Neighbors say the weirdest-a** things

by GentlyFeral 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  GentlyFeral

  I live in a trailer, and the walls are thin. My husband's outside talking to one of our neighbors, who has a checkered past.

  Neighbor: "You ever smoke crack cocaine? No? Never? Man, my cats smoke more dope than you do."

  gently f eral
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  FlyingHighNow

  Makes you want to move to a nicer park.
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  GentlyFeral

  Makes you want to move to a nicer park.

  
  Yeah, if we could only afford it.
  

  gently feral
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  FlyingHighNow

  Makes you want to move to a nicer park.

  
  Yeah, if we could only afford it.

  I know what you mean. I live in a pretty nice apartment complex. Not luxurious, but well kept and pretty quiet. Yet one night recently, at 1:45 AM I heard three gunshots. No mistaking those babies for firecrackers that time. The next day there were police out there with a camera and tripod, going in and out of the building. We never could find out what happened. But to our relief someone moved out of that building this past weekend. We hope no one got hurt or killed.
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  AshtonCA

  I know what you mean. I live in a pretty nice apartment complex. Not luxurious, but well kept and pretty quiet. Yet one night recently, at 1:45 AM I heard three gunshots. No mistaking those babies for firecrackers that time. The next day there were police out there with a camera and tripod, going in and out of the building. We never could find out what happened. But to our relief someone moved out of that building this past weekend. We hope no one got hurt or killed.

  This brings back memories, whew. 2 years ago we moved from Oakland, CA to Concord, CA because we lived in one of the worst cities for crimes ever. We were the minority and we were apartment managers. The owner of the building hired us because we were white and he wanted us to babysit his black tenants. Well, we really tried very hard to get along with all. I don't see color, I see people. But, they did not want us there because they couldn't do their usual stuff and we had our tires slashed and graffitti written all over the car and building walls about my ummm... body size, and general bad stuff. The night we were moving to a downstairs unit, they went and threw bricks through all of the windows in the downstairs unit and the front of our upstairs unit. We were sitting in the living room when a brick came flying through and landed right where our son had been standing one minute before. We were terrified and we quit that night.

  One of the tenants snuck upstairs and whispered to us that he wasn't threatening us, but that it would be a good idea if we just moved because it was only going to get worse if we didn't stop trying to "clean up the place."

  Before we even moved into that second place, our neighbors that share a joint wall had a drive by shooting, someone hopped out and began to shoot up the place and the bullets lodged in our joint wall. I remember yelling to my little boy "hit the dirt!" and he fell face first flat on the floor. We had to practice that and we never thought we'd actually have to do it, but we did. He was 3!

  We finally moved to Concord and we are so much happier here.

  Ash