Busy Bodying...

I think the neighbor who lives across the street from us, their son and his wife and kids are moving out. They've lived with the neighbor for a couple of years, had two kids while there so maybe three years actually? Anyway...they have a smaller house than ours and I can only imagine how crowded it's been. I know (from other neighbor's telling me) that it was an unexpected house sharing. Life happens in fits and starts sometimes.

When he first moved in they had an abundance of cars. Their side of the street is no parking so he would park his car in front of our house. Technically the neighborhood rules are no overnight street parking, but he parked there anyway. I wasn't in love with him parking there but in the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal.

But it bugged our next door neighbor A LOT. Like a lot A LOT. She would ask us all the time if it bugged us, why didn't it bug us more, it bugged her, it should bug us. I told her the same thing I wrote up there. I wasn't in love with it, but it wasn't that big of a deal and I assumed it was only temporary.

(ASIDE)

The reason why it bothered me at all was that was one of the things that drove me crazy in the town house. Our town house was at the end of the street in the cul-de-sac. Even though the town houses all had two car garages for the bigger units, and one car garages plus a driveway for the smaller, there was still an abundance of cars in the neighborhood. There was no off street parking in the alleys and only one side of the street driving in had parking so people parked in the cul-de-sac. But not just against the curb, they would head in like it was a parking lot. Nose to curb. So it was just a sea of cars in front of our window all the time. So I was very excited that the rules in this place meant we wouldn't have a street full of cars to stare at all the time. But even with that, one car was one car. I didn't love it, but no big deal.

Well anyway...our neighbor eventually reported him to the HOA. (Which as I'm writing this I just got a notice from the HOA about parking and the rules as a community note, which means someone is breaking the rules but they are giving them one passive aggressive chance to straighten up and fly right before they get a personal note.) But our neighbor turned him in, he got a nastygram from the HOA and then they did some rearranging and were able to get all of their cars in the driveway and/or the garage.

And I'm pretty sure he thinks it was us who turned him in. I mean, that would be logical. It was in front of our house and why would anyone else care right? But it wasn't us. And I was never sure if I should say to him I didn't rat you out. I won't say who ratted you out, but it wasn't me. I know she did it because she told me she did, no shame in her game.

But maybe he didn't blame us, or think we ratted him out. Maybe the stink eye was imagined. Or maybe he just is kind of standoffish. I mean, I'm kind of standoffish so I get it.

But now I'm pretty sure he and his wife and their kids are moving out. The U-Haul has been parked in front of my house for a few hours now.

I'm thinking about calling the HOA...