Context: I haven’t been able to care for my yard as much as I would like over the past few months because we had our second child back in February and I’ve been single-handedly caring for the newborn and our 5 year old while my wife has been in the hospital recovering from postpartum complications. At no point has my yard been out of compliance with city or HOA ordinances, and at no point has anyone bothered to approach me directly about the matter. Instead, we just received this anonymous passive-aggressive letter in the mail. They even postmarked it and sent it through the mail, rather than walking a few doors down and speaking to me like a human being.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/upiot5/comment/i8kyqr4/
The only possible reasonable response to this is to replace 80% of the lawn with rocks, ferns, water-features, and garden plots, and let the rest grow wild to attract pollinators and piss the neighbours off.
I'm currently looking at what it would take to xeriscape my lawn. Fuck grass all my homies hate grass.
The trick is to form a vanguard party to usurp and disband the HOA
I've heard a few stories of people who were pissed off at their HOA going around and organizing the neighborhood, getting enough votes to take over the board, and then legally disbanding the HOA.
It's possible the redditor here lives in a development without a homeowners association, given that their neighbourhood Karen opted for an anonymous letter in the mailbox, rather than officially reporting to said association.
Seriously. I live next to a few Lawn Guys now, I've been encouraging my dandelions to get out of hand and spreading wildflower seeds like crazy
Anti lawn aktion
As long as there isn't those foxtails that embed into poor doggies' paws.
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YOUR neighbors would be very grateful if your house did not look like it was the site of a recent and extremely gruesome ritual murder. head on a spike on the lawn, blood and viscera all over the windows. echos of atavistic screams ringing in the ears of children.
so cool it with the fuckin' notes probably.
YOU HAVE TO WASTE GASOLINE TRIMMING YOUR MONOCROP LAWN :guts-rage:
grass is a crop, many animals eat it. "monoculture" i guess is the more accurate word
Suburban culture is just being as much of an anonymous ass hole as you can to fill the void in your soul without being ostracized by the community for it getting out you aren’t acting normal
"why haven't you tended to your destructive monoculture lawn to my liking?"
i cant wait til i kill my entire front lawn and make it all into a garden. Mowing the lawn fucking sucks and any brodad who likes it is just desperate for an activity to avoid the children and wife.
One time my dad had me were building a fence around our acre and he was constantly moving where the holes would go, and also refused to use our post hole digger and instead relied upon a small shovel. I asked him why were doing things the difficult long way and yeah he said he just needed something to do and not be around my mom
Working on lawns now, something I hate and would otherwise reject if not for building a work history to transition to the parks department, I have so much contempt for people with good lawns. They are fucking sociopaths whose devotion to green concrete is an existential blight on the world. God damn them for being so stupid. God. Damn. Them. All.
If the neighbors sent me this they'd get an IRA style car bomba in their shitty vehicle
My blood is fucking boiling just reading this. If I were this person I'd probably lose my shit and do something outside of HOA compliance out of spite and end up fucked with whatever the consequences are.
Fuck home owners associations. American libs and chuds love to spout racist shit about how Asians and Slavs brains are built in a way that they desire to be under authoritarian control, but once again it's literally all projection. No one loves having an oppressive force making arbitrary decisions for them more than rich, white Americans do so long as it also keeps the line going up.
"Muh freedumz! Muh freedumz! Fuck solving climate change, what about ME ME ME!?!?"
"ME ME ME! You need to be MORE LIKE ME!"
When my kids were 1 and 2 years old my wife and I tag teamed work and kids, I worked third shift and she worked first, so it was hard to get outside. A neighbor came over and asked if he could shovel my driveway. I said nah, that's ok, but he insisted and told me that he felt called by Jesus to shovel my driveway. Wouldn't you know it but apparently Jesus never asked him to do it again.
People like this are always angry about something and look like they're about to burst every blood vessel in their brain with how tense they are.
