to put something in the space between two garages

[jackdawdawn]

There is a gap of about two feet between my garage and my neighbour's, and I'm not sure who owns it - it's just the boundary really. Anyway, today I put an old boulder (about the size of a brick) in there out of the way, and my neighbour (elderly but still perfectly OK and not with any issues I know about), came charging out to complain. Are they just being a bit batty? I mean, the world is crisis with disease and the economy tanking, and someone is worried about that? Are people just getting hung up on silly pettiness with lockdown, or did I commit some heinous faux pas?

@LillianBland - I think the Vikings invaded first. It was probably the Anglo Saxons who invaded Ireland. So you raise a good point - the Saxons should also apologise. I think the Romans are off the hook, what with their roads and everything.

@Hingeandbracket

Yeah maybe it was. But I'm sick of this generation right now. The wealthiest, most privileged generation in history. Sitting on inflated house price wealth and pensions subsidised by the young. We've just locked down at great cost to young ppl to protect them and yet still shitty behaviour. I just cannot best their pettiness, as OP points out we have actual crisis, mostly caused by them and they are being batshit about bricks. What an utterly ridiculous generalisation. Are you usually so vile and judgemental - assigning all sorts of characteristics to a huge swathe of people based entirely on blind prejudice?

Not just a ridiculous generalisation, but inaccurate as well. The eldest baby boomers are 75-76, the youngest still in their 50s. So the fact the OP describes her neighbour as "elderly but still perfectly OK" suggest she is too old to be a boomer, and the overlap is small between boomers and the people we've lockdown to protect (actually we were protecting the NHS in the hope it might be still available to younger people as well as older).

The whole "boomer" thing has become a way of "legitimising" nasty ageist behaviour from those who always have been ageist.

whowouldhavethought Womanfully ignoring the boomer aspect of this marvellous thread and concentrating on the boulder aspect - I agree with your analysis as to age being one determinative factor in the rock/boulder debate.
Size wise a brick sized anything simply can’t be a boulder surely.
There has been a request above for a diagram can I add that it have scale measurements so we can settle this part of the quandary ?

The thought of a boulder being pushed into a two foot gap between two domestic garages is very disturbing.

Are you actually laying most of the blame for COVID at the door of baby boomers?

Well at least it leaves teachers off the hook, unusual for MN!

Another restless night thinking about the 'brick-sized boulder'. I'm beginning to wonder if I am focusing on the wrong thing. Perhaps 'brick-sized' is an aberration of a spellchecker and the significant information is indeed 'boulder' If the boulder is 2 feet by 3 feet (although so may call this a large rock) and OP was trying to shift it, what if it had slipped and trapped OP's arm twixt boulder and garage wall?

What immediately springs to mind is that chap (Aron Ralston) who, whilst hiking in the Utah desert, became victim of a similar fate and after a couple of days of drinking his own urine had the unenviable task of cutting off his own arm with a penknife.

I've scoured the local Nuneaton press but can find no reference to a similar event. I do hope OP is alright. I know it can be difficult holding a phone and typing messages with just one hand. With any luck hopefully the elderly lady may look in on OP.

@mrsBtheparker

Are you actually laying most of the blame for COVID at the door of baby boomers?

Well at least it leaves teachers off the hook, unusual for MN!

What about a boomer which is a teacher?

Maybe I should ask, might cause more sleepless nights.

I hope it's not this boulder

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What happened next?

I know I'm missing the point, but a brick isn't a boulder. A boulder is a lot bigger than a brick.

My concern exactly, even an oompa loompa wouldn't t call a brick a boulder.

Only here could a post about throwing a rock into a gap between two garages, turn into an argument about whose generation had it hardest.

😂

Yes exactly, as it is said "let (s)he cast the first stone..."
Although in this case it is of course a 'brick-sized boulder'.

I'm not quite sure where I'm going with this...

I can’t believe this thread is still going!
Vikings? Boomers? Anglo Saxons?
Bloody hell.
Take the boulder/brick/breeze block/lump of concrete to the tip.
Don’t put anything between the garages.

Good point @1Morewineplease.
Not even logs or bikes.
I do hope OP heeds your advice, then we can all finally get some peace.

Please, please, please stop.
I am laughing so hard it hurts and, as a boomer with a weakened pelvic floor, there's going to be a nasty accident ... which I will get blamed for - along with everything else