Mildly Infuriating

Ain't that America! Home of the free, baby! Busted old fences for you and me!

Had similar scenario this summer at new house. Solution? We built a 10 ft fence.

Just add more wall when needed.

Unless they also put the fence up backwards, that's taken from inside the fence. So either that's your own fence, or you trespassed to take the photo. Or this story could all be totally fake, who's to say?

While I really dislike painting with a broad brush about any sort of “good ol’ days”…

I think there’s been a huge loss of generalist knowledge since Gen X. Gen X got to grow up with adults familiar with the pre-tech world and where a lot of things could be and needed to be fixed by yourself, and they grew up with the advent of household technology. From mending fences to replacing a capacitor in a electric motor to fixing your own car. Some of that got passed on to the kids by the boomers. I’m not trying to say this kind of knowledge was common, it was just more common. I dunno if millennials got this knowledge dump too, but if you did, you’re on the hook to pass it on as well.

I looked at the fence and couldn’t understand why someone wouldn’t take the ten minutes to trim the bottom off and buy a small box of the correct nails, but then someone could be in the position of never having been taught to think of those things. Maybe it was just laziness.

So, I appeal to my Gen X brethren - peel yourself and your kids away from the screens and find a way to get your collective hands dirty. Change some brake pads. Fix a fence right. Change the spark plug or oil in a mower. Build a raised-bed garden, even a small one, from scratch. Make the kids do the work they can. Trll them why you chose to do what you did, how you chose the parts, what you need to look out for, etc.

It’s better for problem solving skills, planning, and just understanding how things work. Spare everyone the embarrassment of a shitty fence repair job.

I wish I was lucky enough to be a homeowner complaining about 2 mismatched fenceposts

What screws?

It's not just the posts. The neighbor used nails that are way too long. IMO that's a safety hazard.

Grab the nail heads with a pliers and push them out a little every week or so

Maybe he is slowly upgrading it to a taller fence. Only 328 more to go.

Simple red marker.

All I see is a dude who had a limited amount of fucks to give.

That fence looks backwards according to the code I'm familiar with, unless you took this inside your neighbor's yard

Looks life a shared fence. Maybe you should have offered to help instead of making this post.

Those exposed screws are way worse than the mismatched boards. Safety hazard