No Malicious Intentions
We had just moved to our new house in the summer and it had a fenced-in pool in the backyard. My siblings and I took advantage of it in on one hot summer day and being the oldest, I just kept an eye out for everything.
I then looked over, outside of the pool fence, and I saw our neighbor walking around in our yard to the fire pit further back in the backyard. I became a little uneasy because I had only seen this guy once when we first moved in. He smiled, then waved to us and I told my siblings to get out of the pool.
I told my mom and she was absolutely livid. That week, my dad and mom put a lock on our side of that gate so our neighbor couldn’t get into our backyard. He noticed a bit later that he couldn’t get into our backyard and he was upset for some reason.
Apparently, the previous owners used to let him into the backyard all the time, and he’d come over to burn branches and leaves in their fire pit. Okay, good for them, but this was our house now—you don’t go walking into our property without asking us first.
Especially since we didn’t know him at all! So while God forbid he may not have had malicious intentions, it was still really creepy and kind of really strange when he got upset that we put a lock on our side of the fence to keep him off of our property. We didn’t talk to him much after that. Story credit: Reddit / Mikigski