My next door neighbor has a fairly good size yard to mow.
I have a fairly good size yard to mow.
He has a very long stretch of grass to mow alongside the road opposite the sidewalk due to the fact that HE lives on the corner lot.
He will NOT, even if his miserable lazyass life depended on it…
cut the last 4 FEET of the grass which ends at my driveway.
It is just a perfect example of todays… “IT 's ALL ABOUT ME”
“I’m Special” " I will not even go 4 feet out of my way to be kind"
“fuvk everyone but me” “Hey, It’s not MY job”
So anyway he leaves it there, to grow, looking rather stupid, due to the fact that we don’t cut our grass on the same day…
I’m sorry, but to me this just SORRY LAZYASS behavior.
Sidenote: Dont get me wrong, I L O V E to cut the grass!!!
It is one of the few things that I can do and have it STAY DONE for several days… it was just watching him today, cutting it and having to exert himself by turning the mower in such an odd fashion to keep from getting that last…
4 FEET OF GRASS!!!
and I also have ALWAYS cut a small part of his grass that intersects with mine just because I am there and never really gave it alot of thought…
but… I will not EVER do that again… not for this sorry lazyass jerk…
Why not try to change what’s wrong with the world today by continuing to mow his small section? Or, for that matter, offer to mow his entire lawn one day! It’ll probably make his head fall off, and certainly, even if only in the slightest way, make your and his world a bit better…
YEP excellent idea, I thought about it, considered it, pondered it,
and realize that two wrongs DON’T make a right but decided I will refrain from cutting his grass,
because on this particular day, it’s just gonna make me feel better:D
Yeah, but if you do something good for him, even though he does not do something for you, you get to feel all virtuous and he gets to feel guilty and ashamed of himself. And they maybe, so as to not be “one-down” from you, he will feel obligated to do something nice for you so as to have the upper hand again. And so on, until the two of you are competing to see who can be the nicest. And you will still get to feel virtuous because, since you started the whole thing, he can NEVER be better than you.
Are you talking about the grass verge that’s past the sidewalk/footpath?
If so, technically, that verge is not on your or his property (which ends at the fenceline), it’s local Council’s responsibility to keep it mowed. (However they do not keep it mowed around here, because they don’t bother to tell anyone this little rule, and just let property owners do this job instead)
However, if you’re not talking about that, then forget I said anything.
Yep. The OP is a perfect example of what’s wrong with the world. Only it’s not the neighbor.
Have you considered the possibility that he might have thought about doing it, but didn’t because his was afraid it might piss you off? There are lots of people in the world that would get all in a tither about someone cutting even a bit of their yard without permission, and if he doesn’t know you well, he’d be an idiot to go mucking around with your property.
If you have asked him to do it, fine. If not, I gotta say that you’re the lazy-ass. Or is it just too much to walk up and say “Hey, Ted, would you mind doing that little bit of my yard when you mow? Thanks.”
Instead of simple communication, you sit and mope and scheme and work yourself into a rage of exclamation points.
Along the lines of the previous post (yea, pile-on!!), I think the OP is what’s wrong the world today, but I don’t mean what the Original Poster actually did in the situation he describes. I mean how he takes one little thing and then declares that something is wrong with the world and this is but one example.
It looks like the OP here meant it in at least partial jest, but some folks here do that all the time. And doing this is what’s wrong with . . … never mind.
I don’t think the OP is what’s wrong with the world today, but it’s a good example of how poor communication (or NO communication) can lead to bad blood between people where none existed before.
In the US it almost always doesn’t work that way (the poster says his location is “Atlanta”). Some cities or homes associations will tend to that portion of land, but the vast majority of them make it your responsibility if its on your property. And can potentially fine you if you fail to keep it cut.
The OP could keep cutting that 4 feet themselves, documenting every cut and logging it, then file an adverse possession claim to get the tract amended to their plot…
Depending on the “Squatter’s Rights” laws in your region if you take care of that portion of land for X years you’ll end up owning it. Just make sure to document your maintenance somehow. Weekly, dated before and after pics would probably work nicely.
In the neighborhood I recently moved out of, we all mowed driveway to driveway. The property line two height grass line just looks so stupid. (I’m in an apt now, might stay for a while if the OP is how the world is now :eek: )
The best advice to the OP has already been said: Talk to the guy. Get to know your neighbors. They might end up being friends.
Pretty much. I live in a town house and just last weekend I re-coated the tarpaper section of my roof (just brushing on that tar-like stuff, no significant repair work). The neighbor to one side is a friend, helped me get the ladder up to the third floor so while I was up there I coated his roof as well. The neighbor to the other side has about a five foot section of flat roof adjacent to mine before a slate shingled slope. Partly because I was already up there and partly because any leak in that section could drain to my side, I coated that section gratis. After I’m done and taking down the ladder that neighbor calls me over and asks what I did to her roof, I explain and while not expecting any real reward a simple thank you for saving her some effort would have been nice. Instead I get a rather curt lecture on civil liability and a request to stay on my side of the line.
Makes me wish she had a few feet of lawn I could conspicuously avoid mowing.
Sounds like some of your neighbors are real assholes. I’ve got one like that. I actually caught her spying on us with a telescope in her living room. She calls the “authorities” at any occasion. Like when I put in a new septic system, she called the state inspector. Or when I was building a new fence and was burning the old fence row off. She called the fire dept. I had a garden hose run across the blacktop road to another neighbors house when I was putting in my well and she called the local water dept.
Oh well…some folks just don’t have a life of their own I guess. I just wish they’d stay the fuck out of mine. :smack:
Screw the neighbor, you already said you like to mow. It’s only four feet anyway. Perhaps he’ll get the nerve to speak when he sees you doing his job. If not, so what…I wouldn’t want to talk w/ an asshole like that anyway.
I don’t think the neighbor is being a jerk at all.
Were I in his place, I wouldn’t dare mow someone else’s lawn without his/her consent. Sure, they might appreciate it. But they might not. We could just as easily see a pit thread entitled “What part of PROPERTY LINE don’t you understand, Dipwad?!?”
A brief conversation ought to take care of this situation one way or the other. But I completely understand the neighbor’s reluctance to do something that might be viewed as a favor, but also might be viewed as “screwing with my yard.”
[sup]You mean that four feet of uncut lawn is the only thing wrong with this world?[/sup][/ul]