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[JongnoGuru]

(No, I don't actually want you Korean rangwijee kidz to consult your online dictionaries and tell me something I already know.)

There's a close neighbour whose roof I can see from mine. I say "close" but that's relative, and I'm not a very good judge of distances. 40 m? More? Anyway, although it is relevant to this incident, I just don't know exactly how far away his place is from me. Also, he's down the mountain from me, so it seems further than it may be.

Some days ago I was up on my roof checking on recently replaced drains, as you do after heavy rains like the ones we've been having. It was from up there that I could see that the neighbour's roof was an absolute lake, half of it. Water ankle-high it looked in one section.

The next day I climbed up again, and the neighbour's roof was still a wading pool on one side. That afternoon I passed by the neighbour's house and his driver was outside the gate. I told him about the drainage problem and said he ought to tell his boss, since it seems they aren't aware of it. The guy thanks me, and I forget about it.

Yesterday morning, I see workmen up on the neighbour's roof unclogging drains, setting out a massive tarp, and preparing to do what looked to be some resurfacing & retiling in one area. Yesterday evening, I'm coming home from dinner out with friends and I'm passing by the neighbour's car as he pulls into his garage. I waited until they got out, and was going to have a brief chit-chat about their roof.

I thought perhaps he might thank me. You know -- one neighbour looking out for another. Well, no. He tells me that the fallen leaves that had clogged his drains (and apparently caused leak in the house) are from trees on my property, and that this time he'll let it go, but if I don't do something about those trees.... (the implication being that he's going to hold me financially responsible for any future rain damage to his house )

That's just stupid all around. First, there are trees all over, not just in my garden. There's a whole forest around here. Second, how am I supposed to control the wind from blowing leaves from trees on my property down the mountain, skipping at least one other property along the way, and landing on this geezer's roof (which he doesn't bother to inspect ever)?

No, I'm not the least bit worried. But I must say I am rather at a loss for words to describe this attitude. (And this is one of many examples I might bore you with.) It's just .... supreme chutzpah is what it is. I can't think of any other term.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Sorry, but I have no sympathy for you tree-owning folks. Our neighbor has three big trees that dump all their leaves and twigs on our yard and I, I repeat I, have to go out in this heat and humidity and rake them up. Can't even use 'em for a weeny roast 'cause they're too green.


(We had a semi-tornado the other day and my hands have blisters from the rake. In my humble opinion, tree-owners should have to tag every darn leaf on their trees and go around the neighborhood after storms and pick up their leaves.)

[billybrobby]

what's english for chutzpah?

[Hyeon Een]

[mithridates]

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(Sorry, it's a knee-jerk reaction)

[jinglejangle]

[Hyeon Een]

[jinglejangle]

[billybrobby]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

That'll teach you to help people.

[JongnoGuru]

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