Homeowner gets upset at next-door landscaper who decided to trespass on his house because no one was answering the door: ‘I want to have words with him over this [but also] stay in their good graces’ – FAIL Blog

You can always leave a note.

There is a sense of entitlement that is related to the fact that someone did something that you didn’t like. As if that made it available for you to do something that is wrong. Like a chain of bad acts, where someone does something improper, maybe even by mistake, so the person affected decides to avoid common sense when responding to that act. That is what happened in this Reddit story. The user who shared this story was being a bad neighbor by not taking care of his pet’s waste and letting it sit on the land of his nearby resident. That was wrong, and there is no doubt about that. But the neighbor’s landscaper going into this user’s home expecting someone to be inside and demanding to be answered at the door is quite odd, especially when he didn’t receive a response. A normal course of action would have been to leave a note at the door or to try at a different time. But no, here’s when the entitlement kicks in. He thinks that the most rational idea is to go over the fence and into his garden to try to get the attention of the person inside the home. 

This is not only a felony, as it is trespassing, but it’s also the worst idea. He felt that just because the neighbor was doing something wrong, that made it right for him to do something even worse. Society does not work like that. We cannot be upselling bad habits till we all are bad people. To something incorrect, you respond civilly, not by making it worse. It takes two seconds to realize that bad is not solved with worse. 

This type of entitlement felt by the lack of manners of somebody else makes you look even worse. What the other person did was bad, but you should calmly speak to that person, not get into his house without an invitation. To be civil is a choice that everyone should be making. Use your good judgment, act like you want other people to act, set the example!