Just imagine all the roses getting mercilessly stomped

He needs to mind his own business

NIMBYs can't help themselves

It doesn't have to be that serious

Call me a tree hugger, but trees are our friends

I have yet to meet parents who respect their kid's boundaries. My mom for one, is a lovely person, but she doesn't have a respectful bone in her body. She'll tell the whole neighborhood about my dating life, despite my many pleas to not do that. She'll also show up unannounced at my apartment in the evenings. It's especially frustrating if I have a date over. Finally, she went through all my drawers and even read my journal when I was a teenager. As I said, zero boundaries. Some parents can be…

These people didn't play their cards right when trying to mess with one of their neighbors who happened to be a hard-headed woman. They were selling their house, and were furious that this woman had the nerve to have boxes scattered across her driveway. The woman was just reorganizing her garage, but these people didn't care. They called up the HOA, which was the very last thing that they should have done… Haven't you ever heard of polite conversation? Not that they had a chance at that either,…

Stepford Wife vibes

Nobody likes getting wrongfully accused, but everyone likes a dash of petty revenge

Homeowners associations have a bad reputation for being annoying as hell, and for good reason. Of course, not all HOAs enforce some of the dumbest rules imaginable, but there are enough painfully petty HOAs out there to tarnish the names of the rest. Stories like u/3-2-1-backup 's are a delight for anyone who absolutely hates their HOA. In a recent r/maliciouscompliance post, u/3-2-1-backup recounts the time he checked the oil of his car in his friend's driveway. It was an act that took all of…

Homeowner associations ( HOAs ) get a pretty bad rap, especially on Reddit. There's even a whole subreddit called r/fuckHOA dedicated to seething stories about the various ways in which HOAs piss people off. One redditor recently shared their own tale of petty revenge on their HOA to r/MaliciousCompliance . When one of u/FirstContribution236 's neighbors (who happened to be on the HOA board) threatened to take action against OP for refusing to take down their security camera, OP opted for playi…

Just a word of note here: This colorful tale is told in such a manner and with enough allusions, exposition, and allegory that Hemmingway himself would have trouble making heads or tails of it. It's the literary equivalent of eating an entire jar of peanut butter with a spoon and the phrase “Mozart's requiem on the meatflute.” is a phrase that will be burned into my brain forever.