My neighbour won't stop mowing my lawn. Badly.

"I see many people here being pro-mowing your neighbour’s nature strip as it’s neighbourly, but this is just horrible. It looks so bad!!!"

At least once in your lifetime, I dare say you will experience a bad neighbour.

Whether they’re the kind to throw ragers on a random Tuesday, refuse to throw soccer balls back over the fence, or have an incredibly annoying pet that somehow becomes your responsibility, you eventually learn to cope… kinda.

One Aussie has shared their story of a bad neighbour, asking for advice on how to deal with their antics.

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“It looks so bad!!!”

An Aussie Redditor has taken to the platform to vent about the neighbour they’ve just about had enough of.

“I have this 80 something year old lady neighbour who is just the worst neighbour in the world,” the post began.

“She yells at us constantly, complains about everything, from lights on after 6pm to any noise before 8am, or just having a bbq with friends in the backyard on a Sunday. But never to our faces. She yells from her house, slams the back door and hides. It’s been almost 5 years of this.”

The user said that initially, they tried to be neighbourly, adding a fence extension to reduce the lights hitting her house, and avoiding being outside at night. But, the issue lies with their grass.

“When we first moved in she offered to mow our entire house. Which was weird. We told her no thanks, we prefer to do it ourselves,” the post said.

“We see her house and she mows at the shortest possible way, killing half of it and it just looks horrible. Not that we maintain ours to amazing standards, but we just prefer a longer more green and fluffy vibe. We also can only mow on the weekends, which she doesn’t understand because we work from home, but she thinks we are just lazy (which she constantly calls us from her back door).”

However, they didn’t stop entirely.

“Anyway, our nature strip closest to her house, she always mows. We already asked her multiple times to not do it. Sometimes nicely, sometimes we lose it. She just yells saying it just looks more neat when she does it and keeps doing it,” the post said.

The poster provided a photo of said nature strip and it’s definitely… interesting.

So, they posed the question to the group - is it really that bad, and is it worth doing anything more to stop her?

“I see many people here being pro-mowing your neighbour’s nature strip as it’s neighbourly, but this is just horrible. It looks so bad!!! Or am I just losing my mind from all her screaming?” they asked.

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“Much too short!”

Commenters on the post were in agreeance - the lawn looked pretty bloody terrible. So, plenty of suggestions were given as to how to deal with it.

“Yep much too short for kikuyu grass. Keep a diary of the times you speak to her, go to local council when you meet the complaint requirements,” one commenter suggested.

“Speak to the council about getting a tree planted. Then plant smaller plants around the base of the tree,” another suggested.

“Next time you see her, thank her for doing it. If she's doing it just to be annoying, she will stop. Thank her every time,” said a third person.

“Is that really the way you want to spend your life?”

But, some people concluded that it might not be worth the battle.

“Grass you don't own being cut short isn't worth the effort of picking this battle with your bad neighbour,” said one commenter.

“Is that really the way you want to spend your life? Council meetings and diaries about lawns and lawn discussions? I mean, only if you love this sort of stuff, and I guess some people do,” said another.

“Give up on full control and the desire to have a nice looking nature strip, just accept and acknowledge she is completely wrong in her grass management. In the range of her behaviour, with the yelling and wrecking your social time, the nature strip grass is probably the least of your worries,” a third agreed.

“I'd just go with it. She's saving you an immense amount of work and petrol,” another said optimistically.

Originally published as My neighbour won't stop mowing my lawn. Badly.