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Now, today's first story comes from Spirited Warhog, who says,

Am I the asshole here for standing my ground with a neighbor who keeps demanding? We stop parking legally

on the street. Ooh, who, neighbor drama. My partner and I, male 36, female 35, recently moved in from the city to a little

village because we wanted better schooling for our two-year-old. As with most moves, we got a long

to-do list to get the house fixed up and we've been working through it. One problem has been

our electric gates, which have been failing and locking shut.

When this happens, both of our cars have been trapped on the driveway.

In the past, we've had to get taxis to take our child to nursery because the gates

literally wouldn't let us out.

We've had two different companies come to look at them and both confirm that not only

the gates are faulty, but the manual override is broken too. We're told there's an expensive job

to replace them. The gates work is designed sometimes, but not all the time, so we figured the

safer solution is to park our family car on the street so that we always have access to it.

About a week ago, my partner got in the car and found a wet note on the windscreen.

It had been raining so the note was unreadable.

Curious, I messaged our neighbors to one side and across the road as I had their numbers.

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