Neighbor Laughed When A Homeowner Asked Him To Blow Leaves Toward The Curb, So He Left Eight Bags In Front Of His House
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Autumn is supposed to be the season of cozy sweaters and apple cider, not property line warfare.
One homeowner learned that when his neighbor’s three huge maples started shedding, and the neighbor started blowing the whole mess onto his treeless lawn each Saturday morning.
The neighbor had a free path to the curb for city pickup and chose the homeowner’s yard instead.
After a year of raking in silence, the homeowner finally asked him to blow the leaves toward the street, and the neighbor laughed him off.
That’s when the homeowner picked up his rake, filled eight paper yard bags, and lined them up at the neighbor’s front curb, exactly where he’d asked the leaves to go.
You’ll want to keep reading for this one.
Neighbor blows all his leaves into my yard, now says I’m dumping trash on him
The guy next door has 3 huge maple trees, and I don’t have a single tree in my front yard.
One day, the homeowner’s neighbor picked up a rather annoying habit.
The last couple of Saturdays, around 8 in the morning, he’s taken out his leaf blower and blown everything from his yard across the line into mine instead of out toward the curb where the city picks them up.
He did the same thing last fall, and I honestly just raked them up because I didn’t want to start something with a neighbor.
Finally, all the goodwill dried up.
This year, I went over and asked him nicely to blow them to the curb instead.
He just laughed and said, “Leaves don’t know property lines.” Then he went right back to blowing them onto my lawn.
So yet again, the homeowner was forced to pick up the slack.
So last weekend, I raked up everything he blew over. It filled 8 of the big paper yard bags, and I lined them all up at the curb in front of his house, which is exactly where I’d asked him to put them.
The neighbor started making threats.
That evening, he came over yelling that I was dumping trash in front of his house and that he was going to call the police. I told him to go ahead, because I have him on my doorbell camera blowing EVERY one of those leaves into my yard.
Leaf pickup doesn’t start until the 15th, so the bags are still sitting at his curb.
His wife thinks he should just bite the bullet, but she isn’t the one forced to clean them all up.
My wife thinks I should’ve just raked like last year to keep the peace, but it’s going to be like this every weekend until December.
What would you do?
This situation would break even the most patient homeowner.
What did Reddit have to say?
Leaves weren’t the only thing blowing back in this neighbor’s face.
Turning the other cheek has its limits.
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This user shares a similar experience.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a homeowner who doesn’t care whether or not their neighbors hate their yard flamingos, because they aren’t subject to the HOA.
This commenter shares what they’d do.
A neighbor who says leaves don’t know property lines has told you exactly how much he cares about other people’s boundaries.
Calling the police over eight bags of his own maple leaves is an interesting plan for a man who’s been caught on camera aiming a leaf blower at someone else’s lawn.
There’s something to be said for keeping the peace, but when peace only runs one direction, it’s time to get serious about standing up for your own interests.
Boundaries are a two-way street.
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