I copped an earful by a resident across the street today when I was using the line trimmer outside a building site on the nature strip. It's a few doors down and nobody was doing some overgrown weeds outside the fence, so I went just on 8pm to quickly run my whipper snipper over it.

This irate individual gets in my face cussing and telling me do you know what time it is after I shut the machine down and even after telling him.I would stop he kept telling me in a raised voice how it was after 8pm and people didn't want to hear that noise etc etc etc. He asked me if I was getting paid by the building company. I said no and he then wanted to know where I lived and that he was going to phone the managers tomorrow.

I wouldn't tell him where I lived so he started following me home and I stopped but was stuck carrying a whipper snipper so couldn't go walk away. I went into a unit block next door and put the machine overt the fence onto my yard but he had followed me to the units sitting across the street on a brick fence looking at his phone. I think he likely saw me put the machine over the fence but when I went out I went for a walk the other way and did a few blocks for a half hour before coming back and going inside. I never looked back to see if he was following but I never spotted him again.

I was in the wrong but even though I sort of apologised for the noise, he continued on and unfortunately there was nothing illegal about him following me but I wasn't going to let him see where I lived. The guy's a rude aggressive small minded fool who was looking for an argument I think.

Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!