Woman Buys Apartment With Parking Included, Flabbergasted After Rude Notes Start Appearing

If you remember “Game of Thrones” lore, then very often various governors, left by kings to simply guard and preserve the empty throne, could become so attached to this familiar place that sometimes they even regarded the return of the legitimate monarch or heir as a personal insult. Like, everything was so good – why complicate things?

No, the story we want to tell you today, from the user u/eggydidnothingwrong, actually has nothing to do with swords and bloody intrigue, and the only magic in it is actually stickers across the car windshield. But the general idea is basically the same – if a person considers themselves entitled to something, then it’s really difficult to stop them.

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The author of the post recently moved to a new apartment with an assigned parking spot and parked her car there for the night

Anonymous notes from a dodgy neighbor attempting to trick a woman into giving up her paid parking spot.

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In the morning she was baffled by the whole bunch of stickers on the windshield, that claimed it actually wasn’t her place

Woman describes dodgy neighbor’s anonymous notes trying to trick her into giving up her assigned parking spot.

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Two cars parked in front of residential houses, illustrating a dodgy neighbor attempting tricking with anonymous notes.

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The lady checked it once more in the office and got an official response that it was her assigned spot, and no one else’s

Woman reads anonymous note from dodgy neighbor trying to trick her into giving up her parking spot.

Alt text: Person's note on windshield responding to dodgy neighbor's anonymous notes about a parking spot dispute

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Woman looking frustrated in a parking lot next to a warning triangle, illustrating dodgy neighbor parking spot dispute.

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So she left another sticker on the windshield with this information – and parked the car in the same spot

Text on screen showing a note update related to dodgy neighbor attempting to trick woman with anonymous notes about parking spot.

Text screenshot showing a note stating these were the first anonymous notes received about a parking spot dispute.

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The next morning there was no sticker there – but these passive-aggressive attempts stopped at once

So, the Original Poster (OP) lives in Oregon and, having checked into an apartment with an assigned parking spot, she was once surprised and confused the next morning by a whole string of stickers stuck on the windshield of her car. Stickers with passive-aggressive appeals to her.

The stranger insistently asked her to stop parking in this place, because they allegedly had been paying for it, and in fact this place was actually assigned to them. The most interesting and mysterious thing is that the inscriptions on the stickers were written in an impeccably polite style, but their general idea was unambiguous: “Get out of my place!”

It must be said that many people, if they were the original poster, would’ve been embarrassed and, probably, stopped parking in the place for which, frankly, she actually paid. But our heroine wasn’t one of the timid, and decided to conduct her own investigation. She contacted the office of the apartment complex, and received visual confirmation – this was her place, and only hers.

Then the author simply parked her car in her paid and officially confirmed spot, and left her own sticker on the windshield for the evening, which read: “I checked with the office and this is my spot. You should check with them too!” The next morning, the sticker was gone, but the attempts to trick her into giving up the parking spot actually stopped.

Handwritten anonymous note on orange paper attempting to claim a parking spot, related to dodgy neighbor parking dispute.

Handwritten anonymous note on orange paper attempting to trick woman into giving up her parking spot by dodgy neighbor.

Handwritten anonymous note warning to respect neighbor's paid assigned parking spot and avoid rude parking behavior.

Handwritten anonymous note from dodgy neighbor trying to trick woman into giving up her parking spot.

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“There are people who are convinced that the very fact of long-term use of some thing essentially gives them a preferential right to use it later, when the direct owner appears,” says Irina Matveeva, a psychologist and certified NLP specialist, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here. “On the other hand, it seems to me that the situation here is somewhat different. Precisely because they didn’t go for direct confrontation.”

“Most people, if they have documented property rights, are usually ready to defend their property from any encroachment. Specifically, in direct contact with the violators. Here, however, there was passive aggression on the part of the violator – so they most likely understood perfectly well that they were wrong.”

“In fact, in such situations, this is the most correct approach and method of counteraction. Just calmly and purposefully check that you are right – and beat the opponent with their own weapon. In this case, with the stickers. Beautiful, elegant and effective,” Irina summarizes.

People in the comments also praised the original poster for her determination and wit, but still advised to report this case to the office, just in case, in order to avoid any various possible issues in the future. “That way if something does happen you at least have it documented and it can be squashed before it becomes a huge problem,” someone wrote quite reasonably. So what’s your opinion about the described situation?

Most commenters gave the author their genuine support, and urged her to report this case to the office anyway, to play it safe

Reddit conversation discussing a dodgy neighbor’s anonymous notes trying to trick a woman out of her parking spot.

Anonymous notes left on car window as dodgy neighbor attempts tricking woman into giving up her parking spot.

Comment discussing dodgy neighbor's anonymous notes attempting to trick woman into giving up her parking spot.

Neighbor leaves anonymous notes trying to trick woman into giving up her parking spot in a residential area conflict.

Comment thread showing neighbor dispute over parking spot, highlighting dodgy neighbor attempts using anonymous notes.

Man in casual shirt reading anonymous note, concerned over dodgy neighbor trying to trick woman’s parking spot.

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Neighbor uses anonymous notes trying to trick woman into giving up her parking spot in a condo dispute.

Screenshot of a Reddit comment describing a dodgy neighbor leaving passive aggressive anonymous notes to trick a woman out of her parking spot.

User comment about a dodgy neighbor trying to trick a woman via anonymous notes over a parking spot dispute.

Comment criticizing dodgy neighbor trying to trick woman into giving up her parking spot with anonymous notes.

Comment on dodgy neighbor attempting to trick woman into giving up parking spot using anonymous notes with advice to document evidence.

Comment discussing a series of anonymous notes aiming to trick a woman into giving up her parking spot.

Comment discussing embarrassment over dodgy neighbor leaving anonymous notes to trick woman into giving up parking spot.

Comment describing a frustrating parking spot mix-up with a dodgy neighbor using anonymous notes to trick a woman.

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Woman confronts dodgy neighbor’s anonymous notes attempting to trick her into giving up her parking spot in apartment complex dispute.

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