Nobody noticed the announcement until it was already causing an argument. It was taped to the apartment building's noticeboard on a Tuesday morning: "Parking space 17 will no longer be available from Friday." No explanation. No signature. Just the announcement. The problem was that three different people used space 17. One had been parking there for years. Another had recently moved in and said the space came with her apartment. The third claimed she'd been paying for it separately. By lunchtime, someone had ripped the notice down. By evening, a new one had appeared. This time it said "Please stop removing official notices." Nobody knew who was putting them up. Then someone checked the building records. Space 17 wasn't assigned to any apartment. It belonged to the building. Which meant nobody was supposed to be using it permanently. That should have solved the argument. Instead, it created a bigger one. The building manager admitted the parking space had been included in old tenancy agreements. Some residents had been given permission to use it years ago. But nobody had updated the records. The three people arguing over it all had documents supporting their claims. One had an old letter from the landlord. Another had an email from the previous building manager. The third had been paying a monthly parking fee. Nobody could agree on which arrangement was still valid. Then an older resident came forward. He said space 17 had never officially belonged to anyone. It had originally been reserved for visitors. Apparently, years ago, residents started using it because the visitor parking was always empty. Eventually, everyone forgot the original arrangement. The manager decided the space would return to visitor parking. That seemed fair. Until the next morning. Someone had parked a car there and covered the license plate with a piece of cardboard...