Imagine spending nearly an hour shoveling out a parking spot in front of your apartment. Then imagine a neighbor essentially says, “Thanks for all the hard work” and snipes your freshly cleared spot. One driver in rural Indiana got so sick of his neighbor taking advantage of his hard work that he decided to do something about it.

He later wrote on Reddit that this was after one of the worst storms of the season. “It was a cold winter day. 8 inches of snow had fallen the night before, and the windchill made it feel as if it were in the negatives (Fahrenheit).”

He explained that his wife “drives a Prius, which slides with the smallest amount of moisture on the road.” So he dutifully, “spent 45 minutes in the freezing cold shoveling that car out so we could get to the store.”

He admits, “Our apartment complex doesn’t have assigned parking.” But on the day of a huge storm? C’mon. “In the winter, it’s understood that if you shovel a spot, it’s yours.” Sounds fair.

So this hardworking shoveler and his wife drove to the store to resupply for the remainder of the storm, confident the spot would be there when they returned. “We were gone for an hour, and when we came back, our neighbor had taken the spot I had shoveled.”

Neighbor took the spot he had shoveled: “I was pretty pissed.”

So what do you do? Knock on the door and chew them out, hoping they move their car and apologize? What if they don’t? Slash their tires? Break their windows? Shovel snow back on their car? This Redditor came up with some truly poetic justice.

“I went inside and filled two gallon jugs of water. Went back out and poured them on his windshield. Rinse and repeat. I must have poured about ten gallons of water on his car. Being how cold it was, it was already freezing by the time I poured the last gallon on. It sat like that overnight.”

Ever tried to de-ice a car after a wintery rainstorm? It is quite the task. You’d think you can fire it up, blast the heat, and the ice will fall off. But the truth is you’re in for an hour of waiting for the ice to come off. A scraper will speed up the process 10x, but that’s still five minutes of desperately battling the ice.

“The next morning, I got to watch as he helplessly tried to scrape all of these layers of ice off his windshield… No damage was done except for wasting like 5–10 minutes of his time.”

The Redditor in question shared this story on the “Petty Revenge” forum. One of the most amusing aspects of the story was how offended commenters were, and the OP’s final edit: “you guys need to chill. This isn’t r/AITA. I’m not looking for judgement because I already know I’m an a–hole. The point of this sub is to tell stories of petty revenge. I’d say I was being pretty d— petty.”