Do you have weird neighbors?

[Maine Mary]

I have an elderly neighbor who drives at a snail's pace every morning to the closest store (4 miles away). This being a very small town, I recently found out why...

Apparently he always keeps a pack of cigarettes there and has the store clerk give him 2 of them. He then buys 2 beers and heads back home. In the afternoon he does the same thing.

Then around 5pm, he makes his third and final trip but this time for 4 cigarettes and a pint of Black Velvet.

Most of my other neighbors seem to have equally odd eccentricities. My point? Well... do other people have neighbors like this, or is it just because I live in a town where it wouldn't be difficult to accomodate the filming of a New England version of "Deliverance"? (just kidding) But... I do think there are some interesting charactors around here.

Or perhaps they're fine and I'm the nut ??? :yoiks:

[leftofthedial]

1. fundy wack job

sweet, very elderly widow

firefighter-nurse and their teens

a couple of households down the street that I swear might be militia members

a couple of fundy home schooling types

[Maine Mary]

10. The fundies are the worst!

Although I wouldn't like having militia types too close by either. You have my sympathy.

[leftofthedial]

15. I'm moving in a couple of weeks

no idea what I'll find at the new place . . .

[LaraMN]

2. You're not alone-- we have an "unstable" lady a few doors down.

A couple of my other neighbors have restraining orders against her. This summer she erected a gigantic fence around the perimeter of her yard. It's extremely tall. She stockpiles shit that she can never use (stuff other people leave on their curbs)like doors, concrete blocks, garbage cans and a bathroom sink, and it's all piled on her front porch and around her yard. Aside from her, most of my neighbors are normal enough.

[Maine Mary]

7. Sounds like one of those "horders"

Some people can't seem to throw anything away!

[anarch]

3. No, but my neighbors do. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

22. LOL! nt

[cally]

4. I have a very friendly man in his 60s

who has some type of disability. He probably had a stroke or some type of accident. He walks VERY slowly, limps, and just walks awkwardly. He's very friendly but hard to understand. Anyways, he goes for a two to three hour walk every day. I see him miles away getting a cup of coffee. He's an inspiration to me. When I don't feel like exercising, or I'm sore, I think of this great man who walks with his disabilities.

[Maine Mary]

13. That IS inspiring

Suddenly I'm feeling very guilty about my laziness this past summer.

[BikeWriter]

5. A VietNamese couple on one side...

They party like it's Chinese New Years most weekends. They were parking in my drive way until I asked them not to. seven and eight carloads at a time.
The couple on the other side have been my friends for a long time.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. M-O-N-I-C-A!!!!

SMOOCH! :loveya: :hi: :bounce:

No..but all my neighbors have a weird neighbor~!

[Maine Mary]

8. NSMA!!!!! So good to see you again!

:hug:

[KyndCulture]

9. Aside from the meth dealers across the street... UGH.

[fiveleafclover]

11. Yeah, my brother

He lives in the apartment next door. Friggin loony...

Hey buddy, if you're reading! :hi:

[Maine Mary]

14. LOL!

He can't be too bad if he reads DU! :-)

[texanwitch]

12. I am the weird neighbor, and I love it.

I have lots windchimes and and other things in my yard that drives two of my neighbors crazy.:crazy:

I have been known to pull weeds in the middle of night, to hot during the day. Add to this being a night owl and working from home.
I also have several hippy looking friends come over, we will sit on my deck all night and watch the stars.

[Maine Mary]

16. Wow your place sounds like fun!

I want to be your neighbor!

[texanwitch]

21. My block is cool, except for a few GOP types, I just love to freak out

my republican neighbors. I also have my Witch friends come over on
Samhain(Halloween), this really freaks out the republican neighbors.

I have nice yard, plenty room for many people to come over and just hang out. It's my yard and I pay lot property taxes.

[Maine Mary]

27. Cool!

It'd be nice to be a fly on their walls when you observe Samhain. I grew up in a fundy home and my parents would have flipped if we had Wiccan neighbors. I would have liked it though. :-)

[texanwitch]

30. One of my GOP neighbors now have a big lighted cross in one the side

windows. When the man of the house was cutting the grass, I told him what a nice looking cross they have in the window. He didn't know what to say, I am always polite to them.

[Maine Mary]

32. Killing them with kindness

is the best way to go. Boy does it make them mad!!! I've resorted to that a few times and enjoyed every minute of it. :evilgrin:

[texanwitch]

35. These neighbors are in the mid 80's, I have carried in heavy bags of

dogfood, helped carry several bags of cement(70lbs.) and other things. I will not allow their hate to upset me, and given time I wiil win them over.

Sometimes kindness works, life is to short to allow others to control you. What goes around, comes around.

[WCGreen]

42. Isn;t it great being the wierd ones....

[texanwitch]

45. Hell yes, I have always been this way.

I have never wanted to be like everybody else.

[WCGreen]

48. At one point in my life, I did....

I am so glad I am over that.......

[WCGreen]

17. We are the wierd neighbors in our neighborhood.....

[AlCzervik]

18. fire breathing fundoids right next door

the people on the other side are very nice though.

[KyndCulture]

19. Upon further consideration..

the meth dealers are probably normal... I'm the one that has a front door covered in I hate Bush stickers and signs in all three windows.

I guess I'm the freaky neighbor.

[Thor_MN]

20. I'm losing an unstable roommate tomorrow,

I got fed up with her using me... She was a friend, former co-worker. She is trying to finish off her degree, about ten years after she started. I had a couple spare rooms and decided to give her a break while she was going to school. $200 a month for 2 bedrooms, her own bathroom, and a 10x10 storage room in the basement. She had free utilities, free cable, free DSL internet, free laundry.

She got mad when I moved my answering machine and phone to my room from the living room after I had several people say, "Didn't you get my message?" That was about four months in. I should have booted her then.

What ended it was when I came home 2 weeks ago to find a stain from either her dog (110 lbs rott-lab mix) or her cats on the living room rug. She had cleaned the chunks and then sprayed cleaner on it "to let it soak" and then decided to take a nap. I tried talking to her later about it, but she was on her cell phone. Then she went out for the night, leaving a soaked paper towel on the stain.

I wrote her a note, telling her to clean it NOW and while she was at it, to get rid of the three bags of month and a half old, used cat litter she left sitting in the basement. She decided that my being upset about her disregard for my property made me an ass. I told her that she needed to find a place where her behavior was acceptable.

What really has me torqued right now is her attidude that I have mistreated her in some respect. I don't know how she could stand my abuse of saving her $600 plus a month for the last 16 months. THe beer I'm drinking right now, plus the Bendryl for my allergies is helping, but I don't know how I'm going to make it through tomorrow.

[Maine Mary]

24. How awful

I have weird neighbors but at least they're not in my house!!! Sounds like you are getting rid of her none too soon. Good luck!

[Thor_MN]

28. Thanks, I think I'm going to need it.

I never thought I would ever say the phrase "I can't wait for this weekend to be over" but....

[scarlet_owl]

23. No. They are all pretty boring.

I guess we're the weirdest family on the block.

[Chovexani]

25. I *am* the weird neighbor.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.

[jane_pippin]

26. My neighbor has thrown out her boyfriend oh, about 90,000 times and

they have the most ridiculous fights that they carry on as they walk about the apartment building.

Here's a gem from early one morning:
"You spilled my coffee--get the fuck out. You're so irresponsible!"
"Well you left it in a stupid place."
"You know what, watch out where you go. I'm sick of this shit. I'm sick. Just get off my property."
"Your daughter is stupid and spoiled."
"Fuck you. Shut the fuck up and get out. I'm calling the cops. Just go."

Then the guy bangs on the door and yells horrible things for about 20 minutes. Then, 2 hours later they all go out for ice cream and we can hear them watching Will & Grace or something together and having a wonderful time.

It's not weird exactly, but it's highly irritating since they also like to fight in the back yard near my office and I feel like if I were to close the window, somehow my presence would get dragged into their crazy. Also, the lady has been banned from a few local shops thanks to her tendancy to overreact to everything. "This soup is different than it was last week. I'm just..really disappointed. Can I have my money back? Fuck it, you know what, forget it. I'm just done coming in here" Until next week when she tries the same crap all over again.

[Lilyhoney]

46. Oh, so you live next to my brother. Tell him I said hi. nt

[jane_pippin]

57. ha.Will do. :)

[bleedingheart]

55. that sounds like my college buddy....she was highly unstable

and overreacted to everything...glad I don't talk to her anymore...

[jane_pippin]

58. Yeah, they're both nuts. I try to avoid them as much as possible.

I wish they would just break up already.

[bleedingheart]

59. no...odds are they will marry like my friend and torture everyone

around them forever.

my friend married this nice guy and tortures him to this day...(he was a computer geek who never got laid ...so she took care of that and now owns him)

they have two kids that she screams at...(the reason I don't speak to her..basically told her to get mental health counseling and she didn't like that...)

[jane_pippin]

61. Noooo! The thought that one day he will leave is my only hope.

He moved in to her place and he's a total moocher. He's always hanging around the back lot doing some stupid project or another--or screwing it up, like the time he lost the dog. And he always sucks us in to conversations: "Going to see a band tonight? Cool man, music is great. I love it man. Have you heard this (insert shitty world music here) cd? It totally jams, yeah."

And it's not like they're really young, either. Both are in their 40's. Ugh. I so hope you're not right but something tells me you probably are.

[barb162]

29. I have an arrogant jerk in the back

who pulled the stake out of the ground that separates his property from ours. On the left side, I have a neighbor who uses my yard as the dog's potty because she doesn't want her kids rolling around in dog doo in her own yard. I have already called the police on her for that kind of stuff and much worse, like the constant trespassing. Her kids are also destructive juvenile delinquents. The neighbor on the right side I have finally straightened out as his kid kept throwing things in my yard, like basketballs, cigarettes, etc. These are all sickass pugs who aren't happy with the size of their lots or they need lots twice as big as they have. So they think my yard is there for the taking. They have no respect for others' property. Sociopaths all the way. Be glad your neighbor just drives slowly and drinks.

[Doctor_J]

31. No, but my neighbors do

ask them.

[Guy Fawkes]

33. I'm the crazy neighbor...

:blush:

[Redstone]

34. Sounds like a pretty good way to spend each day to me.

Redstone

[kiraboo]

36. I've got this neighbor who has ignored me since I moved into

the neighborhood. It's been seven years. We pass on the street without greeting one another. Anyway, recently I was on the corner which happens to be in front of her house, waiting for my son to arrive on the bus. Suddenly she burst out her front door, chasing her little white and wicked terrier. The dog ran down the walk, took a right and headed for me. My neighbor followed in a cute little outfit and high heels. The dog reached my feet and began to run in circles around me. The neighbor followed in a half-crouching position. It was two times around before she caught the dog and picked him up cooing, "Bad dog. Bad dog." But she and I exchanged not a glance. Now THAT's a strange neighbor!

[Maine Mary]

37. LOL! I just got the funniest image from that. Thanks

And yes she does sound like a strange one!

[chknltl]

38. Why yes, yes I do have a weird neighbor....

.... Normally I would have that distinction, (being the weird neighbor), but this gal has me beat hands down. When I first moved into this house my landlord suggested that I should ignore the folks living to my right as they were considered a bit strange. I had some friends help with the moving in, they drove the U-haul. As soon as they arrived, she stormed out of her house over to the U-haul and informed my friends that this used to be her home. She was quite mad over the fact that she could not live here anymore. Later I learned from my other neighbor, (a close friend) that indeed she had lived here about a decade ago. Apparently her dad used to own this house and the one next door. There was this scene with the police and a meth-lab in the garage, a boyfriend being taken away and other craziness which prompted dad to kick daughter and kids out, sell the place and be done with the whole mess. Now she lives next door with her mom. Since my moving in 2 years ago she has: Posted strange notices in her windows facing my house, placed a video-camera on a tripod in one of those windows with a big stop sign painted in lipstick on the window itself, placed open Bibles in those windows, with paper arrows pointing out the bible, placed a plastic skull in a window with a noose around it, slammed her back door repeatedly and then made a big deal about locking it when I was working in my back yard. Slammed her gate in the front yard fence as I walked by with my dog, stuck burning sticks of incense around her yard one warm summer day as a response to me spraying a clear coat over a new wooden CD case, she came up and screamed at my neighbor while we were having a chat out front by my car, (She told her to tell me to stop stealing her mail, ummmm I was standing right there!) Ok there is more to tell but I feel the need to add a word about her appearance.
She is in her mid 30s and uh... plump... I can accept that, lotsa plumpness going around, but most folks have the sense to cover up this attribute. Not this gal, nope, she deliberately wears shirts and blouses which draw attention to the phenomenon. Letting it all hang out would be a better description. This she combines with her "model" walk! (Actually the women of the neighborhood call it the "hooker" walk but I was trying to be nice). Thusly she parades about in public, an equal opportunity offender. I have yet to compare notes with the new neighbors on the other side of her house but I have noticed her out in their front yard once already.... I will have a neighborly chat with them next chance I get. That is my weird neighbor

[texanwitch]

39. What a great story.

I think your neighbor has used to much to much meth.

[chknltl]

49. Thanks, you can't make this stuff up.

I forgot to add that there is a bullet hole in my garage too, the shot was fired from inside the garage! I can only speculate what THAT was all about. Thanks for reading about my weird neighbor

[Digit]

40. I also am the weird neighbor

I tend to keep irregular hours ever since I hit menopause. My daughter used to laughingly call us the "Nocturnals" as we both prefer to do our shopping late at night.
Furthermore, I am surrounded by fundies and they don't even speak to me. I further ticked them off when I taped a large Kerry/Edwards poster in my window.
My last addition, while I had a job, was to add a large Buddha and a set of chimes next to my puddle sized pond.
This is right next to my house, so rather visible....but hey, isn't it rather Feng Shui?

[texanwitch]

44. I loved shopping a 2 am at the Kmart Superstore, we don't have

them here anymore. I do my grocery shopping in early hours at what is called the Gay Krogers, the best people shop there.

[Heidi]

41. I'm surrounded by artists!

All in one tiny neighborhood, we have a two painters and two sculptors! :scared:

[thefloyd]

43. Yes

Out neighbors purchased same car with the color as ours. Also, Painted their house with same color as ours

[Lilyhoney]

47. I think everyone is weird in their own ways.

But what I think is weird on my block is the church that moved into the warehouse across the street. They call themselves "Reality". I shit you not. Reality.

They freak me out.

[billyskank]

50. No, but they do

:)

[renate]

51. wow, and I was feeling sorry for myself

because our neighbors' kid used to play the drums on weekend mornings just long enough to wake me up irrevocably. Plus, finally it occurred to me to visualize him stopping playing the drums, and guess what? It's been weeks!

All they do that's truly weird (besides home school, which isn't really weird) is put anti-gay marriage bumper stickers on their car. After reading all these stories all I can say is: Boy, did we get off lucky.

[SIU_Blue]

52. Actually, yes...

In Chicago, we have alleys rather than driveways. The people who live across the alley from us got my dog killed, on my birthday. What happened was that I had a really awesome but scary looking lab mutt. Well, these neighbors decide to let there kids roam free in the alley. Their obnoxious 9 year old boy starts throwing rocks at my dog. My dog got up (with 2 paws on the top of the fence) and started barking at the kid. Then, the neigbors call the town and say that my dog is a "danger" to the neighborhood. And guess what, the idiots agreed. And wouldn't you know it, on my 16th birthday, my perfectly healthy dog was put down.

x(

[jmm]

53. I live directly above the biggest Yin Yang Twins fan ever

I finally met him yesterday. He seemed friendly and like he wanted to get very friendly but let's just say I can wait till I see his...

I ought to feel lucky because despite his love of craptacular music he still isn't as bad as some of the nosy peeping toms, racists, wife beaters, and negligent parents I use to be neighbors with.

[Wcross]

54. Nearest neighbor is 1/2+ mile away.

Life is sweet. Sometimes I can hear his lawnmower if the wind is right. The other neighbor is about 3/4 mile and is a church. Nobody lives on the other side of the road.

[GalleryGod]

56. One Couple-across the street-Loves to park in front of our house

under our tree.
No body wants to do the leaves or pick-up fallen branches,but, they want to park under the shady tree. He's a prison guard. Who woulda thunk it Eh?

Maine Mary! :hi: One of the original DOOBIES DUers:toast:

[Maine Mary]

60. Backatcha!

:toast:

[Scout1071]

62. The boyfriend of my drunk ass neighbor just drove his Bronco thru

my other neighbors bedroom. Right thru it. Fortunately the guy was out of town. Otherwise, it may have been a Six Feet Under style episode. Guy just sitting laying in bed watching TV or reading and BAM! Run over by a OJ style Bronco.

Apparently they had just had one of their nightly drunken fights when she told him to leave. He did alright. He left right thru that guy's apartment.

Did I mention these people are in the late 50's/early 60's? Not exactly kids. Those are the worst kind - those really old drunks.

[GalleryGod]

63. Holy Shiite!

Sounds like you need ABC's Chris Aconamackie doing his report from Pit Row!:nuke:

[RazzleCat]

64. My Cul de SAC is split down the middle

It's pretty funny. My side (east) is all democrats. During the election it was Kerry Edwards, while the west side was all Bush. Now comes the good part, the Bush lovers are all obsessive yard people. Were talking one guy (the one who lives directly across from me) is out every weekend morning working on his yard. He even goes to the extent of using hand clippers to even out his lawn, oh and lets not forget the nativity scene that is switched for each Christian season. The others are almost as obsessive about their yards. Best part the east side was all sitting outside the other night, and we were talking about how we almost felt bad about this. We just keep the weeds down, and paint as needed. The other thing we noticed is that the east side is a "neighborhood". We sit out on our front porches, let the kids run and play tag up and down the street and have some drinks and chat. The west side (even have some fundy home schoolers their). Keep their kids locked in and never spend any time outside just relaxing and visiting. Still have not figured out if they hate us (damm liberals), or have no social abilities. Oh and the fundies won't let their kids associate with any of ours. If their kids get out the front door and start to come over, mom yells get back here now! We have come to the conclusion that she is afraid that our kids will infect theirs with some crazy ideas, such as its ok to play tag, or kool aid tastes good, or worse yet, we don't quote the bible prior to doing anything.