scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
^ I'd often do that, too, until a neighbour bought a snowblower and insisted on clearing his driveway, our driveway, and a few more, along with the sidewalk for 10 houses in each direction. Other than a few minor flurries, I haven't shovelled anything in three or four years...and it's a shame as I love being out at night in the winter, with no one around but the Christmas lights.
I used to shovel over to exactly where our driveway ended and the neighbour's driveway started, but the neighbour only ever shovelled as far over as necessary to get their car out of the garage. This would leave a one foot strip on their side that perpetually turned to ice and stuck around until April. It would have taken me 10 seconds to run the shovel along that sliver of snow but, on principle or out of suburban anger, I never did it...it was truly a snowman's land.
Even funnier was this neighbour's neighbour, two doors down from me - these two neighbours shared two feet of grass between their driveways, with one foot on each side of the property line, I guess. My neighbour's neighbour would cut this strip of lawn, but *only* the foot of it that belonged to them, while my neighbour proper would never cut their foot. Naturally, the most incredibly tall grass and weeds would proliferate here. Looking over it, I felt like I was spying across a patch of the Suburbangeti.
These neighbours would sometimes leave a branch full of pears on our doorstep for Chinese New Year. When they first moved in, they took everything that was left in the house by previous owners - drapes, cardboard, etc. - and burned it in a huge, illegal backyard bonfire.
I used to shovel over to exactly where our driveway ended and the neighbour's driveway started, but the neighbour only ever shovelled as far over as necessary to get their car out of the garage. This would leave a one foot strip on their side that perpetually turned to ice and stuck around until April. It would have taken me 10 seconds to run the shovel along that sliver of snow but, on principle or out of suburban anger, I never did it...it was truly a snowman's land.
Even funnier was this neighbour's neighbour, two doors down from me - these two neighbours shared two feet of grass between their driveways, with one foot on each side of the property line, I guess. My neighbour's neighbour would cut this strip of lawn, but *only* the foot of it that belonged to them, while my neighbour proper would never cut their foot. Naturally, the most incredibly tall grass and weeds would proliferate here. Looking over it, I felt like I was spying across a patch of the Suburbangeti.
These neighbours would sometimes leave a branch full of pears on our doorstep for Chinese New Year. When they first moved in, they took everything that was left in the house by previous owners - drapes, cardboard, etc. - and burned it in a huge, illegal backyard bonfire.
