'I got every house... except for his': Guy gets stuck with 17-inch 'ice wall' after rebuffing neighbor

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    It's too loud when I snowblow your sidewalk? OK! S OC I have a sweet snowblower and I love to help out my neighbors by doing the whole block. I'm that guy.
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    After a moderate snow a few years (6") my neighbor told me that he's 'very sensitive to noise' and not to snowblow in front of his house.
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    So, later that same winter we got 17". I got every house on the block front and back except for his. Even better he was out of town, the weather warmed slightly for an afternoon then dropped again so his 17" of snow became a wall to wall glacier.
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    I live in Wisconsin. This is how we entertain ourselves in the winter. EDIT: Wow. Thought I was just sharing a little story. Thanks for all the interest. Heres a little more.
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    1. He was not medically sensitive to sound. If he was he would have said so and I would have respected that. I often saw him outside listening to the brewers on a loud radio as he did yard work (with municipal trucks and ambulances etc rolling by.) Also, it was late morning
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    This is a guy who returned a plate of cookies because he was upset that we didnt know that he thinks sugar is evil. He yelled at kids for chalk drawings on the sidewalk. Total
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    2) We didnt speak often and he never mentioned the ice wall. I do not have any photos ... unfortunately. It was hilarious. Even sat on the edge of it and had a beer with my other neighbor!
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    3) He moved to Iowa a year or so later. Hows this for passive aggressive? Thank god he moved because Iowa might be just nice enough to handle him.
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    Is it malicious compliance, just malicious, or just compliance? I guess that's up to you. ΧΟΧΟ
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    HeartKevin Rose i, what is wrong with this guy?? Our neighbor got a new snowblower a couple years ago and we came home from work after a big storm to find him snowblowing our driveway. He apologized and said he was having so much fun he got a little
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    carried away. We told him he is welcome to continue getting carried away and thanked him by bringing over baked goods and helping him and his wife bag leaves the following spring...and fall... and ever since then we have a nice yard work exchange going on.
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    mcjlapointe I live in a place where 6" of snow is not a big deal, it happens frequently enough. Not everyone has a snowblower, my family included, we have always just used shovels. My neighbor with the snowblowers is a GODSEND on heavy snow days. I don't care if it's 6:30
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    am or 11 pm. I try to time my shoveling when he does his, and he lets me borrow his spare blower, which we usually team up and get the whole sidewalk for the cul-de-sac. At least you tried to be a good neighbour
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    yemo My wife is sensitive to noise as well. A subwoofer a block away can bring her to tears, so noise sensitivity is real. OTOH, she will also be jumping up to bake you cookies if she sees/hears you plowing our front walk.
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    ok-milk I like that you respected his sensitivity from out of town. You should cartoonishly tiptoe past his wall of ice when he gets back.
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    Thebelleanne My husband went to plow out the end of our neighbor's driveway. He got stuck. While waiting to get pulled out, our neighbor baked him cookies. Yay Wisconsin!

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