Those pesky nieghbors!

by obiwan 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  obiwan

  Alright who here has one of those pesky nieghbors to deal with? I have mine across the street and boy are they a hoot. They crank about everything. Thier kids play in the street even the 6 year old and they have the nerve to yell at people driving on the street to watch out for thier kids. These are the same people who let thier 18 kid constantly cross my yard until one day there was an incident with her and my dog....and they blamed me even though she was in my yard!

  They are so backward that they let thier house fall apart, but to put up the kiddie pool they have a friend come over and use his gps system to level the ground (this person lays concrete for a living). There are many other things that just make it a bummer to even step out my front door!
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  Maverick

  I have the greenest lawn on the street. My neighbor would walk out his front door and let his dog crap and pee in my yard every day! I'd get the newspaper and step in dog do do and I don't even own a dog! So I put a fence between our houses. He also had an old refrigerator on his front porch. I offered to haul it away for him a couple of times. He told me he was going to fix it! My house would be worth about 15 grand more if this joker would go back to jail! I think every neighborhood has at least one of these dopes in it. Maverick
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  Robdar

  Oh those wacky neighbors....

  I am trying to work up enough courage to walk across the street and knock on one of my neighbor's door. He hasn't mowed the lawn so far this year and I never see him anymore. I am seriously wondering if he is dead. I heard what I thought were gun shots coming from across the street last winter. Hopefully the city will issue a citation telling him to mow his yard before I have to go over there.

  When I first moved here, almost 7 years ago, the neighbors next door were letting their son's x wife and her 5 kids live with them. Only 2 of the children were their grand kids. Their house is smaller than mine (I have 3 bedrooms) and I have no idea where or how anybody was sleeping. This would explain grandpa's grumpy disposition back then.

  All the kids were screamers and mischievous and were constantly coming into my yard to torture my cats or tear the pickets off my back fence or to pick my flowers. I finally had enough one day and went next door to try to speak to the mother about her kids. This woman took the chain she was wearing off and threatened me with it. I told her that I thought that her action was a little drastic but, yes, I would get off her front porch. I also told her that if she was serious about using that chain to come over to the property boundaries and then we could throw down. She didn't take me up on that offer.

  I called the cops, she called the cops. The cops came and told me to lock my fence and to put a fence around my front yard to keep the kids away. As I pointed out to the police, the fence didn't keep the little miscreants out of my back yard and to please go over there and tell her to keep her kids in her yard and off my property and away from my pets. I was surprised but they did it.

  The next summer, I was in the front planting flowers when the youngest boy asked me what I was doing. I told him and asked him if he wanted to help me since I reasoned that little boys like to play in dirt. He came over, invited his siblings (all boys and 1small sister) and we planted my flowers in a very short while. I served them lemonade and cookies and squirted them with the garden hose.

  Those kids loved to check on the progress of the seeds that we had planted and I had fun sharing what little I know about plants such as lilly of the Valley is poisonous and to always wash their hands after they pick it.

  That experience led to many more good times: I bought them colored chalk and let them draw pretty pictures on my driveway; read them stories; had them over for proper tea; educated them about other countries; brought them gifts home from my travels. I taught them respect for animals and how to take care of their kitten when they got one. It was fun watching them grow.

  Last summer they moved away. I still miss them.

  Robyn
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  teenyuck

  We live in a newer subdividivision. We are on a court, so the homes behind ours are not really straight behind. Everything is angled.

  When we are on our deck and look to the left, the neighbor has the neighborhood eyesore. In a 3 year old home!

  He has 2 riding mowers. He can only fit one in the garage, so he parks the other in the driveway. (He has a 3 car garage, so ??)

  Next, he put up a chicken wire fence around the backside of the home. This is so he can open the door, let out the toy poodle and the dog won't run away. Now he has started to accumulate stuff he doesn't seem to know what to do with and just put it behind his home.

  The chicken wire is against the code and he has had every neighbor come by and ask him to take it down. He said he won't. Sue him.

  Since there are a few lots available still, the subdivision is still being held, legally, by a holding company, which will not *enforce* rules like the chicken wire, no one can or will take him to court. Yet.

  Recently he installed flood lights. That shine directly on to our home. He says that they are on a timer, however, whenever my husband walks over and asks him to turn them off, magically, they go off when he hits the button. Never is there motion when they go on. We will be sitting on our deck, enjoying the evening, when WHAM! Bright lights in your face.

  Another one of his little tricks is to open his bedroom blinds, turn on the lights and parade back and forth NAKED!!!

  We were having a barbeque last year and it was after dark when one of our female friends said "OMG! Look at that! He is naked!"

  We all got quite an eyeful. The man does this now anytime we have company and are on the deck. He makes it a point to wait til dark, turn out the lights on his house, go up to the bedroom, open the blinds, turn on the lights in the bedroom and walk back and forth for about 5-10 minutes. I don't know what his wife is doing while he is doing is *show*.

  The funniest part? He is a dentist.

  Would you want this man putting his hand in your mouth?

  His nickname is now The naked Dentist.
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  Special K

  Teenyuck,

  He's a DENTIST?!! A NAKED DENTIST??!!!

  and I have to go to the DENTIST, tomorrow... OOOOOHHHH.. You know what I will be thinking about.

  I suppose I could surround myself with ....... CHICKEN WIRE.!!!!.. but then he couldn't fix my teeth.

  WEIRD NEIGHBORS

  YOU GUYS HAVE WEIRD NEIGHBORS!!

  SPECIAL K
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  bluesapphire

  Uh!!

  We have two pastors on our street. The one next door is a sheriff's retiree on a pension for hurting his back. Started his own church with his ex VanHalen groupie wifey. They have the "flock" over weekly to do their yard work and their yard still looks like crap! They have three home-schooled kids. Their house is the worst one on the whole street. He's always expecting things for free. And he has his kids trained that way too.

  This morning the kids banged on my door for 15 minutes and woke up the baby because their dad sent them to see if they can borrow our kids boogie boards. Give me a friggin break and buy your own! Last week they wanted to borrow our basketball and never returned it. Guess they figure since they're in "the Lord's work" we wouldn't mind. (barf)

  Last month they wanted to know if we would give them our dog house (cost $200) since we got rid of our dog. Didn't offer to buy it ... just came out and asked, "Can you give us your dog house?"

  Then the fat slob across the street has the homeless over every Thursday for soup. Can't rent a shelter or something. Has to drag all the riff-raff onto our middle class neighborhood so we can't even let our kids out on Thursday eves.

  I could go on and on but It's making me more mad. And despite this our house increased in value by 100K in one year. Go figure. I wouldn't buy this house over again just because of the neighbors!
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  Yerusalyim

  I was the Pesky neighbor! About two or three times a week the two small dogs I own would manage to elude the kids or myself when we took them out and would use the neighbors yard as a toliet. After the third complaint I finally did the right thing and put up a fence in the back yard.
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  unbeliever

  I use to have a jw neighbor who would report my activities back to my mom. I moved.

  I love my current neighbors. They are the coolest and we try and get together every couple of months for a cook out.
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  talesin

  i lived next door to these people who had large gatherings several times a week. on saturday mornings they would all gather briefly, then leave in car groups. it was really creepy.

  the sign on the front said "Kingdom Hall"
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  RAYZORBLADE

  Well, I live in a complex of sorts. Sort of like townhouses. They are rentals, and the mix of people, ideally is great! It's like the U.N. here.

  I live on the top floor of a 3 storey unit, but they are all attached.

  My neighbours to either side of me: excellent.

  Downstairs, directly below me, they are from west Africa. They are fine, very polite and very friendly, and their kids are really well behaved. They have a BBQ, and well....not sure what they are cooking, but it wafts into my livingroom (bachelor apt.) so I have to shut the windows. The smoke is not good for me, or my two pet birds.

  Downstairs to the left: you got it: WHITE TRASH

  No concept of 'others'. Their son was shooting a pellet gun into a target in their back patio. Problem is, the only thing seperating the patio is a large bush, and beyond that, a park where children play. Do you think the mulletheads could figure that out? NO! Also, they are loud, smoke and drink like there is no tomorrow. The curse up a storm, and well.....are a sad lot if you ask me. Not very friendly either. Everyone else, past them, and even down below to the right, all very lovely.

  The mullethead installed an alarm in his ricketity old truck, and of course, had to test it at full blast several times one afternoon.

  Police have been in the area too. There are a few other wild n' crazy neighbours just on the other side of my parking area. Again: mullets and white. Could it be a pattern?? Cops frequent their complex frequently. There was a SWAT team here one day, I couldn't believe it. Yup, you guessed it, Caucasian Arms was being invaded.

  Oh well.

  Overall, it's not bad. Aztec has been here, so she knows what it looks like.

  But some of the other stories here of the neighbour from hell, including the Molar Man (naked dentist), although funny to read, I'm sure when he's prancing about under the influence of novocane, it's not too funny. Bwah!

  There always seems to be ONE neighbour from hell, no matter where you go.