You know, I’ve been dreaming of living in a house with a pool for almost my entire adult life. I haven’t had the chance yet, but the best is yet to come. Although, if you read a lot ofpool-relatedstories from here, there and everywhere, you can’t help but wonder – is it really worth it?
So, here’s another story about a pool and entitled neighbors, initially told in ther/entitledparentscommunity. On how a person bought a house with a pool (damn, I’m already jealous…) – and almost immediately ran into problems (maybe I’m not jealous…). However, let’s just read on.
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The author of the post recently bought a house with a pool out back – and with some entitled neighbors too
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The very first day, the neighbor lady approached the author and announced that the previous owners used to let her kids swim in the pool
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The author didn’t mind but the lady went further, demanding they watch the kids, since ‘she has no time’ to do this
The author didn’t say anything to this, but they strongly decided to change the gate locks to avoid any possible incidents
According to this decent lady, her children are now suffering because they can’t enjoy the pool like they used to. The original poster was starting to feel guilty, so they said they wouldn’t mind if the kids came to swim one day. But only under the supervision of their mom or any other adult relative.
And here the woman showed her true colors. She stated that: a) she doesn’t have time to look after the kids in the pool; b) the previous neighbors were perfectly happy to look after the kids; c) it would be very nice if the original poster followed the example of these wonderful people and looked after the kids too.
She went back into the house, and the original poster felt both guilty and confused. Probably, now it will be necessary to change the locks on the gate – after all, the author suspects that the neighbor still hasthe keysfrom the previous neighbors. And they definitely don’t want the neighbors’ kids to swim in their pool unsupervised.
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“Unfortunately, the presentation of information at the very beginning of the conversation already allows us to conclude that they tried to manipulate this person. To evoke an unmotivated feeling of guilt – and only then play on these feelings, push their buttons, trying to achieve the desired effect,” says Maria Kryvosheeva, apsychologistand NLP coach, whomBored Pandaasked for a comment here.
“After all, it was quite obvious that the neighbor’s main task there was not so much to get permission forher childrento swim in the pool, but to have the neighbor also look after them. And, having felt concessions on the first question, she immediately moved on to the second.”
“The interesting thing is that this woman probably sincerely believes that her new neighbors are simply obligated to do her these favors. That’s how it works in her head. So changing the lock before she does the further actions would be a really smart move,” Maria summarizes.
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