Man refuses to keep mowing his elderly neighbors' two-acre meadow for free after their adult kids demand it once the parents are gone
Helping elderly neighbors with their garden is one of those genuinely wholesome things people do, made slightly more wholesome by the fact that the tractor was a major part of the appeal from day one. Not purely selfless, not purely selfish. Just a nice arrangement where everyone got something out of it, and a two-acre meadow stayed under control.
The arrangement worked because it was built on a real relationship. Showing up for people in their 90s who can no longer manage their own property is meaningful in a way that transcends the mowing itself. The warm fuzzy feeling was real, and it was earned. When that relationship ended and the property passed into the hands of adult children in their late 50s who live elsewhere and hired professional cleaners for everything except the meadow, something fundamental changed even if the task stayed identical.
Neighbours want me to maintain their meadow for free.
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I regularly cut my neighbour's grass (a 2 acre meadow that adjoins our garden)
I began because my neighbours are/were a very elder...