Absolutely your friend should not feel bad, meara. I'm surprised at myself that calling a tow truck did not immediately occur to me.
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Your friend should not feel bad. If the person had no other option for parking they needed to leave a note with their number to call if the blocked car needed to get out.
Your friend should totally not feel bad. I get blocked in intermittently (or people park in my space) because I have a weird space. I go to the building super and put it on them. Your friend is very inventive, but it's totally on the person who parked there, and the person who told them to do it. Your friend shouldn't have to justify why she had to use her car.
But my friend still felt bad cause she'd gotten chewed out.
I would too. But she had no other choice.
Your friend shouldn't have to justify why she had to use her car.
That's the crux of the biscuit right there.
Yeah--I was all "They didn't KNOW why you needed to use your car!! Hell, I go to the airport all the time--for all they know, you were desperately late for a flight out of Dulles, and parking you in would cost you a $70 cab ride...were you supposed to just suck it up and leave THEM a note, and hope they paid it? Yeah RIGHT"
meara, your friend had the right idea. That's dangerous. When I was a nanny, the family I worked for got blocked in when their little boy got sick and they were advised to bring him to the ER. It wasn't call-an-ambulance level of sick, but it wasn't we-can-sit-around-for-an-hour-or-two level either. NOT safe.
Your friend shouldn't have to justify why she had to use her car.
There is also that.
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"Why shouldn't they have to answer the [immigration status] question if I can't send my child to public with a Bible?"
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heh, I used to get blocked in all the time. We had a lot of shoppers, and a lot of apartment bldgs. around, so I would just call the cops if they didn't have their blinkers on. If they did, I would wait for a bit, and after 15 minutes, leave a note, saying something like they'd made me miss a flight or something. After 7 years, I got pretty shameless.
However,my friend Lynne was WAY more proactive. Once, someone left their car running (stupid) and blocking her car in before work. She moved it, and rummaged through their glove box, found their number, and left a message asking for valet money. She was a little...eccentric. I admit, though, I DID watch the alley and had a chuckle when the twenty something chica came out 25 minutes later and wigged. Dude, you're lucky your car was just moved.
"Why shouldn't they have to answer the [immigration status] question if I can't send my child to public with a Bible?"
That doesn't even make sense! Why shouldn't cops be able to pull over random brown people when I can't even walk into a store with an iron pot for a hat!?!