New Neighbors Complained About His Farm—So He Stopped Plowing Their Driveway for Them
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Be careful what you ask for; you just might get it.
What would you do if you regularly plowed all the neighbors’ driveways early in the morning just to be nice, but one neighbor who was always complaining told you to stop doing it at 5 AM?
That is what happened to the person in this story, so of course they stopped plowing their driveway (while still doing it for the rest of the neighborhood). The upset neighbor quickly realized that he still had to wake up to plow his own driveway in order to get to work.
The neighbor clearly didn’t think things through before complaining, which is pretty funny. Read the full story below and see what you think.
Short and Sweet: City folk come at the farmer
I grew up on a dairy farm, struggling every day 365 to help my family live.
They knew they were moving in next to a farm; what did they expect?
About 10 years in, the farmers land next to us has a single house built onto a small plot near the irrigation riser, and a younger family from the city moves in for a quiet life in the country.
Over the next year, the cops are at our place a dozen times about smell complaints, noise complaints (work started at 5am, tractors and all), and other complaints about anything this family could think of, basically trying to get us shut down for existing outside the bounds of their imagined country life.
What a nice thing to do for the neighbors.
In the winter, my dad would drive our tractor around to all the neighbors houses on our mile and dig the snow out of their driveways so they could drive to work.
This was a a costly and time consuming endeavor, but one of the main things a farmer can do to gain praise and feel good every day.
Honestly, that is reasonable. Skipping this neighbor is no big deal at all.
Well, about three weeks into winter, this guy from the new house shows up at our door asking us to not do his driveway so early in the morning because it was waking him up.
My dad explained he had to do it at 5am because he did it before he started the other chores that took hours. The neighbor insisted he do it later, or not at all.
Well, this didn’t go as the neighbor had planned.
That was the last time my dad did his drive.
Turns out, you have to wake up about 5am to use your snowblower to dig out your own car if you want to get to work on time.
It seems like the neighbor did not think things through very well.
Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about it.
So many people do this exact thing.
Now this would be annoying.
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People are just crazy.
Wow, this is just over the top.
Why move to a new area and try to turn it into the place where you came from? This just doesn’t make any sense.
If you move to the country from the city, but you hate country life, that is on you. Don’t expect everyone else to change.
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