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Thank you for your kind words.westernpromise wrote: »....Thanks to your helpful input,....
Cheers!0 -
Lioness_Twinkletoes wrote: »Returning someone's property indicates knocking on the door and handing it back. Not launching it over the fence!
Well that's just social convention.
Personally i'd quite happily do the former given the scenario. Not everyone has the confidence to front someone out though...0 -
So perhaps go and place it outside their back gate, rather than launching it over the fence?Lioness_Twinkletoes wrote: »Returning someone's property indicates knocking on the door and handing it back. Not launching it over the fence!:heartpuls Mrs Marleyboy :heartpuls
MSE: many of the benefits of a helpful family, without disadvantages like having to compete for the tv remote
Proud Parents to an Aut-some son 0 -
Tigsteroonie wrote: »So perhaps go and place it outside their back gate, rather than launching it over the fence?
Yes, that's better. Still risky given that the OP has said the neighbour can be a little tricky.0 -
Lioness_Twinkletoes wrote: »Returning someone's property indicates knocking on the door and handing it back. Not launching it over the fence!
Semantics.
I return property that lands in my garden/field like that all the time. In the case of a rubbish sack, I'd treat it like a rubbish sack not a football, but that much ought to be obvious.
One uses the most appropriate method of telling the person they've been clocked doing wrong. That depends very much upon who the person is, and who's doing the telling. I learned that on the Tube the day an American tried to tell a drunken Glaswegian his language was a tad fruity!:rotfl:0
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