Snow plower piles snow from the road onto his neighbors driveway, gets angry when she asks him why he did that: 'He told me he’d take care of it, I should be so grateful to him, and to get out of his face.'

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Emmy Pratt • Writer and Editor
Jan 29, 2026 8:00 PM EST

How was she supposed to know that he was planning to clear it off? 

Having a neighbor who is willing to shovel and plow all of the snow off the driveways in the neighborhood might sound enviable. Nobody really wants to spend hours of their day making their driveway drivable and hurting their back in the process, so if someone else is willing to do that for free, you might be eager to pounce on the opportunity. But the desirability of such a service depends on the neighbor's ability to complete the task successfully. If he moves all the snow from your next-door neighbor's driveway into your front walkway, that's not actually solving the problem. At best, it's impolite, and at worst, it's malicious. Would you blow your autumn leaves into your neighbor's front lawn? Maybe you would, and if so, you're a bad guy! 

If your neighbor starts mowing your lawn without even asking you, it sends a very different message than him offering to do it out of the kindess of his heart. His actions heavily imply that you are not good enough at lawncare to take care of your own lawn, so he had to take matters into his own hands. I'm sure there are a ton of suburbanite dads out there who wish they could mow their neighbor's unruly lawns, but they won't do it because they know it's kind of insulting. If you choose to take such a drastic step, you have to be sure that you're okay with your neighbor screaming at you, "GET OFF MY LAWN!" If you can't handle someone questioning why you're tending to their property without their permission, you shouldn't be doing unsolicited yard work. 

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  • A snowplow clearing the snow from roads
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  • The woman in this story had a very reasonable gripe with her neighbor, who was piling other people's snow into her driveway. He was so angry that she dared to question him that he threw a fit.

  • Am I the bad guy for asking a guy why he piled a ton of snow in my driveway?

    So we had a snowstorm, city doesn't plow the roads. Some guy in an ATV puts a plow attachment on his ATV and decides to plow the neighborhood.
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  • He just does this on his own fruition. I heard him outside and looked out the window, he plowed a ton of snow from the street up 2 people's driveways.
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  • He also piled a ton of snow around someone's car. Some of those people went and shoveled the snow out from around the car and the driveways after the guy left.
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  • A couple of people that are standing in the snow
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  • The guy also almost hit 2 cars parked on the street. The guy directly across the street offered to pay him if he plowed his driveway later.
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  • He came back after the sun went down and plowed the driveway, pushing all the snow into my driveway.
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  • I heard the ATV outside, saw a ton of snow in my driveway, and went outside to ask him why he was piling all the snow in my driveway.
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  • He told me he'd fucking take care of it, I should be so fucking grateful to him, and to get out of his fucking face.
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  • He later drove the ATV through part of my yard to push his snow pile out of my driveway.
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  • Am I the A-hole? I know my communication generally isn't the best (I have autism) as I tend to be really direct, and it really bothers me when I get yelled at.
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  • I just can't help but think I ticked this guy off and I'm an A-hole.
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  • JorgontheBold NTA. You didn't ask for him to do this, you don't owe him anything, he should still be respectful of your property.
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  • Useless890 Nor should he have talked to you that way.
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  • Tryn2Contribute NTA - he was being a jerk. He has a toy and wanted to have some fun. But while doing so, caused harm. Don't think you did anything wrong. 'cause you didn't
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  • Dealer Alarmed3632 NTA. This sounds like trespassing, and perhaps more laws were broken. Despite it just being rude, there may be actual legal ramifications for his behavior.
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  • Svennis 79 NTA. Put up a sign saying 'Snow storage, $100 per foot per day, by pushing, moving or otherwise artificially adding snow to the property you agree to the terms' Minumum 4 days storage, payable immediately.
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  • canvasshoes2 NTA he sounds like a menace! Also, I have to say, I love this typo. It fits the situation way better than the real word (volition, if you wanted it). >He just does this on his own fruition This guy is definitely a fruitcake. :D
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  • kentuckyMarksman Original Poster's Reply Thank you, I agree! He almost hit 2 cars, menace was the exact word that came to my mind. He did the same thing last year but really just removed all the snow and left all the ice exposed making it harder to drive. No, not a typo, just me not knowing any better and using the wrong word. Thank you for the explanation though, I appreciate it! Would you believe English is my native language?
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  • WifeofBath 1984 NTA you did nothing wrong. You communicated just fine. This guy is the asshole here
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  • Creative_Garbage_121 Do you have his plates or do you know who he is? Inform police and let them take care of it, anf maybe talk with neighbours that get snow at their driveways and collectively ask the neighbours that used the service to stop doing that
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  • kentuckyMarksman Original Poster's Reply I didn't see any sort of plates on the ATV, and O don't know who he is. When it warms up I think I'm going to walk around the neighborhood and try to figure out what house the ATV is at so I'll at least have an address to report should this be a problem again.
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  • linxramblr Are you exaggerating the interaction? I can't imagine that a guy doing the ultimate winter storm kindness would talk to you that way, and it's easy to imagine that YTA because you can't recognize the favor he'd performed for the neighborhood
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  • kentuckyMarksman Original Poster's Reply Not exaggerating.
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  • Flimsy-Fortune-6437 You had every right to ask him why he was plowing snow onto your property. He also should not have driven across your lawn.
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