Talk of The Villages Florida - People cutting through side yard as a shortcut to Odell

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Originally Posted by notlongnow (Post 670688)

First of all I don't live there, YET! But after reading the whole thread I am going to be the the one that does not get it. I lived on a very busy corner in my town for about 2 1/2 decades and had people walk across the corner of my yard everyday. In all that time I had no damage and in some cases got a chance to meet someone in my neighborhood that I otherwise would not know.
In all the responses the one that was the most sane was,

Posted by Patty55.

I also have my office on an acre that I have many people walk across everyday and still no damage nor do I feel the need to confront them or detour them. It is just someone on their way to somewhere and but a moment in my life.

I would draw the line at looking into any space in my house or private areas, that is a different subject altoghether and does not sound like the case here.
As far as the responses, I know that some of them were tongue in cheek but some were very serious and sounded like they were solutions that were in use in TV.
I am not one to cut accross someone yard but I find it hard to see much harm in it if no damage is done, no poo is left and nobody is looking into a birdcage, that one was weird!
I hope that when I live there that my neighbors are not employing trip wires, Punji stakes, barracades or calling the sherrif. Sounds like over thinking the problem to me.

To me it seems like a chance to meet someone new and if that does not work out then do like Patty55 says, tell them to quit it because you can't get over it for some reason.

The lawn maintenance people probably do more damage than someone walking accross your yard and you pay them!

I don't think that someone walking accross your corner is an assault on you but just a short cut.
I have walked around TV several times and have never felt the need for a short cut. However, where my dad lives I could see me walking down between someones house to talk to a neighbor rather than getting in my cart and driving to the next road over and then walking back to them behind their house, seems silly.

I would end with maybe this is a learning moment for those in the future. If something like this gets under your skin so much then a corner lot may not be for you.

EB:shrug:

You are such a reasonable person. I so agree with what you said. I am from Ohio and people are never looked at strangely for cutting across your yard. It doesn't harm the grass and we knew the folks around us.

I think we bring some attitudes with us from the places that we grew up in. They are neither right nor wrong, just the way we were taught and the kind of behavior we watched that was either accepted or unaccepted.

Coming up an peering in your lanai isn't among the things that I am used to and cutting back plants that are not yours isn't nice either. But those are things I was taught. I remember when our preschooler picked the green tomatoes she could reach through the fence and out of the yard of our neighbor next door. I swear I was standing there talking to the neighbor at the time. She got a very stern time out and a voice raised..."WE DON'T DO THAT!" That isn't your stuff! And maybe one love tap on the bottom.

But those are ideas and values that may differ from family to family and area to area.

I don't understand why people would continue to cut through after they are politely asked..."May I help you?". Or told "I just planted some flowers right there" or some other diplomatic fib.

I just don't understand.

I would be so embarassed if someone said that to me. "A house doesn't have to fall on you" as my mom, (my sainted grandmother) would say.

My sermon for the day. ;)