How To Face An Aggressive Neighbor

How To Face An Aggressive Neighbor

You can end on a peaceful note…

Summer Lotus
2 min readFeb 27, 2021

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By Rosalind Ho using Canva

I heard a commotion in the backyard.

I went out through the back door of the kitchen to the backyard and I saw my neighbor’s Philippine maid stood atop a metal storage across the concrete fence. Using a long cutter in her hands, she reached out to cut our tall bamboo plants that had arched into their backyard.

Clicked! the cutter went and the bamboo plants fell like a mass of sticks. Then she proceeded to scoop them up and hurled them over the fence onto my backyard floor.

She sawed me looking at her, quite taken aback by her actions. She shot daggers at me. I said, “Oh what happened?!”

“Your plants are growing all over here!” She hollered and continued to fling the cut bamboos over. Unashamedly, Unreservedly, Uninhibtedly.

“Oh, I see, I should inform my landlord. They could get someone to cut it” My current house is a rented one as my house is undergoing refurbishment. Suddenly, from inside the neighbor’s house, the lady owner whom we know to be almost 80 years old, shouted, “ Don’t let your plants come over to our side!”

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Summer Lotus

Inspired by mundane events to write to become more self aware. Challenge seeker, lover of sports, dental surgeon, ardent Toastmaster.