MY NEIGHBORS MADE ME PUT UP A FENCE BECAUSE MY CAR WAS ‘UGLY’ – A WEEK LATER, THEY BEGGED ME TO TAKE IT DOWN

MY NEIGHBORS MADE ME PUT UP A FENCE BECAUSE MY CAR WAS ‘UGLY’ – A WEEK LATER, THEY BEGGED ME TO TAKE IT DOWN

I inherited an old, beat-up '67 Chevy Impala from my dad. He was a mechanic and spent years working on it. To most people, it's just a rusty car, but to me, it's a memory of my dad and a project I plan to restore..

The car has been sitting in my yard because my garage is full of tools and parts. I know it looks bad, but I’ve been trying to save up and find time to work on it. My neighbors, however, didn't see it that way.

A few days after I parked it in the front yard, my neighbor Karen came over. She said the car was an eyesore and ruining the neighborhood's look. I explained my plans to restore it, but she wasn’t having it.

Soon enough, Karen had the whole neighborhood against me. They went to the city, and I got a notice demanding I either move the car or hide it behind a fence. Moving it wasn’t an option, so I put up a tall wooden fence, which cost me a good chunk of money I would rather have spent on the car.

Things were quiet for a while after that. But then, one afternoon, Karen and a few neighbors came knocking again. They were surprisingly polite this time and even a bit desperate. They asked if I could take down the fence.

I was STUNNED. These were the same people who made me put up the fence in the first place! I asked what had changed, and after some awkward silence, Karen finally confessed