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Neighbor Ruins Kid’s Botany Project Over And Over As Parents Keep Putting It In Her Parking Spot
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Neighbor Ruins Kid’s Botany Project Over And Over As Parents Keep Putting It In Her Parking Spot

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Parking is a fine art. There are a lot of things that you can mess up and if you’ve ever been in a road scuffle, you know the horrible sinking feeling when you hear that disproportionately loud bumper-on-bumper bang.

But sometimes, people are far too quick to judge the parking skills of others. Because, you know, people standing around and mutely waving their hands around is always helpful when you’re trying to take in your surroundings in a 2-ton tank. Today we’ll take a look at a woman’s story of beefing with her neighbors over her destructive parking skills.

More info: Reddit

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If a neighbor erects a garden right in your parking spot, they should at least have the common sense not to get mad when it’s run over

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The poster came to the AITA subreddit to be judged if she’s a jerk for driving over a botanical project, flowers, which were planted in her driveway

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The poster bought a new, bigger car, and while she tried to avoid the neighbor’s plants, she kept destroying them again and again

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This sparked a conflict between the neighbors and the poster even suggested to swap parking spots with them, but they refused

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When people saw that the poster was struggling with parking a bigger car, many of them pounced on her, bashing her for being a bad driver

The whole situation is quite easy to understand, but quite hard to grasp visually. But this Reddit comment may help you visualize the parking situation. The original poster (OP) also attempted to draw the parking spots and the garden, but you can see how that panned out in her own comment.

A lot of people bashed the OP for her parking and driving skills, but it seems as if the whole issue is with the fact that no matter what, the plants were still planted in the driveway. And there simply have to be better places to put a botanical project rather than in a driveway? 

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Apparently they’re growing marigolds and trying to see how conditions like sunlight, water, and soil affect the plants’ growth, which is likely super convenient to attempt to do on gridded concrete. Here’s how these concrete grass pavers look, if you’re having trouble imagining them.

But here’s the thing, just because grass grows there, they’re still part of the driveway. These kinds of pavers are quite popular as a less brutalist and boringly gray driveway option, especially for parking in small apartment or cottage neighborhoods.

Can you also imagine being the kid? The OP drove over the project a total of four times. What are the parents doing? Are they just setting it up over and over again, saying “it’s okay, honey, I’m certain the neighbor lady won’t bulldoze your plants for the fifth time in a row.”

Perhaps the flowers are quite resilient and can stand up to being run over by a BMW GT, but I just don’t see why wouldn’t you start looking for a better spot for your kiddo’s project, oh, I don’t know, after the 3rd time?

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All in all, this led to OP catching a whole lot of flak about her being an awful driver. In her defense, 7 years of driving without any accidents at all is no small feat. According to her, she’s done it by simply learning the cars she drives well.

In the post and several comments, the poster mentions that she’s even taken some refresher parking lessons with an instructor to make the transition of getting used to a new car easier.

When people found this out, even more people pounced on her, with accusations of “bad driver” and even saying that she’s putting people at risk (somehow).

But people who will watch over what you’re doing and comment about it, especially when they could really be minding their own business, are everywhere. There’s even an Italian term “Umarell” for senior retired men who spend their free time with their hands clasped behind their back, watching construction sites, at times offering unsolicited and unwanted advice.

Nevertheless, lots of schools offer refresher driver lessons. For example, according to Holt’s, a car maintenance manufacturer and distributor with more than 100 years of history, there are loads of reasons why refresher driving lessons could be the thing for you.

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If you’ve started driving after a long gap, need more confidence driving alone, had an accident, or need more experience driving in certain conditions, you could go for refresher lessons.

And there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to refresh your skills for any reason, especially if you feel that you’re lacking in some area. Dudebros will tell you that you’re incompetent or a risk to others, but there is a certain association of driving skill to masculinity and very closely tied some people’s sense of worth, so choose what you listen to out there.

The original post collected 4.2k upvotes with a 94% upvote ratio and a total of 1.1k comments to boot. It was a polarizing story, as there are many “you’re the buttface” replies, but the poster was judged as a non-jerkhole in the end. 

Share your thoughts about the story below!

Despite the “bad driver” accusations, the community judged the poster not to be a jerk

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I started as a writer, but time came when I wanted more, so I learned how to do the visuals for my articles too, with the help of my wonderful colleagues. When I had the chance to become an editor, I jumped at the opportunity, because I know that it will be the best way for me to learn more and help out my wonderful colleagues in return.

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Saulė is a photo editor at Bored Panda with bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design. The thing that relaxes her the best is going into YouTube rabbit hole. In her free time she loves painting, embroidering and taking walks in nature.

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Nancy Marine
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think what gets me the most about this post is people reaming the poor OP for getting whatever car she damn well pleases. What she drives is no one else's business!

Bina Wei
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same. It got me too. They're also assuming so much based of what is not in the post. I've been in units/rentals before with a lot of units. The parking is tight and it sucks. You can't plant much near it. At the very least if there is assigned parking, you stick to your spot as much as possible. You don't berate your neighbours, you keep to yourself and make do with what you got. The neighbours could have taken part of OP's space, put up a barrier or moved. They had options rather than bothering OP. OP has little options. I don't get the Y.T.A.s. it's her place, she's still learning the car, she has limited options.. the neighbours do not. Sigh.

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tabithapaquette98
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NTA. You do not have a garden in the parking lot! They need to move it or it will continue to get run over. And of course no one wants to switch parking spots! I would just ignore everyone who gives you a hard time!

Elizabeth Basinger
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NTA. As one who loves to plant flowers, marigolds do well in a container. Plus, they are much easier to navigate with growing conditions (sun, shade, etc.).

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Nancy Marine
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think what gets me the most about this post is people reaming the poor OP for getting whatever car she damn well pleases. What she drives is no one else's business!

Bina Wei
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same. It got me too. They're also assuming so much based of what is not in the post. I've been in units/rentals before with a lot of units. The parking is tight and it sucks. You can't plant much near it. At the very least if there is assigned parking, you stick to your spot as much as possible. You don't berate your neighbours, you keep to yourself and make do with what you got. The neighbours could have taken part of OP's space, put up a barrier or moved. They had options rather than bothering OP. OP has little options. I don't get the Y.T.A.s. it's her place, she's still learning the car, she has limited options.. the neighbours do not. Sigh.

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tabithapaquette98
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NTA. You do not have a garden in the parking lot! They need to move it or it will continue to get run over. And of course no one wants to switch parking spots! I would just ignore everyone who gives you a hard time!

Elizabeth Basinger
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NTA. As one who loves to plant flowers, marigolds do well in a container. Plus, they are much easier to navigate with growing conditions (sun, shade, etc.).

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