Just spent an hour clearing snow so my partner could park (directly in front of my house) and the neighbor from the next street parked there once they saw me finish…
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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I’d mound up as much snow as I could in front of and behind them. Really make them work at it to get out.
Put snow back
āHey, asshole. Do you really think I shoveled that spot just for you?ā
Definitely repack the snow. Like bury that shit. Rent a bobcat and really bury it.
This has happened so many times in front of our house. My oldest son, (who does most of the shoveling ) says that all that snow and a whole lot extra is going to be packed back around the next car that winds up in his freshly shoveled spot.
No damage. Just making sure that they have to shovel the car out for themselves when they return.
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Shovel the snow back around the neighbor’s car, pour water on the snow, and make ice, especially around the doors.
Something similar happened to me a couple of years ago. I dug out my car from about a foot of snow. Had to go pick up my son & the hubs from the in-laws where they got stuck.
Came back and some asshole is in the spot I cleared. I was pissed. But then Neighbor A told me Neighbor B watched me shovel for an hour, watched me leave, STOOD in the spot while someone fetched their car from the street, and took it. Now, my Hulk rage had fully engaged. We parked a few spots down in the snow. I went inside, grabbed my shovel, and shoveled them back in. Mother truckers FAFO. Neighbor A laughed her ass off, watching me pile up the snow.
They never did it to us again, though.
This happened to me. I cleared a spot in front of my house after a huge storm, walked up the street to move my car, some asshole in a minivan had parked in left during the 5 minutes I was gone.
I shovelled all the snow I’d removed from the curb around his car, then cleared the spot behind him, adding to the pile around him. Then I moved my car into the newly cleared spot, but I was still mad as hell, so I cleared the spot in front of him, and one more spot across the street, until the minivan was buried up to the windows… except the front driver’s side wheel.
The next morning, I poured 2L/64oz of ice cold water onto the steel wheel. I did it again on my way home from work, and again the next morning. When I got home that night, I could hear two people screaming at each other outside my front door, with the woman saying “I told you not to park there, you’re SUCH an asshole!”
It took them at least an hour to dig out their car, and I’m sure that their car was virtually undrivable with an unbalanced front wheel from all the ice I’d added to it.
My friend, you need what we in Pittsburgh call a “parking chair”. It’s any type of cheap fold-up chair you’d have on your patio, and when you shovel out your spot on the curb, you put the chair in the spot. Only the most clueless of idiots would dare mess with someone’s parking chair, as you could beat the offender senseless right in the street and not a single neighbor or passerby would say they saw or heard a thing. In fact, many people would offer to be your alibi. The parking chair is not to be messed with.
ETA: A local store made a t-shirt that illutrates the concept. [https://www.compressmerch.com/products/no-parking?_pos=18&_sid=88fcd4f84&_ss=r](https://www.compressmerch.com/products/no-parking?_pos=18&_sid=88fcd4f84&_ss=r)
Time to water your lawn..
Will they:
1. Confront
2. Do something sneaky
3. Be patient, verrrrry patient
4. Decide it’s not worth it
Find out next week on: Your Neighbor is an Asshole!!
Time to stop posting on reddit and start getting confrontational.
I think the snow was fine where it was before. You should put it back.
As someone who grew up in Canada, thereās a certain āsnow etiquetteā and your neighbor definitely broke it!Ā
You need a pair of pittsburgh parking chairs.
Every 20 minutes spray it with water, should be beautiful by the morning.
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Thank you all for commiserating with me. Makes me feel a little better!
i’d put the snow back where I found it. let them dig their car out.
Where did you put all the snow you cleared? Because I can think of one very good place it could be returned to…
The petty shit I would do in this situation knows no bounds.
It would be a shame, if someone let the air out of all those tires
Shovel the snow back on his car. Make it a biiiig pile. Or build a whole snowfamily on his bonnet – might even be fun.
Pile snow by the driver door. Give it a quick spray with the hose. Sit on your porch and laugh as asshole chisels his way through the ice block
*Edit: guess that might block part of the street. Do it on the curb side between the tires.
Time to dump several buckets of water on the car. Let’s see them get into their car that has an inch of ice on it.
This happened to my mom when she was pregnant; she shoveled a spot for my dad and someone came and took it. So she stood there, visibly pregnant, with the shovel until they moved.
happened to me too! my boyfriend shoveled my spot RIGHT IN FRONT of his house as well and his neighbor also parked thereš so frustrating
This used to happen on our street. My wife was pregnant, so I would make sure two spots were clear, and the assholes who never shoveled would always take it. One night after a blizzard I sat out there shoveling one shovel per minute while they waited, until my wife got home then I let her in and gave the other car the stink eye. Pick up a shovel mofo.
People have actually been murdered over things like this. I watched the security cam footage of a 2021 shooting in Pennsylvania over snow removal. Shooter lost his mind during an argument with neighbors (husband/wife team), went back into the house got his rifle, shot the husband and wife. While the wife is crawling away he walks over to her and asks her who’s the bitch now and smokes her.
Lesson learned; Don’t start shoveling until you know they are on the way, and don’t leave the street until they park.
Too many people in this world are of the belief that “If you make it easy to steal, then you deserve to have it stolen”.
I disagree with that thinking. Because it leads to thoughts like, **”Well if you didn’t WANT mustard thrown on your car then why did you make it so easy to do by parking in front of my house??”**
I would literally shovel the snow directly back onto and around their car.
Nope…this would not happen with me, that’s confrontation waiting to happen. If person doesn’t care, he/she will when I am done with that spot
“Ehh i know i cant stop you but just wanted to say i didnt shovel that spot for you bud!”
Put balogna slices on their car.
Pour water all over their car doors so they freeze shut.
Iām petty enough to shovel for the next few hours to bury his car. And be sure to splash freezing water on it as well, to ensure his car is absolutely stuck and impossible to get into.
Iād turn that car into a frozen monument to his attitude.