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Someone is mowing my front lawn?

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  • #32
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,433 ✭✭✭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 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 Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 5,862 ✭✭✭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 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: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


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

    I didn't do nothin 🀨


  • #38
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 35,610 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    At least offer her a glass of water



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  • #40
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭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 Posts: 51,111 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


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  • #42
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 11,042 ✭✭✭✭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: 0 ✭ [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 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 Posts: 130 ✭✭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: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


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


  • #48
    JustJoe7240
    Registered Users Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Hilaroius thread. Loved the laugh.


  • #50
    Muppet Man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭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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  • #52
    Man with broke phone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Man with broke phone


    Remember when we used to say someone is cutting the grass in my front garden.

    Back when the whole western world wasnt one big samey corportate existence, where people travel to see the exact same thing in every city jn the world.

    Mowing the lawn me hole.


  • #53
    Man with broke phone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Man with broke phone


    O, I know how to sort this.

    Get a goat.


  • #54
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    I actually see this as case of this is our hood and you're only a new fish.

    Know your place.


  • #55
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    In Soviet Russia..............


  • #56
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,756 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Why is this neighbour wantonly destroying your bee friendly, wild flower meadow?

    I'd sue fcuker.


  • #57
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,002 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Be ploughing your wife next...

    Not your ornery onager



  • #58
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,666 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    touts wrote: »
    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.

    So I guess you're not on board with the All Ireland Pollinator Plan.

    You may get a surprise when the council doesn't cut until very late next summer.


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    All Ireland Pollinator plan. Jaysus they’ve a lot to be at.


  • #60
    Uthur
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭Uthur


    Esel wrote: »
    Be ploughing your wife next...

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7IF-o32452A


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  • #61
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,661 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    My neighbour used to mow the grass for me (it's a 15/20ft triangle of grass) when he was doing his own and would never take a cent for it - total gentleman (especially as I'm renting and don't have a shed - or back garden to put it in! It's an end of terrace house that might as well be an apartment)

    He's since moved :( so I had to bite the bullet and buy a small hover mower that lives in its box in the kitchen. Only takes about 20 minutes to do though.


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