E10 ASK AMY
The ball’s in his court, and he’s not giving it back
Dear Amy: About a year ago I purchased a foreclosed home. Unknown and undisclosed to me was the fact that the neighbor behind me has small children. The father is training the 3-year-old to be a sports star. I find various kinds of balls and toys in my back yard on a regular basis. At least three balls a week hit my house. I have a large dog I train in the back yard. If I’m out with him, the neighbor will climb up on the fence to ask for the balls back. They now wait for me to come out so they can ask me to gather and return these balls. If I go out in the evening in my pajamas with the dog so he can do his business, they climb the fence, look around and ask for the balls. I have absolutely no privacy in my own back yard.
I finally started keeping the balls as a
way of trying to discourage them. I think this is rude, intrusive and very self- centered. These balls could be harmful or even fatal to my dog if he were to swallow them. Now when I see them starting to walk
toward the fence I pivot and go directly into my house. I want my privacy back! I want to be able to use my yard without being bugged!
No Backyard Privacy Keeping the balls seems like the best
strategy. If you send the message that any ball landing in your yard will not be returned, then soon enough even the 3-year-old will start saying, “No, Dad, let’s play catch in this direction!” One way to increase your privacy would be to heighten your fence and
plant dense shrubbery along it. This would have an impact on the lost ball issue, too. People who live in close proximity to one another learn that privacy is a dance. You’ll have to learn to cheerfully ignore and/or tolerate your neighbors, the way they will have to occasionally tolerate you and your large dog.
Dear Amy: “Anxious” didn’t wish to visit friends because he suspected them of pilfering prescription drugs from his medicine cabinet. In your response, you overlooked the obvious opportunity. I would have suggested that he go ahead with the planned visit, check out their medicine cabinet and steal them back.
Quid Pro Quo This sounds like the plot for “Ocean’s
14: Operation Snatch Back.” Dear Amy:
I had to laugh at the note from
“Rhonda,” who said she and her mother clip your columns and give them to each other. My mother and I do exactly the same thing!
Wendy This column can be a great
conversation starter — it certainly is in my household.
Amy Dickinson at
askamy@tribune.com or Ask Amy, Chicago Tribune, TT500, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60611.
© 2010 by the Chicago Tribune Distributed by Tribune Media Services
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