Parking rows seem inevitable these days due to the number of cars on the road. Whether it's at work, at the shops or outside your own home, there's always the risk that someone will steal your parking spot.
One individual on Reddit has revealed that they took revenge into their own hands outside their place of work. Taking to the 'petty revenge' forum on the social media site, they explained that they work at a hospital as a lab technician and have one designated parking spot for their department.
When somebody parked in the space, the person blocked them in before making them wait two hours when they were ready to leave.
Giving context to the story, they wrote: "We have ONE reserved parking spot. There's a sign saying it's only for on-call lab technicians from our department, and there's a chain with a padlock in front of it.
"It is located between a pillar and another building's wall, right next to our lab. There is another team in the lab, and we sometimes let them use the parking spot when we have others available or when we come using public transportation but otherwise we don't share it."
They added: "A few weeks ago I started doing the evening shifts. Usually from 10am to 7pm but it can last much longer. I was also on-call so I took my car to the lab. I arrived one morning near 9:45, went to the reserved parking spot but the chain was down and the spot was taken.
"At first I thought it was someone from the other team but I didn't agree to share the spot with anyone and I didn't recognize the car. So I decided to park JUST in front of it, horizontally so that my car wouldn't be on the road. That way, the other car was stuck between the wall, the pillar, and my car.
"At first I was thinking I would move it as soon as I found the colleague and he agreed to let me my spot. But it turns out the car didn't belong to anyone from the lab. One tech had witnessed by the window a lady parking in the spot around 9:40. When he opened the window to tell her not to park there, she just said 'I'm in a hurry I won't be long!' and left walking fast. I checked if there was a phone number left under the windshield that I could call but nothing.
"So we decided 'You know what? My car is fine where it is. It's not on the road, it leaves enough sidewalk for pedestrians to be safe, and it's only blocking her. I don't have time to go find another parking spot at this hour, which would probably be at the end of the hospital site. Plus I have a sticker on my car saying it can park at some places in the hospital for emergencies. And the day went on."
The Reddit poster admitted that they forgot about the situation until 4pm later that afternoon. It wasn't until someone called the hospital secretary 'wondering why there was a car parked in front of her' that they remembered. However, at this point, they were unable to leave work and move the car.
"It was a lady wondering why there was a car parked in front of her. Turns out she was also a hospital worker, from another department, who had arrived late to work and couldn't find a place to park so she took the chains down and parked there.
"No idea how she got rid of the padlock but it was old and weathered so it might just have broken. She had just finished ('I won't be long' my a**) and now she wanted to leave but couldn't. First the secretary, a nice woman but not known for her calm temper, berated her on the phone.
"Then she connected the lady to our phone, where a colleague did pretty much the same. Next, another colleague went out to check on my car. According to said colleague, she looked relieved as she thought he was going to move my car. He just told her it was illegal for her to park there and now she had to wait for me or we'd call to have her towed.
"Meanwhile, I was in the middle of a complex procedure that required me to be in a "white room" (sterilized room with controlled atmosphere, sterilised blouse...) so I couldn't just leave what I was doing like that. So she waited. And she called twice more to complain that she needed to leave. And twice she got berated by my colleagues until one of them told to stop or they would involve the hospital's security and actually get her towed."
The individual who posted to Reddit then explained that the woman, who originally parked in the wrong bay, was forced to wait two hours to get out of the space- meaning that she had to wait until 7.30pm to get out of the space.
People were quick to defend the Redditor. One wrote: "She deserved it. Especially with her lie of I won't be long. She was lazy and suffer the consequences, I don’t feel sorry for her at all."
Another fumed: "Every time she called, you should have repeated back to her what she said, 'I won't be long.'"
"She should be thankful that you didn't just have her car towed when you arrived", someone raged.
A Redditor joked: "She got more parking than she could have ever hoped for."
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