Letters to the Editor
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LW Do NOT let it go
When you turn the other cheek, that cheek ALSO gets slapped.
Better than physical action, figure out some way to get into the MINBY bitch's head.
"Don't get mad, get even".lol
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My typo up there ^^^^^^^^
NIMBY
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This Won't End Here
Although I am generally a “turn the other check” type of person, I do agree with those who feel that if the elderly neighbor and her son are offended by this shrub invasion action should be taken. This week Ritzy Neighbor had neighborhood beautification issues. Next week it will be a barking dog. Then it will be the kids playing in the street. I can say with some certainty that this will never stop. I have a close friend with a neighbor like this and the complaints culminated with threats of calling the police over a handicap accessible bus parking in front of a another neighbor’s house to allow that person’s child to go to school (she is in a motorized wheelchair).
If at all possible, maybe shrubs could be donated to community organization that needs landscaping materials. In fact they should be donated in Ritzy’s name so that the whole community could appreciate her generosity. Regardless, I hope that your neighborhood can once again become a “live and let live” sanctuary.
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Oh no what you NEED in your yard...
..in addition to the comfy sofa on the porch and the garden gnones, is the old toilet planter. Great planter! Drains great! And don't forget to get some old tires, paint them white, and use those for planters too..or paint the tires to match your house trim if you really want to go up-town....
De-gentrification....
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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything!
You have to fight for those who can't fight for themselves.
LW, in the dead of night, you and your husband should go pull up those plants, tap down the ground, and save the plants in your backyard until the son comes home.
Then I'd take one of those plants and dig up the snotty neighbors yard and plant one plant right in the middle of it. That will teach her to get in somebody's business. I know its asking a lot of you, but please do this. I wish I were in your town 'cause I'd be willing to go do it myself!
We live in a free country, and I absolutely hate that this poor Black lady, aside from feeling just awful about her own home, she also has to deal with a daily reminder from a @sshole neighbor that she isn't good enough to live in the neighborhood that she's lived in decades longer than this snot neighbor.
I hate, hate, hate...oh and dispise, stupid rich people. I'm both against apologizing for wealth, AND using it as a weapon.
The snotty neighbor didn't have to tresspass. She thought she could get away with it. You need to send a message that the ugliest thing in that neighborhood is her! No one made her move to the hood. She's a freakin' socio-economic parasite.
Oh, BTW, although a rarity, I think Cary is dead wrong on this one 'cause if you don't stand up for something, you're fall for anything!
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If you can't handle the heat, then get the hell up out of the hood!
It further just pisses me off about snot neighbor because if she REALLY had a problem with the property and she was willing to pay a gardner to not only plant a hedge but tend it, why not just ask the gardner to cut the grass and tend the yard?
I mean, so what if there's a couch on the porch? If its the South, then a porch without a couch is the real oddity.
The snot neighbor was so completely wrong. If she can't handle the heat, she needs to get the hell up out of the hood!
I don't live in the hood for just that reason.
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Boo Radley??
Maybe this poor old woman wants to be left alone! We know nothing about her, save her non-whiteness, her advanced age, her couch, her house, and her son. She could be sweet or bitchy, incapacitated or indifferent, we really don't know. LW is making a lot of assumptions ("I'm sure the elderly lady is mortified") and is wrapped up in a condescending fantasy about this woman. If she's as hard to catch up with as LW says, she probably wants to be left alone, and doesn't give a rat's ass about the plants.
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Ultimately
Fighting the busy body will lead to her calling the local department that handles code violations. That would be far worse.
Talk to the elderly neighbor. The yard needs cleaning, and the oleanders are not a good solution. If your local university has a service-learning requirement, this is the perfect chance to get it done.
THey may think they have bigger problems, but code violations and fines are serious trouble. Saving her from that trouble would be a kindness.It could potentially save her house.
Do not instigate with busybody. Just quietly block her here. Taking care of the neighbor is more important.
The weed revenge tactic did make me laugh!
I do wonder what the level of "yard cleaning" is. In my current neighborhood, we have lawn nazis who measure their lawn height, edge to perfection, go in together on de-thatching and use law tractors as neighborhood transportation (on 3/4 acre lots!) Not mowing three times a week, and not participating in the mole murder activities would make the target catch hell.Mowing the wrong way is an infraction. In my old neighborhood in Louisiana, if your lawn is mowed and trash up you are golden. Trash, rats, snakes, waist high grass, old cars (as squirrel nests- if you were working on the car it was fine, if weeds were growing in the car, not so fine), multiple dogs (and/or a pack)and garbage in the front yard would get you in trouble. People would call the city on you.
If those oleanders are a threat to the sewer, better to get them out now. One of my friends is roto routering tree roots out of the pipes. That's thousands of dollars.
I agree that the oleanders were an insult. Avoid said woman like the plague. She's mean, and mean is bad of one's health.