It does seem to preserve freedom, until I can't work on my daughter's car in my own garage, and I also can't work on it at her place because she rents an apartment where working on cars in the parking lot is verboten.

Contrast it with an alternate proposed policy “not allowed to work on cars at all” not to a fully sensible except difficult to administer policy of “don’t create a nuisance that reasonable neighbors would reasonably object to”.

(Plus, just like you usually don’t get pulled over for 75 on the highway, most everyone will be able to do occasional work on their adult kid’s car anyway.)

Yeah, I mean: Realistically, I'm going to do what I need to do and treat the rules more like guidelines: We all do this in our own ways.

But neighbors can be both difficult, and ever-present.

I had a busy-body neighbor once that would go out of his way to make sure that everyone was following the rules.

For instance: It'd been snowing, quite a lot, and the roads were officially closed. But I had to get my wife to work at 5:30AM anyway: Those road closures don't apply to people in her line of work in the medical field.

So we went out early and started digging. We thought we had made a good path but got the car stuck in the middle of our boring little side street anyway. Fun times.

And the nosy neighbor dude waddles up from his house. He doesn't offer to help, like many normal neighbors might have done, or a great neighbor would feel compelled to do.

His compulsion was different.

He just takes a series of photos our clearly-evident (to him) lawbreaking activities and smugly waddles back inside.

This is the kind of neighbor who absolutely would make sure I would be reported for working on a non-resident's vehicle in my own garage.

I've only had one such neighbor in my decades of adulthood, but he cannot be the only one who is this way.