A WOMAN who removed a wasp’s nest from her yard to protect her disabled son has been branded ‘evil’ by her elderly neighbor.
she took om Mumsnet’s Am I being unreasonable? forum to explain the situation and seek advice from others about who was wrong.
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“My neighbor is elderly and lives alone,” she began.
“She said hundreds of baby wasps came into her bathroom covered in white powder that was dying.
“She asked what the man was doing in my garden.
“I explained that we had a wasp nest and the wasps came out of their nest and attacked us.
“I have a disabled 5 year old and the yard is his safe place and he spends most of his waking hours there so I can’t have these wasps ruining our whole summer vacation and not allowing my 5 year old son to come in. his own garden.
“So I called someone to come and take care of it.”
However, when she found out what the exterminator had done, the neighbor labeled the mother “bad” for “killing hundreds of baby wasps instead of keeping my child inside for the summer until the wasps were gone.”
“I really don’t see what I did wrong!!” she added.
“If they weren’t bothering us I would have left them behind, but as soon as we came out our back door they flew over to stab us.”
In conclusion, she asked, “Was I ‘bad’ to have a wasp’s nest removed from my yard?”
The responses to the post were largely in support of the woman, with one person writing, “Why are you rethinking this. Sure, it’s not bad.”
“Ignore the old bat,” added another.
But others insisted she should have warned her neighbor before calling an exterminator.
“You are not unreasonable to have the wasps eradicated, but you should have warned your neighbor in advance so she could have closed her windows,” one person argued.
“It’s no fun having to put up with hundreds of dying wasps covered in venom flying through your bathroom window.”
While another agreed, writing, “Why the hell didn’t you warn your neighbors first?”
“Did she really say you’re bad for doing this?” someone else asked.
To which the mother replied: “Yes, she did, I just laughed.
“I would be evil to send my 5-year-old child out to be stung, who has no sense of danger and would not understand what they are and most likely walk straight into the nesting area.”
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