Stallion
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Milwaukee
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I shot the sherrif.
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sure, assuming that there isn't some slight we don't know about. crap like this is always more complex than it appears.
if nothing else just find a time when one of the parents are around and flat out ask them what the deal is. might be surprised with what you find out. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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BANNED
I am worthless beyond hope. Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Washington, DC
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But seriously, a year is an awfully long time to never say hi or anything. That's just plain weird. Do they have any other family or friends that come over? Either they're very antisocial (possibly even to an unhealthy extent) or they're in some witness protection program or something. |
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Ruling teh World
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston, MA
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I don't mind my neighbors, all 50 of them. I live a house down from a sorority and the women are very, err, nice.
Also, my older neighbors bring us peaches and home-grown veggies (which are oh so good ) and I mow the lawns every now and again. I love how my mid-sized town operates like a rural town in some ways, a nice change from Suburbia. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Wow, loads-o-responses today.
Glad to see Chinney and eventhorizon sort of have the same take I do / can relate to what I'm saying. At least I'm not completely insane. Mur: you know I did wear an Oilers jersey last Halloween. That's another thing. In this neighborhood everyone sort of does a front yard hang-out thing while the kids go trick-or-treating around the blocks. So I tried to join in, thinking I might have a chance to talk to them. They walked by my house. Carol: it could be that they just hate dogs (I don't know), but it's not that my dogs make a ton of racket because my other neighbor probably would've said something to us. Either way at this point I'm only trying to teach my dogs good habits, not doing them any favors / trying to find an excuse to small talk. I like Paul's idea, maybe I should look the wife up and down and ask her if she swings (pain me though it would). ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Stallion
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Milwaukee
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I agree with that, while we're getting his black side of the story, i'm sure they have a white version themselves. Generally, the truth in these issues lies in the grey. |
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On Pacific time
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Moderator's Pub
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On Pacific time
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Moderator's Pub
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I just remembered a 'neighbor' problem I had with the neighbors on the south side of my house. (The dog problem was on the north side.)
My south neighbor's roof-mounted air conditioner unit is an unsightly beast that unfortunately faces my front door. (My front door is on the side of the house, which may sound weird, but its placement there allows for a rather cool and slightly unusual floorplan.) At one point, his AC unit started making the most ungodly, really LOUD buzzing sound - a transformer or something? Well, I'm REALLY sensitive to sounds, and this one was just something I couldn't live with - harsh, insistent, and gratingly industrial in character. I thought of installing a garden fountain nearby, with the hope that the splashing sound would cover up the unbelievably annoying buzzing. But no, I realized a fountain just wouldn't be enough. So, I summoned up my courage and wrote a really nice letter, explaining my difficulties with the buzzing sound, and offering to pay any and all costs associated with having it fixed if he wouldn't mind authorizing the work to be done. I really meant it too. I would happily cough up major bucks to rid myself of this intolerable plague. I attached the letter to the cover of a large, extremely luscious cake that I bought at a bakery, walked it over, rang the doorbell, and handed the cake/letter to my neighbor's wife. She looked so surprised and delighted at seeing the cake, that I couldn't help wishing I had brought them such a gift as a 'welcome to the neighborhood' present six months earlier. I included the cake to soften the blow of my request about the AC. I am such a coward when it comes to confronting neighbors about such things, so if you were planning on calling me a wuss, please let me beat you to the punch, because I know that it's true. *sigh* Anyway, to my great joy, the sound eventually got fixed; but now, after the passage of a fair amount of time, has started back up again. Oh well. It's something I'm not going to worry about at the present time. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Over the years, I've had quite a collection of neighbors in various places I've lived: sheer white trash, wannabe hip-hop types (with the accompanying noise/music), newlyweds who had LOTS of sex at all hours of the day and night , crabby old farts, sorority types, party monkeys (male and female), surfers, stoners, yuppies, a gay guy who was apparently quite the pick-up artist and rivaled the newlyweds in the "loud sex at 3am" category, meek "school marm" types who seemed so nervous and shy that I was afraid to say "hi" to them because they might get scared that I was "accosting them".
All kinds. The only one I ever had anything resembling a problem with was the crabby old guy...he never said hello, always grumbled something as he passed me, would park his car pratically at an angle and take my spot, etc. Everyone else, even though they occasionally got on my nerves with various loud sounds, I got on totally well with. To their credit, the hip-hop guy (two roommates, but always had friends over) even came over one afternoon and asked me if it was "too loud". It was daytime and barely a thump, so I wasn't bothered and I said "no". Thought it was cool that he even bothered to ask. The one or two times I had to ask them to turn it down (it was well after 11pm on a weeknight), they were totally cool about it (as I'm walking to their front door, all I'm thinking about is "Boyz in the Hood", "Menace 2 Society" and Tupac..."I'm gonna get killed"). But it went 50x better than I ever dreamed. They weren't true hardcases...just young and loud at times. But that old man at the other place was a bear. The white trash folks kinda scared me a bit, frankly. But we'd always do a "how's it goin'?" or nod to one another, so I guess I was okay. Never had a run-in or beef with them, but that's good because there were a shady, unsavory little cast of characters. And everytime I'd see the newlyweds out (or just the wife, Christy was her name), all I could think to myself was "I know all the things you say at the height of ecstasy...these walls ain't that thick, sweetpea". Definitely made me look at her in a more appreciative way. "You little minx...". Last edited by psmith2.0 : 2006-08-29 at 10:34. |
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