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vdp1
Original Poster
517 posts
40 months
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Is it compulsory to have one of these nowadays, every one seems to have one, and I have just acquired mine. My next door neighbour has taken it upon himself to cut my grass. Between us we have a continuous front lawn, no fence or anything dividing it with me owning about 85% of it. However before I bought my house it was empty for about 6 months and this is when he must have started cutting the grass, and just carried on doing it really, makes sense as its not worth getting his mower out to cut his 8sq cm really. Anyway I thought he liked doing it as he is the sort of person that does all this s  t like washing his car every Sunday on the drive. Now if the grass got long I would have cut it myself but it never did so I never bothered. Fast forward to this evening and his wife is outside as I arrive home and she launches into one about how they have been cutting my grass for 2 years without so much as a thankyou and then stormed inside, WTF. I think she was half pissed though. So, should I be eternally grateful or tell her to f k off, I dont like interacting with the general public at all if I can help it.
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rhinochopig
16,050 posts
67 months
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Go round with a nice bottle of wine and an apology. It's not worth falling out and for a tenner it's better to get on with your neighbours IMO.
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Jobless
3,324 posts
88 months
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Have you ever thanked your neighbour for cutting your grass?
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McSam
4,810 posts
44 months
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Brilliant  To be honest, next time you see her outside, I would just go over and say "look, about what you said the other night, I've actually quite appreciated that you always seem to keep the grass well kept on my side as well, and you must have done before I got here too, but it would have seemed quite odd for me to do something like knock on your door just to tell you that! Anyway, thank you, and you needn't feel obliged because I can look after it myself if you prefer." Or something. Not too hard. But more importantly, is she fit?
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schmalex
8,668 posts
75 months
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Or kick her in the sponge.
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Changedmyname
4,736 posts
50 months
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rhinochopig said: Go round with a nice bottle of wine and an apology. It's not worth falling out and for a tenner it's better to get on with your neighbours IMO. This is a nice idea.
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McSam
4,810 posts
44 months
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schmalex said: Or kick her in the sponge. I actually burst out laughing at that 
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VinceFox
14,196 posts
41 months
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say thanks and mean it.
then put a fence up.
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Changedmyname
4,736 posts
50 months
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McSam said: schmalex said: Or kick her in the sponge. I actually burst out laughing at that Me to,but I love the sponge.
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omgus
4,853 posts
44 months
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schmalex said: Or kick her in the sponge. Possibly the funniest advice I've seen on PH this year.
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VinceFox
14,196 posts
41 months
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Changedmyname said: McSam said: schmalex said: Or kick her in the sponge. I actually burst out laughing at that Me to,but I love the sponge. i heard you like the jam too.
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TVR1
2,930 posts
94 months
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Nope, he is not a nutter. He is a chap that wishes to have his surroundings kept in order and pleasant to look at. also, he cut 'your grass' out of his own heart, because it effects you and him. It looks good for both of you yes? why not return the favour and just say 'thank you, I appreciate it' and offer him a little bottle of something. Perhaps this is actually quite a decent neighbour that for example, will be bothered to call the Police when your back door is battered open to nick all of your possessions buy everyone else will think 'oh well, can't be bothered' Just saying, like. 
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goldblum
6,756 posts
36 months
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Thank him for his years of toil and in recompense offer to give his wife a good seeing to because 'he looks like cutting grass is all he's good for'.
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durbster
3,044 posts
91 months
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My neighbour and I have the same type of lawn and roughly alternate cutting it. I'd be pissed off if he didn't. I saw him the other day and he subtly told me it was a bit tough mowing through the blob of clover on my side so I've been out to get some weed and feed today. Also, kick in the sponge = 
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Ray Luxury-Yacht
6,374 posts
85 months
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I moved into a bungalow once with a similar continuous front garden arrangement with next door, like the OP. I'd only been there a week or two, when I went out one morning to find a neatly mowed front lawn! When I finally met him, the next door neighbour was a strange, reclusive man living by himself, with a heavy Scandinavian accent. I thanked him for mowing the lawn, and suggested we did a rota of me doing both lawns, then him, then me etc. and take it in tuns kinda thing. He waved the idea away with a sweep of his hand, and said in sort of accented, broken Engish something like 'noooooo, I do zese lawns here, zese lawns are my job, you not be worrying about ze mowing of zese lawns, ok?' In four years I never mowed 'zese' lawns  Even more terrifyingly, we also had a large shrub growing under the front window too, up to about window sill height. For months at first, I used to look at the shrub and think 'that shrub will grow up over the window soon, and stop us opening the windows - when it starts to do that, I'll have to trim it back.' But it never seemed to grow....then one day when I was out the front, I looked more closely at the top of the shrub, to find neatly trimmed stems! It wasn't growing over the window because the neighbour was also keeping it cut back for me  What I did find bizarre, was that he kept the gardens beautifully trimmed to an almost military standard, and yet the wooden door to his outside cupboard had rotted away so badly, most of the bottom was missing, and it looked horrendous! People. Funny.
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VinceFox
14,196 posts
41 months
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said: I moved into a bungalow once with a similar continuous front garden arrangement with next door, like the OP. I'd only been there a week or two, when I went out one morning to find a neatly mowed front lawn! When I finally met him, the next door neighbour was a strange, reclusive man living by himself, with a heavy Scandinavian accent. I thanked him for mowing the lawn, and suggested we did a rota of me doing both lawns, then him, then me etc. and take it in tuns kinda thing. He waved the idea away with a sweep of his hand, and said in sort of accented, broken Engish something like 'noooooo, I do zese lawns here, zese lawns are my job, you not be worrying about ze mowing of zese lawns, ok?' In four years I never mowed 'zese' lawns Even more terrifyingly, we also had a large shrub growing under the front window too, up to about window sill height. For months at first, I used to look at the shrub and think 'that shrub will grow up over the window soon, and stop us opening the windows - when it starts to do that, I'll have to trim it back.' But it never seemed to grow....then one day when I was out the front, I looked more closely at the top of the shrub, to find neatly trimmed stems! It wasn't growing over the window because the neighbour was also keeping it cut back for me What I did find bizarre, was that he kept the gardens beautifully trimmed to an almost military standard, and yet the wooden door to his outside cupboard had rotted away so badly, most of the bottom was missing, and it looked horrendous! People. Funny. that's the cupboard he kept the carcasses in after he'd harvested their skins for his suits.
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vdp1
Original Poster
517 posts
40 months
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TVR1 said: Nope, he is not a nutter. He is a chap that wishes to have his surroundings kept in order and pleasant to look at. also, he cut 'your grass' out of his own heart, because it effects you and him. It looks good for both of you yes? why not return the favour and just say 'thank you, I appreciate it' and offer him a little bottle of something. Perhaps this is actually quite a decent neighbour that for example, will be bothered to call the Police when your back door is battered open to nick all of your possessions buy everyone else will think 'oh well, can't be bothered' Just saying, like. The thing is I dont appreciate it, I dont really care, I am more that happy to cut it myself. I took my car to the car wash the other day because it was dirty, I didn't wait for him to do it for me. I never get a chance with the grass.
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theshrew
1,495 posts
53 months
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Tell him to move in next to me I hate cutting the grass
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McFsC
404 posts
21 months
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The fact you never get a chance with the grass is surely worth a knock on the door and saying thanks. It saves you a job, right? Stop been so negative and lighten up. 
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BE57 TOY
818 posts
16 months
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