1986 our neighbor bought a bright red M6.  

There was a beautiful 30ish blonde woman in my neighborhood. She drove a Jag E-type convertible, light metallic blue with tan top. As a teenager, well, you can imagine the things I imagined.

Delightfully surprised to see a comment like this with so many stars. Cheers!

Yep. Welcome to adulthood.

If only all of life’s problems could be handled with your thinking. When they send “rich” people to prison they don’t offer them a deal like 10 years “or you can write us a check and we’ll call it good”.  Take the adult approach, move your RV, or call a realtor and sell your house and move to somewhere you can park…

The HOA is essentially trying to evict someone from their own property in a time of emergency

I agree. So far in this story what we have is that she just did something on her own, assumed the HOA would automatically understand and be OK with it, and *surprised pikachu face* when the organization that exists solely to enforce petty superficial aesthetic requirements enforced a petty superficial aesthetic…

It’s not about “government” vs no government. It’s about smaller governing bodies vs bigger ones. I.e. the federal gov’t shouldn’t take care of something a state can, a state shouldn’t take care of something a city can, and a city shouldn’t take care of something a neighborhood can handle privately. (I’m not…

She didn’t communicate her “unique circumstances” to anyone.   I 100% believe the HOA should make an exception to their normal rules and let her keep it in their driveway for the time being but holy fuck she didn’t even ask thim. 

Everyone just loves a headline of “HOA being shitty to nurse!” and doesn’t bother to read further to catch that (A) She’s working from home, not going into a hospital, and (B) The HOA will allow the RV once she’s going in.

Did you see the part where she’s working from home?

yes, this exactly. Seems this HOA is being reasonable, and it also seems that the RV can be gotten from storage quick enough, should the need arise. Come on people, working together is a 2-way street!

Couldn’t the local PD have taken care of the hydrant parker for you? They get paid with your tax dollars already.

Except they do.

It would always amaze me that you would have new homeowners move in, show up at the first board meeting wanting to make wholesale changes. My response would always be if you don’t like the community so much, why did you move in? Generally the theme of the response was that they knew better then the other residents…

My last HOA met once a month on Wednesday, 9:00 AM. Good luck attending any meeting if you have a job.

Not all HOA’s are bad. Mine is a rare good one. And even though we have an RV/boat in driveway restriction, there are a couple doctors living in theirs right now and the HOA is letting it pass. Even after a few asshats complained.

It’s an RV. Presumably they can just...you know...drive it somewhere else??? Like, for example, wherever it was parked before this. They don’t even have the virus. They’re literally keeping it there “because I might need it,” which is no different than keeping a broken car on the lawn because “I might fix it.”

You can’t control who moves in later, and what they’ll inflict on you.

There is no such thing as a good HOA. Only ones that haven’t released their inner evil yet.