Neighbor Cut a Driveway Through My Grandparents’ Yard Without Permission — But Grandpa’s Clever Move Made Him Pay Dearly

Sometimes the best revenge isn’t loud—it’s quiet and perfectly placed.
My grandparents, Clarence and Harriet, had lived in their hillside home for over forty years, surrounded by the oak tree planted by our ancestors and the garden Harriet tended every summer. Next to them sat a steep, unused lot—until bulldozers suddenly arrived.

Harriet called me, shaken. “Ellis, they’re cutting into the hill. And part of it is ours.”
When Clarence got home, he found a freshly carved switchback driveway dug right into their yard, well over the property line. He stayed calm and asked the excavator for a plot map. The worker shrugged and told him to talk to the owner, handing him a business card with one word scribbled on it: Desmond.