{"id":1038,"date":"2025-08-11T20:44:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2025-08-11T20:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:44:46","slug":"continuation-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Continuation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I pointed at the car\u2019s tag and chuckled out loud.<br><strong>\u201cBet you didn\u2019t get what that mark means, as a non-resident.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her smile faded fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ME:<\/strong> \u201cThat spot? It\u2019s on <em>our<\/em> private property line. You had our cars towed from <em>our<\/em> land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She looked like she\u2019d just swallowed a lemon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HER:<\/strong> \u201cB-but the HOA\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ME:<\/strong> \u201cDoesn\u2019t cover our side of the street. We sued the last owner who tried this. Court ruled it\u2019s a privately zoned section. That red stake? That\u2019s the boundary. You just violated private property rights\u2014and towing laws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her jaw dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ME:<\/strong> \u201cSo yeah, damages, legal fees, lost work time\u2026 you\u2019re looking at $25,000 minimum. We\u2019ll be sending the invoice. Hope that grinning was worth it.\u201d \ud83d\ude0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She never made eye contact again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And guess what? We now park <strong>three cars<\/strong> out front, just because we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pointed at the car\u2019s tag and chuckled out loud.\u201cBet you didn\u2019t get what that mark means, as a non-resident.\u201d Her smile faded fast. ME: \u201cThat spot?&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}