A woman has shared how her ‘entitled’ neighbour unknowingly put their children in a painful situation after allowing them to play in her garden without permission
You should never enter another person’s property without their permission – unless there’s an emergency. But it seems not everybody understands this rule – as one woman came to learn after spotting her neighbour’s children playing in her garden.
However, she doesn’t expect them to return anytime soon and actually pities the poor children for their parents’ ‘entitled’ behaviour. She said on Reddit: “My house has a very small plot of dirt in front that is fenced in by a large, black iron fence – it’s very clear this is private property.
“My grandmother has a very green thumb, and brought some of her outdoor cactus (she lives in Connecticut) over to plant in the yard many years ago. They survive every winter and bloom in the summer, and are pretty cool plants. However, their spines/needles are very small and translucent. It is extremely hard to see them, and you can get pricked very easily. I myself have gotten pricked when tidying up the yard, and I obviously try to avoid the plants. The needles are also extremely hard to remove out of your skin.”
For a bit of fun, she says her mum bought some plastic dinosaur toys to act as garden ornaments – and they appeared to go down a hit with her neighbours. She added: ” The kids around the neighborhood all loved it, and often when coming home I would see some family with a young kid looking at the garden. It was cute, and my family had no issues.
“Until these entitled parents come along. My mum was in the house, on a normal day, when she heard some loud noises outside that weren’t going away.” She says the children were sat in her garden playing with the toys while their parents watched on, completely unaware tiny needles were digging into their skin.
She said: “It’s clear the parents assumed the cactus didn’t have any needles because they aren’t really visible to the human eye, you barely see the needles when they’re in your skin.
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“As my mum is looking at them, the parents see her, and get their kids out of the yard and leave. Those parents are not going to have fun pulling hundred and hundreds of translucent, tiny, thin needles from their children’s arms, legs, and asses.”
While she is pleased this taught the parents a lesson, she says she removed the dinosaur toys to prevent temptation and avoid another incident. She added: “The parents luckily have not contacted us or attempted to engage in a lawsuit.” Commenting on her post, one user said: “The sad thing is that those parents will most likely refuse to believe that their kids were pricked by cacti and won’t do anything until they take their kid to a doctor after about half a day to two days.”
Another user added: “I feel sorry for those kids. I accidentally fell into a cactus bed when I was around four-years-old. My entire front half of my body covered in cactus spines wasn’t fun especially since I was only one wearing a swimsuit at the time. My mum and dad did their best to keep me calm and remove all the spines. A third user said: “What could go wrong in entitled parents mind? ‘Let my child do whatever, he’s an angel’.”
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