[lora22]

Maybe someone can offer some insight on this. Mostly I'm just curious about this.

I live in a townhouse in suburbia, where everyone has an assigned parking spot in front of their house.

The garbage is supposed to be put on the curb for removal every week. However, as was the case today, if both parking spots assigned to this house have cars parked in them...well, clearly the trash can not be put on the curb directly in front of my house.

Because of that, today I put our trash on the corner on the curb to the left of the neighbor's house (the end of the row of parking). I guess this must be the neighbor's property (?? oops?? I guess I'm dumb, but it's really not obvious that that is part of the neighbor's property, and the only reason I did it was because when I looked, those areas [each row of 4 homes on the street has two of those areas on either side of the row of 4] was where every single other person put their trash, with one exception. Only ONE person on the entire street put their trash in front of their home instead of one of those areas.)

When I went to the back door to unlock it to let myself in when I brought the trash can back around the house this afternoon, there was an envelope taped to the door, and the trash can was back in the yard.

In the envelope was a very politely worded, TYPED note saying welcome to the neighborhood, and explaining that as a new neighbor I must not be aware of the neighborhood's code of ethics, which states that the trash needs to be placed on the curb directly in front of my own home. (OK, so if this happens again I'll have to find another street without reserved parking to park my car on and walk back and just keep moving my car on trash day. That's fine, but f'n annoying.)

The note wasn't signed, but it's obvious who wrote it, since there's only one neighbor to my left who would care that the trash was there. I'm not MAD, and they were nice about it, but I've never met them, and I don't understand why they wouldn't sign their name. I'd like the chance to apologize, and thank them for putting the trash barrel back, but since they didn't bother to sign the note (it's anonymously signed "your neighbor") it seems they want to avoid any possible confrontation.

And, yeah, I'm a little annoyed, but probably mostly because I had a really crappy day and am in a really crappy mood.