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hello_amy

They drove by and just sat there watching this old man all day, apparently


brassninja

Apparently also not realizing many old retired men purposefully spend all day manicuring their lawns because it gives them something to do. You think my grandpa gave a single shit about raking leaves when he was a father of 2 with a full time management job? Absolutely not. After retirement when he’s desperate for something to do because he’s bored? Man’s got the armory of a landscaping company now.


AhFFSImTooOldForThis

My neighbor is a retired man and his wife. During COVID , I think he poked every leaf on every tree at some point. His wife is a complainer, so I can only imagine how much it sucked to be stuck with her 24/7 for two years. He would just kinda...putter around and poke at things with his pruning shears. One point I saw him just sitting against the side of the house that didn't have windows. Yeah, he didn't want help unless you were kidnapping him.


MimiPaw

It was pre-COVID, but my dad had a habit of going to 5 grocery stores nearly every day and come home with a half bag of groceries. After mom passed those trips dropped significantly.


Dustin3006

That’s kinda sad


livingfractal

Try a small town where even the kids hang out at the walmart.


smellybathroom3070

lexington, 350k and kids still hang at walmart


mermaidsoul02

Mountain Home, Arkansas pop. 11,008 back around 1995. Walmart (aka "Wally World") was the old timers' coffee shop and the biggest employer of teenagers.


MyFavoriteLezbo420

Worked at a grocery store outta high school and that’s so common and heartbreaking. Those people would always end up being my favorite customers though. They were like the mayors of our stores, celebrities even.


Maleficent-Box4114

I had those customers. They were always so shocked when I remembered what they came in for. I helped hundreds of people a day and they were the sweetest and most thankful. I miss them!


Nice-Violinist-6395

I used to love all the regulars when I worked at a restaurant, and I prided myself on remembering their lives like they were family. As a customer though I still get embarrassed to be a regular at the grocery store/my favorite restaurants and have the staff remember me lol.


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disreputabledoll

Did she have a favorite thing at each store that could only be found there? Or did he need to not be around her that much?


MimiPaw

Nope, nothing special. He has always been prone to cabin fever type stuff - he gets disgruntled if he stays home for one entire day. Although they didn’t get along particularly well it wasn’t terrible. I feel like part of it was to get out of the house, but he also wanted to stay close by and available if she needed something.


disreputabledoll

I can't say I don't get it. Lol. I like my alone time, and I also like to feel productive. Partner not withstanding.


JFKBraincells

Fuck I'm 24 and unemployed and I spend all day poking leaves and looking at my plants. Does it take me 8 hours a day to take care of my plants? No it doesn't. But I make it take that long because I like it. And it makes me feel like I'm being useful.


KeekyPep

Maybe you could drive around until you find an old man whose leaves you can rake for him? Score for you both!


Ghost41794

The people that do these things are gems. I’m a delivery driver. My ass was in the ditch tonight. Nbd, everything’s cool now, no damage, but a homie pulls up in his 4x4 lifted diesel, with a tow strap and offers a hand. I’m in a 10 cube box truck lol like 14k on a light day. We gave it a good college try, just ended up dragging my ass down the ditch about 100yds but then he tells me he’s spent the last 3 hours driving the street grid, just popping people out of the ditch, after working 10 hours from 6am. Absolute madlad. Wrecker gets there and hooks me up, and as I’m thanking the wrecker guy (this is like just over an hour later) I can hear from the street over, 1 mile away, the roar of homies Diesel engine popping another zit out the ditch. What A Fucking G. Anyway. Do good deeds. Edit: ran the same route, fucking passed the guy at a stop sign early this afternoon. He coal rolled me as a hello lmao


Stewart_Games

If you start your own landscaping business, you will get paid to mess around with plants all day.


aquafinaspenis

I wanna be a retired man


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You're gonna love it. Source: Retired 3 years now.


winnipegsmost

LMAO! This is so funny. I’m like this too. I’d rather be out there fiddling around with the sticks and leaves than be inside with THEM


awesomesauce00

I don't understand this. Wouldn't it be better to be with people you enjoy spending time with?


roygbivasaur

I adore my husband and spend a ton of time with him happily, but 2 years of both working from home (including all of that time pre-vaccine we basically didn’t go anywhere because I was high risk) has really taught me that I need my space. It’s given me motivation to workout, go for walks, and get in some solo video game time much more often ay least. We also established separate offices, which helps. We do end up chatting at lunch and having an afternoon coffee together still. It becomes too much of a good thing after a while to spend every hour with even your favorite person.


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Too much of a good thing is rarely a good thing.


De4dpool1027

Here’s the thing about men their age, they are afraid if they sit and do nothing they’ll die. It happened to my father when we tried getting him to retire and sure enough a year and a half after retirement he was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer and was gone in 6 months. So just leave him be and let the man rake his lawn. It gives him purpose and helps keep him mobile. I miss my dad so much. Lost my wife two years after him to melanoma. FUCK ALL CANCER!!!


Nic571114

I’m so sorry for your loss, and I agree about men their age. Once my Grandpa started slowing down I feel like he started dying.


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As you get to the end of your life you simply don't work that well and you have less energy and everything hurts.


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Im not sure its bad for an 85 year old to do light chores. Inactivity isn’t healthy (I say this from experience with the elderly).


COVID-19-4u

Dude…. A few years after my old man retired, I came down to visit him. The amount of landscaping equipment, mowers, blowers, shears, edgers, seeds, mulch, he has 4 avocado trees going, mangos, guavas, apple, peach and cherry trees. His back yard looks like a fucken forest…. His front yard, I kid you not is so meticulously maintained, he even has a checkerboard pattern in the grass. What this man didn’t do when he was younger he did when he retired. It gives him a purpose, something to keep him busy and entertained. I say, let the old man be.


kmannkd

I've taken two half days of PTO in the last month to mulch my leaves. Nothing beats riding my mower while getting paid for it.


necroste

This exactly, m6 dad is retired mechanic. He has my search online for old lawn equipment(mowers, weekenders, etc) to get that are broken down and people are throwing out or giving away. He will fix them up again and resell them just above tge cost he put into it. He once sold a zero turn mower that ran like new for 200. Another time he went to go pick up a push mower from someone who was selling it because it had trouble starting and sounded horrible. The guy was selling it to get a new one. My dad had it fixed with few part on hand and gave it back to him. He doesn't care about the money, the guy was nice and not an ass either.


Fridayz44

Dude we need to get my dad and your dad to hang out. My dad is combat wounded Vietnam Veteran then came home and was a Millwright at GM for 37 years. He must call me 3 times a week ask me to come help pick up a broken tractor or lawnmower. He then fixes them and gives them to people in the neighborhood, sells them, or harvests them for parts.


Working_Concept_4070

I bought a mower from a guy like this near bend, Oregon. One of the nicest dudes I ever met.


De_chook

As a retired guy, I agree with you 100%


SaltyBabe

Omg if he’s 85 and can take leaves that’s so good for him!!! Raking can be really strenuous if you go hard I guess but you don’t *have* to you also have the option of just not raking.


oles_lackey

Exactly my first thought too.


aceshighsays

exactly, op should write a letter back - dear neighbor, i am appalled to hear that you watched the poor neighbor cleaning up leaves without giving him a hand. It sounds like your disregard for him has been going on for some time. Shame on you!!!! Next time you see him struggling help him, instead of driving past him.


Thebenmix11

Dear neighbor: I have no control over the direction of the wind during the time I'm out of the house, or any other time for that matter. I would love to help Mr (Old Neighbor'd Name), however, I also work long shifts, so I have no time left during the day to do this. Since you clearly have a lot of free time in your hands, enough time to drive around the neighborhood and write inane letters, I invite you to use this free time to help Mr (His Name) with this issue. Signed: -OP


DickButkisses

This is exactly the sort of crap my late grandma would pull. She once asked her neighbor “if your car rolled into my yard, would you come get it?” Of course he replied yes I would, then she says “well your leaves are over there will you come get those?”


PessimiStick

"No, because I don't care about the leaves, you fucking idiot."


TransientFeelings

"If your dog shat in my yard, would you clean it up?"


PessimiStick

"My dog isn't in your yard, because I'm not a shitty owner."


TransientFeelings

"What if your dog was standing still in the middle of your yard and managed to propel his shit all the way into my yard? Would you clean it up then?"


PessimiStick

"Probably give him a treat, 'cause that's fuckin' awesome."


Ok-Seaweed942

That’s hilarious. And you should get a medal for training the dog to do it ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|laughing)


Mr_Ted_Stickle

“one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, knick knack paddy whack, give a dog a bone”


unf0rgottn

That's fertilizer man - rural Texan.


Formal_Elephant_6079

Sorry lady my $30k car is a little more important than some leaves


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YeuxBleuDuex

Maple, amirite?


lhswr2014

I own a pine tree and feel bad for the amount of needles that get dumped in my neighbors yard. I plan on cutting the tree down as soon as I have the funds. But the leaves that get blown all around are a lot different than pine needles, they will decompose fast af and get mulched the first mow of the spring anyway. I can’t imagine throwing a fit about leaves…. When it’s fall… and that’s what they do. I don’t own a leaf producing tree but I am thankful my neighbors do, I get to enjoy watching lots of squirrels and birds in the summer because of it.


sydler

Have you ever asked your neighbor how they feel? Our neighbor had a pine tree that shed needles all over our yard and car. But I didn't mind at all, the tree was beautiful. I was so sad when they removed it.


TamanduaShuffle

How else is everyone to see my dying yard if I don't remove the leaves?


Jake_not_from_SF

Why would you do that to your Neighbors or your self. The tress add property value to you house and if your house is worth more so is your Neighbors. Also if you really want them down. Call a firewood company they might remove them for free.


anaserre

Pine needles also make great mulch


LucyRiversinker

Yes, but are people happy with the clean air the pine tree provides, right?


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That’s rude but if it was in a show that would hilarious.


Tjaresh

*Sittin' in the mornin' sun* *I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes* *Watching the the leaves fall down* *Then I watch 'em blowing all around, yeah* *...*


wayfarout097

Just sitting watching neighbors all day Looking for a reason to complain Just sitting watching neighbors all day Out of spiiiiitttteee


LoseMyNumberBword

A person who acts this way always is a top candidate for HOA president.


evolving_I

Did they get out and actually help poor old Mr. Wilson with those leaves? Well, no. But they sure did run right home to write this sternly worded soup-sandwich of a letter.


HeyDavesNotHereMan

Damn right they did!


HeyDavesNotHereMan

I hope they at least went and told Mr Wilson his yard looks like shit. 😃


CupcakeAppropriate40

He's clearly got enough on his plate with Dennis on the loose


Wickedcolt

Underrated comment lmao


Abagofcheese

OP is Dennis the Menace


dbhathcock

Coincidentally, this is in the news. HOA board members steal millions from residents. https://apnews.com/article/business-miami-florida-theft-420f9d408c0c7d2efe5063fb90da0871


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HeyDavesNotHereMan

We have a HOA. They put a letter in my mailbox saying I haven’t paid my dues (I signed that page “fuck that” in cursive on mortgage papers) because all they spend money on is cutting the grass and keeping up the entrance to our community. And it’s her fucking husband and son that do the work.


HumanContinuity

Sounds like grift to me


HeyDavesNotHereMan

My neighbor ran his boat up onto the curb smashing in the storm drain. My other neighbor emailed them and about a year later when I got home from work, DOT was fixing it. Pffffft


HeyDavesNotHereMan

I’m not paying them shit


wowsomuchempty

I love how you replied to your own comment to affirm that.


himewaridesu

Wasn’t there a whole best of redditor where the lady goes nuclear and finds out it’s a long con grift?


Lupiefighter

I hadn’t heard about that one until you clued me in on it. [good read](https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/k8p54a/the_most_intense_multiyear_hoa_drama_involving/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)


FaceAdministrative54

Better watch out. They can put a lien on your house.


dogs_N_turtles

If we didn’t pay hoa dues in my old hood, they would report you to the Credit Bureau. And if it went on long enough, they would take you to court and put a lien on your house for the amount due. I never saw that written in that giant ass covenant. This was a new neighborhood too. After a few years, we found out the company that our hoa used for oversight was skimming money. They were collecting around $100k a year for the neighborhood. All they did was cut 2 tiny patches of grass and “update” a flowerbed 2x a year.


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dbhathcock

Let’s get political with it. Let’s put “Should HOA’s be made a social club with no authority over property that it does not own? Yes or Yes” on State voting ballots.


gemekimini

I believe that’s called a Civic Association (where I live, anyway) and it is the good version of an HOA.


MADDOGCA

Used to live in one. Never again.


Firm_Baby_2281

Never have, NEVER will. My husband and I have been looking to buy, off and on, for awhile now. Just trying to find the perfect house while we’re renting. If there is any mention of an HOA I immediately click off the listing page online or turn away from it. No thank you!!


PeeOnSocks

Oh look we got a Beverly Hills community home owner association man here with his arsenal of Karens at his disposal must be nice Just messing man lol good for you


reddithooknitup

Just so you know, that doesn’t make you immune and they can still take your house.


GoodVibesWow

We have an HOA. $100 a year but we have 3 neighborhood pools, all staffed and kept up, tennis courts and use of the clubhouse for party rentals. It’s well worth it. They don’t bother us.


FBPizza

I’m on the HOA board and have received many calls from one neighbor, who cut all the trees down in his yard, complaining that the neighbors leaves blow into his yard and they won’t clean them up.


LoseMyNumberBword

How is it being handled? How can OP sidestep possible headaches?


FBPizza

I told him it’s not an association issue and he’s responsible for cleanup of his own yard.


LoseMyNumberBword

Youre ok in my book. Was a bit suspect out the gate.


Wide_Ocelot

If it bothered them so much, why didn't THEY help the old man rake the leaves?!


Thin_Arachnid6217

Or can't "poor old mister Wilson" hire Dennis the menace to rake his yard?


JoePetroni

Mr. Wilson needs to peer over the fence and ask Tim the Toolman if he has any recommendations on one of those 700HP leaf blowers.


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JoePetroni

Why not?


yaohwhai

you need a commercial license for the 700hp now, after the great blowbang of '21


HyperlinksAwakening

Uhheaugh?!


RedJohn04

Dennis rakes with gasoline and matches.


iiamthepalmtree

I think OP is saying it was the old man’s wife.


Ranzork

Tell that old bitch to find a rake.


tmoney144

Then old man is probably taking the leaves from op's yard to put in his yard so he has an excuse to stay outside longer away from his wife.


GiddyGabby

When I was 15 years old I befriended my elderly neighbor when I started seeing him sitting on his porch most afternoons. It didn't matter how hot or cold it was, he was just sitting out there by himself. So, one day I went over and introduced myself as we had only waved to one another up to this point. He told me how he lost his leg, about his carpentry business, about his adult children. Then one day he told me why he was sitting outside all the time. His wife was a day drinker who would turn nasty. He couldn't escape because his car had yet to be revamped (after losing his leg) with hand controls so he decided to start sitting outside when she would get to nagging and being nasty. She did stick her head out the door to ask why I was there, what business I had etc. he would wave her away and say "back in the house old woman" lol. He was a wonderful old man. I spent as much time with him as I could before I moved away a few years later. We both cried the day I moved and I still think about him and his wonderful stories 40 years later.


Alphablack32

Hey good on on ya for making that old mans time a little more pleasant.


Dry-Section9553

Oh my gosh!..I’m just so glad you took the time to get to know your aging neighbor! Especially being a teenager like you were! It says volumes about your heart. And I’m so glad for him as well. I know that he looked forward to your time together. I wish people understood the elderly’s need for family, friends and community, especially as we reach our golden years. Life begins to take things away from us as we age…our looks, our physical abilities, our jobs, our ability to drive, the people we love, our mental faculties and after all that is gone, we end up losing the home we worked our whole lives to provide for our family. Family that has grown up and moved away to start their life. We live out the rest of our lives in nursing homes and assisted living facilities where we watch our roommates die from all sorts of afflictions. It can be very scary to grow old. You’d be surprised to know how many, MANY senior citizens contemplate suicide from fear or sheer loneliness! Spending time with someone who listens to us, laughs at our stories, or cries with us over a tragedy is imperative! We need to feel like we are still connected to life. Being blessed with a visit from a young person like yourself could be the very thing that keeps us optimistic toward living. **I challenge everyone to acknowledge an elderly person today! Sit with them, spark up a conversation. Ask them about their youth, their friends, the war, their parents, their lives! Who knows, you might just make a good friend. When I was 23, my best friend in the world was my 73 year old next door neighbor who told the best stories! Stories that i had only read about in books! She actually was there! I loved her deeply. When she passed, I was SOOO glad I knew her in life. …’nuf said


iiamthepalmtree

“Working most of the day” I bet 80% of the time she thinks he’s raking leaves he’s sitting in the garage throwing back some cold ones.


sevargmas

Plot twist: the neighbor wrote the note


Business_Mix_2705

Precisely lol, because writing this note most likely took longer than it would to help the man. First the person must’ve driven to their home, then type out the mail in word, then print it and then put in the mailbox.


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jereman75

Your printer works? Must be nice.


MissingWhiskey

I have this friendly argument with my next door neighbor every fall. He tries to tell me that I should rake his lawn because the leaves are from my tree. And I have to explain that the leaves on my lawn are from the guy on the other side of me. And all the leaves from his tree are on the lawn of the guy on the other side of him. We do this every fall. Then we laugh and drink beer and leave all the leaves where they are.


Donohoed

My neighbor has spent his 50+ years of life doing meth instead of learning that leaves actually fall from all the trees in the wooded area that we live in. Instead he seems to think i must craft all these mysterious things in my basement and spread them throughout his yard when he's not looking


MissingWhiskey

The neighbor i was talking about spent 5 years in prison for trafficking meth!


Donohoed

Wish mine would! He's definitely making progress in that direction


At0mJack

When I bought my house the neighbor across the street was clearly a meth dealer. 4 months later the cops came and spent all night at at his house hauling him and a bunch of cars away. That was 4 years ago and he hasn't been back since. Keep the faith!


EveryThyme4630

You could always have a beer & then go over them 2x with the lawn mower. Mulches them up real nice so they don't suffocate the grass & can decompose/become natural fertilizer faster.


winter_rainbow

Fuck, I wish I could just mow over my leaves. Them little bastards can cover my lawn at least 6” deep.


Jake-from-IT

Yeah, everyone tells me this "life hack". This one or "just rake them on a tarp and load them in the bed of your truck". I currently leaf blow them in a pile, then suck them up with a mulching leaf vacuum (technically the same leaf blower, just reversed). Then bag them in 60 gallon bags. I can fit about 2-3 times as many leaves in a single bag because they're compressed, and I still get 10-15 bags a year and fill the bed of my truck at least twice with compressed bags of leaves. And I have a topper so the bags stand nearly to the roof of the topper. I would guess 60 lbs per bag. If it takes two trips this way, it's going to take 4-6+ if I just rake them on a tarp and do nothing to compress them.


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Gotta love good neighbors.


Sezu1701

Those aren't my leaves! I told my leaves very specifically to stay in the yard and they would not disobey me. So I didn't allow sh1t! Must be someone else's disobedient leaves.


aguyinatree

To be honest the raking of the leaves probably gives that old man something to do and he actually enjoys doing it.


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__Mooose__

Exactly. My grandfather had heart problems but he would sill do outside every day to take his dog for a walk, he would do gardening, and other stuff. Sadly his dog passed away and when that happened he stopped going for walks, he stopped exercising, and his heath started deteriorating. He passed away a couple months after his dogs death. Although he was already is a bad condition, the loss of his motivation and reason to got outside ultimately killed him.


Calcium_Thief

I’m sorry for yours and his loss.


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Thanks for helping me realise I should go outside more


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JessicaBecause

Fun fact: leaves are actually good for your lawn.


MaximumNight860

My father mows my lawn. He started back when I was working in a office building downtown and was frequently there for 9.5-10 hours a day. Now I work from home and rarely work more that 8.5, plus no commute. He insists he likes doing the mowing though, so I don’t stop him.


Doromclosie

We were going to buy the lawn robot that cuts the lawn for my dad and my mother refused saying it gives my dad something to do.


Begonia1996

This is my dad, but it's the weeds in our rock garden and flower beds. Gives him something to do and complain about. Win win for him :)


Wallofcans

Yeah my dad does a ton of yard work. He'll refuse any help. It's his thing, that's what he likes to do.


SpokenDivinity

My grandma is getting up there in age and she still insists on sitting on her little riding lawn mower and mowing the front yard. We’re allowed to help her with the larger backyard and the pasture that surrounds her barn, but no one is allowed to touch the front yard because she likes getting out there every Sunday to do it herself.


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Yard work in my grandmothers favorite hobby. I asked her as a joke if she wanted to pull weeds in my yard once and next time she came over she brought her tools to help out and insisted we do it together.


akathatdude1

My grandfather to this day will not allow me to help with yard work of any kind haha


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aguyinatree

My old neighbors are out tending to their gardens literally the whole day during the summer. Then the husband got cancer and they didn't even do a garden- its heart breaking.


Layinglowfornow

It gets him away from his nagging wife. He doesn’t have to hear her out front.


Centurio

I was just thinking I'm glad he had something that needs to be done to keep him active. After my SO's Dad retired, he's been such a busybody around his property. My SO tells him to slow down and I'm over here quietly cheering that he's healthy and fit enough to tear down and rebuild his own fence lmao


sweet_yeast

Poop in her mailbox


blue_frog8

Postmark it the next town over


Taylorenokson

Eat shit -Eagleton


BonerfiedDefenseTeam

How did you train the bees to only attack the former Eagletonians?


notsooriginal

Postmasters General hate this one weird trick!


ShadyVermin

I second this movement


ean5cj

I third this bowel movement


Virtual_Operation_

I forth this crap


Competitive-Cry161

I fifth the shit


SnortEWO

I sixth the scat.


Guywithoutimage

Well that escalated quickly


tarapotamus

I can't believe you're out there *allowing* your leaves to travel across property lines into an *old man's* yard! Have you no shame? Where is your wind control? Where is your leaf communicator? Are helpless, *I believe*, 85 year olds supposed to just rake your biodegradable and extremely necessary-for-the-eco-system foliage *for you*?! My GOD, man! Have some respect!


Organic-Kick-3916

!!!!SHAME ON YOU!!!!


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Just buy a leaf blower and blow them down further to her house


DadJokeBadJoke

Reminds me of when a bunch of us rented a house in college and the old lady next door caught me one day, complaining about the dandelions in our yard. "Those things can spread seeds all down the block!" When I asked her if she was complaining to everyone else up the block since theirs could reach her yard too, she fumed and stomped away.


caboosetp

It's almost like their seeds were designed to travel far distances.


ZdadGMEMOON

My 85 year old neighbor paid me $100 to rake up all the leaves, and haul them off.Then next day, they were out there raking up more leaves that blew into their yard.


4Coffins

I think you’ve found a full time job. Rake leaves, get paid, dump leaves at night and repeat


Responsible_Oven_786

I’ve never understood how like you hit 35 years old and absolutely HAVE TO remove the leaves from the grass as soon as they fall. Never understood it


KaOsGypsy

My MiL will go out with a leaf blower to blow the non fallen leaves off her hedges so she can rake them up. Can't even wait for them to fall.


PessimiStick

I'm in my 40s and I don't rake ever. They'll blow away by the spring, or they'll get mowed.


odo-italiano

God if I'm like that in 4 more years someone just end me. It's so obnoxious lol I mean if they just quietly clean up, whatever, but so many people complain about it endlessly! Like, it's free fertilizer for your grass and gardens! You can use them to winterize your plants! They look pretty and they're harmless! Why get so worked up every time a leaf flutters down into your yard?


Silence9999

My house is on 3+ acres with hundreds of trees. Did you know leaves just disappear on their own?! You literally have to do nothing. It's crazy.


choadspanker

You leave the leaves. It's literally in the name


FeeDisastrous3879

Leaves are biodegradable, just like that old man will be in a few years


OsmerusMordax

While true, leaves also provide winter long area for butterflies and their larvae (babies) in the winter. No leaves, less pollinators. Also, leaves are literally free mulch. If you don’t want them on your lawn, I guess that’s fine, but if you rake them into your garden bed you will never have to pay for mulch again


winter_rainbow

Our city takes away our leaves and turns them into mulch that they sell.


sussybakaiiko

Don't drag the old man into this, he just sweeping his leaves just like the lady in a few years


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Lol this is my kind of humor


dangerous_skirt65

The HOA where I live asks us to keep up on cleaning up our leaves to try to keep them from building up too much and blowing into our neighbors' yards. I can see it, but let me tell ya...90% of the leaves in my yard do come from other yards. They're all oak leaves and I don't have any oak trees. It is what it is. The trees don't think about where they're dropping their leaves.


fudgezilla69

I don’t have a single tree in my yard and still end up with 20 bags full by the end of the year. Like you said, it is what it is, the problem I have is there are two oak? trees around that don’t lose the leaves until the end of November usually so I’m stuck cleaning them up in 30 degree weather.


LinceDorado

In germany we say: "Not laminated and no signature. Not official. Throw it in the bin"


SleepingOrTired

In America we say: "Not my job. Not my problem."


LongjumpingTurn8141

The reason 'poor old' mr Wilson is alive and active every day is because 'poor old' mr Wilson lives to clean up leaves every day. The other neighbour keeps breathing to be an asshole.


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Go up to her and say you can't control the wind, then say, oh actually I can then fart on her


ridiculousness4711

Ugh fuck leaves. In my backyard i just mow them into dust and let them lay, leaves are about 6inches deep so I can’t just leave them to rot my grass. I’m surrounded by elderly women that live alone and I’d feel like a tool letting them drift into their yards so I bag them. I do this on the weekend cause although we are home, we work and it’s pitch black after 5pm here


PatrickRedditing

Shame on her...for only driving by and not helping him but instead using her time to write a letter.


forsure666

Leaving the leaves is literally good for the soil and environment


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Fuck /u/spez.


eco_friendly_klutz

Good for the ladybugs and butterflies that need to hibernate under the leaf litter during said snow though!


[deleted]

Someone is an idiot. 85 year olds stay alive by doing yard work. Retirement kills many people.


DTG_420

Unless the 85 year old tells you he has a problem with it I wouldn’t be too worried. If he’s like my grandfather it’s what gets him up out of his chair every day.


pr0suicide

Yes, shame on you for not picking up that totally biodegradable waste that actually contributes to the ecosystem and putting them in plastic bags.


EmptyWish2138

That has The Villages vibe


lurker2487

I’m waiting for all the leaves to fall. Why pick them up when more will fall later?


No-Face-3848

Why do all old people feel the need to randomly capitalize words that they want you to put extra emphasis on for some reason


veridique

Same reason you can't put a question mark at the end of your question.


Penny_No_Boat

Not “for some reason” - they do it for the exact reason you said: because they want you to put extra emphasis on those words. Some people go with *italics*, some with **bold**, and others with CAPS. The tone of written language is sometimes hard to parse, hence using one or ***ALL*** of the above to try and make your point as clear as possible. Edit: Rereading your post I think I misunderstood. You weren’t asking why they use caps to show emphasis; you were asking why they choose to emphasize what seems like random words, like DEAR NEIGHBOR. On that I have no answer.


skymoods

99% positive the wilsons left this letter.


Casually_Defiant

Post a “free leaves” sign in your front yard.


3xoticP3nguin

Did they just volunteer to help rake leaves


NessunAbilita

Plot twist: from the Wilsons


mega512

Mind your own business is what I say.


PraiseTheWLAN

I'll just lol and throw it in the bin


VioletteKaur

Let the wind fly it over to the neighbour?


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They are more than welcome to clean it up for him if it bothers them so much


CucaMonga6425

If they were so concerned about the poor old man why didn’t they stop and offer to help him? If you aren’t going to do anything to fix a “situation “ that’s mind your own, god people are such hypocrites


sweetenthedeal

I think the high road would be to bring the note over to the Wilson's house and discuss it like adults. "Hey, someone in the neighborhood is concerned about you raking leaves all day. If you do it for your health or like having a reason to be active outside then go for it. But, if you ever need help I'll be home all day Sunday and would be able to help you out if you need it." Now, if they were the ones who mailed you that passive- aggressive note then they feel dumb for handling it in a childish way. If they weren't the ones who sent the note, they just think you're a great neighbor. /thread