The second letter cited Section 7.4 of the covenants, which says no commercial or inoperable vehicles may be stored in view of the road for more than seventy-two hours. The third letter started the fines. Twenty-five dollars a day.
I’m a retired 911 dispatcher. Thirty-four years in a dark room with a headset on taught me that the loudest person on the line is almost never the one in trouble, and that you write everything down.
So I kept copies of the registration and insurance. I took a video every Saturday of the truck starting, with the date on the screen. I wrote the board a polite letter explaining that the truck was registered, insured, operable and personal, and that the plow frame was the same frame it had worn since 1996, when the covenants were written.
Grant answered with a newsletter item about “residents who believe the rules don’t apply to them.”
