Well, the woman in this story doesn’t sound very neighborly…

In fact, she actually sounds pretty rude!

Her neighbor posted a story on Reddit and asked if she did anything wrong when she asked her for a favor.

Check out what happened!

AITA for asking my neighbor to move her Halloween decoration away from the curb?

“About 2 weeks ago I (33F) asked my neighbor, who I’ll call Maria, to move her animatronic axe wielding zombie a little further from the sidewalk.

She has a point…

She has it RIGHT on her property line, to the point where when I walk my dogs I have to walk into the middle of the road or just cross in order to stop it from triggering; you can be as far to the curb as possible and even on the side of the road where cars park and the thing still goes off.

There are two problems with this:

1. My bigger dog is pretty anxious, so between the axe chopping motion, the thing jolting forward, and the sudden cackle it’s really triggering for him and makes him hard to handle.

While I fully recognize my dog is my own problem, we live on a busy 4 lane road and it’s pretty impossible to safely walk in the middle of it unless it’s really late. Crossing obviously comes with the same problem.

2. No one else can avoid it either. We live on a long block between a park and a big K-12 school, so with legions of children marching past during their staggered dismissal times from ~2:30-4, the thing is going off CONSTANTLY.

And it sounds dangerous!

You can even see the kids walking at the far edge the parking lane close to fast-moving traffic to avoid it themselves, but that’s not far enough for this particular demon.

So, a couple of weeks ago Maria was outside while I was walking the dogs and we were waiting for a break in traffic to make our sprint across, and she said something along the lines of “it’s so hard to cross the street in the mornings,” and I took my opening.

Calmly, as we’ve always had a nice relationship, I said “yeah it’s a pain. I had actually been wondering if there’s any chance you could move your animatronic guy a little further back from the curb because I can’t walk by it without triggering it and it makes it really hard to handle [my bigger dog’s name].”

Obviously somewhat paraphrasing since this was weeks ago but again, I’ve always liked Maria and I’m pretty conflict avoidant so I’m confident I was both nice and all I asked was for her to move it back.

Uh oh…

She just stared at me like I was an alien for a minute and then laughed and turned her back and walked back into her house.

Well, last weekend she added two new ones to the curb: a grim reaper thing that jumps forward and a skeleton that makes noise and moves its arms.

They don’t really make a difference since we’re already in the habit of making the death run across, but this morning I was chatting with another one of our neighbors, Angela, and mentioned I think Maria put the new decorations up in retaliation.

Angela confirmed that she did, that Maria had told her I was being a ***** and a “Karen”, and I guess she thought it would be funny to make my dog react even worse?

So yeah I know Maria is an ******* for handling it this way. But I’m anxious, did I really cross a line? I’m genuinely not sure if asking her was an ******* move and if I should be the bigger person and go apologize.

AITA?”

Here’s what people had to say on Reddit.

This person shared their thoughts.

Another individual spoke up.

This reader said she’s NTA.

Another individual chimed in.

And this person also said she’s NTA.

Her neighbor sounds like she’s not the easiest person in the world to deal with…

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