Sunday, September 26, 2004 INTERNET POLL!!!
Last night we moved most of the living room and kitchen into the new house, then sat down to watch a movie. (One cannot neglect The Hundred Movie Challenge.)
Then some neighbors, presumably the ones next door, decided to play a prank, so they picked up their telephone, dialed a certain number, and had my housemate's van towed.
It was 12:30 AM. When we found out at 1:00 AM (another neighbor came and rang our bell and told us), there was the neighbors' car, sitting smugly next to the spot where the van used to be. Next to it were three vacant spaces. No car was in the van's space.
I'd be getting going on a spite fence, but it came with the house.
The van was in a spot directly in front of our door: one of our own designated spaces was filled by a leaf-covered sedan with its tags removed, so we figured, you know, we'd be carrying boxes in all day, and people would see we were moving, and it wouldn't mattter so much that we were parked one space away from where we should be. People said hello, and we had high hopes for attending future block meetings: it was friendly neighbors, in fact, who told us what the parking rules were to begin with, as their were no posted procedures. Our landlord didn't tell us, of course. He didn't know, just like he didn't know there was a backyard to the previous building, or that there was a keyed lock to the yard gate of the new place.
It cost money to get the car out of impound, and it's going to be OK, but with the security deposit and all, we're a little broke right now. We're going to have to seek low budget forms of entertainment.
POLL:
Please share your favorite, low-cost, non-violent, and legal ways of making the jerks who had our car towed wish they were dead. posted by Frenz | 9/26/2004 09:39:00 AM
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