His Rude Neighbors Demanded He Tear Down His Brand-New Backyard Shed—So He Told Them It’s Not Moving an Inch
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Isn’t it amazing how some people think they can tell other folks how to live their lives?
It’s even more incredible when they try to pull this act on another person’s property…
Are you kidding me?!?!
Yes, friends, it’s all true…
Check out what this guy had to say about some neighbors who are trying to dictate what goes on in his own backyard.
Entitled Neighbors.
“We moved into our house about the same time our next door neighbors moved into theirs.
We tried to be good neighbors, but they always thought they were better than us.
We live in New England, so we bought a little Toro snowblower, about 18 inches wide, to clear the snow from our short driveway and the sidewalk.
Our town requires that sidewalks must be cleared within 24 hours of snowfall.
He did most of the work clearing the snow.
My wife worked in a nearby city, so I would go out early with her to clear the cars. Then, because she had to be at work before I did, I would do the sidewalk and the driveway with our little Toro.
One morning, after a big snowstorm, I was really running late, trying to get everything clean. One of the neighbors was out with her snow shock trying to clear the end of her driveway after the plow had gone by.
When I came to the end of our part of the sidewalk, the little Toro had only cleared half of it, and I was going to clear the other part on the way back to the driveway.
Okay…
When I turned around to start the second part of the process, my neighbor began to yell at me because I didn’t clean up her driveway. “I have to get to work,” she said.
I said that I was sorry, but I was running late to work also and had to go back to clean the end of my driveway.
She insisted it would only take me a few minutes to do their driveway for them.
I politely refused again, and she threw what my mother would call “a little mad fit.”
The problems only continued from there.
That was only the beginning.
There were numerous other incidents, but the final straw in realizing how entitled they saw themselves came when we put in a shed in our backyard.
Our backyard.
Oh, hell no!
They had an above ground pool in their backyard, a good 40 feet from our property line.
The day after our new shed was installed, the Karen (yes, that really was her name) actually came over and asked me to have the shed moved, because it blocked her view of the trees in the neighborhood when she was relaxing in her pool.
I was dumbfounded, just looked at her for a couple of minutes and then told her very nicely that it had cost us a lot of money to buy the shed and have it installed in that spot.
That was the final straw…for the neighbor.
My wife is serious gardener and needed a place near the gardens to store her tools.
So I told Karen the shed was where it would stay.
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That was pretty much the end of our neighborliness.
They moved to a more upscale neighborhood the following year.”
Let’s take a look at what readers had to say about this on Reddit.
This person weighed in.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a home buyer who was surprised to learn his neighbors were upset about him removing a fence.
And another Reddit user nailed it.
Yeah, he can’t give these folks an inch or he’ll never stop getting harassed by them.
The nerve of some people…
With neighbors like this, who needs neighbors at all!
These neighbors aren’t gonna be borrowing sugar from each other any time soon…
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