Grandpa Decorates His House To Look Nicer, Receives A Poison Pen Letter From Hateful Neighbors
A person’s land is their kingdom. Their house is their castle. And if they’re not harming anyone, it’s their — and only their — business to run it however they want. However, this simple concept is apparently too difficult for some to understand.
Three days ago, Twitter user @goldenstef posted a picture of a disgusting letter her grandpa had received. In it, his neighbors ridicule his house decorations, saying they’re ‘excessive’ and ‘bad taste.’ The senders signed it as ‘decent, middle-class people’ but the contents of the letter clearly show they’re anything but. I mean, how self-conscious and insecure they must feel if the only way they can raise their self-esteem is to diminish others?
The perfect example of how to a trash human being went viral on Twitter, generating over 236K likes and 5.4K comments, many of which are sending the elderly man their best wishes. Let’s hope they will cheer him up!
Here’s the full letter
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After the letter went viral, the Internet got to see the house, too
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The granddaughter of the recipient said they think the decorations aren’t bad at all, and many agreed with her on the Internet. “We’re still looking for the people who sent it and when we find out who…” she added. “I’m so mad and sad at the same time and they didn’t leave a return address.”
Even if the man and his granddaughter were to ask around, trying to find out who could’ve written the letter, chances are, they would run into some trouble. According to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey, the majority of Americans (57%) say they know only some of their neighbors; far fewer (26%) say they know most of them.
And everyone thought it was anything but embarrassing
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This house is in my city. First of all, Thunderbird Hills isn't a particularly upscale or expensive neighborhood at all. Second, the "decent, middle-class [white] people who wrote this disgusting letter are by far the MINORITY in this area. I'm white, but I love this city and its culture which is predominantly Hispanic and rich in history. Those people need to move to Bigotville.
Can we start up a fund so you can buy this person some more decorations for their yard?
I think the gazing ball gets a little lost and could use a size-upgrade. Perhaps also some sort of 5' tall rooster made of old farm machinery, painted bright colors. It would go well with the cactus and compliment the subtle colors of the house. Like one of these guys: recycled-m...ens-33.gif
M O'Connell like
As long as it includes pink flamingos. One can never have enough pink flamingos. In fact, all the neighbors should get them too to show support.
OMG YES!!!! I know where they can get cast steel flamingos, bulls, roosters, chickens, pigs etc of all sizes!! PLEASE!!
Brandi VanSteenwyk good
Bigotville, a satellite of Fucksburg, Arseland.
Arseland is a pair of mounding hills close together in the scottish highlands.
Arseland sounds like some place in Australia.
Leodavinci follower
Arseland.... There's one in every state, province, valley... Now I am sad.
The use of typewriter indicates an older person. Someone needs to come get their senile and demented parents and put them in a facility.
Blödsinn on the "fact" about all of Germany using typewriters. I don't know anyone who even owns one anymore. And I lived nearly everywhere in Germany.
Or an asshole hipster I don’t know anyone but hipsters who still use a typewriter
Chelsea Shimell +
How is that discrimination? I'm not denying him service. And I'm not a bigot--many older people start acting hateful due to senility, and it's not bad to consider that this might be a factor of his behavior. It might actually put things into perspective. Are you one of those people who get offended by everything? Is that fun for you?
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Hmm, age-related discrimination? The whole of germany now use typewriters to ensure the nsa does not hack sensitive information and range in age from early 20s to late 70s. And I love typewriters and also love this guy's yard and house. Could be a younger person typing the letter to throw off the trail as it surely did for you. Maybe you need to move to bigotville too, eh?
This letter is so full of stereotypically racist language that I find it hard to believe it could be real. I know people who say these things exist, but this sounds more like the writing of someone who's heard these things and tried to put them all in one letter to make a point. Like they tried to hard to make it seem like grandpa got a nasty letter. Sorry, but I'm a skeptic when it comes to sob stories on the internet. Wasn't there a story recently about a lady who supposedly got abused for her rainbow decorations (one chain of rainbow coloured lanterns), had a gofundme to buy more, never spent it on decorations. Julie Baker of Overlea.
My cousin has two black children and someone spray painted on her house “Go home N*****s” so yeah some people are this hateful and this stereotypical. She lived in a very small “safe” Canadian city. I STILL have people tell me I’m lying which as you can believe only further adds to the hurt.
That was my thought too.
Gunilla Olsson haha
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This letter was a hoax -- clearly just some dumb Libs trying to Smollett.
If it's racist then it's a conservative
Maybe I'm spiteful, but I'd be going ALL OUT with the decorations after receiving that letter
If it were me, I'd get all the plastic flamingos I could find and put them up.
Like Bacony Cakes said you can't forget the gnomes to go along with the flamingos!
ah yes, the gnome cavalry
I would have HUGE SQUIRREL RAINBOW FLAMINGOS!!!
Hell yeah! Pink flamingos really piss people off..js
Yeah, bright pepto bismal flamingos with solar operated red LEDs for the eyes. Not just pink flamingos, but DEMON flamingos!
Very well. If pink flamingos really piss people off then they should go with green flamingos.
Bender Bending Rodríguez no
Start a "Pink Flamingos Against Bigotry" campaign and invite neighbors to buy one and plant it in the yard.
Steve Cruz follower
If you are, I am as well. It's my first thought whenever I see this kind of thing.
bryguy Good response!
"you're house". All said.
Carrot dude: *WHOOSH*
I guess the "stickler" doesn't understand quotation marks.
I wish I was a house. Then again whoever owned me would get a huge bill fixing me up.
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"your house" Sorry. I'm a stickler.
But that's what Hans implied... he just quoted the letter.
This house is in my city. First of all, Thunderbird Hills isn't a particularly upscale or expensive neighborhood at all. Second, the "decent, middle-class [white] people who wrote this disgusting letter are by far the MINORITY in this area. I'm white, but I love this city and its culture which is predominantly Hispanic and rich in history. Those people need to move to Bigotville.
Can we start up a fund so you can buy this person some more decorations for their yard?
I think the gazing ball gets a little lost and could use a size-upgrade. Perhaps also some sort of 5' tall rooster made of old farm machinery, painted bright colors. It would go well with the cactus and compliment the subtle colors of the house. Like one of these guys: recycled-m...ens-33.gif
M O'Connell like
As long as it includes pink flamingos. One can never have enough pink flamingos. In fact, all the neighbors should get them too to show support.
OMG YES!!!! I know where they can get cast steel flamingos, bulls, roosters, chickens, pigs etc of all sizes!! PLEASE!!
Brandi VanSteenwyk good
Bigotville, a satellite of Fucksburg, Arseland.
Arseland is a pair of mounding hills close together in the scottish highlands.
Arseland sounds like some place in Australia.
Leodavinci follower
Arseland.... There's one in every state, province, valley... Now I am sad.
The use of typewriter indicates an older person. Someone needs to come get their senile and demented parents and put them in a facility.
Blödsinn on the "fact" about all of Germany using typewriters. I don't know anyone who even owns one anymore. And I lived nearly everywhere in Germany.
Or an asshole hipster I don’t know anyone but hipsters who still use a typewriter
Chelsea Shimell +
How is that discrimination? I'm not denying him service. And I'm not a bigot--many older people start acting hateful due to senility, and it's not bad to consider that this might be a factor of his behavior. It might actually put things into perspective. Are you one of those people who get offended by everything? Is that fun for you?
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Hmm, age-related discrimination? The whole of germany now use typewriters to ensure the nsa does not hack sensitive information and range in age from early 20s to late 70s. And I love typewriters and also love this guy's yard and house. Could be a younger person typing the letter to throw off the trail as it surely did for you. Maybe you need to move to bigotville too, eh?
This letter is so full of stereotypically racist language that I find it hard to believe it could be real. I know people who say these things exist, but this sounds more like the writing of someone who's heard these things and tried to put them all in one letter to make a point. Like they tried to hard to make it seem like grandpa got a nasty letter. Sorry, but I'm a skeptic when it comes to sob stories on the internet. Wasn't there a story recently about a lady who supposedly got abused for her rainbow decorations (one chain of rainbow coloured lanterns), had a gofundme to buy more, never spent it on decorations. Julie Baker of Overlea.
My cousin has two black children and someone spray painted on her house “Go home N*****s” so yeah some people are this hateful and this stereotypical. She lived in a very small “safe” Canadian city. I STILL have people tell me I’m lying which as you can believe only further adds to the hurt.
That was my thought too.
Gunilla Olsson haha
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
This letter was a hoax -- clearly just some dumb Libs trying to Smollett.
If it's racist then it's a conservative
Maybe I'm spiteful, but I'd be going ALL OUT with the decorations after receiving that letter
If it were me, I'd get all the plastic flamingos I could find and put them up.
Like Bacony Cakes said you can't forget the gnomes to go along with the flamingos!
ah yes, the gnome cavalry
I would have HUGE SQUIRREL RAINBOW FLAMINGOS!!!
Hell yeah! Pink flamingos really piss people off..js
Yeah, bright pepto bismal flamingos with solar operated red LEDs for the eyes. Not just pink flamingos, but DEMON flamingos!
Very well. If pink flamingos really piss people off then they should go with green flamingos.
Bender Bending Rodríguez no
Start a "Pink Flamingos Against Bigotry" campaign and invite neighbors to buy one and plant it in the yard.
Steve Cruz follower
If you are, I am as well. It's my first thought whenever I see this kind of thing.
bryguy Good response!
"you're house". All said.
Carrot dude: *WHOOSH*
I guess the "stickler" doesn't understand quotation marks.
I wish I was a house. Then again whoever owned me would get a huge bill fixing me up.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
"your house" Sorry. I'm a stickler.
But that's what Hans implied... he just quoted the letter.