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After a week of sun and sand, I came home to find a massive wooden fence<\/em> blocking my windows \u2014 built right on my property<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I\u2019m Catherine, a single mom of two boys. My neighbor Jeffrey had been arguing for weeks about putting up a fence \u201cfor privacy.\u201d I told him no. He did it anyway \u2014 while we were on vacation.<\/p>\n I was furious. Instead of calling the authorities, I came up with a plan.<\/p>\n That night, I sprayed his entire fence with animal attractant<\/em> \u2014 the kind that smells irresistible to dogs, raccoons, and foxes. Within days, every creature in the neighborhood was using his fence as their personal bathroom.<\/p>\n Jeffrey tried scrubbing, spraying, even bleaching \u2014 but nothing worked. The smell spread through the block, and neighbors started complaining.<\/p>\n A week later, I woke up to the sound of drills. Jeffrey had hired workers to tear down the fence.<\/p>\n Later, he came over, red-faced. I smiled. \u201cApology accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, my boys can see the trees again \u2014 and Jeffrey? He\u2019ll never<\/em> forget the lesson I taught him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a week of sun and sand, I came home to find a massive wooden fence blocking my windows \u2014 built right on my property. I\u2019m Catherine, a single mom of two boys. My neighbor Jeffrey had been arguing for weeks about putting up a fence \u201cfor privacy.\u201d I told him no. He did …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8820,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions\/8820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d he said. \u201cI shouldn\u2019t have built it without asking.\u201d<\/p>\n