Parking Situation

This is my first blog. Ever since I set up a page/layout for blogging (2 days ago), I've had writer's cramp and didn't know what the "h" to write. But a conversation a few minutes ago with my housemate has given me the inspiration to write.

We have a middle eastern couple who live next door to us who either hate us or don't understand parking in a neighborhood tract. For the last 3 1/2 years my friend has always had 2 cars parked in front of my house while I use the garage for my car. More often than not whenever he comes home from work, his second parking space has been filled by one of our neighbors' cars. Mind you, they also have 2 spaces in front of their house, but for some reason they must think that it's better for them to leave both their 2 spaces free of cars while filling up the 2nd space in front of our house. (They also keep one of their cars in their garage.) So when my friend comes home, he now has to park in the space in front of our other neighbor's house which causes me some bit of embarrassment. I mean...we already have 2 spaces. I don't think our other neighbors are thrilled when they see one of our cars in front of their house. I realize this is all public parking and we all pay the homeowners insurance. I just don't get it. Last night when my friend came home from work, our neighbor had already parked partially in front of his house (by the garage) and partially across our 2nd space. Their Honda mini-van was also parked outside and not in their garage for some reason. So now they have more than one full space left in front of their house, nothing in their garage and there's no good place for my friend to park. So this is what he does: With what little space is left between the back of his car, and the front of our neighbor's car he New York parallel parks! There is maybe an inch for our neighbor to move his car in front and maybe 5 inches for him to back up. So today, of course, his wife has to come out, move her mini-van first and then he can move his car. So whad'ya think? Do they hate us or is this the custom in Pakistan?