Why Do Some Folks Feel Entitled to Stuff? Read This:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Next time it snows, don't clear her side, and when she comes over to complain,

tell her you didn't do it because the last time, she said you didn't do it right. So you decided maybe she would be happier if she were to find someone else who was better at it than you. I know you probably won't do that, but that attitude of entitlement and lack of gratitude is pretty rankling.

And don't get me started on my next door neighbors, who, with figurative guns blazing and fury in their eyes, pounded on my back door one summer afternoon and demanded that I cut down five mature trees along my side of the property line because there were a few branches rubbing against the power line to their house. I said I would not do that but that they were free to remove the branches on their side of the property line that were rubbing or too close to the wires. Then they demanded I pay for that work. I said no, the law is that if you remove branches from my trees that overhang your property, you are responsible for the cost. They then argued that I had a "moral" obligation to pay for the work. I demurred again, and they stomped off in a fury. A few months later I came home to find that they had "trimmed" those trees well beyond the property line and dumped about 200 lbs. of branches onto my garden.

Since then they have been poisoning my shrubs and trees all along the property line with Round-Up. Lawyers are now involved.

I don't understand some people, either.