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Moostache

(11,251 posts)
21. I have a car in my driveway that has sat for nearly 10 months now...
Fri Dec 27, 2013, 01:23 PM
Dec 2013

The left rear tire is deflated and the car won't start. I have had people leave notes on it, on the front door and even make comments in passing and not a single one of the commenters have a CLUE about why that car is there or what I plan to do with it. They don't even ask, they just behave like petulant children and make their little gestures or hushed tone conversations.

The car is being kept for my daughter, who turns 16 in 3 months and can get a driver's license. It sits in the driveway because if I left it on the street it could be legally towed away as an abandoned vehicle. I don't have the money fully saved to fix the tires, brakes and tie-rods on the car, but I have been saving a little each month to get it fully repaired and ready for my baby girl in a few more months.

Just reading about HOA's makes my blood boil. Our local group of freaking reprobates make me sick and they are soooooooooooo pissed that they cannot make me do anything about the car...even though they have tried. (The fine print of our HOA agreement says that if the car was in obvious disrepair (ie. on cinder blocks) that they could impel me to remove it, but as long as I keep re-inflating the tire when they complain, there is no recourse for them...

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Oh won't someone think of the poor tennis courts!!11 HappyMe Dec 2013 #1
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I have a car in my driveway that has sat for nearly 10 months now... Moostache Dec 2013 #21
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