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Post by scooter on Sept 13, 2015 20:03:34 GMT -5
As for your friend's stepdad, 'mac, he's more than an idiot. What he did was the same as pushing a car out of the way. Exactly. I view it no differently than having my car pushed or pulled to another spot while still in park. I was at that house again yesterday. There's enough unused space in their garage for a Honda Goldwing, but I'm not allowed to put my Zuma 125 inside? It's like going to someone's house with a nice coat on. You see a big coat closet in the house with lots of empty space inside. But after you put your coat in the closet, it's thrown into the kitchen where it could get food and drink spilled on it. Then you're told to not put your coat in the closet when you come to visit. It's just so unbelievably dumb. Some people never grow up, Bigmac. It's best to stay away from them as much as possible.
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Post by cyborg on Sept 13, 2015 22:10:08 GMT -5
Living in SoCal the sun can get viscious,,all my bikes are covered at all times whether in the garage or at my studio in the parking lot,,,shady spot ,,covered,,,,I never have my machines in the sun for more than a few minutes ,,,like jumping off and running into a store,,,even then I'll walk further if there's a shade spot under a tree
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Post by rockynv on Sept 14, 2015 14:56:34 GMT -5
If you were there they should have asked you to move it however you should have been a good guest and asked permission to make use of the garage before parking inside it. Just like when you ask where to put your jacket, overshoes or umbrella when you visit inside someones house or apartment you should have asked for permission to park in the garage or if a shady spot was available to park your bike.
Mind you that your bike may have not been the first item left there without permission making it the proverbial straw that broke the camels back.
Now if you had left the property and could not be contacted that would be a different situation.
As an extreme example we have my former brother-in-law who use to come by early in the morning and leave his truck locked up and parked across the entrance to the driveway of my parents house blocking everyone in so after asking him to stop doing that with no results the last time he did it my Dad called and asked me to drag it sideways out to a field that had no entrance to the street using my old Power Wagon which was parked there blocked inside also so it was available to remove the blockage but my Dad did not want to chance driving it himself since he was unfamiliar with the use of the three shift levers. When he finally showed up the next day (yes he would leave it all day and sometimes overnight) you should have heard the howling however we could have called the police who would have ticketed it and had it towed to an impound yard which would have cost him more than the wear on the tires.
Try to understand both sides as the unauthorized use of the garage may have become a sore spot there and the step dad may have just had his limit of it. He may have been dropping hints to his step son for a time that he did not want people to use his garage that were never passed on to you.
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Post by bigmac on Sept 17, 2015 1:09:40 GMT -5
That's what made it unforeseeable. For three years he didn't care if I used the garage. I'd even ask him whenever he was around if where I had parked was okay, and he would always reply, "Yeah, that there's fine".
My friend recently told me that his mother and stepdad have been having marital problems for sometime now. From what I've heard, the two of them are so irritable that they'll complain about anything and everything. I assume that's why he suddenly changed his attitude about the garage.
While preventing damage from sunlight is a concern of mine, it wasn't my only concern on that particular day. When I arrived, my friend's stepdad wasn't home, his sister wasn't home, his mother was leaving soon and the two of us were also leaving soon. No one was going to be there and that neighborhood isn't very nice. There would've been a real chance of someone throwing a rock at my scooter or stealing it, had it been left out.
Like I said in my first post, they usually leave their cars out. Twice, they had CDs and electronics stolen from their cars. They had rocks thrown through the front windows of their house several times. Years ago, I had my car in their driveway. I looked out a window from inside the house and saw a teenager approaching my car. Luckily, my friend's sister happened to be outside at the time. The teen walked off right after noticing her. I have no doubt he was about to vandalize my car in someway.
In fact, when I first started riding, my friend would advise me to keep my scooter in the garage, even while at his parent's house. I remember him saying, "you should put it inside, we don't want to take any chances". I had my $300 Chinese scooter at that time. No way would I feel comfortable leaving my $2,100 Yamaha home alone outside in that neighborhood.
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Post by rockynv on Sept 18, 2015 4:59:22 GMT -5
Some neighbors. Where I live there would be so many police calls that they would be having officers instructed to stop for their breaks or to do their paperwork in their cruisers parked on our street.
Here they have taken the more visible presence approach so at times an officer would typically be at a doughnut shop or sitting at the station doing paperwork they are now many times sitting in their cruisers in a problem area instead having coffee or doing paperwork elsewhere and its worked out remarkably well.
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Post by bigmac on Sept 18, 2015 20:02:39 GMT -5
Exactly. I view it no differently than having my car pushed or pulled to another spot while still in park. I was at that house again yesterday. There's enough unused space in their garage for a Honda Goldwing, but I'm not allowed to put my Zuma 125 inside? It's like going to someone's house with a nice coat on. You see a big coat closet in the house with lots of empty space inside. But after you put your coat in the closet, it's thrown into the kitchen where it could get food and drink spilled on it. Then you're told to not put your coat in the closet when you come to visit. It's just so unbelievably dumb. Some people never grow up, Bigmac. It's best to stay away from them as much as possible. Yeah, that seems to be the best option. Eventually my friend will move back out of his mother's. In the meantime, I'm just going to not visit him as much. I was getting tired of that place anyways. Right as I first enter the house, two dogs are always barking in my face so loudly, I get a headache. Then everyone starts shouting "SHUT UP", which only makes it even more annoyingly loud. I look outside and see a stereotypical mixed ethnic group of teens wearing tank tops walking around. Meanwhile, my bike is baking on the blacktop driveway with sunlight so hot, you can fry eggs on its seat. Plus, there's no shaded areas for it. Yeah, I don't feel like going there as much.
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