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Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan
Funny, for my first year, I mowed my own lawn, and never, not once did I find poop in my grass. NEVER. Maybe you ****ed off a dog owner?
Well, to start, I lived in a neighborhood with horses walking across my property and pooping for 10 years, and not once did I complain to the horse owners. We had acreage and a pond and people found it to be a convenient shortcut or a nice place to ride in the shade of our woods during the summer. We had a colloquial term for each other - "neighbors".
And a$$holes tossing trash out of their windows - literally trash bags and Burger King bags - onto my property as they drove by was much more troubling than horse poop.
My wife and I got a 5-mile walk around our land picking up bottles and other trash before we could mow it every week. Good clean exercise! LOL.
As far as the worst things that can happen, read the headlines almost daily now mass shooting kills 11 years olds sitting in their car, dozens wounded and some killed in clubs, on and on. On the verge of a nuclear exchange with N. Korea or Iran, Russia is threatening military action against people it disagrees with. 25% of children in the United States go to bed hungry. People in the villages dying from golf cart accidents, often in the roundabout. . And on and on. Remind me which of those is less bad than dog poop?
And yes, I am a dog owner. And yes, I pick up after my own dogs. I would NOT be surprised to find that at one time I stopped to talk to a neighbor while on a walk and one of my dogs pooped behind my back and I left without knowing it. OMG! Call out the National Guard - it's DOG POOP!
Wonder if the deer pick up their poop, or the coyotes only go in the fields around the villages, or the squirrels and geese, and bears and turtles, and alligators, and lizards, and ... well, you get the idea,
Ever go swimming in the ocean? I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale and spent most of my life swimming on the reefs off the coast - millions of fresh pooping and peeing in the water I was swimming in - OGM! Eeeewwww...
Seriously. Grumpy old people.
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That is deflection. This is the villages. For better or worse we live on top of each other.
As far as your previous life. Why did you choose to move here? I have a friend who bought 140 acres in North Carolina with his brother.
Before moving here, we never looked at it but there was an island for sale several acres with what sounded like a nice house and it came with a herd of wild horses. It was a million bucks. I think even owning your own island you would pay tax to someone. As king of my island, who could I complain about or to?