Reply #84: Several of them [View All]

The weirdest one is this old guy who seems to be the part-time maintenance man for the apartment complex next door. He apparently doesn't have anything to do all day so he walks his dog up and down the sidewalk for hours at a time. That dog must be the most walked dog in the city. And he screams at his dog for any minor infraction, so loudly you can hear him halfway down the street. Once last winter he asked my husband if he could shovel the walk for $20 or some such amount (we have like maybe 10 feet of sidewalk at most - takes 10 minutes to shovel it). My husband gave him a non-committal answer just to get rid of him, and said maybe we'd talk about it next time it snowed. Three days later it snowed 1/2 an inch, and the guy shoveled while we weren't home. Then he came to the door later and demanded his $20. My husband told him "no way, and ask first next time before you just do work". The guy threw a giant fit and screamed obscenities all the way down the street. Nice, huh? He also kept bugging us to rent him a garage, even though he has no steady income and just wants to park his crap in it (we were clear from the first time he asked that we only rent for car storage). He even lied at one point and said he had bought a car (just so he could park it in our garage, no doubt...along with just a few boxes of random crap, right? :eyes: ). I know he lied about that because I see him on the bus every day! LOL! He has this total old pedophile creepy old man vibe, and I really don't like him, because he weirds me out. I keep hoping he'll move away, but no such luck yet...

Then there's the neighbor across the street who I've never seen, but who has an ambulance at his/her house literally every two days. The ambulance people pull up, sirens a'blazing, and go inside for 1/2 an hour and then leave without the resident. I can't figure out what could be wrong with the person that they need an ambulance to come every two days but never have to actually go to the hospital. Mystifying...

I have a couple of right-wing nutjob neighbors, which is kind of amazing to me because I live in an extremely liberal African-American urban neighborhood. You wouldn't think it would be too comfortable an environment for them, but whatever... One of them is a good neighbor - keeps up his property, quiet, and the like - but he's a bit overly friendly and talkative and wants to engage everyone in one-sided aggressive conversations when he sees them on the street. I went to a dinner party at his house once, with 6 other people, and he literally made 90% of the conversation. Nobody else could get a word in edgewise. And I hate it when people like that assume you share their political views and blather on about sensitive topics.

But then again, WE might be the weird neighbors to some people - we're in a medieval recreation society and spend a lot of time getting in and out of the car in strange costumes!

On Edit: Forgot about the 20-something kid who lives next door. His mother comes and picks him up in her car on a regular basis. Last week she came to pick him up and sat in the street and honked angrily for 5 minutes. Once he finally came out, she did the whole "wait till they come up to the door and then pull forward 5 feet, repeat until passenger is really pissed off" thing. Very mature. This behavior eventually precipitated a screaming fight in the middle of the street which culminated in son throwing a package at the car and stalking off down the sidewalk, followed by mother screaming obscenities out of the car window. Just putting the "fun" in disfunctional. :eyes: