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Re: What would you do?
By: holly firestorm Date: November 8, 2020, 3:14 pm
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[quote author=HenrysMom link=topic=1914.msg59777#msg59777
date=1604529448]
Evil me says to tell your landscapers to blow the leaves back
into your neighbor’s yard.
Really, though, let your neighbors know to tell their gardeners
to please NOT blow the leaves into your yard. There should be
better results if it comes from their client, than a random
lady. If catch them at it again, that is the time to confront
them yourself.
Edited to add: My dad was a landscape gardener, and he would
get random people accosting him with their complaints quite
frequently. He would only listen to the homeowner, though,
because they were the ones paying him.
[/quote]
Not so evil. Why should you clean up the mess your neighbor's
landscaper made? And I'd add to that, wait until the landscaper
comes back to your neighbor's and THEN blow the leaves back at
him while he's there.
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Re: What would you do?
By: Rain Date: November 9, 2020, 11:56 am
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Etiquette is the name of the game not escalating a situation
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Re: What would you do?
By: BeagleMommy Date: November 9, 2020, 2:13 pm
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If your neighbors are renting the house you might want to
contact their landlord since they are probably the ones that
hired the landscaper.
I might contact your neighbor and just say "Hi, just wanted to
let you know that the landscaper on your property blew all the
leaves over onto mine. You might want to let your landlord know
so they can address it.".
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Re: What would you do?
By: jpcher Date: November 9, 2020, 2:48 pm
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[quote author=chigger link=topic=1914.msg59907#msg59907
date=1604864902]
I just thought of something! Who owns the property may be the
ones paying the landscapers, I might look to them first, if you
know them. I know one place I rented, the landlord had a company
do our yard, it was included in rent.
[/quote]
This could very well be true because the service was there (I
don't know if it's the same service) before the renters moved
in. I think I would have gone to the landlords first if I knew
who they were.
On a side note -- I was out taking my car for a walk today
(gotta get it out at least once a week whether it likes it or
not ;)) I drive it around the neighborhood and little high-way
runs. It was a beautiful day and as I was coming home, I noticed
that most of the trees had all of their leaves down and blowing
around the streets (it wasn't horribly windy).
I stopped at a stop sign and saw a corner home that a huge stack
of leaves nicely piled up in their front lawn. Obviously someone
was out earlier raking or blowing. I did not see the homeowners.
I had to wait for a group of pedestrians crossing the street in
front of me and then the street perpendicular to me (the street
I was turning on). It looked like a mom and grandma (judging by
the color of their hair) and three young kids, maybe 5th or 6th
grade. Mom and Grandma were walking next to each other obviously
deep in conversation while the kids were in front.
I knew the moment that these kids saw the pot of gold -- they
finished crossing the street (mom and grandma were about 1/2 way
across), ran and jumped into the pile of leaves. Leaf fight
ensued. Kicking, throwing leaves at each other, jumping in the
pile, etc. I waited at the stop sign (nobody was behind me) and
watched as mom and grandma simply passed by the romping children
with nary a word.
I made my turn, shook my head and felt sorry for the homeowners.
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Re: What would you do?
By: Oz Diva Date: November 9, 2020, 5:55 pm
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I’d call this a ‘first’ world problem not a third one.
Also here in Australia a landscaper is someone who does more
structural stuff, the person cutting the grass or blowing leaves
would be a gardener. I’m intrigued by the difference.
I think waiting to ask them not to blow the leaves on to your
property is a good tactic. They know what they’re doing and it’s
pretty rude.
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Re: What would you do?
By: LifeOnPluto Date: November 10, 2020, 4:50 am
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[quote author=jpcher link=topic=1914.msg59954#msg59954
date=1604954897]
[quote author=chigger link=topic=1914.msg59907#msg59907
date=1604864902]
I just thought of something! Who owns the property may be the
ones paying the landscapers, I might look to them first, if you
know them. I know one place I rented, the landlord had a company
do our yard, it was included in rent.
[/quote]
This could very well be true because the service was there (I
don't know if it's the same service) before the renters moved
in. I think I would have gone to the landlords first if I knew
who they were.
On a side note -- I was out taking my car for a walk today
(gotta get it out at least once a week whether it likes it or
not ;)) I drive it around the neighborhood and little high-way
runs. It was a beautiful day and as I was coming home, I noticed
that most of the trees had all of their leaves down and blowing
around the streets (it wasn't horribly windy).
I stopped at a stop sign and saw a corner home that a huge stack
of leaves nicely piled up in their front lawn. Obviously someone
was out earlier raking or blowing. I did not see the homeowners.
I had to wait for a group of pedestrians crossing the street in
front of me and then the street perpendicular to me (the street
I was turning on). It looked like a mom and grandma (judging by
the color of their hair) and three young kids, maybe 5th or 6th
grade. Mom and Grandma were walking next to each other obviously
deep in conversation while the kids were in front.
I knew the moment that these kids saw the pot of gold -- they
finished crossing the street (mom and grandma were about 1/2 way
across), ran and jumped into the pile of leaves. Leaf fight
ensued. Kicking, throwing leaves at each other, jumping in the
pile, etc. I waited at the stop sign (nobody was behind me) and
watched as mom and grandma simply passed by the romping children
with nary a word.
I made my turn, shook my head and felt sorry for the homeowners.
[/quote]
The mom and grandma should have reined the kids in. I don't
blame the kids too much - who could resist a pile of leaves like
that! But the grown-ups should have known better, and had some
empathy for the home-owners, who'd no doubt have to rake up the
mess. It also sounds like the kids were romping all over
someone's private property, which is a big no-no too.
#Post#: 59997--------------------------------------------------
Re: What would you do?
By: jpcher Date: November 10, 2020, 3:56 pm
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[quote author=Oz Diva link=topic=1914.msg59963#msg59963
date=1604966108]
I’d call this a ‘first’ world problem not a third one.
Also here in Australia a landscaper is someone who does more
structural stuff, the person cutting the grass or blowing leaves
would be a gardener. I’m intrigued by the difference.
I think waiting to ask them not to blow the leaves on to your
property is a good tactic. They know what they’re doing and it’s
pretty rude.
[/quote]
Bold above -- got it. I had my memes mixed up. :-[
For landscapers vs. gardeners . . . landscaper is written on all
the trucks around here that do yard work (lawn mowing, edging,
trimming bushes, gutter cleaning, etc.) it's the name of my
company XXX Landscapers even though they do snowplowing in the
winter.
However you are correct. They don't actually scape the land as
in planting trees, bushes, flowers and creating a beautiful
landscape.
Interesting thought Oz Diva. Now I'm curious as to what others
have to say.
Neighbors landscapers did not show up today. I wonder if last
week was final clean-up for them.
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What would you do? UPDATE #27
By: jpcher Date: November 11, 2020, 3:34 pm
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UPDATE:
COVID-brain! When I posted yesterday about the landscapers not
showing up I thought it was Wednesday.
No. Today is Wednesday. ::) The landscapers showed up. Again
there was a flurry of leaves blowing through, over and under my
fence.
I went outside (this time I could see the guy's head over my
fence) and saw that he was wearing those sound-proofing earmuffs
so I didn't try to get his attention because he was behind the
pine(?) trees that are right up next to my fence. As I watched I
thought "well, in that tight spot, where else can he blow the
leaves?"
He must have felt the daggers my eyes were throwing at him
because he looked at me. I scowled, held up my hands and
shrugged. He smiled, held up one finger (as in just a minute),
then nodded and went about his business.
I went inside and kept watch as more leaves were blown into my
yard. I waited a bit then saw him coming down the sidewalk next
to my house. He saw me in the window, smiled, gave me a thumbs
up, went to my back yard and proceeded to blow all the leaves
down my sidewalk into the neighbors front yard where they were
bagged and taken away.
As he was blowing the leaves out of my back yard I smiled,
nodded, gave the thumbs up and mouthed "Thank you!"
Maybe it was because he saw me watching him or because it was a
different guy than last time, but I'm satisfied.
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Re: What would you do? UPDATE #27
By: gramma dishes Date: November 11, 2020, 7:22 pm
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Don't you just love happy endings? ;D
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Re: What would you do? UPDATE #27
By: DaDancingPsych Date: November 11, 2020, 9:59 pm
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This is awesome! I am so glad that the problem was resolved.
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