One of the golden rules is “love thy neighbor.”

But if your neighbor is rude and unfriendly, it can be difficult to obey this commandment.

Well, not for this OP.

His neighbor complained about their discolored pathway and told him to clean it up impolitely, and so he did exactly what they wanted.

Read the full story below.

You want me to clean your side path? No problem.

So a few years ago, I was helping to lay a new concrete driveway at my mother’s house.

Some of the runoff water ran into the neighbour’s side pathway, leaving a slight discolouration.

A simple wash would have removed this, but the neighbour complained, and told us we had to clean it up.

Now, this is fair enough, but they weren’t very polite in asking us about it, especially when we had no idea it had happened. Anyway, I agreed to clean the path for them.

OP started cleaning.

So, I got out the power washer, and started at the front of the house.

This path has not been cleaned in a LONG time, so the power washer was making a noticeable difference.

Up the path, I went doing a very thorough job of getting all the years of grime off, including the slight concrete slurry from our work.

I continued up to the point where the runoff started, and then I stopped.

Their pathway now looks weird.

I left a perfectly etched line that really made it obvious just how filthy the path was before I washed it.

Up it went, all the way up the side of the house, plain to see.

I’d cleaned up every last bit of concrete runoff, and made that pathway shine, until it didn’t.

But they couldn’t complain because OP just did his job.

They couldn’t really complain as it wasn’t my job to clean the entire path, and I had cleaned up all the concrete runoff as agreed.

My mother doesn’t get along with them at all, so she was happy with the result even though she didn’t originally want me to clean it for them.

What can you say about this? Let’s see other Reddit users’ reactions.

This user thinks this is a great line.

When you’re obsessive-compulsive…

This one thinks a regular hose should be enough.

A downvote for this user.

Aww… this comment makes me happy.

Maybe if they’d asked nicely, he would have cleaned the entire pathway!

This is why it pays to be nice.

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