Now I want to start this off by saying that my lawn wraps around the side of my house. Our entire property is about 3/4 of an acre placed on an otherwise normal suburban street. The lawn goes all the way back and all the way around the back to the other side of the house, and the driveway is touching the entire lawn as well as my neighbor's house.

So this morning I had my alarms set for 9:15, 9:30 and 9:45 a.m. The first two go off, I'm five minutes back to sleep before my next alarm when I hear the doorbell ring. Then I went to look at my doorbell camera and this guy is standing there, doing nothing. Two minutes later he rings again, twice this time. Again we did nothing and he did nothing, this guy seems sketchy the way he apparently needs to talk to us. So he realizes we're not there or just not gonna come answer. So on the camera I watch him walk down the sidewalk about half way towards my driveway, stop, and then look down my lawn like he's trying to see what's behind my house. Then he walks down to my driveway where the view of the camera ends. So I get up to look out the window and lo and behold he walked halfway down my driveway, backed up into my lawn and started taking pictures of the neighbor's house. My mother is afraid of this man and whatever his intentions are.

So here I lost my cool. I banged on the window and started yelling at him, telling him "get the fuck off my lawn" and "who the fuck are you?" He thought my gestures telling him to get off the lawn meant, "come back to the door and let's talk about this." I had to leave for school and I'm not usually very confrontational but I had no choice except to confront him.

I opened the door and the first thing he did was reach out to shake my hand. I guess he knew I was too polite to refuse that. So I shook his hand and I said, "who the hell are you? You ring my doorbell three times, no one answers so you go down my driveway and start taking pictures of the neighbor's house?" Still a snarky tone because A. I'm confused as hell, and B. I'm just waking up. He explains everything. He says he's power washing the neighbor's house (I can see his company truck parked in front of their house) and he was simply coming to tell me that my car in the driveway would most likely get misted. Now that I think of it, he made no mention to whether or not he was going to tell me that he'd be on my property at any point. Anyway, my mood is easily manipulated by kindness. I immediately apologized and felt like a huge ass hole. He kept explaining til I got to my car and then I told him that he has a job to do so whatever is necessary just do it.

I don't think he had I'll intentions but I still think he handled it wrong. I think I handled it wrong too. What is my fate? AITA?