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12-23-2009, 06:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | neighbor wants me to rake my leaves again
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So, My neighbor across the street wants me to rake again. I raked 2 weeks ago. He is retired and spends 4-6 hours a day on the porch or in his yard working. I don't care that much about the yard. And advice on how to handle the situation?
Jonathan
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12-23-2009, 06:23 PM
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12-23-2009, 06:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Moorpark CA | | | Is there some HOA rule that says you have to rake?
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12-23-2009, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by JonathanD  So, My neighbor across the street wants me to rake again. I raked 2 weeks ago. He is retired and spends 4-6 hours a day on the porch or in his yard working. I don't care that much about the yard. And advice on how to handle the situation?
Jonathan | A little physical labor never killed anybody, rake your yard and try to take a little pride in your house. |
12-23-2009, 06:38 PM
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12-23-2009, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Gress Rake it into words. Be creative. | This. That last time I raked I made the leaves into a simile face. It's probably my greatest accomplishment.
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12-23-2009, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by MadMan118 A little physical labor never killed anybody, rake your yard and try to take a little pride in your house. | Are you the neighbor?
Washers, dryers and 74 Ford Mavericks are a problem. Leaves? Time to find a new hobby.
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12-23-2009, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike Tell him to **** off? | this  |
12-23-2009, 06:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | | Depends how bad the yard looks. If you have a few scattered leaves, and he's just a tool, I say leave it. It your yard is pretty covered, yeah, clean it up.
Or get yourself a leafblower, and blow them all into his yard.
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12-23-2009, 06:48 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | | | tell him that he is not your boss and if he wants to continue this good neighborly relationhip he will need to mind his own business. or you can just write S T F U in leaves. 
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12-23-2009, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by mike_v_s Are you the neighbor?
Washers, dryers and 74 Ford Mavericks are a problem. Leaves? Time to find a new hobby.
Mike | What, just bacause im al lfor doing a little work on your own home, im the bad guy? |
12-23-2009, 06:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: IL | | | you should spell out "owned". but do it in his yard with your leaves.
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12-23-2009, 06:51 PM
| | | | As an environmental educator, I would suggest to him politely that the leaf litter mother nature provides every year has a very important purpose, removing it is simply not sound logic.
As an American, I would tell him to eff himself, and then I would do what I can to make it look worse.
Then again, one of my favorite acts of environmental terrorism is to drive through neighborhoods with the pretty, plastic, chemical soaked lawns and hold dandelions out the window and do my best to seed the entire subdivision. |
12-23-2009, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by chondro776 As a total jerk of a neighbor, I would tell him to eff himself, and then I would do what I can to make it look worse.
Then again, one of my favorite acts of environmental terrorism is to drive through neighborhoods with the pretty, plastic, chemical soaked lawns and hold dandelions out the window and do my best to seed the entire subdivision. | Yeah, I fixed that for ya.
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12-23-2009, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Ziltoid this | Yeah.... I'm not a complicated fellow at all.
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12-23-2009, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by TrooperFarva
Or get yourself a leafblower, and blow them all into his yard.
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12-23-2009, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by MadMan118 A little physical labor never killed anybody, rake your yard and try to take a little pride in your house. | He already raked, though. His neighbor sounds anal retentive by asking him to do it again. |
12-23-2009, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by chondro776 As an environmental educator, I would suggest to him politely that the leaf litter mother nature provides every year has a very important purpose, removing it is simply not sound logic. | I did try this approach. I am kind of of the same mind as you. Let nature bas as much as possible.
No HMO here. Just a lower middle class area in Atlanta. I rent. There is little grass in the yard anyway. More algae than grass. Yard is 30% covered. I think I will have to just tell him no next time. I just hope it doesn't turn into a pissing match of some sort. He is one of many 10-30 year residents in this neighborhood, and I am the odd man out.
I guess I'll go over in the morning when I see him out again and let him know I don't care. Also, 3 of my 5 neighbors sweep their driveway every week. All retired people.
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12-23-2009, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by MadMan118 What, just bacause im al lfor doing a little work on your own home, im the bad guy? | Nah, but the implication that he's lazy and doesn't take pride in his house didn't help. Personally, I like the fallen leaves in my front yard. It gives it a seasonal look I don't get all the time. Physical labor? I've done enough in my lifetime to know that raking leaves doesn't count.
As for my response to the neighbor, I'd be more polite...unless he decides to bring it up again and then the leaves get raked into the shape of a middle finger.
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12-23-2009, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by mike_v_s Nah, but the implication that he's lazy and doesn't take pride in his house didn't help. Personally, I like the fallen leaves in my front yard. It gives it a seasonal look I don't get all the time. Physical labor? I've done enough in my lifetime to know that raking leaves doesn't count.
As for my response to the neighbor, I'd be more polite...unless he decides to bring it up again and then the leaves get raked into the shape of a middle finger.
Mike | Alright look once a week is fine, it the nebighor wants it done every day than yeah theres a problem. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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