BIgDaddyChia
RRC Organizer
- Location
- Round Rock, TX
If you conducted a search to find the most elevated nostrils in Texas, the 'burb of Frisco, north of Dallas, would be hard to beat.
A snooty gated community up there called Stonebriar Village has a rule that prohibits parking a darned near brand-new Ford pickup in your driveway. On the other hand, more prestigious brand trucks like Lincolns are allowed.
We're not talking about a Ford pickup with fuzzy dice and Elmer Fudd mud flaps. We're talking about a black 2007 Ford F-150.
"I've got it finished out with some additional chrome and such," said Jim Greenwood, who paid nearly $30,000 for the truck, which has a dealer-installed metal bed cover painted to match the rest of the truck. The offending truck has about 25,000 miles on it.
Greenwood says he's gotten three notices from his homeowners' association telling him to get the truck out of the driveway or face a $50 fine per event — each time he leaves it in the driveway overnight.
"I really tried to handle this in a quiet, professional manner," said Greenwood, who wrote to the board asking if he could get an exception to the rule because his truck isn't anywhere near eyesore quality.
"That's when one of the board members told my wife that if we didn't like it, we could move," Greenwood said.
What's outrageous about this is that Greenwood says the homeowners association rules allow swankier luxury brands of trucks — such as the Lincoln Mark LT — to be parked in driveways.
"It happens to come off the same assembly line in Dearborn, Mich., as the Ford F-150," Greenwood said.
When Greenwood explained to the board during a July meeting that his truck and the Lincoln Mark LT were basically the same vehicle, he said a board member told him that "Lincoln markets to a different class of people."
Yeah. Snobs, in this case.
Greenwood bought the Ford truck for safety reasons. "Our oldest child turned 16, and we needed a third vehicle, so we opted for something safe so he would be up high," he said. "We're doing the right thing now. We're parking it in the garage."
I wouldn't call that doing the right thing. Greenwood should stick it to these snoots. After all, this is Texas. If you can't park a new pickup in your driveway in the Lone Star State, what's next? A ban on high school football, deer season and chicken-fried steak?
Greenwood says people have come up with some protest suggestions. "One is to have one of the many talk shows come out and broadcast from our driveway, and invite all of our friends over for a pancake breakfast," he said. "Everybody likes pancakes."
That's a start, but under the circumstances I think he should also put on a wet T-shirt contest.
A snooty gated community up there called Stonebriar Village has a rule that prohibits parking a darned near brand-new Ford pickup in your driveway. On the other hand, more prestigious brand trucks like Lincolns are allowed.
We're not talking about a Ford pickup with fuzzy dice and Elmer Fudd mud flaps. We're talking about a black 2007 Ford F-150.
"I've got it finished out with some additional chrome and such," said Jim Greenwood, who paid nearly $30,000 for the truck, which has a dealer-installed metal bed cover painted to match the rest of the truck. The offending truck has about 25,000 miles on it.
Greenwood says he's gotten three notices from his homeowners' association telling him to get the truck out of the driveway or face a $50 fine per event — each time he leaves it in the driveway overnight.
"I really tried to handle this in a quiet, professional manner," said Greenwood, who wrote to the board asking if he could get an exception to the rule because his truck isn't anywhere near eyesore quality.
"That's when one of the board members told my wife that if we didn't like it, we could move," Greenwood said.
What's outrageous about this is that Greenwood says the homeowners association rules allow swankier luxury brands of trucks — such as the Lincoln Mark LT — to be parked in driveways.
"It happens to come off the same assembly line in Dearborn, Mich., as the Ford F-150," Greenwood said.
When Greenwood explained to the board during a July meeting that his truck and the Lincoln Mark LT were basically the same vehicle, he said a board member told him that "Lincoln markets to a different class of people."
Yeah. Snobs, in this case.
Greenwood bought the Ford truck for safety reasons. "Our oldest child turned 16, and we needed a third vehicle, so we opted for something safe so he would be up high," he said. "We're doing the right thing now. We're parking it in the garage."
I wouldn't call that doing the right thing. Greenwood should stick it to these snoots. After all, this is Texas. If you can't park a new pickup in your driveway in the Lone Star State, what's next? A ban on high school football, deer season and chicken-fried steak?
Greenwood says people have come up with some protest suggestions. "One is to have one of the many talk shows come out and broadcast from our driveway, and invite all of our friends over for a pancake breakfast," he said. "Everybody likes pancakes."
That's a start, but under the circumstances I think he should also put on a wet T-shirt contest.
