What do you do when the next door neighbour ambushes your son with a request to put their letterbox next to yours to save them travelling 3 kilometres to collect their mail? Uses the presumptive close? (In sales, it's called 'presumptive' because she says 'of course you won't mind...') Very pushy woman. We feel violated. We've learned the importance of keeping on the right side of the neighbours. These people are living on 50 acres and running a handful of cattle. Their little dog keeps coming here and harassing the female dogs. She assures us the mailbox will 'look good'. She later says it will be 'a little lamb'. OK, in the interests of peace, let them have it.
Then you arrive home to find a pig beside your letterbox. A twee, goofy, embarassing pig. The letters go in the front and she takes them out of a little trapdoor where its arse should be.
She's put us in a position where we can't win. Either we've got to insult her pedestrian sense of style or we have to say to the world: "We like this pig!"
I don't mind people expressing their eccentricity via their letterbox. But it is usually on their own doorstep. Why should we share their eccentricity by association?
Our options:
1. Remove it and tell them it was stolen.
2. Shoot it to pieces and say it was shooters.
3. Put a letter in it telling them to take it away.
4. Call them as ask them to remove it.
5. Deliver it back to them with a request to keep it off our place.
6. Tell them we changed our mind about letting them put a letter box there.
How would you handle this situation.
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