[TC Rider]

Here's how a neighborhood should work.

Several years ago, when we had the big house, I noticed a neighbors lawn was probably getting close to 8 or 10 inches.

I finished mowing mine and just went across the street and started on theirs. In about 10 minutes, another neighbor had sent his boy down to pitch in. Soon thereafter there was four of us mowing, trimming and blowing.

In no time the yard looked fine.

A few days later the owners returned from the funeral in Colorado to find they had one less thing to worry about.

[ShadowDancer]

I guarantee you, if I or anyone else so much as stepped on her lawn, let alone mowed it, she would have us arrested for trespassing. Not all people are normal.

[Quilla]

The house next door to ours is empty. The owner, however, mowed the grass for a couple of months right after we moved into the rural neighborhood. He hasn't been back since. I mowed his yard for two years and finally said, "to heck with it!" In the six years since, vines and shrubs have grown up to the fascia, the grass is several feet high. Everyone on our road is upset with the owner (an attorney who lives in town) as we feel it makes our rather upscale neighborhood look shabby. Yet to expend my time and resources seems unfair. WWTCD?

[anonymous_user]

Here's how a neighborhood should work.

Exactly! We meet all the neighbors whenever it snows.

[Clemenza]

You sound like my kind of neighbor TC. A guy who mows my lawn for free? That would be cool!