We own a corner lot with a double sidewalk, one of which is almost overrun with Boston ivy. I admit and take responsibility for this situation but have finally taken action to get it back under control (and anyone who has a green thumb can tell you the evils of this weed).
This week our landscaper came by to remove the Boston ivy off the sidewalk. While there, he told us some 30something bitty came over and joked “Boy I hope they paid you a lot of money to do that hard work, hahahaha it’s about time they removed that ivy, it’s become really hard for people to walk their dogs on that sidewalk, why many of my neighbors were thinking about calling the city to complain blah blah blah”
Dear Bitch,
My wife and I both work long hours, and yes, while we make sure our lawn is cut and trimmed, sidewalks emptied of snow, and tree branches trimmed, yes, at times those things make it harder for us to get to fucking ivy covering our sidewalk. We feel badly we don’t live up to YOUR high standards of how we maintain our plantings.
The neighbor across the street from the ivy covered sidewalk has NO sidewalk whatsoever. As a matter of fact, about half the neighborhood streets have no sidewalks at all on either side. Perhaps you should spend your busybody energy complaining to the city about that.
I don’t give a flying fuck about anyone’s dogs. Great, I tear out all this ivy off my sidewalk so your stupid fucking dogs can shit and piss all over the sidewalk. No room for your mutts? Let them shit somewhere else.
I don’t believe for one second any of the neighbors have complained. I think it is just you. But, just for the record, I DARE I BEG any of my neighbors to complain about my yard to the city. I guarantee I can visit EVERY neighbor within one mile of me and find at least one violation. Wanna play that game? Everyone goes down.
I have a PRETTY good idea who you are. Ive seen YOUR house. You have a tiny sidewalk and no driveway so there’s obviously less work and maintenance involved with your house. Not that it’s not a nice little property and cute little house. But even with a lot half our size and a house about four times the size of my shed YOUR landscaping is nothing special, just a bunch of overgrown bushes and trees that cover up 90 percent of your lawn. Oh, and the plastic furniture I have to look at while trimming my backyard, THAT’S classy. I really don’t care— just don’t start spreading gossip about us.
Lets say you are 100pct right. We are white trash who bought a big lot and don’t landscape it properly. We finally saved enough money to hire a landscaper to make the property meet your very high standards. Why say ANYTHING at all? You are getting what you want. Just shut the fuck up, there’s no reason to insult US.
BTW, who else in our neighborhood are you gossiping about from your little hut? The neighbor to our back and across from you with a 2 story modular (a replacement for a home that burned down in a fire)with an above ground swimming pool, foster children , uncut grass and a motorhome in their backyard?
They don’t bother me, but I’m sure you complain to the whole neighborhood about them.
The house across from our street where mentally disadvantaged live and at times make a loud ruckus? We welcome them, and hats off to the workers who have to care for them on a day to day basis. But I bet they get under your sanctimonious skin.
In closing, Twat, keep making the smartass remarks. This is our second house, and while we love it and our neighborhood (until now) we can easily afford to move to much nicer neighborhood than this one. If we get irritated enough with you to do so, hopefully someone will buy our house and landscape it PERFECTLY according to your standards. But if not, be careful for what you wish for.
You know, it sounds to me like your landscaper likes to stir up shit. You’ve got a full blown hate-on for one particular woman because she might be the one that said something like what someone else told you.
And yeah, keeping your sidewalk clear is a bigger deal than having an attractive lawn. I push a stroller a great deal, and a blocked sidewalk is a tremendous pain in the ass.
I give this rant 1/10. You try to stir up a lot of rage over one small thing that you heard through your gossiping landscaper. Yes she was dumb in the way she worded it but your response is over the top for something so small (and honestly should have been taken care of a long time ago from the sounds of it.)
Keeping the sidewalk clear is your responsibility, which you accept. You admit that, due to your lack of action, the sidewalk has become overrun with ivy. Someone comments that they are glad the sidewalk is finally being cleared. And your response is this angry rant? Pfft.
Keeping the sidewalk clear might be our/my responsibility but I HATE neighbors who do these passive aggressive sort of swipes. Call the city over it? Did it occur to you to knock on the door first, or leave a note? “Hi, just wanted to let you know the sidewalk is really blocked and nobody can get by”? Nope, we’re going right to calling the city.
People just care too much about shit that’s not in their yard, is all. I don’t pick up my leaves, I rent, so the landlord comes around with his leaf-sucking machine. He’s told me to leave the leaves where they are as it’s easier to suck them up - but I know there was a busybody who complained about the leaves. Fuck you, and fuck everyone who obviously doesn’t have enough to do in their lives and needs to be a busybody.
Some of us have lives, and busy ones at that. And if I start on this, like russian heel says, I can find something wrong with everyone, and Number One would be the assholes who let their dogs shit and pee all over everyone else’s yard.
I don’t understand why anyone who isn’t disabled would need to hire a gardener to come out and yank some ivy. Seems like about 30 seconds of work every could of weeks would keep it under control.
Thanks, I am feeling a little grouchy about this whole thing today.
I have two problems. One, I rent, as I said, from a club. Behind me is the club property. Dog owners walk by my house (thankfully!) and walk right onto the club property and let their stupid dogs shit all over the place. And then just walk out. The club cares, and it bothers them, but they are not around enough to do anything, and they are not apparently tough enough to put up signs saying “Curb your dogs”. They have signs that say “Do not enter, private property”, which people walk right by.
Even then at least twice there’s been dog poop right in front of my house, once in front of my mailbox. I am stating this very calmly but the ire rises and I want to murder people.
And then, yes, the cats. I hate outdoor cats. I’ve complained about this often before. They wander! I think you are a bad cat owner if you let your cat wander in my neighborhood; it’s really close to two 40 mph roads. Also they pee in my bushes and scare the birds in my yard, and it’s realy really cold in the winter, so why would you let your damn strays roam?
Aargh! I’m getting upset again. Let it go, let it go. Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. * meditates *
For someone who is too busy to take care of shit, you sure found time to right a long, involved OP.
Actually, I hate these NBs, too. I have one, and she drives everyone crazy. Fortunately, I live about a block away, so I don’t get anywhere near the amount of grief my goods friends get who live right across the street.
Two of the points you make jump out at me: you and your wife are too busy to keep up your corner-lot property, while Ms. Bitchy has a smaller, lower-maintenance house.
Everywhere I’ve lived has had one long-hours couple whose house is somewhere between an eyesore and a hazard (like your overgrown sidewalk, although I do sympathize about the ivy). My conclusion is that such proto-yuppies moved out of their apartment a few years too early, and that there are a lot of us who wish they either had the time to maintain their property or the money to hire someone to do it properly, and not a lack of both because they jumped into an overly-large house on marginal income.
But if the neighbor knocked on this guy’s door she would have gotten a face full of “MY WIFE AND I WORK LONG HOURS AND MY LAWN IS TRIMMED YOUR HOUSE IS SMALL GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!” She didn’t actually call the city or talk to the guy and he’s already busting a gasket.
If she called the city the city would probably come take care of it then send the guy a bill, probably around the same as what he paid a landscaper.
The biggest eyesores in my neighbourhood from people who aren’t keeping their property up to neighbourhood standards are the renters. If the homeowner doesn’t live there, they really don’t seem to care much if the grass is mowed regularly or the dandelions are kept under control or the sidewalk is cleared of snow promptly (in the appropriate seasons, of course). That might be the problem your neighbours are having, Anaamika - your landlord might not be as quick on the draw as homeowners who live in the neighbourhood are. I know the landlord across the street from me will get to the dandelion explosion eventually - but not until my yard has been thoroughly seeded with their dandelion fluff. I spend hours every summer pulling out dandelions because that landlord is negligent, and I don’t much care for it.
Right. IMHO, in a significant number of cases, people who don’t want others to “go behind their back” or “talk about them behind their back” seem to be ready to verbally bully anyone who talks “to their face.” I sometimes get the vibe that the real reason they’re angry someone wouldn’t confront them, but “went behind their back,” is that they missed the chance to deter that person entirely by intimidating them.
