Actually it should read: out there.......
You know, we live in a pretty nice neighborhood. Everyone keeps things kept up and looking nice. Even my wacked out crazy ass neighbor's front yard looks ok from the street. But when you creep up closer you notice a few oddities, like a lawn mower under their huge tree. They don't have any grass.
But first a quick review: 30-40ish son still lives with his mother, because he's mental. He hasn't had a job since we moved here, 20 years ago. As time goes on, his quirks get quirkier. This past year he bought drums and has taken to practicing them out in the back yard. Then he got a guitar. Now he's playing music ~ you know, regular songs ~ and tries to play along with it.
His poor mother has no friends. Although she did manage to evict him once, that only lasted a year and he was back. I think she feels as though she can't kick him out because he would have no where to go, and she has no backbone, so doesn't put her foot down when he does stuff that she has to know is not fun for us neighbors.
Today took the cake. Last year he had a small motor bike ~ not a dirt bike, but sort of like a mix between a vespa and a kids motorbike. Apparently he had quite the accident on it and was laid up for awhile, but today he was revving the engine and riding it around their tiny little backyard. And here I had hoped that the damned thing was totaled. He did used to be a mechanic, so I guess he repaired it. But honestly! In the back yard?
We will never be able to sell this house as long as those two nut jobs are living next door. It's a good thing we didn't have that in mind, although that was my thought as I was trying to watch tv with all that racket going on. Romeo said he has made complaints before and the city did nothing, but I'm going to try again.
Hope you have better neighbors than I do.
Love, 365
Don't give up. They will soon do something totally stupid.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's been about 20 years so far, not sure I'm going to live long enough :-)
DeleteNeighbours from hell. You don't need extra stress right now. I hope they at least stop the noise.
ReplyDeleteRight?! I will go out there if he does that again, and politely ask him to go out to the street......
DeleteI had neighbors that were a bit off...actually very off, but more quirky then jerky and we could ignore them without issue, I feel for you, we have not control over who are our neighbors but good ones are a treasure. Currently we have two perfect neighbors, very important in an attached townhome. We see each other we nod and smile, occasionally chat, otherwise we keep out distance. Very nice people, if they lived a block away I would want to know them better.
ReplyDeleteWe have great neighbors ~ there's one across the street that I can count on, and the neighbor on our other side is someone we keep an eye out for, she's very ill ~ But if you want to just go and check up on her, be prepared to stay for at least an hour. She never ever stops talking :-)
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