Anonymous wrote:Install motion activated sprinklers.

I like you.

Especially if the neighbors aren't being gracious, OP. Eff that.

There are some people who are takers, and the more your give......

So the guy that wrote the email who was livid is this guy?

(From a follow up post of OP’s)
The neighbor we know less well has had issue with other people crossing through THEIR yard in the past and was annoyed with our kids for being in their yard before so it rubs me the wrong way that they think they can just let their kids walk through our lawn without even asking.


If this is the same guy then I don’t blame OP. The neighbors who have more privacy in a cul de sac don’t want her kids playing on their cul de sac but then expect their kids to be allowed to cut through her yard twice a day.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a reason “Get off my lawn!” is a meme. You’re a terrible neighbor. Put down pavers and welcome the kids through. Are you the kind of individualistic American who thinks vaccines are a matter of personal choice as well?

Get that fence up by Halloween or get up early to clean the rotten eggs off your siding.

You are a terrible neighbor if you refuse to respect property boundaries.

People who value personal property over community welfare are not my kind of people.

I had this situation when I was growing up- but I was the one cutting through. The neighbors didn’t mind and one of the lawns was my grandparents. There was one neighbor, however- who preferred we stuck to the very edge of the property. So they planted some bushes to keep us in the right path. And probably add some privacy. Eventually those bushes grew so big we wouldn’t have been able to walk through- but we had all grown up by then.

Maybe put out a Trump 2024 campaign sign!

Anonymous wrote:There is a reason “Get off my lawn!” is a meme. You’re a terrible neighbor. Put down pavers and welcome the kids through. Are you the kind of individualistic American who thinks vaccines are a matter of personal choice as well?

Get that fence up by Halloween or get up early to clean the rotten eggs off your siding.

You are a terrible neighbor if you refuse to respect property boundaries.

There is a reason “Get off my lawn!” is a meme. You’re a terrible neighbor. Put down pavers and welcome the kids through. Are you the kind of individualistic American who thinks vaccines are a matter of personal choice as well?

Get that fence up by Halloween or get up early to clean the rotten eggs off your siding.

Anonymous wrote:OP here:
Spoke with the parents over the weekend, explained my concerns and asked that the kids not cut through our yard on a regular basis. I told them I'm ok with it on rare occasions like when kids are running super late or something but it can't be their daily commute plan. One family was apologetic and totally in agreement. The other seemed annoyed but that's not really my problem.

Good job.

Anonymous wrote:Man you sound like a real grinch. And being scared of kids walking on your grass b/c of liability is a real stretch.

Does this guy even know that the side walk in front of his home is also his property but people have write of way to walk and he will be responsible if someone slips and falls due to not clearing the snow. That is why there is liability coverage as part of home owners insurance

Wow. In our neighborhood, we try to look out for all the kids because they’re, you know, kids. You have a really unfriendly neighborhood, OP.

Call the school system and ask for the bus stop to be switched.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t you wish you just built the fence and were done with this drama, OP?

Exactly, now its a thing and there will be bad blood.

Install motion activated sprinklers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You win, OP, and your prize is a new reputation as the biggest wanker in the cul de sac.

I guess you can win the battle and lose the war. These people will probably all be hostile towards OP and exclude her kid(s). That's the risk you take when you go nuclear with something like this. Time will tell if it was worth it to preserve the lawn but alienate the neighbors.

Neighbors that treat other people's property as their cut - through/trespassing path without speaking to the homeowner are the ones who do the alienating.

You can really tell in this thread who does and doesn't teach their kids that they are entitled to other people's property. Time will tell how that works out for you!

Lol i drive my kids. But you have it all figured out!

Don’t you wish you just built the fence and were done with this drama, OP?