Making Them Pay
Remember how annoying it was when you lived at home with your parents and they would nag you about cleaning up your room while you were in the middle of picking things up off the floor and tossing your dirty laundry into the basket? It took every ounce of self-control not to roll our eyes and ask them what it looked like we were doing. Well, this is the grown-up version of that.
u/robothouserock’s mom was already tackling the fence problem when her impatient neighbor tattled on her to the city. The Redditor’s fast-thinking mom used it as an opportunity to turn it around on the neighbor who didn’t expect to be the one paying for a new fence. This one was a win.