Our lawn is not fabulous. It is a true drought tolerant Seattle type lawn. This means you never water, and hope nature provides enough so that the weeds are not the greenest part. We do mow, edge and pluck dandelions.
This morning Carl left for an errand, stopped home for a brief moment – to find a truck for a plumbing company parked on our front lawn. While he was running into the house another truck was maneuvering to park across our driveway – which would have blocked him in. Another truck was on our neighbors lawn. The work was for a house 2 houses away.
Carl told the man aiming at our driveway that he could not park him in. The man responded by mimicking Carl, but did not block him in. He got the name of the firm, and when he reached his destination he called me to give me the scoop. I called the company and lodged our complaint.
They took the information, but when he returned much later in the afternoon there was a different truck/trailer on the lawn.
Now technically, neither of us specifically told them to get off of the lawn. What I suggested was that they should ask before parking on the lawn, and that being rude was just plain uncalled for.
They have not completed the job, so I e-mailed them tonight and requested they not park there without express consent of the property owner, and that they improve their customer service training. I even suggested some alternative parking locations, since our block usually has very little legal parking available (for us either) It should be interesting to see how tomorrow morning starts. (Note – parking on the lawn is also illegal – I looked into it once when I was so fed up with parking far away.)
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