First of all, the parking spot does have a stain on it, but neither of us care. It's a good spot, close to both properties, and during the summer is in a nice shade for most of the day.
Raul and I were once allies against a local nuisance that I cannot describe in detail here. I think that the relationship broke down when I suggested the idea of a purely decorative windvane (jokingly). The idea behind the purely decorative windvane is that it is a windvane that looks like a windvane, but, being purely decorative, it never indicates the correct wind direction. This function is served by a series of servo motors and a computer that always turns the windvane if the wind happens to shift in the direction indicated. It's a simple system that senses wind resistance... Anyway, I proposed this idea to Raul, explaining to him that such a system would give a person a slight advantage over his neighbors in that it prevents the neighbor from harvesting free information at the expense of the windvane owner, while simultaneously disseminating mis-information.
Raul took this to be a veiled threat.
The next day I found his car parked in the spot--even though the spot was on my side of the street.
My first attack was simply to put my car there the next day, but this was quickly answered with a very suspicious placement of dog feces in the path of the front left tire. Raul's Jack Russel Terrier was the primary suspect for this act.
Anyway, things sort of progressed and the latest volley came from Raul just last night when my mailbox was mysteriously replaced with a garbage can full of refuse from a local Chinese restaurant.
Thus far, my most intense attack on Raul consisted of my systematic opening and closing of his garage with a remote I have set to his frequency.
