I found out my neighbor built a balcony over my backyard while I was gone for a week. And the craziest part wasn’t the balcony. It was how casually they acted about it. Like building part of their house over someone else’s property was just normal. And standing there in my backyard that afternoon staring up at it.
I remember thinking the same thing over and over in my head. You have got to be kidding me. Now, to understand why this got under my skin the way it did, you need to know something about that backyard. I bought my house in 2018. Small two-story place outside Columbus, Ohio. Nothing fancy. Beige siding, older roof, squeaky deck boards that complain every time you step on them.
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