New homeowner refuses to let entitled parent "Linda" and her kids trespass so they can play in his yard: '[But] the previous owners always let us!'

Just because something is convenient for you does not make it acceptable.

This is a lesson most people learn growing up. Sure, it would be convenient to skip the classes you don't want to take or to follow the easiest path for everything, but that's not how life works. Sometimes, you have to accept that doing things the hard way is the only option. This applies to writing essays on your own without having Chat-GPT do it for you. It applies to tidying up your room by yourself without waiting for a parent to take that on. And, in this case, it applies to the fastest route for getting to the nearby park.

These kids developed an unfortunate habit of unlocking the fence to their neighbor's backyard and trespassing so that they could get to the neighborhood park faster. Their mother, "Linda," happened to be friendly with the previous owner, who allowed her to do this. However, once he no longer lived in their suburb, Linda and her children continued to assume that this trespassing would still be permitted without confirming it with the new homeowner first.

One day, not long after getting settled into the neighborhood, this resident was taken aback when he discovered a group of children running in his backyard. Linda showed up shortly thereafter and claimed this was allowed, but the homeowner immediately pushed back. Sure, no one wants to be the neighborhood curmudgeon, but considering the fact that it would not take that much longer for these kids to go around his house and into the park, he saw no reason to permit trespassing. It made him uncomfortable and understandably so.

However, after this first encounter, Linda and the kids refused to listen…