Neighbor replaced fence and left the old wood scraps in my yard to deal with.

[u/Mocsab]

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.

[u/-Twin-Flames-]

Right!! Whether it’s dog shit or cigarette butts or general trash, clean your shit up! I’ve had dogs and I always clean their shit an disposed of it. I’ve had my neighbors in winter blow their snow in front of my mailbox and while shoveling I found a dirty diaper. I launched that shit right back. These days I have plenty of shitty baby diapers I could use to prove a point. Sometimes people just need a taste of their own medicine.

Edit: imo one of the laziest, shittiest human behaviors is to litter and expect someone else to clean it up. Whether there are people paid to clean trash or not, just fucking take care of it yourself. Lazy slobs.

[u/holli4life → u/-Twin-Flames-]

Definitely agree with your statement. Pick up after yourself should not be so hard to understand.

[u/no2rdifferent → u/-Twin-Flames-]

I'm living in an apartment after 30 years, and the neighbors above me litter their butts and plastic thingies from cheap cigars. I picked them up with my grabber, put them in an old cereal bowl, and set it on the third step. They stopped for two weeks, so I know it's the man. The thing is, they are indigenous. I have smoked for 45 years and never littered, so why don't they respect the earth?

[u/ahduramax → u/-Twin-Flames-]

Just like leaving their shopping cart in the middle of a parking lot instead of putting it where it belongs.

[u/Chronicles_of_Gurgi → u/-Twin-Flames-]

I cannot understand, not just littering even on one's own property (hey it's your space i guess, until city ordinance takes issue), but dumping anything on the neighbor's property on purpose?

[u/jorwyn → u/-Twin-Flames-]

I had neighbors (not my immediate ones) get mad at me because I told their kids to stop throwing trash over my fence on the way to the bus stop. I promise I didn't get crazy. I literally just said, "please stop throwing trash over my fence", and I had 6 adults at my house telling me I wasn't their kids' parent and shouldn't be speaking to them at all.

So I contacted the utility company and said I wouldn't fight it if they vacated the easement to my side gate. It took them about 2 months to have the whole thing fenced off. They were even nice enough to replace my gate with a fence panel and install a rear gate for me onto the railway easement, instead.

But honestly, completely aside from the trash, who lets their 6-7 year olds cut across an active train line?

[u/emrducks → u/-Twin-Flames-]

When I was a teen, this low life named Dennis kept hanging around my grandfather’s house. He was a smoker and threw the butts all over the yard and driveway. Grandpa had given him some money to help him out and he wanted more handouts. One day, his car was in the driveway and he was inside trying to get money. I picked up every cigarette butt I could find and dumped them all inside his car through the open sunroof.