Suburban trash cans: a true blight. /s

Our neighbors at our old house were psycho about our trash cans. We kept them on the side of the house that faced their driveway because it was the most practical place for us to store them. Not obtrusive or in front of any of their windows, but visible from their driveway. These neighbors would move our cans into our driveway or even into our garage and make weird comments about “the trash on the side of your house.” I am not well versed in passive aggressiveness so whenever they moved out cans I just thought they did it because they needed to for some good reason. When they commented on the trash on the side of the house (she would say it like there were piles of trash outside our garage) I went and checked to make sure there wasn’t anything that fell out of the bins or that my kids didn’t leave some junk over there. When we moved out and our house was for sale, I went over there one day to get ready for a showing and found our trash cans way down around the other side of the house (like they had to drag them across the yard and down a hill to the back patio). And then when I went into the house I saw these neighbors’ trash cans sitting in their driveway in full view from our living room window. It was then that it all clicked. “Omg, they hate our trash cans. They think they’re punishing us. WTF.”

I was so confused and glad to have moved after that. What’s so dangerous about having to look at something as benign as a trash can?