pick them up. I'm sick of these construction douches


Halospite

If you don't mind me asking, what's your official title? "Builder" covers at least two dozen jobs and could be anything from a brick layer to a structural engineer.


Proper_Fact7866

Your right. I do everything from start to finish including design. Only thing I don’t do is book keeping because my brain just doesn’t work that way. 🤣 Even have a custom millwork shop.


Halospite

So you're an architect, a bricklayer, tiler, plumber, electrician, engineer, lawyer, developer and interior designer? What country is this?


Halospite

So you're an architect, a bricklayer, tiler, plumber, electrician, engineer, lawyer, developer and interior designer? What country is this?


Jimalcoatla

This reminds me of a story, from about 15 years ago, not malicious compliance, but still fun.  I used to meet with a bunch of friends a one of our houses for a weekly game night.  We all would show up and park on the public street near his house in whatever space was available as street parking is legally first come first served as it is public property. This went on for a few months until one day I left my friend's house and saw a note pinned under my windshield wiper from my friend's neighbor calling me all manner of names and telling not to park in his "drive" (I'm still to this day not sure what he thought a "drive" was as I was very clearly on the street) or that he would call the police and have my car towed. I went back into my friend's house, read him and his wife the note then asked to borrow a pen.  I flipped the note over and wrote something to the effect of "The public street in front of your house is not your "drive" it is public parking that is available to anyone who pays taxes in this county.  If you had simply asked nicely for me to not park in front of your house, I would have been more than willing to do so.  Now I will intentionally park in front of your house every time I come here and will ask all my friends to do the same.  Also, if you call the police, please come and get me so that I can laugh in your face when they tell you that you are wrong." I then put it under his truck's wiper blade and continued to intentionally park directly in front of his house.   I never got another note and the police never came to tow my car.