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To play cf neighbours at their own game

210 replies

Raspberryberetthekindyoufind · 27/08/2018 12:10

Nest door moved in about a year ago, an older couple and asked DH very nicely if he would mind mowing their lawn when he does ours as they really struggle. DH agreed and said no problem at all
Anyway fast forward to now DH has a bad back and has done for three weeks so our grass and their grass has got really long. I have physical disability so can’t do it myself.
I told neighbours when he did his back in and said hopefully he would be able to do it in a few weeks. The women seemed really put out but but I put it down to catching her at a bad moment.
Three weeks on DH is getting better but wants to leave the mowing for another week until he is properly better
Knock on the door last night and it was the man next door demanding to know when he lawn would be cut, I explained it would hopefully be in a week or so and he stormed off.
This morning I was in the garden and so were next door and she said loudly to her husband that we should pay for someone to do both lawns as they look awful and it’s down to us to sort them. Just then their son who is in his thirty’s arrives with his wife and son and comes in the back garden.
I pop my head over and say “Hi, can I ask you a favour since both lawns are looking awful and DH is laid up with his back could you give both of them a run over for us. Especially as DH has done your parents lawn for over a year, Thankyou soooooo much. I then went back inside with them stareing at me open mouthed.
The son is now mowing our lawn Grin

OP posts:
MistyMinge · 27/08/2018 12:41

High five!!

I hope your DH has no intention of doing their lawn ever again. Cheeky fuckers.

diddl · 27/08/2018 12:42

If both sons visit so often, I wonder why they even asked your husband in the first place?

AwdBovril · 27/08/2018 12:42

Brilliant! Grin

Justkeeprollingalong · 27/08/2018 12:43

Well done! Also well done for thinking of the right thing to say at the right time! I usually think of the grand repost 20 minutes later!

Maelstrop · 27/08/2018 12:44

Ha, you are my hero, well done! Perhaps their able bodied son could do it in future? Cheeky fucks coming round to tell you the lawn’s too long?!

Timeisslippingaway · 27/08/2018 12:45

👏👏👏

Birdsgottafly · 27/08/2018 12:46

""the son should have been doing it all along!""

You don't know what else he might do for them, or what his own life entails.

My Mum used to pay a fella to do hers, £10 a go. One neighbour hinted that I should have been doing it. I already did her 'heavy' cleaning, change curtains, DIY etc. As well as my own as a LP, widowed with three children and working.

So, no, I wasn't going to do my Mums, when she could well afford to pay what she did.

Don't put it on their Son, it's their lawn. That's how CF get away with it. The Son might live with a level of FOG as it is.

Raspberryberetthekindyoufind · 27/08/2018 12:46

Well thought that was that. CF neighbour has just stormed round. I answered and he said we have broken a contract and we will be hearing from their solicitor over the lawn Hmm Hmm. When I said go ahead.
He stormed back off. Me and DH are sat here laughing.
The son has done our lawn but not their lawn.

OP posts:
JohnnyKarate · 27/08/2018 12:48

Tell him good luck with that Grin

TurnipCake · 27/08/2018 12:49

Solicitor? LOL!

brizzledrizzle · 27/08/2018 12:49

Well done...let their son do it - it's more his responsibility than yours.

flumpybear · 27/08/2018 12:51

Bloody hell - entitled CFs - Shock

Goostacean · 27/08/2018 12:51

Ahaha! Well done OP! Cheeky beggars! Can’t wait to see what their “solicitor” says...

GertrudeCB · 27/08/2018 12:52

Unhinged.

OftenHangry · 27/08/2018 12:52

This is getting better and better 😂

Please keep us updated.

diddl · 27/08/2018 12:53

Oh I love the idea of it having formed a contractGrin

2littleguineas · 27/08/2018 12:54

They sound unhinged! You however sound like a heroGrin

onalongsabbatical · 27/08/2018 12:55

Cheeky fuckery is a mystifying ailment, isn't it? How on the flipping earth did they dream up they had a contract?

Juells · 27/08/2018 12:55

The son has done our lawn but not their lawn.

I wonder if his parents forbade him to do it on the grounds that your DH was responsible?

MsHomeSlice · 27/08/2018 12:55

whose mower are they using?? If your dh usually does it, then do they even have a mower?

well done op!

BewareOfDragons · 27/08/2018 12:56

Wait ! They have TWO grown up sons who are there weekly and they don't do the fucking lawn for their parents?!

I would definitely be making it clear that you won't be doing it for them any more and that there sons should have been doing it all along for them if they 'can't' do it themselves.

CocoCharlie83 · 27/08/2018 12:56

Well played OP and I would refuse to lift a finger for them in the future.

Although if this numpty gets solicitors involved (they should laugh him out but might write a letter since they'll be getting paid) you would end up with a dispute which could affect you if you were to sell the house.

MilkybarGrownup · 27/08/2018 12:56

OMG! PLEASE get a hold of their son before he leaves and ask him what the fuck is going on? Maybe he can explain his parent's craziness. Or he could be just as batshit and give us more for this beautiful thread!

MistyMinge · 27/08/2018 12:56

WTF! What contract is that exactly? ShockHmm

BewareOfDragons · 27/08/2018 12:57

A Contract has been broken? Wow.

Last time I checked, each party to a contract has to be getting something out of it...

I hope their own son told them they were being cheeky fuckers and is embarrassed by his parents' behaviour.

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