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I give big grocery bags of lemons and grapefruit to friends and neighbors. They're always overjoyed with it.
How do you give it to neighbors? My social skills are lacking and I'm not already friends with any of them. Do I just knock on doors?
"Hey, um, I live just down the hall and we have this lemon tree. Would you like a few lemons?" rinse and repeat until you're out of lemons.
It's usually just anxiety, most people will politely take lemons even if they won't use them. De-escalate, seem self-effacing, and back off if you think people are getting weirdly aggressive about rejecting lemons.
You will likely be known as the lemon person.
It's people I already know yeah. You could put them in a cardboard box and set them near the curb if that sounds more appealing