After my divorce, I moved into a quiet cul-de-sac in North Carolina and poured my energy into my new lawn. It became my peaceful spot\u2014solar lights, flowers, a small butterfly garden. Then Sabrina moved in two houses down. She wore stilettos at 7 a.m., drove a blindingly white Lexus, and for some reason decided it was easier to cut diagonally across my lawn to reach her driveway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first it was just a tire mark. Soon my roses were crushed, and the new turf was torn up. When I politely asked her to stop, she laughed and said my flowers would grow back. That\u2019s when I knew I had to protect my yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I tried decorative rocks; she pushed them aside with her car. So I installed hidden motion-activated sprinklers along the path she always drove. The next morning, I heard tires, then a burst of water, followed by Sabrina screaming as the sprinklers soaked her and the inside of her Lexus. She reversed instantly and never touched my lawn again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She even tried to complain at the HOA meeting, but the president told her she wouldn\u2019t have been \u201cwatered like a tulip\u201d if she hadn\u2019t been driving over someone else\u2019s property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My roses recovered, my lawn stayed intact, and Sabrina learned to use the actual road like everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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