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[–] Baku@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I don't know how rude mowing at 7am on a Monday morning (in school holidays) is, but today it's my house doing the mowing.

Don't blame me, they sent some drongo gardener around who apparently has a key to my gates I guess, and he was banging on my door at 7:10 while I was in the shower. Needless to say, he was ignored

NB: they call themselves gardeners, but they really aren't. The department hires lawn mowers for all the properties, including ours. They do an awful job and never take their clippings with them (or even put it in the compost bin, like we'd asked multiple times). They basically just come to mow the lawns poorly and then spray poison on anything that looks green. Not a hyperbole. So far, they've sprayed a capsicum tree, a watermelon seedling, a patch of strawberries, and a zucchini bush. They were all in the garden beds, with only a few weeds in there (nowhere near anything that was growing).

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You should change the lock on your gates and next time they come round just ignore them again

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ha! I wish. I actually don't even have the key for one of the gates, they keyed 2 of the gates to the same key, then put a different lock on the gate between the front and back yards, and never even gave me a key to it πŸ™„

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

I meant just hire your own person to put new locks in. Might not be allowed if you are renting tho.

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