Wednesday, July 20, 2011

New House... New Neighbors

"Well hello there..." came a sound from an unfamiliar lady at the new rented place that we recently moved into. Later found out that she lives just next door and went on to introduce her family. Sounds like a nice intro to have when we move to a new unfamiliar location. We moved there a month ago, just immediately after we started construction work at our own place where we stayed. We used to stay in a street that was 80ft wide and with walkways that were atleast 20ft wide with age old trees on either side. Now we've moved to a place where the road would probably be about 40ft wide and no trace of footpaths what so ever. Fortunately/Unfortunately we have 3 cars at home and only 2 can be accommodated in front of our house. So we did a small survey at night and found out houses who don't have cars to be parked in front of their house and parked our car there. Everything went well for a couple of days when one fine day, I found a "POST IT" sticky note on my car door saying: "Don't park your car here". I thought to myself ok maybe another house then. Then the next day another lady came up to us and asked us not to park our car in front of their house and then another. We were tired of finding a parking space for our car. So now I park my car in front of my friend's house a couple of Kilometers away and use my bike as a feeder to access my car. The funniest part was the kind of reasons they came up with to tell us not to park in front of their house.. Here are a few..
1. Please don't park here as my guests who arrive sometimes will find it difficult to find a parking space.
2. Please don't park here as my daughter visits me sometimes (once or twice in a month) and she parks her car here.
3. Please don't park here as the street sweeper will not clean under your car and when you remove your car, it will look dirty.
4. I don't know how to reverse my car from the garage properly and your car there is causing more trouble.
5. Please don't park here as it'll cut out the light to the plants in my house..(Wah!! Light at night)
Seriously?? People... we need to redefine the meaning of the word neighbor.

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