Neighbour wants to sit in my garden

[mackthepony]

Not sure if IABU or just curmudgeonly.

Neighbour is selling her house. Has a visit this afternoon. Wants to sit in our garden in the shade (hot here today) for one hour with her dog whilst the estate agent shows the house.

We live near a huge, leafy park with benches.

Not sure why this has pissed me off really as it doesn't affect me, but why can't she just sit in the park for an hour?

Aibu?

Me too, I'm in the North, must be our Northern hospitality 😂

Same, well north as in Scotland 😂

I live in London and I can't imagine saying no to this. It's not about north/south it's about being neighbourly.

Wouldn't mind if my neighbour asked.

Problem is, he would probably bring beer, so the state of my liver may be questionable afterwards!!!

It would be strange here as we don't really know many of the neighbours these days.

In an emergency I'd be fine with it being the neighbours, if I wasn't using my garden myself.

But I'd have an issue with the dog. Our garden isn't really dog friendly. I'm not really a dog person though so that aspect would be an issue for me.

It's not something I would ever ask to do at my neighbours, even if selling my house. I'd head out for a walk or something instead.

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I'm really struggling to understand why anyone would have a problem with this... I am not the most sociable neighbour but I would definitely say yes to this!

If she is a nice neighbour I wouldn't have a problem. If they were the local drug dealer then I would!

You don’t even need to talk to her if she sits in your garden! Why are people on here so weird/socially phobic?

I'm surprised there hasn't been a "you mean you answered a knock on your door?" 😳

I'm an antisocial grump in London but I wouldn't even think twice about saying yes. The reasons it might be of help to her (as opposed to going to the park) are obvious.

There's a bit of our garden I wouldn't want the dog to trample on and would ask that. I assume she's a good dog owner who'd control the dog and also clean up any accidents. Though I love dogs so the dog would probably spend most of its time being made a fuss of by me.

And of course I wouldn't feel obliged to let her do it it 5 times a week or whatever. If it's not convenient for me I would say so and I'm sure she'd understand. This isn't some sort of slippery slope whereby if you say yes once, you have to say yes forever.

My neighbour 3 doors down has adopted part of a shared access and had her entire garden paved. I don't have a problem with this however as part of the work she has allowed her builders to effectively dump all of the topsoil and garden waste in the part of the shared access that runs behind our property and 3 others. Initially it was all dumped behind our back fence effectively raising the ground level by 6 inches. She didn't understand why this was an issue but reluctantly got the builders to "spread" the garden waste, rather than remove it, as she was asked to do.
Having extended her garden, she now feels it's acceptable to leave her 3 wheels bins in the shared access behind someone else's garden, having tried to hide them behind my back fence.
Am I being unreasonable in feeling that extending her garden doesn't give her the right to dump her bins I'm the shared access?

I would absolutely yes accommodate this as I'm neighbourly but ultimately nosey and would want the low down on how the house sale process is going and any info on potential buyers/new neighbours ...

She wants to sit for an hour in your garden and you're that uncharitable that you can't do it, at least not without a grumble on MN? SMH

If something like this gets you raging, you need to seek help. I understand why she wants to move now. With neighbors like you, Id rather live alone in the mountains. She wants to sit quietly with her dog in your garden and that pisses you off? Maybe she cant walk to the park, if its hot I wouldnt walk my dog there either. Maybe she has medical issues that prevents her from walking that distance. It doesnt cost you money or time to let her sit in your garden. Unless she lets her dog shit all over your garden then maybe next time its a no but if you cant stand to have a neighbor in your garden for a mere hour, you should move to the middle of nowhere and be miserable by yourself. Other people might prefer a friendly and kind neighbor.

If it was a boiling hot day maybe she didn't want to take her dog too far.
In my opinion you're being unreasonable and I feel for this Poor woman... Asking a neighbor for a tiny bit of help and she gets this response.