Woman Trespassed On My Yard To Demand I Stop Mowing And Critiqued My Clothes
Yesterday I was cutting my grass around 3 PM. I have a corner property and a double lot so it takes about 40 minutes. I was well over halfway done when a group of parents showed up to wait for the school bus. For some context - they stand in my yard as there is no sidewalk, as they have for years without asking. I really don’t care if they do this, it makes no difference to me as long as they don’t leave any litter behind. I had my headphones in and was working on a different part of the grass when a woman tapped on my shoulder and asked if I would stop cutting my grass, as she was waiting for the bus and wanted to get a video of her child getting off the bus since it was the first day of school. I asked what time it comes and she said in 5-10 minutes. At that point I told her I would keep an eye out for the bus, and stop when I saw it so that there wouldn’t be a lawn mower in the background of her video. She then proceeded to *tell* me that I needed to stop until after the bus got there, as the lawn mower is too loud, and her and the other parents were trying to talk. I told her politely that I had to get this done as I needed to get dinner started for my family, and I was working away from them so it’ll get quieter. She got very angry and told me that I had no right to make this much noise, and that she was calling in a noise complaint about me. She also told me I should “dress more modest when the whole neighborhood can see me”. It was 27 degrees (Celsius) and I was wearing a tank top and shorts. At that point I told her that she was being unreasonable, and that if it was that much of a nuisance, her and her friends could wait somewhere else, and continued cutting my grass until I saw the bus pull onto my street, when I shut off the lawn mower. So AITA for continuing to cut my grass? TL;DR: woman waiting for school bus on my property wanted me to shut off my lawnmower because it was too loud for her to talk with other parents.
