Last November, a woman in her early 30s moved in opposite us, bought the house outright after making a good whack on a property in London. Good job, career woman, out 8am til 7pm Monday to Thursday, 8am til 4pm Friday... Not a fan of serious relationships as she is a career woman, and has only had one casual fella for a few weeks in July.
Her parents (mid 50s) live down south where she came from, and in early June, they came to stay for a week, and her dad did her garden. Mowed the lawn (first time it had been done since she moved in,) and weeded the beds. Also planted some bedding plants.
I was weeding our garden, and planting a few bedding plants. (I love gardening, but we have a large corner plot, and 3 lawns, and it's quite hard work and high maintenance.) I am in my mid 50s and DH in his mid to late 50s, and we're not getting any younger and not in the best of health, and it's getting harder as we get older..
DH has been for a couple of procedures at hospital in the past 4 years that put him off work for a couple of months.
When I was weeding one day, this woman's dad - who hadn't said a word to us the whole week - decided to speak to us (and the woman who lives there had not had much to do with us in the 6 months she had been there. She seemed OK, and had spoken several times, but we hardly saw her, and she had her own life...)
He chatted about the weather for 2 minutes, told us 'Hayley' had settled in well, and as he walked off he said 'don't be afraid to mow her lawn if you see it getting too long, and weed her beds if they get messy...Hayley isn't much of a gardener.' And then grinned at me...
I was like 'oh..' 
Within 5 minutes I was steaming. I thought 'you cheeky cunt. We don't know you, we don't know HER, she has hardly spoken to us in the 6 months since she moved in, and her dad was expecting us - the people living opposite, who are 25 years older,, and who actually have jobs, and family, to maintain his daughter's garden. because she 'isn't much of a gardener.'
Why the fuck did she buy a HOUSE with a 30 ft X 50 ft lawn at the front then, surrounded by 4 feet wide flower beds?
As I said, we have our own (large) garden, and THAT is enough of a struggle to look after. I mean, we love it and all, but like fuck are we going to start maintaining some random woman's garden, who has hardly spoken to us, and who is 25 years younger, and could easily afford to pay someone to do it!
After a few minutes, I fished out a leaflet for a local cheap and friendly gardener, who mows the lawn for a tenner, and does weeding and general maintenance. I took it over to the house, and told him (politely even though I was annoyed,) that me and DH can't help as we struggle to maintain our own garden. He said 'oh thanks.. I will pass it to Hayley.'
I don't know if Hayley even knew he had asked to be fair, but what a cheek!
Hilariously, the lawn has only been mown once since- by a bloke she was seeing for a few weeks in July, and is a foot and a half high now. She has never done it herself... And the flower beds have 3 foot high weeds in them. The poor bedding plants have been suffocated by the weeds! So she clearly never contacted the gardener.
Like fuck are we going to give a free gardening service to a woman we barely know, who has barely acknowledged us since she moved in, who is 25 years younger, and is PERFECTLY capable of doing it herself - or paying for it herself.
Cheeky fuckery at its finest!
And no, @2ndtimemum2 I am not impressed by cheeky fuckers . I think they're arseholes.
disclaimer... HAYLEY is not her real name!