I think I know the couple you're talking about. Absolute idiots. When I first moved in they were upset because I was given a parking space with my apartment and put up a sign saying "private parking" they tore in down and parked in the spot, although there were plenty of other spots.

literal people are scary, man, literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look,it sez right here, see!" Ani Difranco