OT - Neighbor boys going thru stuff - RANT

I came home from work and found one of the windows out in my hay barn. I crawled up into the loft and found pop bottles, bales broken open, flashlight sprawled about.

They went into my horse trailer, helped themselves to the pop, candy, took the flashlight out to the barn (not sure what else was taken)

The neighbor brought him over to apologize which is good, but what gives with kids these days.

My daughter at 13 came home from school and was getting her tussie chewed out for acting like a 5yr old as she didn't want to do her chores and was getting the idea that her tussie was going to be singing a different tune.

Her response " My teacher said if you touch me I can have you arrested"

My Response "Yep you sure can just as soon as you get out of the hospital"

Her eyes are huge by this time and I continued

" If I'm going to get arrested, it will be because I did abuse you and you will be the first one to know it"

My daughter quit acting like a 5yr old and did her chores and we never had to have that conversasion again. This was 23yrs ago so it's nothing new.

When a child thinks they can control the parents, the home is no longer a home.

T_Bone

I know people who take the hard attitude of 'what's mine is mine and the rest of stay off MY place'. That $hit will come around to bite you in the a$$ someday. Nobody likes a greedy selfish neighbor. The day will come when you'll need something, maybe help while your house burns down while your neighbors stand and watch the show and laugh at your just desserts.

I have a neighbor who is past 80 now. I used to bushhog the right of way between his place and mine. Everytime, he'd come out and tell me that was his property and had the deed for it. So, I quit trying to be neighbor to him and when the weeds got 4 feet high he complained nobody would help keep the road clean. I told him property ownership had it's responsibilities, it wasn't mine and be d@mned if I was going to mow it again. Life is a two way street.

All this on my Grandmothers property after she died.
The property was never posted, and no one was denied access to the pond, or to pick berries or cut Christmas trees. She never had a cross word with anyone.
Guess if they had been caught, we should have gone easy on them to be neighborly, huh.

You can"t tell me folks in the area didn"t know who was responsible, probably felt like you, just let it go.
This was some years ago and I"m still pissed.
You can have those nice country folks move in next to you, then maybe you"ll have a change of heart, or at least a clue.

I was born and raised in Greenup County Kentucky and have lived here all my life. I am 47 years old. It is rural here and I know everybody around here on a first name basis, there daddy and mother and most of their kids. I have 2 places, one is 7 acres and the other 192 acres. There is river bottoms on the big place and a pond on the little one. I hunt on all my neighbors and they hunt on me. We don't know what a property line is when it comes to hunting. I can walk for miles and cross lots of fences without hesitation and never worry about some selfish ba$tard running me off. IF I ever see anybody, the reaction is 'how many squirrels you get?' or 'see anything?' When the kids show up at the pond I don't run them off. If I bother at all, I may walk over and see if they caught anything, might even take them a cold can of pop and a can of monkey peckers (viennas). I ride my kids on a 4 wheeler in the pasture and of the neighbor kids come to ride, they are welcome. Now, when I'm in a bind and need a tool or some help...I don't mind asking for it and I always get it. My garden burnt up this year, but no matter. I had bushels of tomatoes left on the back porch, always plenty of watermelons and cantaloupes, apples, peaches, blueberries, peaches.....even cobblers and pies handed to me for gratis. Now MY name is on the deeds and MY money makes the payments, but none of this belongs to me.....it's only on loan while I walk this Earth. It was farmed long before me and may be farmed when I am dust. May be full of houses for all I know. For the time being, I lose no sleep about what MIGHT happen, but enjoy sharing the bounty I have been privledged to enjoy. It's everybodies perogative to post their land and cuss because somebody has stepped on THEIR property. To each his own.