當我初次搬進新家時，左右兩邊的鄰居都挺好的。但是左邊的以色列移民鄰居添了新生兒，增大到了六口之家，搬到更大的房子裏了。這樣一對年輕的夫婦帶小男孩搬了進來。男的看起來是阿拉伯人，女的是普通白人。但是他們都信猶太教。那個男孩是女的與前夫生的。前夫經常來探訪。男的兒子也來探訪過幾次。
男的開奔馳4門轎車，女的開了一輛很破很舊的車。後來生了一個女兒，破車改成了SUV 。
天下了雪，男的在家不掃，女的一開始跟我和左邊的鄰居說雪應該是物管來掃，後來女的出來掃雪。
他們有很多的拜訪者，房子清潔員，小孩保姆，女的父母等等。他們每次都把車停在我的私人車位。我不在乎這，隻要我下班回來我有地方停我車就行。
但是事態變糟糕了，很多次我晚上下班回家，我家門前停了陌生人的車。我很不情願的去敲他們的門讓他們移車。每次我都禮貌的告訴他們客人的車因該停在客人車位，客人不了解，主人可以提醒一下。但是他們一點都不管。這種現象持續著。一次他們客人把車硬擠進車位，當我把我的車開出時，我的車被刮傷了，我花了1000多美金修車。
我開始在那些陌生車前窗前留條子，告訴他們社區規定。右邊的鄰居告訴我左邊的鄰居清潔工也瞎停在他們的車位，她也留了條子。我們可以直接喊拖車把陌生人的車拖掉。但是總覺得那樣做太過火了，所以一直還是以留條子為主。
一次我回家從車裏走出，女主人的母親喊住我，理直氣壯的對我說我的房子的主人，一個俄國老頭答應她停在我的私人車位，考慮到她的方便。莫名其妙，我心想。我說我在她女兒搬進他們房子前就買了/搬進了我的房子。我就是房主，不知她在說誰。然後她軟了下來，問我她能不能停在我的車位。我跟她說，社區規定客人的車子因該停在客人停車位。而且房子末端，4-5個車位外有空的停車位，她可以停在那。
對於很多自私的人，別人的好意都是應該的。我現在想想人真的不能太好，被別人占便宜。
Both side neighbors were great when the time I moved in my house. Then my left side Israeli immigrant neighbor's family grew into 6 in size and they moved out for a bigger space. New couple with a young boy moved in. The guy looks like an Arabic, the woman is white. Both of them believe in Judaism. The boy came from the woman and her ex-husband. The man drives Mercedes Benz 4 door car while the woman drives a very rusty and damaged old car. After their daughter was born, the old car was replaced with SUV.
When it snows, the man doesn't sweep snow even when he is home. The woman first told us that the snow should be swept by the community management. Then she started sweeping the snow.
They have a lot visitors, baby sitters, house cleaners, kids from previous marriages, ex partners, parents...and park cars in my parking spaces. Every house is assigned limited space for parking when the house is bought. I don't mind if someone parks car in my parking space as long as I have the space to park my car when I drive back from work.
Then the situation got worse, many times when I drove back home and couldn't find the place to park my car and had to knock their doors to request them to move the cars away. Each time I also told them that there are plenty of guest parking spaces not far from the house and it would be great they inform their guests. They seemed never considered. One time their guest car parked so close to my car and my car was scratched so heavily when it was pulled out. I had to spend more than $1000 to do the fix.
So whenever I saw their cars were parked in my parking space, I left a printed note on the windshield. My right side neighbor told me she had encountered the same bad experience too. One time their house cleaner took her parking space. She later told me that we could call towing truck to tow the unknown car on the private parking space. Thinking that's kind of over reaction, so I kept leaving the notes on the windshield.
One time the woman’s mother stopped me when I just walked out from car and righteously told me that an old Russian man, the house owner of my house told her that she could park at my parking space for her convenience. I told her I bought/ moved in my house long before her daughter moved into theirs, there was no such person. Then she asked me if she can still park her car in my parking space. I told her, it's better for her to park her car in the guest parking lot or an parking space in front of the end unit which is most time empty.
A lot of obnoxious people take others' niceness as granted. I now think it is not good to be too nice.
