I was fed up with my neighbours parking on my driveway so I got my revenge – I know it’s petty but I don’t care
A WOMAN has shared how she became fed up with neighbours parking on her property - and successfully plotted her "petty" revenge.
The Reddit user, who doesn't drive, had allowed her neighbour to use her parking spot for their vehicles.
But it wasn't long before that generosity was allegedly exploited, after her neighbour refused to move one of their vehicles for her brother who was arriving home from hospital.
She wrote: “I currently live with my 15-year-old brother who has very weak joints and has to go to hospital every month or so on average.
"A couple of months ago he tore the one in his knee and had to be on crutches.
"We were pulling into our street in the taxi after leaving hospital and one of my neighbours pulled into my drive, blocking our taxi from pulling up to the door.
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“We waited for them to realise my brother had crutches and move but she looked at us and carried on inside, along with her sisters and stepdad.
"I had to hobble my brother across wet muddy grass to get to our door”.
The incensed woman took back her offer, but not before the local resident continued using the vacant spot to transport their baby carriers.
"My own brother couldn’t use his drive when he couldn’t even walk thanks to their nastiness," she continued.
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“In the past three months, three of the residents’ children have had babies and have started parking on my drive again.
"I know why. Because they’d have to walk two blocks otherwise with baby carriers.
"One of these girls confronted me, telling me that I don’t even need the drive and that it’s heartless to do that to a new mother. Her sister backed her up.
She admitted her actions were "petty", but justified her decision after allowing them to use her property space in the first place.
She said: “I was neighbourly until they caused me not to be. I know I am being petty and vindictive in my reasoning, but I feel I am justified as I did them a courtesy for years by letting them use my drive only for them to treat my brother so cruelly.”
Many fellow Reddit users leaped to the woman's defence - applauding her generosity.
One said: "It’s your property.
"You were nice until they showed heartless behaviour."
Another agreed: "If they need space for their cars then they need to find a place to buy or rent that provide those spaces.
"It is not your duty to share your driveway.
"Hopefully the sign on gates stop anyone else from parking there illegally.
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"If it doesn't stop then have those cars towed."