‘I don’t bow down to entitled old men’: Neighbor aggressively criticizes the family next door's home upkeep, so one of the family members calls him out

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Jul 12, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

How do you handle a neighbor who is seemingly falling further and further down the delusional rabbit hole?

You might think that the simple answer is to stop engaging with them on the lawn, on the sidewalk, and wherever else you bump into them, but that's the thing. Neighbors who want a problem will be sure to find it wherever they step, and you are the target they've set their eyes on. You can walk near and far, but an entitled neighbor will find you when you least expect it. They should make a horror movie about this—write that down.

The thing about this next story is that the neighbor in question expects the family they have a problem with to abide by all of his very vague demands. He finds every reason to scold them, whether that be regarding the family's lawn, pool, or house in general. Miserable people will continue to be miserable and will try to spread that misery around to everyone in their path, like a misery tornado or something (give me a break). Scroll below to read the full story.

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  • One of the kids in the family decided to take matters into their own hands and let the neighbor know that they will not tolerate this harassment. Before they knew it, that same neighbor would threaten them.

  • "He thinks he's above us in some way."
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  • "He threatens to call the cops on me because I said ‘it’s not your business’"

    LOL! This old man has been annoying since we moved in, he thinks he's above us in some way, thinks he can say whatever and
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  • criticize us whenever he wants, about our house, lawn, pool. He's never done it to me personally, but he's done it to my parents
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  • and my brother who all just listen to him like scaredy cats. We can't even enjoy our pot lots because he complained they are too bright and insists we turn them off by 10pm.
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  • But today the old man came across me, and I don't bow down to entitled old men. He asked to speak to my dad when I stepped
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  • out but I told him my dads eating, so he starts asking me who trimmed the front lawn today, I said "I did" and he starts going
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  • on a tangent how we have to trim the backyard shrubs .... Okay? I said "what happened" and instead of clarifying the issue, he
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  • says "YOU GUYS DONT DO ANYTHING, you GUYS DIDNT DO THIS OR THAT", so I tell him "okay that's none of your
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  • business" and I walk away while he continues his tangent, and then he says " YOURE GOING TO SEE A MAN AT YOUR DOOR STEP SOON"
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  • I Ignordd him and left. 1. if he wants us to trim he can communicate nicely, i would've said okay and left
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  • 2. how dare he speak to us that way, i had no idea this is how he had been speaking to my family
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  • 3. my dad is old, and i hate when he faces any tension but this shameless old f. rt thinks everyone wants to waste their old age being
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  • 4. the ex cop couldn't control the situation so he retorted to dumb threats
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  • 225wpm8 I had an aggressive neighbor recently that stormed into a home we were renovating and told us if we did not turn the music down in the front yard she was calling the police. The music was neither overly loud nor profane. I already knew we were not violating our city's noise ordinance, so I called the police myself.
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  • When they came to my home, I explained what she had done and pointed the officer in the direction of her home. He explained to her that we were not doing anything wrong, and that if she called the cops on us, they were going to
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  • come to her house and not mine and remind her every time that we were not breaking the law. Quiet hours in our city do not start until 10 PM. She backed down real fast and we never heard another peep out of her. But let me be very clear that she was incredibly aggressive and unkind from the start. Had she asked nicely, we would have absolutely turned the music down.
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  • Sidenote, we also blared the music all day every day that we were outside painting that house just to remind her of her idiocy.
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  • DonnaNoble222 Tell him to stay off your property...that if he comes on again it will be trespassing and you will call the cops. Document everything...video him if you can
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  • Either_Coconut If you haven't got security cameras covering at least the entire outdoor part of your property, you might want to invest in those.
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  • I wouldn't trust him not to make up some bogus bad behavior on your or your family's part, "I went to talk to them and they threatened me", or worse, "... and they assaulted me". If you have
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  • security camera video, you would be able to show the cops that you were minding your own business when he came over to you and screamed like a banshee, and your family did nothing wrong.
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