Gate - how bothered are you?

[spottedsocks]

A very boring thread for a slow Sunday in my house! I live in a house where there’s a shared path separating the front gardens to our doors and there’s a gate. My neighbours are very obsessive about the gate being shut. Even going so far as to run out straight away after a delivery driver or postman has left it open. They’ve posted passive aggressive notes through the door ordering me to shut the gate even when it wasn’t me that left it open. I always shut it as it’s become a habit. They don’t have children only a dog so I kind of understand the need for it to always be shut. I have a small child and it doesn’t bother me as I have a latch on the door meaning she wouldn’t be able to escape. Does anyone else go so far as to go out and shut it as soon as you notice it’s open? It doesn’t really cross my mind. It’s quite hefty gate so doesn’t swing about in the wind causing a racket

It’s one that you can climb over too so not a security measure

Can you attach a gate closer thing to it? Like on a fire door, to automatically shut it.

It does get mostly shut by visitors/postmen just not put on the latch so it’s not fully ‘closed’ iyswim. It’s got a spring loaded latch that can be quite difficult and heavy so some people probably just give up I suppose! Gosh I need to get out more, the cold weather makes me hibernate

You need a sign.
Shut gate or risk being shot...

I probably would go out and close it tbh. It would annoy me if it was open.

I think that if people are going to be that upset by the gate, it is something they should have considered when choosing their house. A shared gate doesn’t mean shared feelings on said gate. I personally always close the gate because we had a got growing up but how can you guarantee your neighbour would do the same?

Dog*

Yes I would go out and close it as soon as I noticed.

Next time they leave a note, I’d just pop round with it and tell them it wasn’t you.

They do sound slightly obsessed about it.