summercomfort

Self-awareness was supposed to be the answer. Somewhere between therapy speak going mainstream and everyone suddenly knowing what "nervous system dysregulation" means, we were all promised that understanding yourself was the first step to fixing yourself. Nobody mentioned there wasn't a second step.

Here we are. Fully aware. Completely unimproved.

No sensible person wants to start a fight with their neighbor, especially when that neighbor is a seemingly innocent old grandma.

However, we have a hunch that this elderly couple knew exactly what they were doing. After all, when they first moved into the neighborhood not too long ago, they had their property surveyed and even confirmed with the homeowners next door where their property ended and where the homeowners' property began. 

All those cards were on the table from the very beginning, so it came as a bit of a surprise to the homeowners next door when, all of a sudden, they kept finding their neighbors' grandkids frolicking in their backyard and on their private property day after day without permission. 

They tried to confront the older grandparents politely, thinking that maybe something got lost in translation during those early conversations about property boundaries. Or perhaps this kind of frequent trespassing was normal in their former neighborhood. However, when it became clear that the behavior was not going to stop any time soon, that's when the homeowners realized they were being duped the whole time.