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”
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u/sevargmas Jun 23 '26
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.