Man's neighbor threatens to call police for mowing his lawn, so he stops mowing their side of the yard: ‘I said it's too loud and I might get in trouble"

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Jul 13, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

"Daughter dearest" gets the karma she deserves.

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  • Nothing's worse than a neighbor with some heavily unwarranted anger. Especially when that neighbor is someone's daughter. How can an adult fight back against a child in an appropriate manner? There are some classic methods of revenge, the whoopee cushion, ding-dong-ditch, the prank phone call; but in this case, the most effective tactic of vengeance is doing exactly what they told you to do…

    The man in this story mows his lawn at reasonable hours, often mowing portions of his senior citizen neighbor's lawn as well. Over time, their daughter who lives upstairs, has been screaming at him to stop making an immense amount of noise with the mower. She even threatens the police, to which the man says he will stop mowing their lawn if it's such a huge problem. The senior citizens are now frustrated that their lawn has not been kept up, and the daughter asks the man to start mowing their lawn again. Read along to see what happens.

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    Stop mowing? OK!
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    My neighbour's rent their lower suite to their adult daughter, her partner and their child. The daughter has main character syndrome, has yelled at me to stop doing work outside repeatedly, called bylaws on me
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    (for cutting my grass at 4pm on a saturday) and more. She also refuses to help her senior parents do their yardwork, so I continue to cut half their lawn and
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    completely care for the area below their retaining wall. No biggie, it's 1/4 the size of my front yard and flat.
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    Daughter dearest, however, has continued to scream at me any time I pull out the mower or trimmer, in my own yard. It's aggravating to say the least. At the end of May, she lost her mind
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    for mowing the lower area of the yard and screamed at me to stop, threatening to call the police. So I did exactly that, and I stopped. Then I sent my neighbor a lovely text explaining that her daughter
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    was clearly distressed and asked me to stop. Now each week, I mow to the property line, no further, and that yard has gotten bad. Last week, Daughter
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    Dearest asked me if I could start mowing their lawn again, because her mom was really mad. I declined, said it's too loud and I might get in trouble. Today, she was out there, manhandling a huge gas mower down 9 stairs and took 25 minutes to mow what takes me 3 minutes, before struggling to get the mower back up.
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    cashfordoublebogey 4h ago I'd start doing some night-time fertilizing. 'Super- thrive' will have that yard looking like a scene from 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' in no time. ↑ Vote ☐ Reply ... Ok_Pomegranate_4344 OP • 3h ago For this incident alone it's not justified but I have so many stories from the family!! Current pettiness, hubby likes to weed his garden area and throw things over the fence, so I wait to pull dandelions until they are almost to seed and chuck the heads back over. That way, t
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    Redzero062 · 6h ago . the main character daughter was moving the mower, right? I might actually feel bad if it was the mom. She sounds nice Vote Reply Ok_Pomegranate_4344 OP • 3h ago Mom isn't all that nice, but she recognized the favor I was doing and that her daughter messed it up! And yes, daughter was the one who ended up mowing :)
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    Kookabanus · 10h ago • If someone else wants to mow my lawn they can do it a 3am for all I care!!!
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    zoesdad70 • 9h ago . And you didn't yell at her to stop as she was making too much noise?
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    Numerous_Exerci... • 7h ago The neighbours adult daughter has proved to herself that her shouting orders at others doesn't work in the way that she thinks it does. A lesson learned.
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    HMS_Slartiba... • 10h ago And she wonders why the grass is greener on the other side. It is because someone who knows what they are doing is taking care of their own lawn! And from now on JUST their own lawn!
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    Prestigious-Moos... • 6h ago This is completely baffling. How did she expect this to end? She must be a nightmare in relationships and work situations, setting up no-win scenarios for people: screamed at if you do, screamed at if you don't
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    wizzolord777 • 3h ago Sounds like she wanted drama for the sake of it, I don't understand how you could be unhappy about someone mowing your lawn, especially to the extend of being about telling them to stop. and then having the audacity to ask them to continue is hilarious.
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    Zoreb1 3h ago Wonder if daughter apologized when she requested that the mowing continue?
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    Togakure_NZ.6h ago She'll get faster with practice.
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    NeolithicOrkney 7m ago It never ceases to amaze me how people like this ask for a favor after being a total b*tch. It's almost as if they have no clue at all about anyone other then themselves, and even the "themselves" part is doubtful.
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    crobarian 10h ago You should gift her a manual push mower. Would be easier to carry up the stairs.
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    Agitated_Basket7778 · 3h ago Main Character Syndrome. Excellent That's going into the notebook for use later.
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