I live in an old part of a city in Slovakia. The majority of my neighbors are old ladies whose only activity they enjoy is poking their noses into other's affairs.

In the front of our house (block of flats with 4 floors) is a private parking space and maybe 1 m wide line of grass which separates the walls of the building from parking spots.

Even this parking space is private, there are still many people who try to profit from its close location to the city centre, so every time a car enters the plot, my neighbors are turning to spies, watching out of windows from behind curtains, waiting for new rumors. Especially one lady is very sensitive and wants everything to be in her order. The parking spots belong to everyone who owns a flat in this house, you can park anywhere you want. Even though, this lady use to park always under my windows, because there is shadow, no matter that she lives on the other side of the house.

Once I was in hurry and there was no other parking place than under windows of her flat or in a paid parking place - where should be cars occupying our private space. I decided to park there but my car is quite long so I stayed with one wheel on the grass. I didn't care about that since I knew that I won't be at home longer than half hour and when I come back in the evening the parking places will be free again.

In a moment I got out of the car and was about to lock it, this fussy lady rushed into the street yelling at me how can I park on that beautiful grass, her husband takes care of it .. like I was the worst terrorist in the world attacking this innocent grass. Of course everybody was watching out of their windows this dramatic scene. She sentenced me to nasty fate and commanded me to repark my car from a parking spot and grass that I partially own just like everybody else to the paid place.

I don't understand why she always puts her car on the place under my windows, where is place for longer cars like mine and don't put her small car on the place I had to take that time.

I reparked the car. But in the moment I entered my flat I turned on my computer and ordered herbicides. Month or two later I sprayed the herbicides on "her part" of the grass. Next day I left the country (staying abroad for few months) and in next few days the grass went completely yellow and then brown (a friend of mine sent me a photo).

I heard that since then she's quite quiet and don't yell at people she doesn't like...