Making friendly with the neighborhood
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The real story is the fact that she removed the post, and whether she had a moment of clarity or if her husband brought the hammer down. That's what this inquiring mind wants to know.
Respectful Dog Poop Walkways.
this is the truth if I ever heard it...:facepalm:
I am handing out a green card for you sir...
I'm siding with the facebook poster on this one. For a number of reasons..
1. Don't call me a dickhead/asshate/douchebag when I ask you to respect my home and property.
2. If it becomes the standard to have people walking through your yard, no one will care. And by that I mean that when your neighbors see people walking through your yard and around your house, it doesn't raise their eyebrow as something being wrong. And then, weeks later when that strange guy is making about 8 trips back and forth across your yard, casing the joint for the best way inside, no one is going to give a shit because it is expected and allowed to have random people walking around your place.
3. We have the same problem in my neighborhood. Kids wandering around through people's yards at night and "walking home". Well, last December at 9pm my two daughters came running down the stairs crying and screaming that there were people in our front yard doing stuff. These 4 boys "walking home" were going through people's front yards and knocking down christmas decorations and tossing rocks. 4 boys, 12-13 years old.
And now, I'm looked at as "the bad guy" because I had the sac to go out there and round these four little fucksticks up and walk them around the neighborhood putting people's yards back in order that they fucked up. Good judgement won out and I didn't go with the original plan of locking them in my garage until their parents came over to clean up their messes and claim them.
Does it suck? yes. Do you have to be vigilant? yes. If you give people a single fucking inch and leniancy, they will take that as a green light that anything they can do, they will, and not face repurcussions. You need to nip that shit in the bud and enforce the standard. When people call you an asshole for holding the standard, don't feel bad and cave in. You stand your fucking ground and hold steady and don't crumble and let people walk all over you (or in this case, walk all over your yard).
1. Don't call me a dickhead/asshate/douchebag when I ask you to respect my home and property.
2. If it becomes the standard to have people walking through your yard, no one will care. And by that I mean that when your neighbors see people walking through your yard and around your house, it doesn't raise their eyebrow as something being wrong. And then, weeks later when that strange guy is making about 8 trips back and forth across your yard, casing the joint for the best way inside, no one is going to give a shit because it is expected and allowed to have random people walking around your place.
3. We have the same problem in my neighborhood. Kids wandering around through people's yards at night and "walking home". Well, last December at 9pm my two daughters came running down the stairs crying and screaming that there were people in our front yard doing stuff. These 4 boys "walking home" were going through people's front yards and knocking down christmas decorations and tossing rocks. 4 boys, 12-13 years old.
And now, I'm looked at as "the bad guy" because I had the sac to go out there and round these four little fucksticks up and walk them around the neighborhood putting people's yards back in order that they fucked up. Good judgement won out and I didn't go with the original plan of locking them in my garage until their parents came over to clean up their messes and claim them.
Does it suck? yes. Do you have to be vigilant? yes. If you give people a single fucking inch and leniancy, they will take that as a green light that anything they can do, they will, and not face repurcussions. You need to nip that shit in the bud and enforce the standard. When people call you an asshole for holding the standard, don't feel bad and cave in. You stand your fucking ground and hold steady and don't crumble and let people walk all over you (or in this case, walk all over your yard).
And for what it is worth, I'm also the "dickhead" that calls the city when people in the neighborhood don't shovel the two feet of snow off their sidewalk for 5 days after the snowstorm.
Jack how else do you think she should have handled it?
I think she did it very appropriately. She asked the parents to simply tell their kids to respect her lawn. Should could have gone about it much differently...shotgun and lawn chair, took her dog to shit on their lawn in retaliation, etc. I think she handled it in the most respectful manner.
But Kelly is hitting the nail on the head here. It's less about the lawn and more about respect. Teach your kids to respect other people.
I think she did it very appropriately. She asked the parents to simply tell their kids to respect her lawn. Should could have gone about it much differently...shotgun and lawn chair, took her dog to shit on their lawn in retaliation, etc. I think she handled it in the most respectful manner.
But Kelly is hitting the nail on the head here. It's less about the lawn and more about respect. Teach your kids to respect other people.
She should have confronted the offenders rather than make an ass of herself preaching to our community.
I'd love to know the reason why she deleted her post and if there were any replies. Sorry I missed that.
I would say to the kids, "I want you kids to go home and tell your mom or dad that the man down on the corner asked us not to cut through his lawn." "Thank you guys and please don't do it again, okay?" "I'm not mad, I just want my lawn to look nice, is all. Thanks again"
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I can tell that your your neighbors are smart, college educated with good jobs, they just are sarcastic and a bit misunderstood.
Don't take them so seriously. :0008
Know the type.
Usually the husbands would love to kick back and have a few beers but can't. :lol:
I have heard of stuck up........stuck on someone......hung up on themself(ves).......stuck on band aids........and stuck up on the wall, but I gotta tell ya..........this is a new one on me. So to clarify, these people interbreed or?
