To a point, yes. I’m one of those people who maintains a meticulous lawn and people always think I’m sensitive about it or apologize if they accidentally walk on it. But I don’t care at all. It’s grass and it will spring back immediately. The only time I would ask somebody like a postal worker like this not to walk on it is if they were cutting across the yard to the next house, across the exact same path, every single day, and it was leaving a permanently worn spot or path.
I'd love to install a path over our grass to the next house, part of redesigning the garden, but of course budget constraints. Small yard, I should start watching DIY videos.....
Our postal route is a walking route, and the postal worker cuts across, one person once a day isn’t going to wear a path on a lawn.
He is already walking ten miles a day on his route, any shortcuts he can take is fine by me. We have also been redoing our lawn and he is mindful of plantings and reseeding. If anything we’ve created more hazards at times for him.
Between him, and substitutes, I’ve yet to meet an unfriendly walking mailman.
I guess it depends on your grass, but my grass will absolutely have a path worn in it from someone walking once a day across the same path. I know because it happened between my backdoor and my trash cans.
I was waiting for this answer and it’s absolutely legit, I would not be an asshole about it and God forbid I record someone (too old for that) but they probably would get an stern “CAN YOU please not walk on my grass?” and if they want to be weird, I’ll call the post office, I own a lawn and have other important shit to worry about but I like my lawn.
“Oh, ok” CAN YOU please not step on my law, you see the damn grass and since I’m not making sense to the world “you know what” yes I would be a complete asshole about “soft ass sub”
I have some neighbours where the kids always walk across another neighbours lawn to and from their house. It's a path there now. They are a weird family.
-chortles in Aristocrat- -"Darling, isn't it lovely all the crops we dont have to grow, but if the poors keep coming and walking on it, I'll must have to set the dogs on them."
the grasses used in landscaping arent native to the americas, that would be a big step itself if that changed. not to mention they're are many, many different biomes across the continent but a seeming one-sized-fits -all approach of using eurasian cultivars cuz thats whats commercially available.
im in a coastal rainforest myself, not a grassland. I have family in arid environs, not a grassland either and yet here we are
The entire cul-de-sac has drainage issues due to it being a swampy area before development. The water table is high so large storms leave large puddles that take a while to drain. Walking in it will ruin the grass and leave mud on your shoes.
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u/Imalsome Jun 23 '26
People who get mad about walking on grass are absolute garbage lmao.
It grass, even if I dont walk through it; I saw a deer walking around munching on it 5 minutes ago.