(Inarticulate sounds of rage.)

[gridlore]

Tonight, I had to leave the apartment for ten freaking minutes to pick up lower plate ver. 1.1 (fits much better, yay!) By the time I got back, all the parking was gone from the front of the building. I parked in back, and hoped that a space would open up by the time Kiri got home. No such luck, so we had to shuffle cars so she could park in the garage..

Stop. Our garage space is covered in our neighbor's tools for his latest car project.

I have had it. Kirsten is at her computer melting the intertubes with an email to the property management, and we are now going to park in the garage every single bloody night.

Comments

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

I'd ...be more than a little tempted to gather up the tools, and leave a note. Or maybe just a series of photographs of the tools visiting various locations, like that lawn-gnome prank from a few years ago...

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Let me guess, a push-broom to move the tools off of your space & a dumpster to keep all those tools & parts in?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Oh no, we marched up to the neighbor and told her to move everything right freaking now. One of the items was an engine hoist.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I'm still rooting for the dumpster, but that works too.

[jarlsberg71.livejournal.com]

I offer alibis at reasonable prices :D

[guppiecat]

Huh. I'm guessing parking is more of an issue in San Jose than it is in Des Moines.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

In our little barrio, yes. The situation is made worse because the alley way shared by several buildings is undergoing construction.

Here, take a look (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.246231,-121.875788&spn=0.00148,0.002414&t=h&z=19). We're the second building up from Via Monte on Almaden Expressway. Our garage/parking space is to the right of that white car parked at the back of the building. Normally, there are two entrances to the alley, one at the south and one at the west. The west end is closed for work, and that has displaced several cars who have to either park on the street or find other spaces in the alley.