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Post by littlefish on Apr 30, 2016 14:38:43 GMT
Leaving piles of leaves in my driveway. Backstory: I've lived in a small rental house for the last 3 1/2 years. My landlord pays for the upkeep of the grass and yard. I have a large, beautiful magnolia tree in my front yard that has been dropping its leaves. My neighbor is a little eccentric but we've gotten along just fine. He's retired and always home, always tinkering outside and doing yard work. There is a privacy fence between his house and mine. Thinking back, the neat piles of leaves have appeared alongside my driveway or by my front porch for two years now. I haven't thought much of it beyond "that's a randomly neat pile of leaves!" Earlier this week we got home and I realized most of the leaves were gone. I attributed it to a rather large storm that had blown through. Last night coming home I parked in the driveway and there were two piles, one very deliberately directly in front of my garage door. Exiting the car I can see/hear my neighbor outside along the fence yelling "and then she drove right through the damn leaves! I can't stand it!" And it was like a lightbulb came on. I think he's putting them there on purpose because they bother him and thinks I should take care of it. DD had a soccer game and we got home after 9 so they are still out there on the drive. I'll sweep them into some bags here in a bit, but seriously? Who does that???  TUESDAY UPDATE Came home to a fresh, perfectly formed pile of leaves in front of the garage door. Neighbor has a full yard waste bin out front so I gather he brought the leaves over today. I didn't get home from soccer practice until it was almost dark. Swept and bagged the leaves but am storing it all in my garage until next Monday when yard waste pickup is. He's an a$$. I have a million things to do between DD and two jobs and everything else on my plate and this guy wants to be an immature tool. Fine. Let him wake up to my beautifully clean driveway with no leaf bags in sight. I have a friend that lives down the road, so come yard waste day I can always drop my leaf bags off there. He'll have no idea what happened to them. |
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Post by scorpeao on Apr 30, 2016 14:43:18 GMT
I wouldn't sweep them into bags, but I'm passive aggressive like that. If the neighbor has a problem he should talk to you or the owner!
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Post by TankTop on Apr 30, 2016 14:47:19 GMT
Lol! Motion detector sprinklers set up in the middle of the night.
I would also sprinkle them all over my yard like confetti.
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Post by GiantsFan on Apr 30, 2016 14:52:02 GMT
I wouldn't sweep them up. Just leave (pun intended) them there for a few days.
ETA : Or you could use a leaf blower at 7am! LOL! Just kidding.....or maybe not.
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Post by kristi on Apr 30, 2016 14:52:34 GMT
If he took the time to sweep them into a pile, he could have cleaned them up!
I would leave them there for a few days so he doesn't think sabotaging your driveway will result in you immediately picking them up.
Glad it is just leaves and not something worse you are offending him with like dog poop!
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Post by marimoose on Apr 30, 2016 14:55:19 GMT
I definitely woudl not ahve thought to go sweep up leaves at 9pm and after realizing how they got there, i would be like th eothers and drag my feet longer. Geez, poeple like that need to live out on the boonies on some acreage so they aren't bothered by anyone else. Leaves fall, nature happens, we don't have time or desire to chase after it all and most normal poeple wouldn't expect that.
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Post by AnotherPea on Apr 30, 2016 14:55:57 GMT
are those two pictures from different days? As in the leaves were there once, removed and then in the exact same arrangement another day?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2016 14:59:40 GMT
Wow, that's a piece of work right there. I'm not passive agressive at all. I would probably just tell the guy that the landscapers are here on xyz date and they will take care of the leaves then.
I'd also tell him that any leaves the wind blows to his yard, he is free to keep. I don't need them back.
But I'm a straight shooter.
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Post by quiltz on Apr 30, 2016 15:02:04 GMT
Who does this?
A neighbor who has control issues.
Boundaries are needed.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2016 15:12:08 GMT
Right in front of your garage door! Wow look at that! What an ass. Always amazing to me the minor things that bother some people. He is clearly fed up over something so tiny in the grand picture of life! Ugh.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2016 15:12:10 GMT
My neighbor has a huge magnolia in the front yard as well. That sucker does drop leaves and it's a PITA for me to rake them up. There are times I rake up the ones on my lawn and then rake the ones that are next to my lawn in a pile near his tree so the additional leaves don't keep blowing over in the wind. I'm not about to help him with his lawn care and fill up my compost bin with his leaves; but, I certainly would never dump the leaves on his driveway. Around here, if you rent a house, you are responsible for the upkeep of the yard so perhaps he's feeling it's your responsibility to rake up the leaves before they become a nuisance.
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Post by Why on Apr 30, 2016 15:13:25 GMT
I would not touch them at all. If you do he wins and will keep doing it. If there is a yard service it's not your problem .
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Post by hennybutton on Apr 30, 2016 15:21:11 GMT
Is he sweeping up the magnolia leaves from his yard and putting them in yours? Or, is it the leaves in your yard that are driving him crazy?
If it's the first, I can understand his annoyance, but not his actions. He should talk to your landloard if leaves from the tree are creating a lot of extra work for him in his yard. The tree may need to be removed and replaced with a lower maintenance evergreen tree.
If it's the leaves in your yard that are driving him crazy, he needs to get a life.
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Post by angieh1996 on Apr 30, 2016 15:22:14 GMT
Wow! What a jerk. My neighbor has a huge old oak tree in his back yard. It's a beautiful tree. Every other year that tree produces an insane amount of acorns. Half the leaves and nuts from that tree fall into my yard. It has never entered my mind to rake them up and leave them on his property. We just rake them up and dispose of them. I put the nuts in a huge pile out back by the garage for the squirrels. Leaves blow. Hell if I was that anal I'd be putting leaves at the door to every neighbor. Our street is lined and full of trees.
I'd be tempted to just leave them there or accidently blow them back into his yard! Haha
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Post by littlefish on Apr 30, 2016 15:25:43 GMT
are those two pictures from different days? As in the leaves were there once, removed and then in the exact same arrangement another day? No, the pic posted twice and I couldn't figure out how to remove it! Similar piles have appeared directly in front of my front porch before. |
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Post by littlefish on Apr 30, 2016 15:29:21 GMT
Is he sweeping up the magnolia leaves from his yard and putting them in yours? Or, is it the leaves in your yard that are driving him crazy? If it's the first, I can understand his annoyance, but not his actions. He should talk to your landloard if leaves from the tree are creating a lot of extra work for him in his yard. The tree may need to be removed and replaced with a lower maintenance evergreen tree. If it's the leaves in your yard that are driving him crazy, he needs to get a life. I'm not sure. I suppose they could be blowing over to his yard and he's sweeping them up, bringing them over, and dumping them in my driveway. The guy is a little off. He despises the area we live in and openly tells how he packs a gun in case any of the *insertracialslurhere* that live in the area come through the orange groves behind our neighborhood. So I'm not in a rush to piss him off. DD and I just went out and cleared the driveway (only the driveway, nothing else) and we trimmed up a bush that's been growing up around our mailbox. That's it. It still amazes me what childish things grown a$$ adults will do. |
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Post by anniebygaslight on Apr 30, 2016 15:30:30 GMT
We had similar, plus other issues from a nutcase of a neighbour. I even had a chap ring my doorbell to tell me that he regularly saw he dumping stuff in our garden late at night when he was out running.
The police were involved eventually and the mad bitch and her knob of a husband both got Part 1 Code of Conduct warnings under the Harassment act. Barking, the pair of them. We hung bunting up when they moved.
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Post by hennybutton on Apr 30, 2016 15:37:57 GMT
Is he sweeping up the magnolia leaves from his yard and putting them in yours? Or, is it the leaves in your yard that are driving him crazy? If it's the first, I can understand his annoyance, but not his actions. He should talk to your landloard if leaves from the tree are creating a lot of extra work for him in his yard. The tree may need to be removed and replaced with a lower maintenance evergreen tree. If it's the leaves in your yard that are driving him crazy, he needs to get a life. I'm not sure. I suppose they could be blowing over to his yard and he's sweeping them up, bringing them over, and dumping them in my driveway. The guy is a little off. He despises the area we live in and openly tells how he packs a gun in case any of the *insertracialslurhere* that live in the area come through the orange groves behind our neighborhood. So I'm not in a rush to piss him off. DD and I just went out and cleared the driveway (only the driveway, nothing else) and we trimmed up a bush that's been growing up around our mailbox. That's it. It still amazes me what childish things grown a$$ adults will do. Okay, he is a whole other level of crazy. Smile and wave when you see him and get away quick. |
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Post by yoko on Apr 30, 2016 15:40:04 GMT
Bless his heart.
Those leaves would be composting in the piles in my driveway but I'm a bitch like that.
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Post by eleezybeth on Apr 30, 2016 15:44:45 GMT
I don't get this at all. Trees drop leafs if you want your yard to be pretty, take and dispose. If you don't want to clean up after trees, you need to leave, go buy land out in the middle of nowhere and chop all trees down. A neighborhood has trees. Trees are a good thing.
Our neighbor has a huge, old oak tree. It sits right on his property line. The way the leafs fall means 90% are ours to deal with. We deal with them. It's a crap ton. And thankfully our HOA pays for leaf removal days. Between his oak and ours, plus the other 3 trees- it's a lot of work. I'd never, ever think to pile them in his yard. And we are renters.
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Post by perumbula on Apr 30, 2016 16:03:19 GMT
It would never even occur to me to be upset that a neighbor's tree is dropping leaves in my yard. That's how trees work. They don't have property lines. I have no tree in my back yard, but every year we have to rake up piles and piles of leaves from the neighbor's trees. Piles. Huge massive piles. But you know what? Every summer we get to enjoy the wonderful shade from their trees. It's nice. Why should I be mad because it's not my tree that dropped the leaves? It's my yard. I'm responsible for what's in my yard.
Your neighbor is a nutcase who needs someone to explain to him that your not responsible for the leaves that land in his yard.
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Post by sues on Apr 30, 2016 16:07:03 GMT
Oh boy. My neighbor is similar. While- like you- I don't want to piss him off, I also can't feed into his craziness.
One time he found a plastic bottle on his lawn - it had blown out of a neighbor's recycling can on a very windy garbage day. Not only did he know which can it blew out of...he rang the doorbell to give the neighbor the offending bottle back when they got home from work. He didn't put it in the can- which he had to pass by at the curb, on the way to the door. No- he had to hand it right to the neighbor, to let them know he wasn't happy.
I would also never, ever, remove the leaves that guy was leaving piled in my driveway. I don't react well to passive aggressive stuff like that (including his ranting when he saw you come home). If he wanted a better reaction, he should have started a better conversation.
Trees drop leaves. That's the way it goes. If branches overhang his property- he can trim them. If he doesn't like the wind blowing leaves onto his property- it's up to him to make a change, not the trees or the neighbors. My left-side neighbors planted an apple tree so close to our fence, it will inevitably drop leaves and apples into my yard someday. I'm not happy about it- the proximity to the fence worries me. But I'm not going to go to the trouble of collecting leaves to deliver them to their driveway. When I find apples- I'll toss them back over. Let them deal with that mess. But I couldn't give a rat's ass about the leaves.
In your situation- I would not do anything differently. Do the yard work you usually do. If your neighbor ups his crazy game- give him your landlord's number.
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Post by femalebusiness on Apr 30, 2016 16:35:21 GMT
I would have to have a little talk with the neighbor. If he admits he put the leaves on your property, I'd tell him NEVER to step foot across the line again. I would then tell him what I thought about his spineless passive aggressive actions. After that I would blow the leaves back onto,his property and install the motion sensor sprinklers.
I had a neighbor who let his giant dog shit right next to my front porch. When I complained he ignored me. I started picking the shit up with a shovel and slamming it upside his new motor home. He stopped letting his dog shit on my lawn.
Don't put up with that crap. You have no control over leaves that stray onto his property.
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Post by pjaye on Apr 30, 2016 16:58:55 GMT
You'd be surprised. My Dad has a friend like that, I don't know him well but I've met him...I'm not sure if he has a proper OCD diagnosis, but that man cannot walk past a stick or a leaf on the ground, he picks them up and hold on to them until he can put them in a bin. He moved into a new house recently and it took him a long tome to find one because he needed it to not have any trees etc on the neighbouring properties that would fall into his yard. I don't think he's deliberately being difficult he can't help himself. Dad used to say that you could never go for a walk with him because he has to stop all the time and pick up sticks & twigs on the path. It could be just one of those things for him too. I agree it's odd and probably annoying, but now that I've met Dad's friend (who is genuinely a nice guy) I guess I'm inclined to be a bit more tolerant and would just bag them up and say nothing. |
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Post by scrappysurfer on Apr 30, 2016 17:33:17 GMT
The best part about your story is that he's been doing it for TWO YEARS and you never noticed. Proving that passive aggressive actions like his do no good.
It's ridiculous 1) that he's sweeping leaves from his yard and putting them in your drive and 2) he's going onto your property. First of all he needs to be a man and talk to you and clear the air. If I were you I'd continue to ignore the piles, or blow them back into his yard. Second, I'd tell him that in no uncertain terms is he allowed back on your property. If he still has a problem, give him your landlords number.
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Post by craftykitten on Apr 30, 2016 17:41:43 GMT
I think your neighbour needs to move to the neighbourhood from the thread the other day where someone was complaining that people don't take enough care of their gardens.
Seriously....two years??! You must be driving him crazy. Brilliant. I would keep ignoring the piles!
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Post by MsKnit on Apr 30, 2016 17:50:18 GMT
It would never even occur to me to be upset that a neighbor's tree is dropping leaves in my yard. That's how trees work. They don't have property lines. I have no tree in my back yard, but every year we have to rake up piles and piles of leaves from the neighbor's trees. Piles. Huge massive piles. But you know what? Every summer we get to enjoy the wonderful shade from their trees. It's nice. Why should I be mad because it's not my tree that dropped the leaves? It's my yard. I'm responsible for what's in my yard. Your neighbor is a nutcase who needs someone to explain to him that your not responsible for the leaves that land in his yard. Thank you! I can not imagine being annoyed because of a tree and the ensuing leaves. Trees are wonderful things. As for the OP's leaves in her drive, I'm passive aggressive enough that I would leave the piles there and let the wind blow them about. I have joked with my husband about picking up the dog crap the neighbor's dogs leave in our yard and dumping it on their porch. But, I would never do so. |
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Post by J u l e e on Apr 30, 2016 17:57:06 GMT
Exiting the car I can see/hear my neighbor outside along the fence yelling "and then she drove right through the damn leaves! I can't stand it!" As though, what, the pile placed there was going to keep you from entering your home? You were going to stop, because you couldn't possibly go on with them there? I wonder what was he truly expecting would happen with his perfectly planned leaf pile placement. That is so odd! |
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Post by MissBianca on Apr 30, 2016 18:17:29 GMT
Wow, he would hate me. The way our house and detached garage are positioned we get a wind tunnel around our house and the leaves basically just stay behind the garage. I drive over them when I park behind the garage. If I raked them, I'de be out there every day raking. I finally remove them when all the leaves are off the trees but before the first snow comes. The only thing I keep on top of is the snow drifts, those get out of hand.
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Post by cath4k on Apr 30, 2016 18:23:19 GMT
Chalk me up as another one who has a TON of leaves and pollen every year because of my neighbors' trees. I'm talking a good 100 bags worth! I wouldn't dream of dumping them on my neighbors' yards. My neighbors don't control the wind! In fact, on one side there is a small space where our side yards come together and the leaves can seriously pile up there. The guy on that side has lawn care, but they don't rake. So three times this year when I was out there raking leaves, I didn't rake only our half of the side yard. I did the whole thing. So I picked up my neighbor's leaves in our yard AND his yard. No biggie.
People get so worked up over the dumbest stuff. It must be miserable living like that.
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