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Someone is mowing my front lawn?

  • 29-08-2020 7:59pm
    #1
    JustJoe7240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭JustJoe7240


    As the title reads, recently moved in to a house that has been empty for some time, so in that time I imagine the lawn got quite over grown and unsightly, so it would appear someone decided to maintain it under their own steam.Im living in the house about 6 weeks and in that time, this good Samaritan has continued to mow the lawn. I haven't caught them in the act due to long working hours, social commitments etc, How you the boards community react to this behavior falling short of knocking on doors asking "are you mowing my lawn"? While I really do appreciate the gesture, it's quite embarrassing


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  • #2
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #3
    Jb1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    JustJoe7240 wrote: »
    As the title reads, recently moved in to a house that has been empty for some time, so in that time I imagine the lawn got quite over grown and unsightly, so it would appear someone decided to maintain it under their own steam.Im living in the house about 6 weeks and in that time, this good Samaritan has continued to mow the lawn. I haven't caught them in the act due to long working hours, social commitments etc, How you the boards community react to this behavior falling short of knocking on doors asking "are you mowing my lawn"? While I really do appreciate the gesture, it's quite embarrassing

    Just mow the lawn yourself a few days quicker than this person usually does and they'll get the message.


  • #4
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    JustJoe7240 wrote: »
    As the title reads, recently moved in to a house that has been empty for some time, so in that time I imagine the lawn got quite over grown and unsightly, so it would appear someone decided to maintain it under their own steam.Im living in the house about 6 weeks and in that time, this good Samaritan has continued to mow the lawn. I haven't caught them in the act due to long working hours, social commitments etc, How you the boards community react to this behavior falling short of knocking on doors asking "are you mowing my lawn"? While I really do appreciate the gesture, it's quite embarrassing

    By thankful you have good neighbours.

    Check who cuts the areas outside the houses in the estate, probably them, and just say thanks. Or keep it cut yourself.


  • #5
    antix80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭antix80


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Just mow the lawn yourself a few days quicker than this person usually does and they'll get the message.

    This seems to be the obvious solution! It was probably an eyesore while the house was vacant.


  • #6
    kravmaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭kravmaga


    Get up off your arse and start cutting the grass yourself.

    Stop using excuses, it does not take that long to cut a lawn.


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  • #7
    Salvatore Fast Scholar
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Salvatore Fast Scholar


    I wouldn't open me gob.


  • #8
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Leave a note duh!


  • #9
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    kravmaga wrote: »
    Get up off your arse and start cutting the grass yourself.

    Stop using excuses, it does not take that long to cut a lawn.

    But what if OP gets a ride on?


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Happy4all wrote: »
    By thankful you have good neighbours.

    Check who cuts the areas outside the houses in the estate, probably them, and just say thanks. Or keep it cut yourself.

    They're probably laying claim to it. Never trust a neighbour.


  • #11
    randy hickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    You're lucky you didn't post this in the Legal forum - by this point somebody would be warning you that The Phantom Grass Cutter is simply trying to lay claim to the property using Adverse Possession!!

    P.S. Does he secretly trim your bush too?


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  • #12
    Beltby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 253 ✭✭Beltby


    My mother has a house in Wexford and regularly mows the neighbours lawn out the front. There's no fence or anything and it's very small. It probably takes 2 minutes to do both lawns.


  • #13
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    They're probably laying claim to it. Never trust a neighbour.
    randy hickey wrote: »
    You're lucky you didn't post this in the Legal forum - by this point somebody would be warning you that The Phantom Grass Cutter is simply trying to lay claim to the property using Adverse Possession!!

    P.S. Does he secretly trim your bush too?

    :)


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    SlowMotion321 wrote: »
    :)

    :cool:


  • #15
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Are they doing a good job?


  • #16
    bobbyy gee
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭bobbyy gee


    Maybe it's a leprechaun mowing grass


  • #17
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,086 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Say nothing and be grateful.


    Light a candle for them each yime it gets done


    Give a donation to a local charity.


  • #18
    JustJoe7240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭JustJoe7240


    kravmaga wrote: »
    Get up off your arse and start cutting the grass yourself.

    Stop using excuses, it does not take that long to cut a lawn.

    I'm confused, what excuses am I making?


  • #19
    JustJoe7240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭JustJoe7240


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Just mow the lawn yourself a few days quicker than this person usually does and they'll get the message.

    You're right, I must get a lawnmower, I'd also like to thank this person all the same.


  • #20
    un5byh7sqpd2x0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    Make sure they are doing the back passage too


  • #21
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Hi Boardsies,

    I recently moved into my house. I've discovered that I am surrounded by very helpful neighbours, with a wonderful community spirit. In the limbo between signing for the house and taking possession, these wonderful neighbours have taken it upon themeselves to maintain my front garden. Instead of moving into messy weed filled overgrown garden, it has been lovingly tended in my absence. How delighted I am.
    I'm considering making a lovely cake and bringing it round to the person who has continued to mow my lawn while I get settled in - which is taking a while due to my long working hours. Its great to discover such wonderful people living beside me.

    Any suggestions as to how I can completely fnck this up? ?

    :pac::pac::D:D:D

    Hey OP, be delighted with your new neighbours, a friendly overture is probably a good start - that's what they've done. Don't be put out by this, embrace it. Its a very good beginning.

    Good luck in your new house, sounds like you've struck gold.


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  • #22
    kravmaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭kravmaga


    JustJoe7240 wrote: »
    You're right, I must get a lawnmower, I'd also like to thank this person all the same.

    Working long hours and social life??? Rubbish excuse.

    I work long hours and I still have time to cut my front and back lawns


  • #23
    antix80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭antix80


    kravmaga wrote: »
    Working long hours and social life??? Rubbish excuse.

    I work long hours and I still have time to cut my front and back lawns

    Do you use a razor or clippers?


  • #24
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,603 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    JustJoe7240 wrote: »
    You're right, I must get a lawnmower, I'd also like to thank this person all the same.

    Just buy a bottle of whisky and leave it in a bag just inside the front door.

    When you eventually meet your benefactor thank them profusely and hand over the whisky saying you will take over now.


  • #25
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭COVID


    I cut your lawn.
    Son, we live in a world that has lawns, and those lawns have to be cut by men and women with lawnmowers. Who's gonna do it? You?
    I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom.

    I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps overlooking the smooth lawn that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a lawnmower and do it yourself.


  • #26
    auspicious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,497 ✭✭✭auspicious


    Leave a note.
    Asking would they mind doing the back aswell?


  • #27
    JustJoe7240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭JustJoe7240


    kravmaga wrote: »
    Working long hours and social life??? Rubbish excuse.

    I work long hours and I still have time to cut my front and back lawns

    I never suggested I don't have time to cut my own lawn. I merely noted that I have yet to catch the kind stranger due to aforementioned "excuses".

    You appear to have some lawn related chip on your shoulder. Care to talk about it?


  • #28
    pinktoe
    Registered Users Posts: 223 ✭✭pinktoe


    Leave a large flower pot or object in the lawn with an envelope and €50 and a note in it. When he moves the flowerpot he will find it.

    If you dont want to buy a mower, maybe you could offer him a hundred or two a year depending on size. It could be a retired person, happy to waste 20min or so.


  • #29
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,281 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Have they trimmed your bush too?


  • #30
    893bet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,163 ✭✭✭893bet


    Get a horse and tie it to tree outside to keep the grass down. Neighbours will love that kinda of thing.


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  • #31
    Cloudio9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭Cloudio9


    kravmaga wrote: »
    Working long hours and social life??? Rubbish excuse.

    I work long hours and I still have time to cut my front and back lawns

    That’s because you don’t have a social life.


  • #32
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    JustJoe7240 wrote: »
    As the title reads, recently moved in to a house that has been empty for some time, so in that time I imagine the lawn got quite over grown and unsightly, so it would appear someone decided to maintain it under their own steam.Im living in the house about 6 weeks and in that time, this good Samaritan has continued to mow the lawn. I haven't caught them in the act due to long working hours, social commitments etc, How you the boards community react to this behavior falling short of knocking on doors asking "are you mowing my lawn"? While I really do appreciate the gesture, it's quite embarrassing

    Nothing brings an area down faster than a house with unkept overgrown front gardens especially in summer when the grass and weed growth is full on. My bet is the last owner did nothing when it was empty and out of frustration the neighbours started cutting it themselves. Now they don't know what you are like so are afraid to stop. Ask around and find out who is doing it and thank them.


  • #33
    randy hickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    893bet wrote: »
    Get a horse and tie it to tree outside to keep the grass down. Neighbours will love that kinda of thing.

    Yes. A clothes horse.


  • #34
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    Throw a few scrap cars and a deckchair on the lawn to show that you mean business and deserve respect in the neighborhood, and will do as you damm well please with your own half acre.
    You know yourself that no man should mow another man's lawn without permission, that's how rumours get started.


  • #35
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    Op - you are lucky, my nextdoor neighbour came out with a steel file and threatened to kick the sh1t out of me for daring to cut the grass verge outside his house, while I was doing mine.

    I have actually started to leave mine grow over to highlight he's a midget dicked knob end who'd do his but not mine.

    fuc[in prick.


  • #36
    guitarhappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭guitarhappy


    Funny you should mention... someone's been trimming my beard whilst I'm sleeping. I wake up in the morning and it's just a little bit shorter. If it's your neighbor please ask him to do a better job on the moustache left side.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,369 ✭ [Deleted User]


    bobbyy gee wrote: »
    Maybe it's a leprechaun mowing grass

    I didn't do nothin 🀨


  • #38
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭COVID


    guitarhappy wrote: »
    Funny you should mention... someone's been trimming my beard whilst I'm sleeping. I wake up in the morning and it's just a little bit shorter. If it's your neighbor please ask him to do a better job on the moustache left side.

    It's probably your husband.


  • #39
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,459 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    At least offer her a glass of water



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  • #40
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,004 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    WTF is your problem here OP.

    I know it is another Saturday night in the Covid era, but what?

    Send the neighbour a box of chocs or a bottle of whiskey. You don't know you were born.


  • #41
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,295 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


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  • #42
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭trashcan


    COVID wrote: »
    I cut your lawn.
    Son, we live in a world that has lawns, and those lawns have to be cut by men and women with lawnmowers. Who's gonna do it? You?
    I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom.

    I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps overlooking the smooth lawn that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a lawnmower and do it yourself.

    You can't handle the lawnmower !!


  • #43
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,776 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Pretty sure this was in an episode of A Country Practice.

    Mrs.Watson had the same problem.
    Turns out it was Cookie early in the morning.

    Ring Frank just to be sure.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,369 ✭ [Deleted User]


    It's terrible op.

    Some bitch keeps leaving me dinner in the microwave when I'm on a late shift


  • #45
    blindside88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    Op I’d imagine they’ve continued to cut it as you’ve been there 6 weeks and haven’t cut it yourself. At this time of year that’s be serious growth. I’d agree with your idea of getting a lawnmower and starting cutting it yourself.

    If you want to thank the kind soul that has been keeping it looking well I’d suggest asking your closest neighbour, they will likely have seen someone doing it in the time it was for sale.


  • #46
    Nickla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Nickla


    i would check with the residents association - when we moved into our estate there was a few empty houses and the RA decided to include empty houses in the grass keeping to keep the whole estate looking well -


  • #47
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Are you mowing it while blind drunk and forgetting you did it?


  • #48
    JustJoe7240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭JustJoe7240


    Nickla wrote: »
    i would check with the residents association - when we moved into our estate there was a few empty houses and the RA decided to include empty houses in the grass keeping to keep the whole estate looking well -

    A groundskeeper comes in on a Sunday and does the green and common areas, but it's not these lads


  • #49
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,004 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Hilaroius thread. Loved the laugh.


  • #50
    Muppet Man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Muppet Man


    I regularly cut my 3 neighbors lawns and the paths outside their houses when I am doing my own. Only takes an extra 20 mins - it’s nice to be nice. Not much in the line reciprocation though :(

    MM


  • #51
    JustJoe7240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭JustJoe7240


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Hilaroius thread. Loved the laugh.

    Glad you're in better humour now, you seemed pretty irate when you posted an hour ago!


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