parking woes yet again

It is 3:20 in the morning. Anyone who has read this for a while is familiar with my parking woes at my apartment building. My designated spot is right by a dumpster. No way was I going to park next to a dumpster or alley on a regular basis. So years ago I talked to the landlords about it. They first gave me a spot right next to the building. Not much space and the tires kept scraping the concrete ledge at the back door. I have neck pain pretty much all the time. usually it is minor but if I twist my neck too much I get spasms.

So it had been agreed that I would park in the number 8 spot. The guy in that apartment was ok with parking in spot by the building. Well maybe not that ok. One day I was sitting outside and just then he tried to get into the spot and scraped the side of the building which is brick. So time went by. I noticed his car hadn’t been in the spot since last week. I thought he was away.

Then today I get home from work and there is a brown car in my spot. So I parked and walked up to the car looked in it. I waited for a while trying to figure out what was going on. Then this lady who had a face like a catchers mitt walks outside. I think she had a smoke in her mouth. Maybe that was just my imagination though looking back on it. She did have a gruff voice though as though she had chain smoked for a long time.

She looked at me defiantly as I said to her in a friendly voice "I park there. and have been for over three years. I live here" Then she said "My grandson moved into 8 it is his spot." I explained again that I have lived here for years had been using the spot and that the one on the end had been used by the previous tenant in 8. I then told her I have chronic neck problems and her reply was "not my problem."  I wasn’t getting pissed off even though she was a complete hosebeast. I told her I would talk to the landlord about it.

I proceeded to call the landlord right after that. She seemed sympathetic but just said she would talk to the tenant. it is the Grandson who is living there not the Grandma who would have been excellent in the movie "Throw mamma from The train" as the wench of a Mamma. I told her I was ok with a different parking spot in this warm weather. But once it gets cold i will need to park on the side where the number 8 spot is. Because that is where my plugin for the car is. I told her that twice to make sure I was getting though.

The reason for this is a while back I had to ask them at least three times for rent receipts. In addition to the monthly request I give when i submit my rent check.  And when they left a notice about a rent increase, they spelled my name wrong three times. She said the tenant didn’t have a car and she hadn’t talking to him about the parking space. And they didn’t tell him visitors aren’t supposed to park in the tenant’s spots. There is a hand written little sign in the laundry room indicating that. It should be where visitors can see it though. When witch lady left I called back my landlord and told her I was going to be parking in the # 8 spot. I said if she was there after I arried home from work next week I would just use the Anime girls spot. They don’t have a car. The landlord was calling them The Chinese girls. All of this hassle over a parking spot. I don’t want the stress of having to worry about hitting concrete every day though.

So on any regular day that would have aggravated me. But to top it off it is that time of the month. So it feels like the end of world. It isn’t but it did. I want to just come home and be able to park without getting stressed. I went out to the tiny courtyard and I had a piece of leftover KFC and some fries. That guy was out there again pushing the tire and lifting it. Then he was dragging a smaller tire that had chains and weights on it. I have to admit I am a but worried about that grandma doing something to my car if I do park in that space.

After the stress I watched some t.v and slept hard. Which is why I am up now. I had gone outside for a minute because I though there wouldn’t be anyone out there. I have these beautiful purple and white flowers growing outside of my windows. I was scowling at the overflowing dumpster for my place then I literally stopped to smell the flowers. Garbage pickup isn’t until next week. I walked to the front and saw this man walking by at the front on the sidewalk. I went to unlock the front door and didn’t see him go by. So i walked over a bit so see if he was really there. Just then he started to walk by again. It freaked me out that he was walking so slow at 3 in the morning. So I went inside quickly.

I went to a garage sale today that was happening in a Church. I was one of the early birds. Just waiting for them to open up. There wasn’t much there. I bought a framed wooden maoi print birthday stickers from 1962. Inside the sticker booklet it tells about how "gay" the stickers are. That made me laugh. I also picked up a bunch of never used baby bibs. I was looking at one and there are giant mushrooms and a poor mans version of Winnie the Pooh reading a book on it. It was a pay what you think is fair sale. So I paid $2 for everything. I probably could have offered 50 cents. I have been using my sound machine every night. I put the setting on ocean waves. It is good for my first bout of sleep. I usually wake up because I am thirsty or need to use the bathroom in the early hour. I just noticed a few hours ago my iron was still plugged in and on. It had been on since 7 this morning. At least it has an automatic shutoff. or it could have started a fire.

After I ate a fudgesicle outside i went to use my key in the backdoor. That lock pretty much sucks. So the key wouldn’t work. I went to the front door and just then a guy was walking down the stairs to go out. I waited so I wouldn’t be blocking him. Then I saw my neighbour Dimitri was with him. Some people who read this may remember him. If not that is ok. If you can’t recall i don’t want to backtrack, he was being very polite he did that little polite arm motion and said "after you." I wondered if I had fudgesicle all over my mouth. Now i am going to watch some t.v and try to get some relief  from cramps.