My neighbor would like a plate of "mind your own damn business" with a side of "shut your piehole", please.

[Slew Foot]

Maybe he wants to sell his house or something and wants people to think he has nice neighbors.

 

[BoomerD]

Some people just have nothing better to do than to nitpick the neighbors. A few years ago, I was working 6-7 days per week, and with my commute, was putting in 16+ hour days. Needless to say, mowing my yard was the least of mo worries. One of my neighbors came over (hsi wife was the neighborhood "block watch commander" and tried to berate me because my lawn looked pretty shaggy. I told him that if it bothered him so much, he should have his wife come mow it for me. (she mowed thier lawn) Otherwise, he could just shut the fvck up and take his a$$ home and mind his own business...He stormed off in a huff for some unknown reason, and didn't talk to me for months...I wish I'd have known how easy it was to shut him up!!

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Eh... doesn't seem like a big deal to me. If he called the city to get on my ass that would be different. But maybe he is just trying to be friendly because he is bored. I donno...

I wouldnt get upset about it though.

 

[Eos]

I had a truck driving job last year where I brought home the tractor only for 1-3 days every 10-14 days.

At one point while I was on a trip, a neighbor came by and asked my g/f if the truck was going to be parked there all the time. She explained how I was gone most of the time. See, neighbor was trying to sell his house and a semi tractor parked one driveway down for 6-9 days a month was just driving his home value down too far.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Last weekend I was out of town on a short vacation, and when I returned it rained for a couple of days. In short, I didn't get to start mowing my yard until yesterday (which I completed today). Granted, it looked pretty horrendous and the grass was knee deep.

Get your crap together. Last town I lived in, and I must note it was a small poor town, had an ordinace that you'd be fined if your grass was over 6 inches.

There is no excuse for knee deep grass, unless you're raising cattle. I'm going to guess it had been at least a month, but up to 3 months since the last time you mowed it.

 

[BigRigDriver]

Call the lawn patrol & have him thrown in the bush!!!

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: bunker
To the matter at hand, yes, Bob should have said something to you instead of talking to your wife.

Unless I read the first post wrong, Bob did say something to him. He told Bob he was taking care of it. Then he didn't finish the job. You have to understand something - if you put time and money into your lawn, you get a little sensitive about adjoining lawns. Tall grass = snakes, rodents, insects, grass seed, weed seed, higher water usage from ground. You can spend hundreds getting rid of dandelions from your yard, and the shmuck next door can kill your lawn in just a few weeks.

At my last house I knew I couldn't keep up with the lawn, it was too big. So I hired someone to come in with a riding mower every two weeks, problem solved.

 

[tyler811]

My father in law and I were in a debate about this. I told him I would never ever buy a house in a neighborhood where they had a HOA. He started getting pissed and said "If you like the house you will agree to it".


I could not get thru to him that not matter how much I liked the house, I would not buy it if I had to agree to a HOA.
I keep my lawn and yard mowed and trimmed and add a little something extra every spring. I do not care what my nieghbors yard looks like.

 

[CarpeDeo]

Oh the irony . . .

Bob has an issue with you, but isn't man enough to confront you, so he goes to your wife.

Now you have an issue with Bob, but instead of confronting him, you go to ATOT.

 

[Theb]

He was a VP so he might've spent a lot of years worrying about when people were going to finish their work, maybe he's just bored and looking for reasons to ask people for status reports.

heh:

Mayor Mike Dixon posted a sign on the fence around his overgrown lawn. "There are more important things in life than tall grass," it reads. Dixon hasn't mowed his lawn since last year, and has declined offers from neighbors to cut the grass.

LInk

Pic

 

[FoBoT]

say hello to bob for me

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

Head over to his lawn and STE, man.

 

[sunase]

I don't understand what's wrong with asking your wife. The guy noticed you didn't actually do the job after you left, noticed the wife in your yard, and asked her instead. If you had been in the yard after he noticed, he probably would have asked you. I'd actually be more bothered if he came and knocked on the door about something so trivial. Asking someone you see out in the yard seems fine, though.

Also worth noting, my father recently retired and is now interested is the most boring things. This guy could similarly be working on his lawn for hours a day since he has nothing better to do. So asking other people about their lawns wouldn't seem weird to him at all.

 

[alkemyst]

if you have HOA rules against it then RTFM.

if not then they should move to a HOA community.

 

[DainBramaged]

Tell him that since he's being such a good neighbor, go ahead and mow it. Tell him that you prefer that he do it on Tuesday and Saturday.

 

[Raduque]

My aunt was b1tching to my mother a month or so ago about her lawn. Seems she knows somebody that lives in our neighborhood, and my aunt is a "keep up with the jones, and hobknob with everything else that thinks they're important" type, and talked to the person about our lawn being more then a couple inches long. My mom told her, and by extension her friend, to mind their own business.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Is it too much to ask that you mow your lawn? I used to mow one of my neighbor's lawn because he worked in LA, but lived in San Jose, and was never home. He never asked, but once it started to get out of hand, we have such small front-yards, it's nothing big.

 

[daveymark]

WHen Bob asked your wife about trimming the lawn, he wasn't talking about your lawn.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: daveymark
WHen Bob asked your wife about trimming the lawn, he wasn't talking about your lawn.

Especially if it's this Bob.

Seriously though...if you live in a neighborhood regardless of rules, you should keep your property looking at least semi-appealing or get a fence.

I like to run at night, there are a few as$hats that let their trees grow into the sidewalk/bike paths. I just carry a clipper with me (the small hand type, good for up to 3/4"...I can do 1" easy with it though)...and prune them for them. I don't just cut them first chance I get...but if they let them sit for more than a couple weeks I do. I do a nice job at just clearing the path...I don't butcher their trees/plants.

They can try to make something of it with me...it would just justify my exercising

 

[WolverineGator]

So what's the problem? It looks like he's willing to mow for free so I say, let him do it!!! Stop mowing altogether!

For OP and everyone else who has a drab lawn to mow every other week (I mow once every 3 or 4 weeks), consider landscaping. I'm slowly getting rid of grass and converting my yard into something like this:

http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic.php?u=36082DNow&i=946376

This is my parent's neighbor's front yard. Notice something? NO GRASS. His yard looks amazing and the time spent weeding is less than the time you'd spend mowing.

 

[dopcombo]

Originally posted by: WolverineGator
So what's the problem? It looks like he's willing to mow for free so I say, let him do it!!! Stop mowing altogether!

For OP and everyone else who has a drab lawn to mow every other week (I mow once every 3 or 4 weeks), consider landscaping. I'm slowly getting rid of grass and converting my yard into something like this:

http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic.php?u=36082DNow&i=946376

This is my parent's neighbor's front yard. Notice something? NO GRASS. His yard looks amazing and the time spent weeding is less than the time you'd spend mowing.

Is that a pond? Mosquitoes FTW!

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: WolverineGator
So what's the problem? It looks like he's willing to mow for free so I say, let him do it!!! Stop mowing altogether!

For OP and everyone else who has a drab lawn to mow every other week (I mow once every 3 or 4 weeks), consider landscaping. I'm slowly getting rid of grass and converting my yard into something like this:

http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic.php?u=36082DNow&i=946376

This is my parent's neighbor's front yard. Notice something? NO GRASS. His yard looks amazing and the time spent weeding is less than the time you'd spend mowing.

You can look for Arizona landscaping and there are some really nice looking ones without grass. I am heading back out there for another week on business...if my company had a position there for me, I'd move to Mesa.

 

[WolverineGator]

Originally posted by: dopcombo
Is that a pond? Mosquitoes FTW!

You would think that, but mosquitoes aren't a problem for the pond. It's not stagnant, tepid water. Since it's south Florida, mosquitoes come from everywhere else so they're still annoying. There's a stream leading into the pond and the $20,000 of coy fish are ravenous! The photo is of the guy's front yard. The sides and back are similarly landscaped and it takes about 10 minutes of weeding every weekend to keep it up. The plants are all drought tolerant and take less water than a regular lawn.

Here is the view from the front doors and you can just barely make out the truck in the driveway on the right:

http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic.php?u=36082DNow&i=946517

Less yard work, FTW!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: FrozenCanadian
Wow you'd really hate to live in my neighborhood then. My crazy neighbor will call the cops, city and landlord if my grass is over 3 inches long. I'm not exaggerating either.

:|

I'd move.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: daveymark
WHen Bob asked your wife about trimming the lawn, he wasn't talking about your lawn.

hahaha