THE WRONG DRIVEWAY

A Connecticut homeowner came home to find someone else's driveway under fresh blacktop, and then got a bill for it.

"My neighbor paid to get his driveway repaved but when I got home, my driveway was paved instead of his," the poster wrote in their first-ever post, marked plainly: "Location: CT."

The mix-up was so strange that at first, nobody seemed to stop the work. The neighbor's driveway had been the one scheduled. Instead, the pavers laid down a new surface over the poster's property. The poster and the neighbor didn't immediately make a scene. Then, as the poster put it, "We didn't think anything of it, the pavers came back and did his driveway."

The real surprise came after the trucks left.

"No one from the paving company ever approached us about the situation so we just casually ignored it and thought we got a free driveway repaved," the poster wrote.

That assumption lasted only a few days, or maybe a week. Then a bill showed up.

"About a week, few days later, we got a bill from the company," the poster said. "We never ordered it, never signed anything, never even knew who they were until we came home to a paved driveway and my neighbor being super pissed."

Now the homeowner was staring at an invoice for work they never requested and wondering what, exactly, the company thought it was charging for. Their questions came fast: "I'm in the clear right?" "Can we just let it go?" "Should I get a lawyer?"

The concern wasn't just the bill. The poster said they had no quotes or visits on record from them and worried about what might happen if they contacted the company directly. "We're afraid if we reach out, they'll just try to exploit the situation further," they wrote.

Then came an edit, after the post was locked. The poster thanked everyone for the input and said they were going to start documenting everything. That included using Zillow photos showing the original driveway and reaching out to a lawyer. The reason went beyond the mistaken paving job itself.

"I obviously didn't formally go through the process of getting a new driveway," the poster wrote, adding that they wanted to make sure the town didn't hit them with "code-permit problems."