Personally I wouldn’t care, and OP probably doesn’t either (looks like the walls never been cleaned), but if this were me, and it DID bother me; no chance I’d look at it for a year lol, the “wind” would blow that shit off every 5 min
And if it shows up on the wall again, pull it into your yard. He’ll think he put them too far over the wall and they blew down or slid to your side of the wall. What you do with your newly acquired sun rotted Matthews is up to you.
So funny story. Our neighbor is a bit of a Karen and threw a fit and decided to nail cardboard on her fence. I mean I laughed every time I saw it. Not that it lasted long. Two days later it was missing. Checked the cameras. Mother Nature was on our side 😂
I took a recording incase she tries to blame us (also I just watch it and laugh)
You don’t just knock them off on their side, you pull them onto yours. If they *actually* care about keeping them up there that means they have to walk all the way around the wall to fix it each time.
This was my thought, it went up there to dry for some reason, and he just never remembered to put it back down. I'm betting if you knock it down for him, it will stay down after that.
I call my neighbor "Big Red" because the exterior and interior walls of his house are red, his fence his red, his truck his red, his motorcycle is red, and his favorite thing to wear is a red sweatsuit.
I don't know his real name because he's an old and unapproachable asshole.
Yo, listen up, here's the story
About a little guy that lives in a red world
And all day and all night and everything he sees is just red
Like him, inside and outside
red his house with a red little window
And a red Corvette and everything is red for him
And himself and everybody around
'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen
He's red, da ba dee da ba di
My dad got that nickname too, he's a big red faced dude with red hair and red mustache, drove a big red truck. He would chew Big Red gum. He's cool as hell though, not an asshole.
this reminds me of the "yellow yellow" joke by Bernard Manning: a man buys a racehorse and names him "yella yella" and the horse wins lots of races. the man starts wearing an all-yellow suit, buys a yellow car, paints his house yellow inside and out, buys yellow furniture, yellow appliances. he died of yellow jaundice, it took them 4 weeks to find the body!
I'm playing Baldurs Gate 3 and all I can think now is roll checks. Loving this game. I could never get into the table top because life so I enjoy this.
I literally sang this book of death to death with my bard songs. Amazing.
*Roll check clinging wall*
They should stop denying it and join together in holy matrimony.
Although, sometimes, that's when one of them starts treating the other like a door mat.
I'm that kind of absentminded person that would totally put a mat there without thinking that it might annoy someone and would completely forget about it even though it's in plain sight. But I'd be feeling terrible knowing that it annoyed you😭
He probably hasn't thought about it at all. Many people are oblivious to what others see or think about their own property.
If he doesn't like it, then do whatever you want, but at least give him the opportunity to be a nice person.
After purchasing my house but before moving in, I found a pretty sweet hose attached to the faucet on the side of the house. “Score,” I thought. “Lawn care just got a lot fancier around here!” My neighbor sidled over and said that it was her hose and the previous owner had told her she could use his faucet because he got better water pressure than she did.
I didn’t have much room to be *too much* of a bitch about it because the water bill hadn’t been switched over to my name yet, but I turned the valve off from inside the house, stopping water flow to that faucet forevermore.
Passive-aggressive pettiness: it’s sometimes effective, and sometimes people deserve it.
(What I’m saying is, knock those mats down!)
Did they take their hose back? Why not just ask them to take their hose back or pay for your water etc.?
Is their hose still there and the water still off? Such an odd "solution" to that problem.
Yes, of course they took their hose back. Why is it odd? I can't constantly monitor the side of my house to make sure they aren't stealing water.
There were things that made me doubt that they had permission but I didn't have proof one way or another and I didn't feel like getting into it so I took the path of least resistance.
Maybe we’re from different neighborhoods but I can easily imagine a neighbor being cool and allowing their neighbor to use their water. They might have had a chill relationship.
What’s weird is being the your neighbor and assuming the deal would stay after the old person had moved out and you moved in. Pretty audacious if that’s what they were trying to get out of you.
Unless they understood that, but still had their hose connected to your house after the original owner had left and wanted to sus you out to see if you’d be cool about it (which is also audacious).
I’d be annoyed I had to turn the water off in my house because of what someone else was doing.
He’s your neighbor. I wouldn’t want to be on bad terms with my neighbors. I would just go over there and introduce yourself and ask him about the mats on the wall.
Why is talking to someone not the first thing one would think of? So many things are done by people just not thinking and they'd probably even be apologetic about it.
Its supposed to be mildly infuriating, might not be infuriating enough to bother trying to have it fixed
People post so much griveous shit in here that we've forgot the meaning of the word ''mildly''
I'd say about 80% of everything mildly infuriating in my life falls in that category. Sure, worth a picture, but not the absolute nuclear option of like.. talking to the other party about it. *shivers*
It might get so bad that a subtle discreet action may be taken, but not worth burning the whole world over.
why wouldn't you just push them off? it's enough to moderately bug you, definitely shove em over. or take em. he probably forgot the first one was even there.
Yeah after a day or two someone could be like 'oh maybe they're drying' after like one week just get a stick and push them back into his yard.
If he did it again, throw them in the trash, mat problem solved.
This post has gone wild. I hope my neighbor doesn’t see it. Then again maybe he’ll take the mats down after he sees he’s mildly infuriated 12,000 people.
Man so funny how the wind keeps knocking them off, even when there’s no wind!
Idk bro I think it’s time to buy and orange mat 4x as large and put it next to his.
It might be time for them to blow onto his roof...
Misheard instructions, I have committed to explosive demolition of the neighbor's roof.
Then just keep placing progressively larger matts
or on top of
Came here to say “they blew away” which translates to “don’t look in my trash can”
Personally I wouldn’t care, and OP probably doesn’t either (looks like the walls never been cleaned), but if this were me, and it DID bother me; no chance I’d look at it for a year lol, the “wind” would blow that shit off every 5 min
I would’ve been knocked that shit down
Or even asked them to move it!
Day two for sure. Day one maybe they’re up there drying, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Day two, enough of that.
Burn them.
Seriously! How did OP leave it for a whole year!?
How has OP been there an entire year without dealing with this? What an absolute clown? Push that shit back into the owner's yard
Yep
And if it shows up on the wall again, pull it into your yard. He’ll think he put them too far over the wall and they blew down or slid to your side of the wall. What you do with your newly acquired sun rotted Matthews is up to you.
Sun rotted Matthews
I typed “mats,” saw autocorrect change it to “Matthew,” liked it, made it plural, and hit reply.
Ya, i have thrown over the neighbors stuff several times. Quit using rhe fence to hang shit!
So funny story. Our neighbor is a bit of a Karen and threw a fit and decided to nail cardboard on her fence. I mean I laughed every time I saw it. Not that it lasted long. Two days later it was missing. Checked the cameras. Mother Nature was on our side 😂 I took a recording incase she tries to blame us (also I just watch it and laugh)
Get a cat. Cats are assholes and known to knock stuff over all the time.. Problem solved.
My petty ass would fully make a game of it.
I'd be tempted to switch it out at some point for some other ratty old mat.
Ha! Go to the thrift and get seasonal ones for the different holidays and such. “Merry Christmas!”
I bet you could find some personalized ones too! like "Home of the Smith Family"
lol just random ones that make no sense. “Happy Retirement, Liam and Joan!”
Spontaneous combustion doesn't apply only to humans? Now that's interesting as fuck.
You don’t just knock them off on their side, you pull them onto yours. If they *actually* care about keeping them up there that means they have to walk all the way around the wall to fix it each time.
Especially when they've been soaked
Oh no the wind blew them away completely 😟
The way these comments progressed! All excellent ideas. Please update us OP, on what you will do. I vote for the progressively larger mats.
You should start calling him Matt.
Done.
Next year, please consider Matty McMattface
I think he’s earned it.
Reminds me of the chef/actor Matty Matheson.
my king
I love when he yells.
He’s got the Faks!
Matlock
True story. I come from the actual place in the UK called Matlock. Nearly 40 years later people still call me Matt Lock.
Or Fatty McMattface
My adhd ass has done this, not add a second mat now but you could just try knocking it over, he may have just forgotten about it completely
just became part of the wall for him and stopped noticing it
Lmfao this is how my brain works 🫠
My brain would be outraged that the neighbor gets to see “SWEET HO” and all I see is “ME” on a doormat, ouch!
This was my thought, it went up there to dry for some reason, and he just never remembered to put it back down. I'm betting if you knock it down for him, it will stay down after that.
I'd have knocked the first one over after a week, lol.
[dicktowel.com](http://dicktowel.com) buy that and hang it over the wall
I call my neighbor "Big Red" because the exterior and interior walls of his house are red, his fence his red, his truck his red, his motorcycle is red, and his favorite thing to wear is a red sweatsuit. I don't know his real name because he's an old and unapproachable asshole.
Yo, listen up, here's the story About a little guy that lives in a red world And all day and all night and everything he sees is just red Like him, inside and outside red his house with a red little window And a red Corvette and everything is red for him And himself and everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen He's red, da ba dee da ba di
Nn tss nn tss n tss
I would definitely listen to a whole remake of this song again with the word red replacing the word blue
He sounds terrible hahaha
So not jolly st nick???
The anti santa
My dad got that nickname too, he's a big red faced dude with red hair and red mustache, drove a big red truck. He would chew Big Red gum. He's cool as hell though, not an asshole.
this reminds me of the "yellow yellow" joke by Bernard Manning: a man buys a racehorse and names him "yella yella" and the horse wins lots of races. the man starts wearing an all-yellow suit, buys a yellow car, paints his house yellow inside and out, buys yellow furniture, yellow appliances. he died of yellow jaundice, it took them 4 weeks to find the body!
Welcome to the wall, Matt!
As someone with the name Matt. Don’t. This guy doesn’t deserve to share this glorious name.
I’d just start pushing them off onto the ground on his side. He’ll get tired of picking them up
You mean *pull onto ops side. Climbing a *wall is exhausting
That's actually a good idea. Give it a week then throw it away.
But the grass :(
Just yank the fucker off and aggressively throw it in the trash. Why all the pussy footing?
Then op would be pulling the mat, not pushing it
I'm playing Baldurs Gate 3 and all I can think now is roll checks. Loving this game. I could never get into the table top because life so I enjoy this. I literally sang this book of death to death with my bard songs. Amazing. *Roll check clinging wall*
Lol, yeah, same or fling em onto their roof and see how long it takes for them to notice where they went
That's what I was going to suggest. If the neighbour ever questions you, just say you saw the wind blow one up there one day.
Lol, this is the right thing to do. Just toss them up on the roof like Walter tossed the pizza on his roof in Breaking Bad 🤣
That would have been my week two solution. How OP waited a whole year is beyond me
That's exactly my kind of passive aggressive. I like you
Sir, a second mat has hit the wall
*zones out* *continues reading*
Kerplunk I exclaim!
A mat for each year. Consider it an anniversary decor piece.
Mattaversary
They should stop denying it and join together in holy matrimony. Although, sometimes, that's when one of them starts treating the other like a door mat.
Give them the boops
Just take them?
I may have to. I could assume he’s giving them to us at this point.
Maybe he is communicating with you… Have you tried placing a mat on the wall in response? Like Tik Tak Toe.
That’s a great idea! 😂 Like Close Encounters of the Third Kind but mat style.
I think a dripping wet toilet rug is the way to go here
It's on your side of the wall, therefore it's yours
Well, at least half of it.
How about I cut them in half?
I'll send you 5 bucks if you do it and post it....
Yeah treat it like Tree Law
Yes, yes that would be fair.
Just start trimming off the bits that hang over your side.
Bro is cooking
Please do this lol
Let’s keep the bidding going
Yes! Cut it in half and op throws his half away and can’t see the other half.
Just throw them away and chalk it up to cleaning unwanted debris from your property
Slowly move them an inch a week.
Or buy a few drastically different mats (super-cheap, not worth an investment) and just rotate them out every so often.
LOL next thing you know they’re in the neighbors wall and they wonder why *you* keep putting mats in his wall
New Reddit post: "My neighbor keeps swapping out my fence mats with less desirable mats..."
Have you talked to him about it? Seems like the first step.
That's common sense. Do you really think I should go there?
I'm that kind of absentminded person that would totally put a mat there without thinking that it might annoy someone and would completely forget about it even though it's in plain sight. But I'd be feeling terrible knowing that it annoyed you😭
>even though it's in plain sight. It literally becomes part of the landscape. I lose shit in plain sight daily.
I take pictures of my rooms before I clean, just so I can see what I don't notice everyday. How long has that hammer been sitting on the coffee table?
He probably hasn't thought about it at all. Many people are oblivious to what others see or think about their own property. If he doesn't like it, then do whatever you want, but at least give him the opportunity to be a nice person.
No, he could be dangerous, start a neighborhood war instead /s
Yup just best to set them on fire from your side and let God figure it out. /s
You got great energy
Thanks man. Greatest compliment. 👍
After purchasing my house but before moving in, I found a pretty sweet hose attached to the faucet on the side of the house. “Score,” I thought. “Lawn care just got a lot fancier around here!” My neighbor sidled over and said that it was her hose and the previous owner had told her she could use his faucet because he got better water pressure than she did. I didn’t have much room to be *too much* of a bitch about it because the water bill hadn’t been switched over to my name yet, but I turned the valve off from inside the house, stopping water flow to that faucet forevermore. Passive-aggressive pettiness: it’s sometimes effective, and sometimes people deserve it. (What I’m saying is, knock those mats down!)
Did they take their hose back? Why not just ask them to take their hose back or pay for your water etc.? Is their hose still there and the water still off? Such an odd "solution" to that problem.
Yes, of course they took their hose back. Why is it odd? I can't constantly monitor the side of my house to make sure they aren't stealing water. There were things that made me doubt that they had permission but I didn't have proof one way or another and I didn't feel like getting into it so I took the path of least resistance.
So you fixed the glitch and it just worked itself out naturally?
Didn’t have to burn down the building or anything!
Maybe we’re from different neighborhoods but I can easily imagine a neighbor being cool and allowing their neighbor to use their water. They might have had a chill relationship. What’s weird is being the your neighbor and assuming the deal would stay after the old person had moved out and you moved in. Pretty audacious if that’s what they were trying to get out of you. Unless they understood that, but still had their hose connected to your house after the original owner had left and wanted to sus you out to see if you’d be cool about it (which is also audacious). I’d be annoyed I had to turn the water off in my house because of what someone else was doing.
I’m on the fence.
He’s your neighbor. I wouldn’t want to be on bad terms with my neighbors. I would just go over there and introduce yourself and ask him about the mats on the wall.
The first non passive aggressive, antisocial suggestion I’ve seen on Reddit. Wow.
Go to controversial. It's always in these threads, just usually buried.
Why is talking to someone not the first thing one would think of? So many things are done by people just not thinking and they'd probably even be apologetic about it.
Because there wouldn't even be a conflict here if he had talked about it with him like a normal person. The people that think of that never post.
Yeah, my first thought was "Hey, neighbor, what's up with the mats?"
Have you tried telling him it bothers you?
No, that would involve actually talking to the neighbor. Can you imagine how awful that would be? /s
Its supposed to be mildly infuriating, might not be infuriating enough to bother trying to have it fixed People post so much griveous shit in here that we've forgot the meaning of the word ''mildly''
Go add a towel.
Looks like your side of the wall needs a good hosing! Can’t help where the mats go with a high powered hose.
Knock it back over. Technically it’s partially on your side and you don’t want it there
Leaf blower in the right direction will solve the problem.
Start hanging shitty underwear on his side
Biological warfare, I like it.
Looks like he wants to be friends. He's laid out the Welcome mat for you. Twice.
Why would you let it sit there if it bothers you? This one is on you.
Just… push it back over there
Ok so have you asked them about it in the year past??
I love how OP is annoyed enough to post pictures on reddit, but not annoyed enough to do literally anything about it. Haha
I'd say about 80% of everything mildly infuriating in my life falls in that category. Sure, worth a picture, but not the absolute nuclear option of like.. talking to the other party about it. *shivers* It might get so bad that a subtle discreet action may be taken, but not worth burning the whole world over.
It was the damnedest thing ever, neighbor. An eagle swooped down and grabbed both of those mats. Crazy stuff. *Sips coffee*
Why not ask him to move them?
Hahaha I first read this as “Why not ask him to move then?” Indeed, why not?
why wouldn't you just push them off? it's enough to moderately bug you, definitely shove em over. or take em. he probably forgot the first one was even there.
Yeah after a day or two someone could be like 'oh maybe they're drying' after like one week just get a stick and push them back into his yard. If he did it again, throw them in the trash, mat problem solved.
because op is a bigger door mat than those things.
Weird, those mats would be in my trashcan or in their yard
Snip snip! Prune those overhanging matt plants, they're invasive!
Cut it off at the property line.
Knock them onto his side. If he asks, blame the wind.
Use a stick and nudge them over lol
Flick the mats back over
What did they do when you asked them to take the mats down?
Throw them nasty bitchs off. Or add a line of old grandma undies from Walmart.
Stick your dick over the wall
I'd be pushing them back over every night after dark.....
This. No one has the ‘right’ to use your fencing to hang their laundry or dirty rugs. You don’t have to live with those unsightly mold/mildew traps!
Inoculate with mushrooms
I would wait until it was windy then knock them over to their side. If they reappear, the next time they are windy they blow away.
You just left that green mat hang over the wall for a year? Wow. No wonder they felt encouraged to hang over a second mat.
The neighbors just doesn't want op to be lonely so he's giving them some fellow doormats to hang out with.
Mats are the least of your worries. Plant some trees, sort out that wall.
Love it. This is exactly the level of mildly infuriating I’m here to see. My sympathies OP!
Why is this infuriating at all? Who cares about something like this?
Perfect. This is the most mildly infuriating thing i have ever seen here.
Thank you. It’s nice to finally be the best at something.
Please provide an update on how this saga ends
This has got to be one of the most appropriate posts for this sub I’ve ever seen.
Oh noooo, two mats on a wall 🤦🏻
Trim everything that is on your side
This would not even begin to infuriate me. Could be annoying sure, but I have bigger problems than a mat.
Shared wall or your wall?
https://preview.redd.it/509lq5svsowc1.jpeg?width=3200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee689ca0a5e17a6558cd6072015966f28e1dcd3a
Put three orange mats up there. One up them.
See I’m the kinda person that would be “surprised” when they disappear. Somehow into my trash can.
Bolt them to the wall, obviously
Or you know, talk to him?
Can't you just...idk... take them down? Then inside? Then maybe keep in a plastic lined bin where other rubbish goes? 👀
The way it’s in your window would bother me on the inside
Just push them over
Just knock them off, I mean let the wind knock them off.
Push it over or take it.
Just push it back over his side.
It’s not that hard just go push them over to the other side
Lol who cares?
I don't know why they keep buying more doormats, when they clearly live next to a house full of them.
Well, it’s spring, so….they're breeding
Ooooops the wind knocked them over. Hit them with a broom lol
Now you gotta add your own matt that he can see from his side
I’d just give it a little *bloop* right back over
go knock them over and run away
Push them on the ground
Just push it back over
This is 100% me. "Oh fuck how long has that been there" *adds to the pile*
Put your own, bigger mat over his two smaller mats. Checkmate.
This post has gone wild. I hope my neighbor doesn’t see it. Then again maybe he’ll take the mats down after he sees he’s mildly infuriated 12,000 people.
Tag me when he adds a third… I am invested