Confessions for Cash: The Pettiest Revenge on a Neighbour’s Perfect Lawn

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with Robin Kid and Coyotes. This is Confessions for Cash.

(00:37):
Hello Allie from Pallin Creek in the beautiful scenic rim.
How are you? I'm well? Thanks Robin, how are you good? Now?
You have a confession for cash? What is it? This
is one that makes me giggle quite regularly. So quite
a few years back, my family and I we lived
in a suburban court area and we had kids, and

(01:00):
all the kids in the street would play together and
climb trees, ride bicycles, play basketball, et cetera, being kids,
and all the neighbors thought it was great. Of course,
there's always the exception to the rule, and this particular
gentleman had the most perfectly manicured lawn you'd ever seen,
and he didn't like the kids. If the ball bounce

(01:21):
from the lawn or the bike rode over the lawn.
So it was quite entertaining in a way watching, but
my hobby. She didn't really appreciate the way that this
fellow spoke to the kids. So I got home from
work one evening, he's like, don't touch the ice cubes
in the freezer. I'm like, wow, you know, we're not
sharing ice cubes anymore, you know, And he's like, no,
there's round up in them. I'm like, do you want

(01:42):
to explain? And he's like no. So we go for
our evening walk as we used to when we lived
in the suburbs, and he would just quietly throw an
ice cube onto this grass and to them perfectly manicured lawn. Now,
if you know what roundup does, it kills stuff. Yeah,
it's like it's regular, like weed killer and stuff like that.
But I'll kill everything that I don't understand. The ice cubes,

(02:03):
I'll get to it. My cubes melt in summer, and
so any evidence of lawn tampering isn't scene. And so
after a few days, a brown patch would appear on
this perfectly manicured lawn. That's genius, and the neighbor would
be out there and be scratching his head. He'd be

(02:24):
digging up these round circle patches on his lawn because
there was a few of them, of course, and and
over time for my husband, a very patient man. You know,
this repeated. Fast forward a few weeks, couple of months,
and I looked out my front window and there's this
ute outside his house and it's got the lawn doctor.

(02:45):
The lawn doctor. What if I got grubs spots would
have been like it would have looked like lawn grubs exactly.
So anyway, that to me was the I think. But
again there's another step. So you know, fast forward another
period of time. There's a turf guy there. The whole

(03:06):
lawn got ripped up and returf and that's expensive, mate,
That is expensive. Was the lawn. We were living in
the suburbs at the time, not in the middle of nowhere,
so it was just your generic front lawn. But wow,
it wouldn't have been cheap. I could imagine. This sounds

(03:26):
really mean, it sounds genius. The kids, really kids should
be allowed to be kid and live. And they weren't
doing any harm to the lawn. And it was just
that cranky man that just kept out at the kids.
Oh wow, do you know if he ever found out?
I couldn't even tell you his name. And they've since
sold the house and moved on, as have we. But

(03:50):
I would never tell him. You know who he is.
How long did you do it for? Like? How many
circles have broken and killed off lawn? Do you think
you created it? Well, there was two ice cubes in
my freezer with twelve innutes each, so my hobby holds
the grudge. She just know when he had it fixed.

(04:14):
Did you do it again? No, we didn't. I think
we won the war on that one. It's enough. Funny,
it's enough. By the way, don't do that. Don't put
ice cubes. Dont round up in ice cubes, just in
case somebody ever eats them. Anyone who wilds unless you're
evil and looking for revenge. But because you are and

(04:37):
you have five hundred bucks, is on yours Sally. Oh wow,
that's awesome, guys. Thanks for sharing money bags. Sally,