Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Okay so I’ve been living with these two friends of mine for about 3 months and we’ve had only a few issues but one of the main ones is parking.

Parking in our appartment complex is absolutely terrible. Every unit (except maybe one bedroom units?) Is allowed 3 parking spots. One covered and marked right by the stairway to your appartment, another compact spot off to the side, and your third spot is any spot marked visitor. 

I am responsible for every bill we pay, except rent which we each pay individually to our landlord. They obviously pay me their third of the bills at the end of the month, but it’s on me to have money in my account until then to make sure all the bills are paid and we don’t have any issues. Since I’m burdened with this, along with the fact that I drive the biggest car and I won’t fit in the compact spot, I suggested I be allowed the covered marked spot. They didn’t like that idea.

We ran through lots of ideas to solve the parking problem and roommate 1 suggested we just do first one home gets the covered marked spot if they want it. Of course I’m okay with this since I’m the first one off work everyday. Both roommate 2 and I agreed.

After a few days of this roommate 1 was out late and came back to no available parking so he had to park away from the apartments. He’s told me two separate stories so I feel like it’s all a big lie, but he told me first that he got a ticket because he was illegally parked and then he told me he parked a few blocks away at the grocery store. No sure which is true, or if either are true honestly. 

So because of this roommate 1 demanded a new parking rule so that never happened again. He said what we should do is first person home takes a visitor spot, second person takes the compact, and third gets the covered spot. This makes sense to me so I reluctantly agreed. 

Things were fine for a few weeks until one day I came home to limited parking available. As usually roommate 2 is in the marked compact spot, but roommate one was in visitor parking. I thought okay so I’ll just take the marked spot but it was taken by a car I’d never seen before. I parked all the way at the other end of the complex and furiously stormed in complaining that someone took our spot. It turns out that roommate 1 let his girlfriend take the covered spot and she was here for almost 2 whole days without moving. 

I let the last incident slide and for a few more weeks it was okay. I was getting good visitor spots, roommate 2 was still taking the compact spot and roommate 1 usually being the last one home would take the covered spot. I started realizing that roommate 1 was just taking the covered spot and not even following his own rules of parking visitor if he was home before us. This all came to a head when one weekend he went out of town and left his car in the covered spot the whole time. It really fucked me over 2 of those nights. I confronted him about it and he seemed unconcerned by my complaining. 

So once again we made a new rule. There are 4 convenient visitors spots that I can take that are near our entrance. If they are available I will take them. If not I’m taking the covered spot. Roommate 2 still takes the compact spot which both roommate 1 and I don’t really have any issue with. 

This rule worked well for a little bit, but Monday-Wednesday this week people have stayed parked in those good visitor spots. So I took the covered spot those days, as the allowed by the rules. Wednesday roommate 1 texts me and says that I keep taking the cover spot and he needs it. I told him no if you’re not here and there aren’t any good visitor spots then I’m taking that spot. He tried to tell me that he wants to go back to the old rule of first one here takes visitor and next takes covered. I called him out saying that I rarely if ever saw him taking a visitor spot and leaving the covered space for me. I’m going to paste what he said to me next here. “You’re right bro I’m wrong. You’re just being really selfish and inconsiderate. You’ve never had to park at the store before”. That pissed me off that he said I’m inconsiderate because he was out late one night and didn’t get a spot when he never ever went out of his way to leave me a spot. 

So yeah I mean it’s only been a day since that happened but I’ve been taking the good open visitor spots. I don’t know what the solution is here, but that’s not why I’m here. I’m here to find out if I’m being an ass hole for doing this. Sorry for the long post! But thanks for taking the time!

TL;DR: Roommate and I fight over a parking spot all the time. He wants me to take inconvenient visitor spots while he takes the covered spot simply because he likes to stay out late and doesn’t want to come back to no parking. 

