Our neighbor is at this moment mowing our lawn

[cafe]

I admit, our grass was getting a little high. Most of the neighbors have already cut theirs once, maybe more if they're really excited about yard work.

Don actually likes how pretty the dandelions, henbit, vioets, etc look, so he wasn't in a big hurry to mow them down.

So today, our next door neighbor knocked on the door and asked if he could mow our grass. He told Don that it was too long to get with a push mower (which is what we have) now and he had his church's mower that he was working on, so now was a good time for him.

I know that Don could mow a yard higher than that with a push mower because Don is determined and strong as an ox and he should be able to have pretty weeds in his yard if he wants to, dang it! It's his blankety-blank yard.

I'm never going to get the hang of people minding everybody else's business. Don't they have hobbies? I mean besides yard work.

Sometimes I feel like educated white trash that never shoulda left the trailer park.

 

[Tigerlily]

Hmmm that is awkward. However I do think your neighbor was polite about it. Still it is your home and for him to ask Don if it would be alright is to me at least implying that Don is incapable of mowing his own lawn. Whichever way it's put, it's still an invasion of privacy imo.

We have neighbors who don't take care of their yard and you wouldn't catch us mowing it. Limey is very funny about anyone mowing our yard. When we went on Vacation last Summer, we came back to a oddly mowed yard. It was uneven and too short and a mystery as to who did it. We have tall fescue grass and if it's cut too short it will die unless drenched with water. Turns out it was our neighbor's son who mowed it and I think they felt pretty bad because it was dying and her son who was supposed to water my outdoor plants must have forgotten because they were dying too!

 

[heart]

LOL, he wants to get the weeds mowed down so they don't seed his yard? Gosh my husband used to moan about other people's yards and their weed seeds all the time, we had unsold lots around us that were really bad with this too.

 

[cafe]

I dunno. He has a big pile of dirt in his front yard with a sign that says "Free Dirt." His lot wasn't sloped right or something.

They are constantly out there messing around with their house and yard. I can't even begin to fathom being so obsessed with something like grass.

I could even see it if this was a great neighborhood. It's not. Our house is a four bedroom on two lots on the corner and it was $60K. We are in the worst school district in town. And that's not post-housing bubble prices, not that our town ever had a housing bubble to burst.

None of these people have kids, except our neighbor across the street who has a mentally handicapped middle schooler. He's a nice kid, but he will just come up onto our porch and sit on our swing even after I tell him the kids aren't coming out. It makes our dogs go nuts. I don't say anything to his dad about it because I know he's a nice kid and he's lonely.

Our kids don't even leave our yard, so I know they aren't bothering anybody or getting into people's stuff.

But my 16 year old brother was supposed to have come early this week to mow, but my sister-in-law probably thinks I'm the anti-Christ since I went to hear Obama. So she keeps canceling on me.

I'm probably going to have to find someone to pay to do the yard work. Either that or keep letting it get bad enough that the neighbor can't stand it and comes over to do it for us. That is a really tempting thought.

I guess to us, if our neighbors aren't playing loud music at all hours of the night, they aren't letting their kids tear up our stuff, and they don't get into brawls and have the police coming to sort things out on a regular basis, they're good neighbors.

At this point, I am missing some of the drug dealer neighbors we've had. They may have had a bit of traffic, but they where quiet, friendly, and minded their own business.

 

[heart]

My friend had a really invasive neighbor, the kind who constantly watch out the front window, would come over and water her lawn and stuff like that.

 

[FFF]

Cutting grass that's too tall for a push mower with a push mower is pretty much the only kind of grass cutting I'm familiar with.

 

[alcea rosea]

Reminds me of one relative who I have to see sometimes even if I'd rather no to see that person, ever.

That person is always doing things for people in people's houses and yards without asking if what is done will be ok with the people. I hate that. It's like somebody else comes to tell you what you should do and does it without listening what you answer to it. It makes me totally :steam: Looks like your neighbour is one of those people, who think they know everything best.

 

[cafe]

Where I made my mistake was in being considerate. Our neighbors are Apostolic Pentecostals, so the wife has the long hair in a bun, no make-up, and is always in a skirt. It's not that they aren't nice people. They are and they are good people, they are just good, anal people. The husband seems uncomfortable talking to me, so I asked Don to go to the door and Don is too sweet to speak up and say no to the guy.

I will not put that man's comfort ahead of my husband's again. He will deal with me from now on. If he tries to ambush Don when gets home from work, I will pop up like a dandelion and be a bossy, domineering wife.

I'm nice, but I'm not that nice and I am protective. Very protective. He will not do my husband that way again, at least not without words from me.

 

[FFF]

I used to go to some kind of Pentecostal church for a couple of months or so. The people are taught to be so judgmental of others, and they seem to think they are earning God's approval by dressing the way they do.

 

[cafe]

Yeah. I'm a more of a liberal (very relative term) Pentecostal. We don't adhere to any kind of strict dress code, but there are still plenty of spoken and unspoken rules. It can be not fun.