If you need to retrieve something from your neighbour's garden, it is generally polite to ask before jumping through of your own accord. Unfortunately, one woman was left fuming after her neighbour "trampled" through her hedges during Easter weekend to collect his ball and squashed all of her spring flowers in the process, the Mirror reports.
The homeowner insists she does not mind her neighbour coming into her garden to get his possession back but had a problem with his behaviour when she caught him red handed standing on her snowdrop flowers. Feeling "riled up" after the encounter, the homeowner took to Mumsnet to slam her neighbour before sharing her own Easter weekend revenge plot.
In a post she wrote: "Neighbours are having a party. With the sort of guests who don't think they're having a good time unless their laugh carries 6 doors. Fair enough, it's a sunny weekend."
However, her opinion of their get together quickly changed when she discovered a man carelessly trampling over her flowers while trying to retrieve a ball from her garden. The woman continued: "I'm just returning from the compost heap when I spot a man standing in my snowdrops, about to insert himself through a thin bit of hedge.
"I'm quite happy to throw balls back. I'm happy for someone to come and get their ball if they come in from the drive at the top, and keep to the paths. But to push through the hedge and trample the borders, that's not on."
Now, the woman is questioning whether or not she should stop being so considerate of her rude neighbours when they clearly aren't to her. She added: "I was looking at the lawn this morning thinking 'that needs a mow, but I can't do it on a bank holiday weekend when people are enjoying their gardens'. But now I’m not feeling so charitable".
However, people reassured the mum she should go ahead with her plans to cut the grass regardless of the rude run in with her neighbour. One person replied: "There is clearly an unwritten rule that has bypassed me. Mine needs a mow and if it is dry tomorrow it will be getting done as it is the only day I have got the time to do it. Just mow the lawn."
Someone else wrote: "My neighbours were mowing this afternoon and someone else was cutting their hedge at 6.30. It wouldn't be me but it doesn't bother me!"
A third advised there's no problem with it as long as she doesn't start work "too early" as the person advised to not do it before 10:30am. The mum replied: "Oh, that's an idea! Before breakfast! That'll be a happy revenge for having my snowdrops trampled!"
However, she went on to insist that she was only kidding on and wouldn't be going through with her own revenge plans. She clarified: "I won't, of course. I've vented my anger on here. So it'll be next week. It may not be accepted etiquette, but I'm not going to make loud antisocial noises on a bank holiday weekend if I don't need to."
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