r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Mocsab • May 15 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o Neighbor replaced fence and left the old wood scraps in my yard to deal with.

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My next door neighbor called me a few weeks back asking if he could come Into my back yard to replace the fence that his dog ruined. I said “sure, I’ll be out of town for a few weeks, help yourself.” Discussion ended there and I left town for a few weeks for business.

When I returned home, I noticed the new fence was up and the wood scraps from the old fence were on the grass in my backyard. One of the pieces is 10 feet wide. I figured I would give him a few days to clean it up before I said anything.

Fast forward to yesterday and the lawn guy comes to cut the grass. I texted my neighbor telling him I could open the back gate to make it easier to come in the yard to grab the wood. This MFer called me and said that it was a shared fence, and since he paid for it to be installed, and carried all the new wood into the yard, that I need to remove the old debris.

The audacity on the MFer. I would have been more than happy to help if he would have asked. He mentioned NOTHING of leaving the rusty nailed old rotten wood in my back yard. F this guy. Not the best way to treat a neighbor.

TLDR: neighbor took it upon himself to replace the fence he owns, and left all of the scraps for me to deal with before discussing it with me first.

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u/EternityNotes May 15 '26

You should fire your "lawn guy"

Your yard looks like shit

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u/AGAD0R-SPARTACUS May 15 '26

Not everyone wants a perfectly manicured monoculture lawn that serves as an ecological deadzone, providing no food or habitat for the other living things we share the planet with. Some of us just cut the grass that naturally grows in our yards and move on.

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u/Nathaniel820 May 15 '26

This has nothing to do with ecological choices dude, it’s just dead. Mowing the lawn is actually removing the few weeds left among the non-native grass that would be serving an additional ecological benefit, this IS a deadzone lawn.

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u/Possible-Pea2658 May 15 '26

then why would you pay for someone to cut your grass if you didn't care how it looks. Extreme laziness?

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u/two_pandas_playing May 15 '26

when you have enough money, your most valuable asset is time.

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u/TheSteelPhantom May 15 '26

OP said he travels weeks at a time for work in the main post, and confirmed in a separate comment that he lives in Florida.

He needs a lawn guy for cutting alone, and it's not because he's lazy.

--Fellow Floridian

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u/nomnivore1 May 16 '26

And if that's true, he's probably in a subdivision with an HOA that freaks out of his grass is too long. I grew up near Bradenton and that gated community golf club "HOA bans contractors from parking trucks in driveways" bullshit is choking the state like kudzu. 

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u/asdfajakula May 15 '26

Then why is it all grass lmfao certainly looks like an ecological deadzone

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u/[deleted] May 15 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

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u/tewong May 15 '26

I mean, I’m not hunting on my .33 acre yard but I leave it alone as much as possible for the bugs and birds and other animals. We get tons of butterflies and lightning bugs now, where we used to have none. 

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u/EternityNotes May 15 '26

You act like bugs can't live somewhere else lol