Woman buys an expensive snow blower after struggling with snow for years and refuses to lend it or clear a neighbor’s drive for free during a major storm

Trying to be reasonable in a snowstorm is easy and basically means staying warm, inside, and not to demand stranger's expensive new snow blower to be community property.

The setup is simple: a woman in her mid‑forties lives alone in a snowy climate, has already weathered a divorce, and spent over a year saving up for a premium two‑stage battery‑powered snow blower that cost nearly two thousand dollars. She did not buy it for status. She bought it because hiring people was unreliable, shoveling was physically exhausting, and getting to work in heavy snow meant she needed a real machine, not favors.

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AITAH for not letting my neighbor borrow my snow blower and for not snow blowing their drive for them?

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When the big storm hits, she hauls herself through twenty inches of snow, muscles the blower back and forth, gets her own driveway and sidewalks clear, and is physically wrecked, sore body, frozen fingers, wind‑burned face. At that point the only thing on her mind is getting inside, recharging, and surviving winter without feeling like Atlas with a snowblower.
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Then a neighbor from across the street she has never met appears and asks to borrow the very equipment she maxed out her savings to buy. When she reasonably says no, same person, different drive, deeper snow, expensive gear, one person, one battery, she gets an eye‑roll and a follow‑up request to do his entire driveway for free. The unspoken assumption is that because she owns a snow blower, she is now the neighborhood clearing service.
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What makes it quietly hilarious is how the system flips: she invested time, money, and physical effort to become self‑reliant, and instead of being praised for that, she is treated like a party‑pooper for not becoming the town’s unpaid janitor. The neighbor? He finds a plow truck a few hours later. He just got scared of the idea of paying and expected her to absorb the cost instead.
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Of course she is not the bad guy. She is the most reasonable person in the entire snowscape.
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