There are many people who think that fixing your car is something best left to professionals. What is more is that there are even more people who feel that fixing your car is something that should be done not only by professionals, but it should be done in a professional environment such as at a mechanic s shoppe or some other similar establishment.
When I was in college in graduate school, I lived in a brand new townhome community. The community was extremely nice, and it also had a lot of rules. For starters, the community made a huge deal about doing any sort of car repairs within the community. And for once, I had to agree. There is something that looks classless about someone trying to fix their vehicle in their driveway of their home. Even though it is your house, and it may be your property, if your neighbors or other people have to see you fixing your vehicle, there is simply something inherently trashy about the behavior.
For some people fixing your car is considered faulty behavior because it disrupts the integrity as well as the aesthetic appeal of the neighborhood that you live in. There are some people who might be able to get away with it if they do the repairs in the privacy of their backyards, but even then, they are taking a risk because even though the neighbors may not be able to see you fixing your car, they may still be able to hear you working on your car.
In my parents neighborhood growing up, there was a relatively nice house on the corner of one of the streets nearby. Our neighborhood was really nice, and everyone took pride in this fact. However, there was this one neighbor who lived in that house on the corner who happened to be a mechanic. Well, unknown to the rest of the neighbors, he actually wound up converting a part of his house into a fully integrated mechanic s garage, complete with all of the tools and lifts, etc. No one even knew that anything was different that is, until we started noticing all of the cars piling up in his front yard. Before we knew it, there were a bunch of broken down looking cars parked haphazardly in the front yard of his house on what used to be really nice grass. While it was his property, it didn t take away the fact that it looked bad. Then there was the noise. In the middle of the night, neighbors were being woken up by loud noises coming from this guy s house. It turns out, he was working on his various cars in his garage inside of his home.
Eventually, several of the neighbors went to the county commissioner or some other higher up , and complained about what was going on. The result? The neighbor had to dismantle the entire section of his house that he had converted into a working mechanic s garage. He had to turn the home back to what it was originally, and he had to remove all of the abandoned vehicles from his property. Eventually, (actually very soon afterwards), he sold his house and moved elsewhere.
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