**AITA for Telling My Neighbor to Stop Watering Their Lawn During a Heat Advisory?**
AITA for telling my neighbor to stop watering their lawn during a heat advisory?
Okay, so my area’s under a Stage 3 heat advisory (feels like 110°F, basically the surface of the sun but with more concrete). My neighbor (56M, “Kevin”) decides THIS is the perfect time to revive his dead-ass brown lawn. Not at 6 AM, not at 9 PM—nope, 2 PM, when the sun is actively trying to murder us.
I go outside, sweat pooling in places I didn’t know existed, and politely say, “Hey, maybe save the H2O for actual people who don’t want to spontaneously combust?” He hits me with, “It’s my property, I’ll do what I want 💅.”
So I report him to the city for wasting water during a drought/heat emergency. The city? They send a warning. Kevin? Now blasts sprinklers at 3 AM (waking half the block). And my cactus-obsessed mom says I’m “overreacting” and “it’s just grass.”
AITA, Reddit? Because the only L here is Kevin’s lawn—and his last two brain cells.
TL;DR: Neighbor waters lawn in literal hellscape temps, I snitch, he gets petty, mom says I’m the drama. AITA?