I might have complained before that the neighbourhood cats like to do their business in our garden and the neighbourhood kids like to trample the flowerbeds to take a "shortcut" through our backyard. So I was just taking out the trash a moment ago and -
Cat: *taking a poop position at the potato patch*
Laufey: *charges at cat clapping hands and screaming random Finnish profanity*
Kids, about to climb over the fence: *freeze*
Laufey: *notices kids*
End result: lots of awkward staring.
When I was little there was a loose slat on the fence bordering our neighbor's backyard and ours. One day my neighbor was gardening and felt someone watching her---she turned around to see the slat gone and replaced by mine, my brother's, and my sister's heads, one on top of the other, watching her.
We would go in and out of her backyard (which was really pretty, she was a really good gardener) all the time, and my brother would sometimes get stuck in the fence hole because his head was too big. I'd squeeze in through the hole, then go and unlatch the gate to let him in. Once my sister crashed a party she was holding for her friends, and came home with brownies. My poor mom was mortified.
Then finally the neighbor decided to have her fence replaced.
She commissioned the fence guys to put hinges on two of the slats in the same spot as the original hole, so that way we could come and go as we liked.
She was the best neighbor. We went to visit her a couple times after we moved away. Last I heard she was married and travelling a lot internationally. I hope she's doing well.
