Confronting another tresspasser. Step 1 went ok

[the old grind]

MNB, I suppose it's a toss-up by now, but more likely to be agreed on by all, I've been making a complete a__ of myself by taking the general tone of comments waaay to seriously ... and too personally. It's not like having started the thread makes me responsible for the weight of consensus at all. :duh: !!!

Between requests for clarity and my overwrought sarcastic responses I should know better than to have been rattled by folks doing here doing as I often do anywhere, sounding a bit redundant (to me) but just agreeing with a perspective on my role in the original story. I'd done something, right or wrong, and what it triggered (a new neighbor's er' tantrum that we laughed about) earned me more of an education than the entertainment I thought I was delivering to you.

I PM'ed two members, one to try to steer my own comments away from the awkward attention I'd foolishly brought on ... hopefully unhinge myself from embarrassment and get out of the public eye, and one for support. One brought a sympathetic response and not getting another was part of my reawakening and accepting responsibility vs looking for a way out of the hot seat without adding more fuel to the fire I'd lit. Didn't get the slap on the face it could have got me, but I kinda came out of the fog all by myself.

Feel free to see this as partial explanation, or just a cheap excuse for my behavior and another shot at entertainment:

Yeah, "it was my meds". I get big or little round generics or one of three (lately) oval shapes from various sources as delivered to my provider. For the second time in a decade, within a week of refilling I was convinced something wasn't working. I was on an upswing before I walked across the road at my friends' request, pretty confident that I was doing good. Still looking for a good night's sleep (a bellyful of crow hasn't helped that :laughing, and with the 'clusters' knocking me off my feet daily around noon for over a week now I'm on the downward spiral that my Rx should be minimizing.

I promise to take any 'medicine' earned by this er' explanation better than what I kinda asked for in recent days & pages. There are more apologies warranted than I'll get around to making in my personal shame. All that said, if nothing else I might earn that 'putz of the week' badge I've worked so hard for.

Meanwhile, no repercussions yet here in the nabe, still thinking the drama is over. But, if nothing else comes down on me there's a lesson this thread & y'all have tutored me on that ought to help me take my licks like the man I hope to be if/when I grow up. And btw: If I get all weepy thanking you guys the low I'm spiraling down to now it's further proof I should ask & pay more for the name brand stuff.

Thanks for putting up with me, fairly & honestly actually, and handing my head back with more class & taste then I've shown yet. Oh, and as my big fancy words taper off you should know my head-spinning is easing up and I'm getting the realignment that might let me pass for 'normal' again. 4 hrs of sleep in 24 would suit me just fine, but I'll take what i can get.

No one asked for this, and I'm sorry for another long post, but it'll get better when I'm doing better ...

Cheers for now guys, and lets keep hearing what you think about my uh ... what can we call it? tog

 

[Sigarms]

Sounds like the Old Grind is sticking his nose where it doesn't belong given he isn't the land owner. Beyond that, anything else is a mute point.

If the land owners asked the OP to watch over their property and report any information that he observes on the property in question, and the OP does, I see it as being nothing more than being a GREAT neighbor.

That said, not sure how long the OP has been doing this, but it almost seems to the point where he is being taken advantage of.

I see nothing wrong with "watching out" for your neighbors property, just so you don't try to play cop and run the risk of getting yourself in trouble because you aren't the land owner, which the OP seems to be staying away from.

 

[RobertBrown]

MNB, I suppose it's a toss-up by now, but more likely to be agreed on by all, I've been making a complete a__ of myself by taking the general tone of comments waaay to seriously ... and too personally. It's not like having started the thread makes me responsible for the weight of consensus at all. :duh: !!!

Between requests for clarity and my overwrought sarcastic responses I should know better than to have been rattled by folks doing here doing as I often do anywhere, sounding a bit redundant (to me) but just agreeing with a perspective on my role in the original story. I'd done something, right or wrong, and what it triggered (a new neighbor's er' tantrum that we laughed about) earned me more of an education than the entertainment I thought I was delivering to you.

I PM'ed two members, one to try to steer my own comments away from the awkward attention I'd foolishly brought on ... hopefully unhinge myself from embarrassment and get out of the public eye, and one for support. One brought a sympathetic response and not getting another was part of my reawakening and accepting responsibility vs looking for a way out of the hot seat without adding more fuel to the fire I'd lit. Didn't get the slap on the face it could have got me, but I kinda came out of the fog all by myself.

Feel free to see this as partial explanation, or just a cheap excuse for my behavior and another shot at entertainment:

Yeah, "it was my meds". I get big or little round generics or one of three (lately) oval shapes from various sources as delivered to my provider. For the second time in a decade, within a week of refilling I was convinced something wasn't working. I was on an upswing before I walked across the road at my friends' request, pretty confident that I was doing good. Still looking for a good night's sleep (a bellyful of crow hasn't helped that :laughing, and with the 'clusters' knocking me off my feet daily around noon for over a week now I'm on the downward spiral that my Rx should be minimizing.

I promise to take any 'medicine' earned by this er' explanation better than what I kinda asked for in recent days & pages. There are more apologies warranted than I'll get around to making in my personal shame. All that said, if nothing else I might earn that 'putz of the week' badge I've worked so hard for.

Meanwhile, no repercussions yet here in the nabe, still thinking the drama is over. But, if nothing else comes down on me there's a lesson this thread & y'all have tutored me on that ought to help me take my licks like the man I hope to be if/when I grow up. And btw: If I get all weepy thanking you guys the low I'm spiraling down to now it's further proof I should ask & pay more for the name brand stuff.

Thanks for putting up with me, fairly & honestly actually, and handing my head back with more class & taste then I've shown yet. Oh, and as my big fancy words taper off you should know my head-spinning is easing up and I'm getting the realignment that might let me pass for 'normal' again. 4 hrs of sleep in 24 would suit me just fine, but I'll take what i can get.

No one asked for this, and I'm sorry for another long post, but it'll get better when I'm doing better ...

Cheers for now guys, and lets keep hearing what you think about my uh ... what can we call it? tog

Take care of yourself, and I hope you feel better very soon.
Seems as though you handled the problem correctly, judging by the outcome.....for now.

 

[texasjohn]

same here.

Take care of yourself, and I hope you feel better very soon.
Seems as though you handled the problem correctly, judging by the outcome.....for now.

 

[the old grind]

Thanks guys, for letting me eat all that crow with some dignity left .. If I ever had any. :laughing:

While I'm here again, below is the view from between my house and barn of the 20ac I'm allowed to hunt & trap. (hunt my own 10 much more, and trap both about 50/50) What's not seen is the two houses that flank my driveway, and whose occupants introduced me to the nabe by reporting everything that comes the 500' down since my inherited renters moved on and I moved in. Mailboxes are just out of view on the far side of the road.


The two 'main' guys and one other (the 'big guy' among us with a 3 YO daughter, and only home on weekends) are gone a min of 12hrs a day working 'down-State' and often weekends. I spend far more time with the women & kids and have enjoyed my role as local handyman since well before I retired. They think my tractors are as cool as I think their boggers are. I also appreciate the extra work for my 24/7 pro bono repair shop and metalworking machines, spinning hand-wheels and showing-off the fancy setups I learned as a toolmaker to admiring eyes.

At the behest of those concerned I walked maybe 100' from the our mailboxes and er' counseled the young guy within spittin' distance of the road. Whether I'd done what's right may not be manifested locally, but I'm sure the variety of opinions expressed here will cover what I might expect to come back on me.

btw: local LEOs have been here several times over the years when my shooting out back had prompted calls from newer-yet neighbors (our side of the road), say wondering what all the clamor was on a weekday. With my shooting & reloading buds so far away, on weekends I'm the quiet one as HG magazines are emptied on the deeper properties that border most of my ten. Pistoleros all around me and I'm 99% a rifle guy. :confused3:

Great place to live? We think so. Do I deserve to be among these fine folks? We'll see ... and I won't be shy about reporting any comeuppance I earned. tog

 

[GPintheMitten]

I know TOG and he's a good guy quite willing to help his neighbors and me and probably anyone who asks him. I'm sure he was just watching out for the families that live down the drive.

He's a good egg even if he confused some with his attempts to entertain us with his writing style.

Too bad the way things went later. I think many of us can relate to not feeling well, especially if sleep deprived for any reason.

Feel better TOG.

 

[texasjohn]

+1, all the way:thumbsup:

I know TOG and he's a good guy quite willing to help his neighbors and me and probably anyone who asks him. I'm sure he was just watching out for the families that live down the drive.

He's a good egg even if he confused some with his attempts to entertain us with his writing style.

Too bad the way things went later. I think many of us can relate to not feeling well, especially if sleep deprived for any reason.

Feel better TOG.

 

[swlman2]

Sounds like the Old Grind is sticking his nose where it doesn't belong given he isn't the land owner. Beyond that, anything else is a mute point.

i love people being high and mighty! sounds like good ole RB!!!!

 

[timster2]

I enjoy the trespassing threads as I always learn something new or a new approach to the problem. The power company is putting a new power line accross my property and I am anticipating problems with trespassers assuming that the new power line right of way is their new playground. I will end up with a long access road, to one of the new towers, running down the side of my property line and will have to devise some way of keeping people from thinking its ok to use because its for the power company.

 

[forgeblast]

Timster did you sign a ROW (right of way)? anyway to ask them to put in a gate?