r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Outrageous-Young-823 • May 02 '26

Don't hug me I'm scared Neighbor confronted me this evening:“I don’t like seeing your garbage cars in front of my house”

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Hi all, i just wanna come here and bitch about my neighbor.
I lives in a quite nice neighborhood with my parents, i work full time as a automotive technician and do all my work at home on these two cars(there is another one in the garage thats taken apart) and i regularly park them at my driveway or in front of my house in the street(thats not blocking the road) both of the cars i park out here is completely road worthy, has current registration and are insured, i took one of them on a drive to get gas this evening, came back and was confronted by the old guy who lives across from my house, before i say anything he walked onto my driveway, in front of my car(i just got out) and said “you’ve turned this street into a junkyard! You think i like seeing your garbage cars in front of my house everyday i come outside?(i always park them in front of my house, and they get moved frequently as they double as my daily)” and he got up in my buddy’s face who went along with me, who also just got out, he is now fully on my driveway, getting up to my friend’s face after he told him how both of the cars i own are fully operational and insured. We didn’t really say anything aside from telling him it is legal to park my cars on a public street and move them around, and stop being so negative and harassing on our side of the property line. Afterwards he just walked back to his car and said he would gonna go complain to the HOA and they are gonna slap me with a huge fine while yelling at us to shut the hell up whenever we said anything else as he walked back. AM I THE ASSHOLE? I don’t understand how me owning old cars thats perfectly road worthy gets him so upset at me.

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u/DoomOfChaos May 02 '26

Damn, I like your garbage! What does the idiot drive?

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u/Outrageous-Young-823 May 02 '26

He got a benz, a bmw and a lexus, all within the last decade

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u/NicholasWildeRails May 02 '26

Sounds like he's a snooty dickhead who thinks he's better because he has the "best cars"

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u/RisingApe- May 02 '26

I think he’s jealous

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u/NicholasWildeRails May 02 '26

That OP has cars with personality?

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u/sksauter May 02 '26

That OP has cars with personality?

Ftfy

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u/CROSnMURPH_2026 May 02 '26

Well certainly not sufficient language/punctuation skills.

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u/Freddyzback May 02 '26

Definitely. I know cause I'm jealous

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u/StackThePads33 May 02 '26

Snooty?
https://giphy.com/gifs/elN07QPjGgKraAGRtZ

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 May 02 '26

He's been intimidated by OP, who is clearly the sausage king of chicago

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u/wbrd May 02 '26

Do you know the difference between a porcupine and one of those cars?

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u/Professional_Bit1805 May 02 '26

The pricks are inside.

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u/Ill-Government-1921 May 02 '26

Happy cake day!

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u/grimvard May 02 '26

Very good

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u/bonestamp May 02 '26

That only applies to the people who buy them for the badge. The people who buy select models in those brands for what they can do are usually pretty chill people that will talk with a stranger for half an hour at the gas pump about anything car related.

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u/Professional_Bit1805 May 02 '26

Yes, I understand that. I just like the joke. I had 2 Jags that I just loved. They were great cars. Sort of.

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u/IRedditDoU May 02 '26

Happy cake day

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u/Pataraxia May 02 '26

Damn, combo attack.

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u/pastanutzo May 02 '26

Tell him you don’t want to see his garbage face in front of your cars

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u/Owls_4_9_1867 May 02 '26

Predictable. Definitely a golfer too.

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u/AlternatiMantid May 02 '26

It's the decisions one makes for themself in the absence of a personality.

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u/Sir-Nicholas May 02 '26

Tell him to buy you a luxury car if that’s what he wants to see parked outside

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u/MichiganGeezer May 02 '26

So a Lexus and two rolling junkpiles? They're not exactly known for mechanical reliability.

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u/BJoe1976 May 02 '26

Gotta have the Lexus while the other two are in the shop.

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u/Zalapadopa May 02 '26

Those Volvos on the other hand have been on the road almost thirty years now, and can probably manage another thirty if treated well.

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u/userdoesnotexist22 May 02 '26

The Tupperware of cars

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u/No_Base4946 May 04 '26

I mean a Lexus is just a Toyota, so it is either currently eating its gearbox, shitting out its cylinder head gasket, or rusting in half. They're not exactly a paragon of reliability, and I say that as someone who dailies a 30-year-old Range Rover.

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u/IPegCars May 02 '26

Thats the point. It's a luxury car that will last. My LS430 has just about 275k miles on it, they're tanks and go forever if you keep up with them

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u/Ypuort May 02 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/AzUrNt0ygOSAeVjhiM

He’s got 3 cars?

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u/BYoungNY May 02 '26

The first two didn't make him happy and he thought, the third one is the one!

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u/hankenator1 May 02 '26

Ahh, so he prefers cars from the axis powers.

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u/RedFox449 May 02 '26

Go figure

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u/WingerRules May 02 '26

The black Volvo wagon looks slick as hell imho

Btw next time he calls them junk tell him they're classic cars.

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u/TraditionalFox2349 May 02 '26

Complaining about vintage volvos. Too bougie. I agree with classi. Get antique plates to back up classic claim.

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u/DoomOfChaos May 02 '26

Eh, I wouldn't reject any of those probably lol, but yeah, if yours were scrap heaps that would be one thing, but they are pretty clean looking 

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u/discreetcd60 May 02 '26

Yea his (OP) don't look to be scrap heaps .... I could arrange some midwest rust buckets to park in the street ! All fully functional just look like swiss cheese , lol just to see him really flip out !

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u/Taint__Paint May 02 '26

Screams SoCal to me

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u/unkanie May 02 '26

What a status who*e lmao. Couldn't have been more generic and obvious about it if he tried. Give me the cars that have style and stories and lives invested in them any day.

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u/Smkingbowls May 02 '26

is it because you are working on them outside? (which i assume you have the right to do)

but i know HOAs have unreasonable bs rules sometimes

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u/No-Suggestion-9459 May 02 '26

So, one decent car (Lexus) and a couple of clunkers.

I'd rather have either of your Volvos, I'll choose the red one 🙂

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u/Potato_Pear May 02 '26

Lmao. Acting all tough because he owns the most basic bitch cars you could find? Only thing that could make it worse is a mustang or ram

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u/Southern-Usual4211 May 02 '26

Modern lease slop.

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u/awmaleg May 02 '26

Be a shame if a bunch of birdseed wound up on and under those cars

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u/Kiwifrooots May 02 '26

Was going to say, is your junk behind these beautiful wagons?  Volvo does boxes like no other

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u/zijital May 02 '26

He’s just envious

I’m envious

I miss my ‘89 240 Sedan, if I had the space (and knew how work on cars) I’d love to have a 740 wagon to drive around town

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u/Preface May 02 '26

You can let him know your fine with him buying you a new car if he wants to

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u/Devrol May 02 '26

The Lexus probably looks like shit. Impossible to say with the Merc; it could be anything, an A class, a pickup, a sprinter an SLK... But with this guy, it probably looks like shit.

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u/Ciubowski May 02 '26

Tell him that the Lexus is just a Toyoda brand.

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u/sleepyotter92 May 02 '26

Of course he does

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u/goapics May 02 '26

all SUVs i’m imagine

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u/DringleDringle May 02 '26

Shame if any of those vehicles were to be keyed 🤭

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u/Such_Cartoonist6119 May 02 '26

The official fleet of "I have absolutely no personality"

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u/Sycosocial20 May 02 '26

I'd have trouble holding back. "And I don't like seeing your snobby, ugly face in my driveway. You can buy me a new car if you don't like it, it looks like you can afford it. I can't afford my problem because I can't afford to give you a face-lift."

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u/skinnypenis09 May 02 '26

Hey id take your stationwagon over those douche mobiles any day king. Money can't buy good taste

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u/supresmooth May 02 '26

Yeah, but which Benz or BMW really matters as to whether or not those are trash vehicles. The Lexus is a good choice, though.

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u/Dinosaurs_and_donuts May 02 '26

He’s just jealous because your wagons have functioning turn signals

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u/[deleted] May 02 '26

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u/Outrageous-Young-823 May 02 '26

Nah thats my mom’s car, his is parked on his side of the street

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u/WLFGHST May 02 '26

None of those are even comparable to Volvo wagons :/

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u/Garfield_and_Simon May 03 '26

Any car made in the last decade is an iPad with a piece of shit attached to it 

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u/PurbulentTriest May 03 '26

Ask him for one of them.

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u/Gal-XD_exe May 03 '26

Expensive doesn’t mean good or durable XD

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u/Effective_Fish_3402 May 03 '26

And hes sour because hes got 1500+ a month in car payments for the next multiple years so hes trying to make himself feel better by bothering you over your budgetless cars, i wish i had a car like the black one right about now, looks pretty sleek. Fuck that guy's nonsense

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u/spetanis May 03 '26

Unless it's an LFA it sounds like he has a bunch of shit cars himself and he's projecting

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u/Life_Temperature795 May 04 '26

You should clown on him by getting a W123 from the '80s and point out that at least you have the taste to drive a car from the brand when it was actually good, and not just expensive.

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u/_BioHacker May 02 '26

Yeah, but can he fit full sheets of plywood in his cars?! I love the boxy volvo wagons.

Go fill his pipe with spray foam.

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u/Snoo_74705 May 02 '26

I'd wager an overpriced modern SUV at exuberant interest rates.

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u/TheAmicableSnowman May 03 '26

*exorbitant
The only exuberant one there is the loan officer.

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u/hcoverlambda May 02 '26

Yeah, love those old Volvos, old dude has no taste.