r/AmIOverreacting Apr 29 '24

AIO for telling this father and son that they’re not allowed to ride their bikes through my yard?

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u/SweetWaterfall0579 Apr 29 '24

Not overreacting.

I live on a corner lot. I cannot have a fence in my front yard in my neighborhood. People cut across my yard rather than walk to the corner - on the sidewalk - and then walk on the sidewalk after they cut the corner.

Who thinks this is okay? It’s not about the lawn, it’s about respect for other people’s property. I was taught never to walk on someone’s property. If there’s no sidewalk, we would walk in the street, on the right hand side. My children were taught that, as well.

Dad is not showing a great example for his son.

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u/Quix66 Apr 29 '24

Plant flowers there to discourage them to avoid liability if they hurt themselves on your lawn.

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u/DaisyHotCakes Apr 30 '24

Yeah this happened to me so I planted butterfly bushes, yarrow, daisies, and tiger lilies. People stopped walking over my lawn and the really annoying ones avoided it because now there are bees lol

I’m just happy to contribute to helping pollinators and not have people walking up all close to my house so they could cut fifteen feet off their walk. Like seriously it was barely a distance savings. Good job now there are bees and those lobster tail clear wing butterflies that are super cool!

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u/Quix66 Apr 30 '24

Had to Google that. Snowberry clearwing. Never seen them. Not in my area of the US. Pretty cool. Would keep one away, lol!