Nice to know the system works.

Sometimes, the system works.
We have a certain neighbor who, after buying the house next door several years ago, has let the yard go pretty much to shit. (The previous owner, who lived there for close to forty years, was very meticulous about her yard.) They go several weeks without mowing, and even when they mow, they don’t mow the entire back yard, but only the part they use to sit in when they have company. The entire “back 40” was left to collect leaves and branches and grow up in weeds (including those fucking wild violets that I’d do anything to send straight to hell).
The neighbor on the other side has a meticulous yard on which he spends a lot of money and time to keep nice. And he was rightfully pissed off at having to look at this mess next door. In 2007 he had them cited for “high grass and weeds” and they had to clean it up.
When we got home from Fort Wayne the weekend before last, we noticed that they were busting ass to cut grass and clean up the back yard. Again, they hadn’t cut grass for at least three weeks, and the back yard was something you might use to train special forces. There were bags of leaves next to their chimney (which faces our house) that had been left to rot for at least three years. There was FUNGUS growing in the side yard, probably thanks to said bags of leaves. I said to Sally, “I wonder what brought that on.”
Well, I saw the citation taped to their front door last night. I guess the neighbor on the other side called the city on them again.
Good for him. Too bad for them that they can’t bother to keep their yard decent. It’s not like they don’t have the money (although as has been said many times through the centuries, nobody is so poor they can’t pick up their yard). What truly kills me is that they have two teenage boys. When I was that age, it was my job to cut the yard. These kids just play soccer and have loud parties in the driveway when their parents are out of town. I’ve never seen them cut grass, it’s always their father doing it.
Anyway: Thanks, City of Indianapolis, for doing your job.
And yes, as soon as the mower parts come today, I will fix my mower and cut my grass 🙂