Walking across someone's front grass is not acceptable?

[gobbleguts]

I've always considered that you use a path when walking towards someone's house, I share a front garden with my neighbour so we have half the grass each.

My neighbour and their guests repeatedly walk across our side of the grass to get next door instead of taking an extra 5 seconds to follow the pathway!

Even delivery couriers do it! It's infuriates me! It's so rude. Is it just that others think it's fine?! I am I the unreasonable one to think it's not on?

I just find it so rude to walk across someone's property because you can't be bothered to take the pathway. Especially during spring when I've refilled patches with grass seed and trying to get the lawn looking it's best and someone tramples all over it

AIBU? Or are they?!

Just get a fence. I always think it’s weird to not have a fence in set ups like this. Make it into more of an obvious garden and fence it and people won’t walk over it.

Agree it’s rude and would annoy me! But I wouldn’t have a non-fenced front garden in the first place. Do you only mow your half?

No mow all of it, we both do.

I had a shared lawn like this. Neighbours were great but the postie walked across the grass. I hated the grass anyway (such a faff) so dug my half up and put in shrubs with a gravelled bit in the middle.

Bet you're fun at parties😀

Yanbu.

I have a neighbour with kids in their early 20’s whose friends visit and park outside our house. They walk in our front garden and across the drive past my garage. Extremely rude.
I would flag with the neighbour but we live on a private road of 5 houses and all get along, so I wind my neck in. If I ever catch them when outside I will scold them —like they’re 5 year olds— 😳

I would be extremely annoyed, and this sort of thing is why I wouldn't want to live anywhere that has open-plan front garden
If people continue to take shortcuts across your front lawn after you've told them politely not to, I'd consider putting up some sort of fence to prevent this. Or, if I was feeling particularly malicious, I would leave a garden implement hidden in the grass so that when it was stepped on the handle would come up and whack the trespasser in the face!

I wouldn't care about this but I think you could put a wall or hedge in to separate the 2 lawns and it would keep people from walking across. I don't think it would look odd. Most people have fences or hedges or walls to separate their garden from their neighbours and to create an enclosed space.

YANBU. Heads on spikes will see off the trespassers!