Title: My Neighbor Demanded I Remove My Solar Lights — But Karma Had Other Plans

I’ve dealt with difficult neighbors, but none like Meredith. When she demanded I remove the soft solar lights my daughter Lily and I had installed in our garden, I was stunned. They weren’t bright — just gentle flickers Lily called “fairy magic.” But Meredith insisted they kept her up, and threatened to call the authorities.

For Lily’s sake, I reluctantly removed them. Her eyes welled up as we pulled them from the ground, and I promised we’d find even better ones someday.

But karma didn’t wait long.

The very next morning, Meredith banged on my door in a panic. Her perfect garden had been destroyed overnight — torn up by raccoons who’d previously been kept away by our lights. She looked a mess, begging me to put the lights back and even help clean her yard.

I smiled. “You wanted them gone. I respected that.”

I shut the door gently.

Now? Lily and I have twice as many fairy lights in our yard — and Meredith? Let’s just say she learned not to mess with “harmless” things she doesn’t understand.

Don’t dim someone else’s light just because it shines where you can’t control it. Karma sees what pride refuses to.