People have rushed to applaud a resident after her nightmare neighbour told her to move her car out of “her space” on a public road.
There is nothing worse than coming home from a long day and having to deal with a troublesome neighbour. Some choose to turn a blind eye while others decide to awkwardly confront the resident. But sometimes even when you call them out, they don’t listen. Equally, it can be frustrating if you live next to someone who always has something to compain about – even when you know your behaviour as a resident is acceptable.
One student named Suzy Hamilton, who lives with three housemates, was unimpressed when a neigbour came to her door recently and demanded she moves her car in order for her to park outside her home. After repeatedly noting that the student is a temporary resident, she said she needs the sparking space due to being asmatic and not having it will “kill her”.
Suzy shared a clip of the altercation on TikTok and it raked it over 10million views. She said: “My neighbour is angry due to me parking on our sreet as I’m a uni student, but it’s free for all parking.”
The annoyed neighbour came to the door and said: “Hi, can I just ask if you can move your car further down to help me please, because I’m severly asmatic, I actually live on the end here and I can’t walk too far so we’ve got a space here.”
Suzy responded and said: “Yeah but there’s someone coming and parking there, and we need three spaces.” “You don’t need anything I’m sorry, you’re students. I live here and I’ve lived here for years,” the annoyed neighbour said.
Suzy added: “That’s not fair. I’m sorry but it’s not our fault that we’re at university and we have to get a house.” “I’ve been living here for years,” responded the woman. “Sorry but that’s not your space, it’s a public road,” Suzy said as she stood up for herself and her housemates.
“You’re parking in my space outside my house,” the neighbour said. Now accompanied by her daughter, the annoyed neighbour pointed at other cars and asked who they belonged too and why they keep moving their cars around. She also threatened to contact the council, starting crying, and said walking to her car “nearly killed me” – and suggested it would be the students fault if anything happened to her.
She added: “You don’t live here.” Suzy responded: “Sorry, but four people live in this house, three of us have cars. It’s not our issue that it’s a public road. You can’t do anything it’s a public road.”
“There’s ones on the end for you guys to use,” the ranting neighbour said. “Why is it just us guys? Because we’re students?,” Suzy questioned. “You don’t have a house with a driveway so that’s not your space,”she added.
“I f***ing live here and I pay rent…you just need to have a bit of respect” the annoyed neighbour added, to which Suzy pointed out that she does exactly the same. The student noted that she was leaving home soon so they could have the space once she has gone out.
The back and forth went on for around eight minutes, and people were impressed by how Suzy stood her ground.
One of the housemates, Alexa, issued an update in the comments and said: “They now report us every time we park over our own dropped curb drive to the council pretending to be us complaining that someone else is parked over our drive so that we get a ticket every time.”
“I honestly aspire to have this kind of backbone, I’d be crying in seconds,” commented one. “You handled that with extreme maturity, unlike your neighbours,” added another. “You handled that insanely well,” added another.
One other pointed out: “A simple ‘I don’t suppose you could keep that space free in future because i have asthma please?’ would’ve gone a long way lmao well done for standing your ground.”
Another shared: “Well done for standing your ground. People like this feel so entitled. I had this issue once and they ended up putting numbers on the floor an council told them to remove it! There is no allocated.”
One other pointed out: “In all fairness, if you need a parking space right outside your house, you need to buy/rent a house with a drive…. That was my non negotiable when looking for a house.” One other admitted they would feel too awkward to park their car again, and said: “I’d close the door and get the bus for the next three weeks.”
But one other said: “I always leave the space my neighbour parks in, he’s elderly and lived here before any of us he doesn’t expect it either I think we all just do it out of respect for him.”
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