Well today, I saw a sign I have waited a long time for. The 4 sale sign was being installed
on my neighbors' front lawn. Yippee Ki-yay!!!!! This couple moved in about 7 years ago.
I fell asleep and woke up to hammering and banging every weekend for I can't tell you how long.
I have no problem with someone fixing up their house. We gutted and re-did ours too but you don't start power tools at 7 and 8 am on the weekends in these parts if you want to stay on good
terms with your neighbors(and keep working till 11 or midnight either). The houses are way too close for that. Add to that the fact that this guy has made several inappropriate comments to me(he is younger than my dad but not by much). Kinda yucky. And any of you longtime readers may recall the time this neighbor decided to start loading a dumpster at about 8 am on a Sunday
just after Tim got out of transplant. He woke up my whole exhausted family and I threw my clothes on and walked over and ran roughshod over the dude. He never woke us up again.
He made a very inappropriate comment about Tim and I to me(I think he was pretty drunk, he usually is) a day or so after we got back from transplant and I never told Tim for fear that I would have to bail Tim outta the clink for assault and battery as soon as he had the strength to knock this creep out. The day it happened, Tim saw my face when I walked in the door and knew I was about to lose it but I didn't tell him what was said. I just said, "I think you better hide my sidearm cause I'm about to use it." We are all civil now but I will not be too upset to see the moving van. Now, in the "be careful what you wish for" vein,
I just have to hope the "neighbor gods" don't stick me with a divorced Pamela Anderson look-a-like with a gaggle of loud, un-disciplined kids who spend all their time in our trampoline while sick with every illness right down to the bubonic plague 'cause ya know folks that would be my luck. I can
just hear it now. A breathy, little sexpot voice calling over the fence,
"Tim, could you move this piece of furniture, change this light bulb, check out my leaky toilet?"
OY!!!! Any of y'all looking for a house?!
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4 comments:
Instead of thinking about the WORST possible options, let's do an intention that the family that choose this house next to you is a charitable, neighborly group with healthy kids (and healthy boundaries) and a willingness to meet and be part of the neighborhood in a respectful way.. for the highest and best good of all concerned - so be it and SO IT IS~~~ Sandy
From your mouth to God's ears Sandy.
I really do have to start channeling your attitude. OK, I am gonna intend this in a positive light and I'm calling in all my real estate buddies and putting the word out to friends to help things along that route too.
I have neighbors kind of like that across the street. The Police are there about once a month. They cut wood in their driveway to make extra $$$. The log splitter starts at about 9am some mornings. I'm glad I'm a early bird or I would also not be so nice. I try not to put the Marine Face back on but sometime I don't accomplish it. I agree with Sandy..A new neighbor with great kids!
Who's the realtor (get me, we say estate agent)? I may know a delightful little old lady who'd like a change of scenery! ;D
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