LML is Annoyed!
As I walked past my front door earlier today I noticed through the sidelights that there was a big yellow lab laying on my front sidwalk. He was pretty close to the house and he was on a leash. I recognized that dog. There is a lady that I see several times a week walking that dog through the neighborhood.
I stood there a couple of minutes watching him through the window and wondering where his owner was. I was about to go out there and look around for the lady I always see walking him and then I saw her. She was standing by our rose bushes. Then I realized that she was clipping roses off our bushes!
Here is a picture of the bushes that she was cutting our roses from. They look a little bare since some stranger was clipping the flowers off of them! I wish I would have been quick enough to take a picture of her through the window while she was standing there. So strange!
I was floored! This is someone I have never met, just seen walking her dog in the neighborhood and she was standing in my yard clipping roses off my bushes! Lazy Dad Philip didn’t seem to be as annoyed by this as I was but he was a sweet husband and went outside to talk to her.
He asked her what she was doing. She apologized for her dog being in our yard and commented on the pretty flowers. Philip told her if she wanted to clip the flowers she needed to knock on the door and ask us. I think he was too nice. I should have gone out there as I would have told her to stop and NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!
Is it just me or is this very strange and extremely rude?
Hey Leslie,
Leslie in Marietta here. I side with you on this one. I find it rather presumptious of your neighbor lady just taking what is not hers and not bothering to ask your permission first! It’s not like just because you don’t have a fence around your roses she can come right up and take what is right fully yours! For all intensive purposes this is the definition of “Theft by taking” and you are completely in the right to feel so violated! It sure would make me mad too!
oh my!! I would have flipped! And my husband, of course, would have been much nicer. I find it strange that happened here in the states but wouldn’t be so surprised if it happened in Greece. Different sense of personal space!
Wow. That is a bit unusual. I mean, if she would have just ASKED, you know?
Totally bizarre! Good thing our front yard is so ugly; nothing for anyone to clip!
Wow wow wow!! Totally uncalled for! That was a very diplomatic way to handle the situation. I don’t think I would have been as nice either. Perhaps if there’s a next time you give her a card with the Lazy Mom website and then post her picture while clipping the roses so she can see herself on the internet. THAT might get the point across!
I think you need to find her yard and take whatever you want….oh my……well, I don’t know what I would have done. She should have asked. I did find folks picking up pecans in my front yard, but I didn’t care too much about that….but my flowers???? I’m afraid I’d have taken out a vase and say thanks for cutting those for me, I was just coming out to get some!!! that is some kind of NERVE!!
suzanne
Wow, I don’t think I would have handled this as well as your husband did. I would have also sent mine out there instead of me going. You never know when you need a neighbor and it would not have been pretty if I went.
Look on the positive side, now she has opened the door for a relationship where she owes you the cost of a dozen roses.
I know what you can get her for Christmas, her own rose bush.
We’ll do drive by clippings of her yard tonight! Two wrongs do make a right (ha)!
In my pregnancy induced hormotional state I would have totally gone off on her! Probably for the best that your husband handled it for the first offense, though, since she’s a neighbor and you have to put up with her. Here’s the question you need to be prepared for, though: What if she does come up to the door in a week or two and asks your permission to cut some more? Phillip didn’t say she couldn’t do that again, he told her she just had to ask first! If she has the nerve to cut them without your permission and thinks nothing of it, she probably wouldn’t hesitate to do it again as long as she asked first! After all, the only thing she thought she had to apologize for was having her dog in your yard!
OMG!!! I would be mad as heck. Its quite obvious from the photo that you take care of your plants so I would see why you are totally upset by this.
Maybe you should go clip some flowers from her garden. But I do like Malinda’s idea. Photograph her and put it up on the website.
Hopefully she already knows you have a website and has already seen this.
My vote is EXTREMELY rude. Why don’t people use their brains once in a while? Would she want someone coming into her yard clipping whatever? I think not. I would even clip from my friends yard in less I checked first…Maybe she was having a garden party and those roses were the perfect backdrop. Ask first….that’s all.
you’ve got to be freaking kidding me. is she mental or just clueless?
UNBELIEVABLE!!! I am a gardner and work hard to keep my plants looking beautiful. I would have had to say something to the lady…neighbor or not, she was treaspassing and very presumptious to steal the flowers….especially roses! Did she bring her own pruners? Roses don’t just snap off the bush. Seems to me she very deliberatly planned to cut your roses. I probably would have approached her nicely but respectively, told her she could not cut my roses from my bush and then happily explain to her where I bought the plants so she could get her own. People are incredible!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! I should spell check next time….I meant “deliberately”
how brave and rude. my dad once had someone pick every single orange from one of the orange trees in our grove. i guess people don’t realize that they are grown for income, not for just anyone to come a pickn’!
Oh, isn’t that something!?! The nerve of some people! Maybe you need to make a cute little sign that says, “No flower picking, take a picture instead!”
I can’t believe that! That is rude. My husband never would have gone out there.
Holy cow, I would be so annoyed if somebody was taking my flowers. I take my own flowers rather sparingly so I don’t leave my garden bare. I would have said the same thing I did last halloween when some kids threw a pepsi or something in our driveway…. “Honey, x just happened and if you don’t go out there RIGHT NOW and deal with it, I’M GOING TO DO IT MYSELF.” And he scurried right out there quicklike because he was pretty sure if I went out there they would have come back with eggs and thing would have gotten messy from there.
If that happened to me I totally would have been like, “Excuse me, do you mind?! I work very hard to try and keep those bushes well flowered and it’s kind of rude to just go around clipping other people’s bushes!”
Dang, that wasn’t that threatening. What can I say, I’m Canadian. I don’t think anyone in my neighbourhood would have the nerve to steal flowers in broad daylight.
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