Someone has left their car parked on the street in front of our apartment building for over a month now. It hasn't moved once, and it doesn't look like it's going anywhere anytime soon. It has a valid parking sticker, however, so until someone comes and claims it or until the sticker expires, it appears we're stuck with this car.
Unless one of our neighbors snaps and takes a baseball bat to it; which by the look of the front left bumper recently, I think one of them already has.
The other day I came home from work and saw a note tucked behind the windshield wiper. It was scrawled by hand and said "YOUR CAR ALARM HAS BEEN GOING OFF AT ALL TIMES DURING THE DAY AND NIGHT FOR THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS. IF YOU DO NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, I WILL!!!!!"
Despite the fact that car alarms are useless at this point, whoever dumped their car on our doorstep did so with the car alarm set. And it is one of those hyper-sensitive car alarms. You know, the kind that goes off anytime a car with a subwoofer drives by, or it thunders, or a child screams, or a grasshopper sneezes. The best part is the fact that our street is a bus route, and there is a bus stop on the corner. Anytime a bus driver hits the gas? You guessed it! Our abandoned car goes into a frenzy. If I wanted to hear an obnoxious racket everytime something audible happened in the universe, I would get a dog.