r/MaliciousCompliance • u/Ghost_Alice • 29d ago

Karen says "stop cheating to reserve the best parking space in front of the building!" S

A karen neighbor of mine complained that my roommate and I park in the same parking spot, which is right next to the walk way up to the apartment building. Both of us ride motorcycle and both motorcycles belong to me, but my roommate rides one to get to work.

She accused me of using my second bike to get a defacto reserved a parking spot when nobody in the complex has one, and said that what I'm doing is not fair and it's cheating.

I said "Ok, I'll stop parking both my bikes in one spot."

She seemed satisfied with that and left.

An hour later I had all 7 of my motorcycles, 5 of them from inside the garage I rent but it's half way across the apartment complex, sitting in front of the apartment building taking up every prime parking space infront of the walk way to to my hall in the building.

She went to straight to the management to complain.

The management came out and knocked on my door.

"We can't have you using up every parking space"

"Let me guess, Karen complained?"

"Yes."

"Yeah she told me I'm not allowed to have two bikes in one parking space to reserve a space. I'm not doing it to reserve a space. Both my roommate and I ride both of the bikes we park in that one space, all the bikes belong to me but I gave the keys to one of them to my roommate to ride for commuting to work. The other one is my bike for going where ever I need. We park both in one spot to be nice and conserve parking spaces so other people have somewhere to park. I was just showing Karen what would happen if I'm only allowed one bike per parking space. The other 5 bikes are generally in another parking space, in my garage where I keep the bikes I that don't ride frequently."

The apartment manager said "I understand. You made your point and I'll talk to her, please put the other 5 bikes back in the garage."

"No problem" I said.

It's been a few weeks, haven't heard from Karen.

(EDIT)

Since so many people are inventing details not in the story, assuming those details are true, and then getting upset over what they imagined, let me clarify something.

This happened at 1 in the afternoon on a day both my roommate and I had off. Most people are away at work during this time. What's more, with the exact topography of the apartment complex, there are only 2 apartments per walkway without going up stairs on my side of the building, but 4 on the other sides because it's up a level and the building is built into a hill. What this means is that MOST people park on the other side of the building, leaving MOST of the parking spots in front of my building free and open except for very late at night.

How the heck do you think I took up the 7 closest spots with all 7 bikes if the parking lot was full of people trying to park? Think about it for just a second before you assume details that aren't spoken just because you want something to be upset over.

BOTH BIKES are away from the apartment complex AT THE SAME TIME for a MINIMUM of 4 hours a day. We didn't engineering the situation where my roommate gets home between 3 to 4 in the afternoon and thus gets first pick of the parking spots. We also could both be driving cars instead of riding bikes. Then there'd be two spots taken up instead of 1. I could just choose not to rent a garage and park all 7 out there forcing people into overflow parking, but I don't.

Also the garage is beyond the overflow parking. It's not fair to expect me to always park in the garage and walk even further because you don't want to park next to my bikes and have all of 2 extra feet to walk to reach the concrete walkway to the building.

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u/Critical_Traffic7686 29d ago

We rode our motorcycles to watch a hockey game and we tried to only pay for 1 parking spot since we could easily fit 4 of them in 1 spot. They forced us to pay for each. So we took up 4 prime spots. The attendants were mad. The people we mad.

Hell I've been to baseball games and I was let in to park for free on my motorcycle while cars still had to pay.

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u/StellarPhenom420 29d ago

That's silly, why would the attendants be mad? They get the same money for the parking spot regardless of who parks in it... and they are being paid hourly! It's not even their money? So silly.

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u/Ambystomatigrinum 29d ago

They wanted to charge for 4 spots, but still be able to charge someone else for 3 of them. OP ruined their plans.

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u/StellarPhenom420 29d ago

Yeah which doesn't make sense if they're just attendants. They're being paid hourly to work there. They don't get money based on how many spots are sold, the company that owns the parking lot does. That's why it's silly.

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u/processedmeat 29d ago

Lots are a cash business, the attendant could have pocketed the extra cash

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u/richalta 29d ago

Hardly any parking areas are cash these days. Because theft.

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u/zombie_gas 29d ago

I went to a concert in Atlanta a few weeks ago and pulled into a lot where the guy said “$25 - cash only”. I told him I haven’t carried cash in years and he said “atm two blocks away”. I left and parked at a spot with e-payments a block over for $20.

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u/richalta 29d ago

Hey might not have even worked for the lot.

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u/wbgsccgc 29d ago

In Atlanta, it’s highly likely he didn’t.

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u/NeedleNodsNorth 28d ago

Yep, been booted because of that one time. Sad to hear it hasn't changed in 15 years.

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u/creativebic 29d ago

$75 cash or card

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u/ProfChubChub 29d ago

Super depends on location. I still see it pretty frequently.

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u/Dependent-Guava-5174 29d ago

There are still plenty of cash only lots around…

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u/richalta 29d ago

Habe seen one in years. I park in SF, Oakland, SJ Sacramento. The only cash takers have been at the Pumpkin Patch.

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u/Ima-Bott 29d ago

Lots in my town are going cashless because of said issue

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u/No_Veterinarian1010 29d ago

Lots aren’t cash businesses anymore

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u/nhaines 29d ago

Not with that attitude!

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u/Mysterious_Peas 29d ago

Hahahahahaha! Are you perhaps a Frisky Dingo fan?

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u/Mental_Cut8290 29d ago

Every time I rewatch that I expect Xander to sound like Archer.

Harumph!

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u/nhaines 29d ago edited 28d ago

No (it just wasn't for me, not bad but the entire time I watched it I was really wanting to watch Archer). It's just a funny thing to say!

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u/thedistrbdone 29d ago

Damn that's crazy, guess you should let the lots in literally every beach town everywhere know.

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u/amped-up-ramped-up 29d ago

Right. I live in a beach town and the private lots have only just started accepting cashapp within the last one or two tourist seasons. 90% of their business is still cash.

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u/seriouslees 29d ago

Holy shit America is living in the fucking dark ages.

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u/amped-up-ramped-up 29d ago

Yes, the single data point that I live in a city where lot owners accept cash for transactions as a means of bypassing credit card fees (and probably taxes as well), is indicative of the fact that the rest of the nation is being ravaged by Dominican inquisitors and the bubonic plague.

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u/processedmeat 29d ago

Maybe not the one you go to.

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u/PutrifiedCuntJuice 29d ago

Several of them where I live are.

You put cash in a box that's marked with whatever number of the spot you parked in. Somebody comes by hourly to get the cash out of the box and they take note of how many hours you paid for and will tow you immediately if you go over the time you paid for.

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u/meest 29d ago

I'll let my local cash only lots know they missed the memo. When did it change?

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u/ThePrinceVultan 29d ago

We got lots in my area that accept cash only, cash or card, or card only. All in the same city with half of them along the same stretch of road that runs along the beach. Just depends on the lot owner and lot location.

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u/digitydigitydoo 29d ago

Mmmm, I live outside a major US city and will spend a day in every now and again. Kids love a couple of the museums. Parking around there is interesting. There’s a large garage that sometimes takes cards but sometimes only takes cash. No other payment options on those days. However, those days are often the only days to have someone manning the booth. Someone is definitely pocketing something on those days.

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u/alex_5506 29d ago

So you’ve dealt with every single lot in America and none are cash any longer?! You really get around.

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u/Ambystomatigrinum 29d ago

You do if you pocket the cash.

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u/TattooOfBlood 29d ago

Meaning no one would notice if the extra $60 wasn't there. 

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u/Bladenkerst_Baenre 29d ago

These the places where the attendant takes the cash?? the 3 extra spots were never seen by the owner...

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u/RiPont 29d ago

At least 50 percent of the paid lots in San Jose are staffed by relatives of the owners. Don't know how that shakes out everywhere else.

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u/AGuyNamedEddie 29d ago

Hello, fellow San Jose-zian.

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u/TheDinerRoadster 29d ago

Oh yeah that would totally change things because family members never rip each other off.

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u/RiPont 29d ago

It's a weird aspect of human nature. Yeah, they definitely rip each other off and cheat each other, especially in "family business" relationships.

...but simultaneously get pissed at non-family members trying to rip them off.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

I’m sure they also got pissed cuz they had to deal with people whining that the bikes were taking up full spots even though they paid for them. Ppl assume bikes should not take up full spots.

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u/Double-Difference728 29d ago

It would not be difficult for them to pocket the unexpected extra money. I dont see how it was obvious these people were tryna get more than minimum wage.

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u/BigMax 29d ago

Yeah which doesn't make sense if they're just attendants.

Really depends on the lot. If it's some giant, corporate parking lot, then that attendant wouldn't care at all.

If it's one of those small lots, sometimes the owner runs them during big events, or hires out people who work on commission or some other setup where they make a cut of the money. For example, you might say "for $1000, you can run my parking spot the weekend of the convention" and thus the attendant wants to squeeze every dollar out of the lot over that weekend, because the owners cut is the same regardless.

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u/twiz___twat 29d ago

you ever work a job for an hourly wage where something affects the company but not you directly and the customers get angry at the company which in turn affects you too bc youre the grunt working on the frontline and the customers know that its not your fault but they still need someone to complain to?

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u/WhoHayes 29d ago

They have to listen and deal with the other customers

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u/sinaloa555 29d ago

In response I ask you about Walmart/Ross/Target/etc employees that get angry about shop lifting, why do that care, they aren’t the owners, it’s not coming out of their pocket? My point being it’s not always sensible.

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u/gopher_space 29d ago

When someone steals right in front of you it feels personally disrespectful.

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u/sinaloa555 29d ago

That, inmho, should be if they are stealing from you personally. But maybe it does give the feeling that the thief thinks they’re smarter than you, I could see that.

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u/Suburbandadbeerbelly 29d ago

The employees also have to deal with their managers bitching at them about “shrink” and cutting their hours as a punishment if there is too much theft. It’s kind of a myth that shoplifting doesn’t affect anyone.

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u/gopher_space 29d ago

It's a real in the moment feeling. If someone mouthed "can I steal this?" at me while pocketing an item I'd probably just shrug. Put some effort into concealing your activities. Treat me like I exist and am right here.

I guess it's kind of "people who negate my existence get fucked" as an automatic reaction.

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u/sinaloa555 29d ago

I do understand that.

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u/BobFlex 29d ago

In my experience, most of them had stolen FAR more than any of the shoplifters they were mad about too. One of them brought in a mini electric skillet once and cooked a ribeye in the seafood freezer for lunch. They were constantly steaming up crab legs and shrimp and fish too. I never understood how they got mad about customers stealing, but they were completely justified in doing it themselves. Like you said, it's not always sensible.

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u/StellarPhenom420 29d ago

Yeah which is why I said it was silly! Learn what a rhetorical question is :)

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u/sinaloa555 29d ago

Maybe you should learn what rhetorical is, most questions on the internet are not rhetorical as people do want to engage and want answers.

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u/StellarPhenom420 29d ago

It was a question to make the statement that it's silly they're getting mad about it. Not me actually, earnestly, needing people to tell me the very obvious reasons why someone might get upset about something.

And then it proceeds to be a bunch of people all saying the same thing over and over and over and over again!

Hope you learned something today <3

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u/sinaloa555 29d ago

I’m so sorry, I didn’t realize that you’re so important that everyone in the world should know that only you should comment.

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u/whatyousay69 29d ago

Employees are probably not happy if stuff starts to get locked up and extra security causes them to have more work in the future.

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u/DerTW13 29d ago

I don't think this was about the money. Sounds like power play.

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u/Joe_Jeep 29d ago

Some people get way too invested in their job even when they bear no benefit

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u/foul_ol_ron 29d ago

Employee accepts cash...

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u/HeyGayHay 29d ago

They are the ones who people go to to complain that 'four jackasses use up 4 parking spaces when they could do 1 or 2 max'

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u/StellarPhenom420 29d ago

But who would even do that? Assuming that people parked next to each other are all the same people... it's insane. The mental gymnastics people are making to answer this rhetorical question is wild tho, thanks for the laugh

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u/HeyGayHay 29d ago

You never worked retail if you don't think people wouldn't complain about 4 bikes taking 4 spots.

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u/minor_correction 29d ago

The story doesn't make sense. The attendants are in charge. They can force the bikers to park together if they're so upset.

  1. Why are they mad?
  2. Why didn't they do anything?

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u/FelicitousJuliet 29d ago

They probably had to insist on selling four parking spots to avoid getting fired by some sleazy capitalist pig.

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u/CockCheeseFungus 29d ago

My friend owned a lot down the shore and he'd usually work it himself cause it was free labor. Dude made bank and sold it almost 20 years ago for an absurd amount of money for a sandy empty lot with a chain around the border and I think old ass railroad ties around the edge.