Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

[lilwildrabbit]

I don't get why the younger generation thinks we older generation owes them everything they owe us everything!

 

[bobbi-j]

I think it's the entitlement society we live in these days. Everyone expects a hand out, and our government encourages it. I am not pointing at one side or the other - it's everywhere. So many things people think are "rights", when truthfully they are privileges. The lines seem to have been blurred somewhere along the line.

 

[7 Biddies]

Speaking of this, you reminded me of my neighbor when I first moved here. They were the first people on the street, I was only the second. She had a couple of goats and a few chickens. Shortly after i moved in, I heard this very weird and very loud noise next door. Turns out they had just gotten a Jenny (donkey) and she was expressing her distress at being moved to a new home. My neighbor would let Isabel roam free, so I'd get home from work unable to come up my drive because she was blocking it. Or, she'd be grazing in my front yard. Or, her goats would be on my front porch, butting me if I tried to remove them. I nicely asked her to come get them each time. One day, I couldn't get up the drive, so I rang her front bell and let her know Isabel was out, again. She said, "You got a problem with that?"

ME: Well, since you put it that way, yes, I do.
HER: You've done nothing but complain since you moved in. We got here first.
ME: it's a shame you didn't take advantage of the situation and buy all of the land when you had the chance. Besides, I haven't complained about your using my fence ..... YET.
HER: YOUR fence??? The builder said we could use it (it separated both properties).
ME: Well, shame on him because he sold the house and the land it sits on to me, and that includes the fence surrounding it.

It was hilarious, listening to this 50+ y.o. dope trying to figure it out. She honestly thought they were entitled to use all the land on the street as their own because they got there first and that the fence was now theirs.

I'm so confused by people's attitudes these days.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

Yea the attitude what's mine is mine and what's yours is also mine!!

 

[allosaurusrock]

I mean, my mom is a florist and gathers moss from private properties, but those are people we know. Ugh.


This is why I don't hang with the popular kids.

 

[bobbi-j]

I mean, my mom is a florist and gathers moss from private properties, but those are people we know. Ugh.


This is why I don't hang with the popular kids.

As long as she has permission, that's fine. It's those who don't feel the need to get permission that are the problem.

 

[allosaurusrock]

Nobody wants moss anyway.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Obviously it's rude (and illegal) to trespass on private property and especially to destroy the fence like was mentioned, but at the same time, I'm lazy and would probably get sick of yelling at people to get out of the field and would just eventually not care anymore haha but maybe once I move and have land/experience these problems then it will be different.

 

[bigmrg74]

This latest one doesn't have anything to do with chickens, but I'm posting it anyway. I live on a private culdesac with 'Private Road' & 'No Trespassing' signs posted at the entrance. Across my driveway is a big, fenced off field that's covered in 5-6ft weeds (mostly stinging nettles.) The field also is posted private & no trespassing. We live in suburbia & for some reason people feel these posted signs do not apply to them. You cant imagine how often I'm standing in my yard telling total strangers that they can not park their car, walk their dogs, ride their skateboards, eat their lunch, play ball with their kids, pick fruit off my neighbors trees, smoke pot, take a pee, or a plethora of other things they do out there. After all these years, I'm still shocked by how mad people get at me for making them leave. Most will call me names & go, but some want to argue with me, or explain that they're "only walking the dog" or whatever they're doing. I have to repeat that they are in my driveway & ask if they want me parking my car, walking my dog, playing with my kids or riding my skateboard in their driveway...

Ok, so a couple days ago I see a woman with 4 or 5 little kids out there. She was bending the slightly broken chain link fence all the way down to the ground so the little kids could climb out of the field. I walked out to confront her but the kids were running down my driveway yelling at the top of their lungs & she was chasing after them. I looked up & noticed she had left 3 teenage girls sitting in a path they had trudged thru the weeds. All three of these girls were in strapless, mini sundresses & high heeled sandals. They were just sitting there laughing & taking pictures of themselves (like, this is what we looked like before we got stung head to toe in nettles.) So, I walked out there & said, "What do you guys think you're doing?" With their very entitled tones & their snotty So.Cal teenage girl voices they all started spouting off to me at the same time. (*note; I'm allowed to say this without prejudice, as I too was once a snotty, So. Cal teenage girl.) So anyway, they were spouting off that they were not doing anything wrong & they were only taking graduation pictures of themselves, etc... I told them that they were not at the park, that they were trespassing on private property & they had to leave. I finished off by pointing out what they had done to the fence. All 3 of them erupted in chorus of how they didn't do it & how rude I was to accuse them. At this point, the most intelligent girl in the group took the conversation into her own hands & said in her mock valley girl accent, "How would YOU like it if WE accused YOU of breaking the fence?!" ...Huh??? I admit, I was completely blown away & a little confused by this idiotic statement. This was our brief conversation;
Me: "What??? Do you even hear yourself?"
Her: "Do YOU even hear YOUR self?"
Me: "Are you kidding me?"
Her: "Are YOU kidding ME?'
At that point I realized just what level of idiot I was dealing with & ended the conversation with a bellowing, "OK. YOU ARE TRESPASSING GET THE (expletive) OUT OF HERE NOW!!!" which probably reverberated thru the entire culdesac. They were all grumbling again at the same time about how rude I was (How rude! How rude! SO RUDE!...) but they climbed out of the bushes in their mini sundresses & strappy high heeled sandals & stomped away down my driveway. I told them how lucky they were that they didn't meet any of the many snakes & scorpions that live in there. Apparently needing the last word, the mouthiest one enunciated, "Fine. Have. A. Nice. Day."

Sigh! I guess I get to spend the weekend fixing the fence.

Here's a thought, on the new fence. Hang some signs on it warning about poison ivy in the area. That should help to keep the riff-raff out of there.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Wow, reading these stories about trespassing... I'm lucky that even though we're the only house off a long driveway, our neighbor is a church with live in groundskeepers and they watch out for us too. So we originally were going to put up a gate but really haven't had any issues with trespassers as the groundskeepers will approach anyone they see loitering around.