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We're taught from a young age that what's yours is yours and what's mine is mine. If Jonathan had a red ball on the playground and you wanted to play with it, you were resoundingly assured by whatever teacher or authority was present that you simply couldn't demand that he share it with you.
And that lesson carries forward throughout our lives. There is a very prevailing message these days around hanging on tightly to what is yours and making sure that no one else comes near it.
Was it always like this?
I think we have all forgotten what the other half of that lesson was. And that was that sharing is important and being too stingy with our things and not letting others use them is selfish and unkind, and that, when we can, and we are able, we should do things for others when we have sufficiently determined that the risks and the costs are acceptable to us.
Still, just because it's ok for someone to ask doesn't mean that “No” isn't a sufficient 1 word answer. Persistence quickly becomes pressure when it extends past a reasonable initial request and answer. Again, like with the red ball on the playground, once the answer has been given, it's time to let it go.
It's understanding why anyone, and especially a woman living alone, might be wary of strangers coming into their home. But since the lost drone, since it is certainly worth a considerable amount of value. The parents could, perhaps, arrange for the landlord or someone else to access the roof for them and search for it with a ladder or something. If things hadn't already begun to escalate, it would be kind for the tenant to provide that information to them and not be overly difficult about it.
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A young woman waters the plants on the patio outside her apartment.
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AITAH for not letting my neighbours into my flat?
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A woman contemplates while seated on the porch of her apartment unit
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