Ah, the shared driveway. A legal spaghetti noodle. Two houses, one strip of concrete.
If you block the other person’s half, it’s still civil. But neighbors get prickly. Expect passive-aggressive notes or a garden gnome on your hood.
A real case: a woman in Oregon parked on her neighbor’s shared driveway for three minutes to grab mail. She got towed. Cost her $250.
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The moral? Even a minute can cost you a dinner out. Driveways are serious real estate.
The Snow Exception
Winter makes everything weird. If snow covers the driveway lines, you might park without knowing.
But ignorance isn’t a legal shield. The owner can still tow your sad, frozen car.
One guy in Minnesota plowed his driveway, only to find a stranger’s Subaru buried inside. He called the tow truck and left a passive-aggressive note: "Nice shovel."
That note was pure art. But the law? Still on the homeowner’s side.
