Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
T-Bone wrote:
Another thing that has gotten under my skin this spring/summer is my next door neighbor. I have lived
next door for 5 years and I have always mowed a shared strip of grass between our houses. It is really just an extra two passes with
the mower and at least I can keep it looking uniform. I cut my grass 2-3 times a week and he does it maybe once a week if that. This
year he has decided that those two strips are going to be his so he has been cutting them. Not a huge deal but it makes that strip between
us look really stupid when my grass is always short and his two strips are long. I am pretty sure he is trying to draw a line in the sand that
it is actually his property line ( which may very well be true ). We had an incident last fall between my dog and him and his dogs and so
I think that might be playing into it some. I'd talk to him about it but he is essentially a hermit and doesn't really talk so I am just leaving it
alone.
This reminds me of another one of my cranky old friends. This guy lives in a building his grandfather bought in 1956 (j/k, I think he actually bought it in the 40s). He has his ideas about what everyone else
should do. Much of his neighborhood has become Mexican over the years, and though he would deny it, when he complains he sounds like a bigot. He can't grasp that his idea of what looks "nice" isn't the same as everyone else's. This friend annoys the fuck out of me sometimes. I think that's what set me off on Rand Paul because guys criticizing him sound like this friend of mine.
Anyway, the gangway between his house and his neighbor's is only 1/4 his and the other 3/4 is his neighbor's. Over the years dating back to his grandparents, his family had maintained the gangway the way they wanted. Well, his neighbor ran a mower through there- on her property, mind you- and my friend went apeshit. "She killed my hostas! Everything looked so beautiful but she destroyed it for no reason!" Yet this guy is so property oriented he would never countenance anyone telling him what to do on his land.
Some people don't care about their lawns the way you do. It's probably best not to get worked up over it. When I was a kid in Sauganash, if someone failed to cut his lawn for ten days, it was like they wanted to form a posse and storm his house.
Yeah, like I mentioned it really takes a lot for me to get angry about anything, it more annoyance. As I said earlier, I'm letting it go since it really
is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. He's just a poor old man and he isn't really hurting anything, I just found it strange that he decided
to reclaim the land this year. I do believe that it was a combination of what happened last year and he also has a live in male friend who I am pretty
sure has been giving him some ideas about how he should protect his property line. I realize I care too much about my own lawn but that is what I
should be concerned with and not what someone else is doing. It doesn't reflect poorly on me if his yard doesn't look the same as mine.
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One of my friends' mother-in-law gets irrationally angry at that too. She always says, "Car is not spelled with a K!"
