A good friend may lend out their assigned parking spot for free because they don’t own a car, and since a friend works nearby, the empty space could be put to good use. But what if you discover that your friend wasn’t using your spot and had a side deal with a coworker behind your back?
This “friend” was making money out of a resident’s generosity. There was one condition for the deal: the parking spot was for her car only. The resident trusted her friend and handed over the garage fob so she could access the building. What could go wrong? Boundaries were clear, the arrangement was clear…
One day, the building manager reached out about a car that didn’t belong to the friend. The resident confronted their friend, and she admitted having given access to a coworker and was charging him $80 a month to use it. She was charging someone for something that didn’t belong to her! She didn’t even ask the resident or suggest splitting the earnings; she pocketed $80 every single month without letting the owner of the spot know. In her mind, there was apparently no harm in doing that because the owner wasn’t using the spot anyway, but she is wrong. And deep down, she knows it. How could anyone rent someone else’s parking spot and not even ask for permission or share it with the owner? She took advantage of the situation.Â
The resident is right to have ended the arrangement. However, it seems the friend didn’t let her coworker know the arrangement had ended because he parked there again and got his car towed by the building’s management. Now, the friend dares to be upset with the resident who borrowed her the spot for not giving her a few days to arrange alternative parking with her coworker. The audacity! As the resident put it, renting out something they allowed  her to use for free was “way out of line.”
Author: Kayitsi.com
