Can't you just unload around me? So this happened earlier today and was too perfect to not share with you guys.

I work in construction as the foreman for a new house build. The location is kind of strange. The house is

250 feet up a hill via a footpath only. All of our materials have to come up that footpath by hand.

It's a pain in the butt to manually carry, quite literally,

an entire house up this hill. One of our saving graces is having the two parking spots on the

street at the bottom of this hill, marked with official no parking signs. Unfortunately, there is an

elementary school about half a block away, and the parents of children seem to regularly,

at least twice a day think it's

okay to park in our spots now i consider myself a reasonable person so if someone is parked in the

spots and we don't have a delivery or need to park a truck i'll let it go but if we need the spots

and there's someone parked there i will ask them toely, and most of the time they do so immediately.

Until today.

I get a phone call from the lumber delivery truck that is en route to our location.

He says he'll be there in about two or three minutes.

I let him know that I'll meet him at the street and make sure he has space to park.

He's carrying all of the material to frame the roof of our house,

which is a lot of really big lumber and will take easily an hour to bring up the hill.

So naturally, I didn't want him parked in the middle of the street with his hazards on for an hour

when we have a perfectly good parking spot for him. As I begin my trip down the hill, I notice

there is a school parent sitting in her car

idling, assuming she's just waiting to pick up her child. I walk up to her car and politely let her

know that she is parked in a no parking zone and we really need her to clear it to park a delivery

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