I had a neighbor today ambush me while I was out walking w/my LO and dog. The fence which separates our yards (that we are responsible for) had fallen a couple weeks back and we never noticed because we hardly ever go out in that side of the yard. We got it repaired immediately after we found out (literally, called the fencing company that same day to have them repair it the next day). My husband felt awful that the fence had been down and went over to apologize (our Golden had probably wandered into their yard because of it), but they weren't home.

I was about to apologize profusely for not realizing the fence was down, but this woman just started going off on me and accused me of allowing the dog to wander into her yard. It really made me not want to apologize or be neighborly, even when I had felt awful about it the whole time.