Am I the only one with a STRANGE neighbor?

[MinnyGranny62]

I have this male neighbor ....who is on medical right now. He sits outside for hours and waits for the moles........so he can dispose of them.
He has told me the times that they come out (12:30 am and 2pm).

Now....wouldn't you think that he had something better to do? Although,
havn't seen and mounds of dirt lately.

 

[3DisneyBuggs]

Two nights ago our neighbor was outside at 930 pm searching for his garbage can. He was saying loudly "I can't believe they took my garbage can. Now I have to buy with my own money gabage cans? They're what $10.00? I can't believe this." As he was saying this he would walk around the street as if his can would appear.

My DH thinks his landlord must have taken the cans in for him because yesterday was trash day and he told DH the can just appeared again. So yes we have a very strange neighbor.

 

[Honu]

I have this male neighbor ....who is on medical right now. He sits outside for hours and waits for the moles........so he can dispose of them.
He has told me the times that they come out (12:30 am and 2pm).

Now....wouldn't you think that he had something better to do? Although,
havn't seen and mounds of dirt lately.

Those must be some good meds.

 

[NMAmy]

I have this male neighbor ....who is on medical right now. He sits outside for hours and waits for the moles........so he can dispose of them.
He has told me the times that they come out (12:30 am and 2pm).

Now....wouldn't you think that he had something better to do? Although,
havn't seen and mounds of dirt lately.

You live next door to Bill Murray in Caddyshack? What the heck was that character's name? I've seen it a zillion times, you'd think I'd remember.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

I have no good neighbor stories but am certainly enjoying yours.

 

[MinnyGranny62]

Those must be some good meds.

He is on tons of pain meds and he isn't in any pain. Also he waters his grass at 4 in the am. But he did find a prowler in our backyard
at 4 in the am.

 

[budbeerlady]

I have this male neighbor ....who is on medical right now. He sits outside for hours and waits for the moles........so he can dispose of them.
He has told me the times that they come out (12:30 am and 2pm).

Now....wouldn't you think that he had something better to do? Although,
havn't seen and mounds of dirt lately.

Must be a relative of Dh's old neighbor. We were out for a walk one night around 10pm. It was a little dark but they street lights were on and no one drives down the road very often. This man was in his leopard print bikini brief, black socks and tennis shoes , WITH A GUN! He says Hi to dh and tells us about his mole problem. I didnt think you could fire a gun with in the city limits? We walked back rather quickly to dh's house. We still laugh about Mr. Gritter and his mole hunting. They were an odd family!

 

[MinnyGranny62]

You live next door to Bill Murray in Caddyshack? What the heck was that character's name? I've seen it a zillion times, you'd think I'd remember.

I had forgotten about that movie. Can't remember his name either.

 

[ohiominnie]

No. You aren't the only one. Dh and I have been married for 15 yrs. We've lived in 4 different apartments/homes. We could sit down with you and talk for hours about all of our neighbors.....

Like the one who came to our door a week after we were married and told us not to make so much noise b/c "he had sensitive experiements going on in his apartment downstairs and we had set him back 6 months." He called the police on us once (we were totally being quiet b/c dh was studying for a med school exam) I don't know what he told the cops, but I answered the door and there were THREE police and one raised and cocked a rifle at me!!! The police report that we looked up said "unfounded domestic violence."

Then there was the neighbor that had visitors in and out CONSTANTLY. But they'd leave the cars running and only stay for 2 minutes. Always carrying a duffle bag or backpack in and out.

And then there were the ones who went on vacation for a week and left their large dog completely unattended in their apartment. We called police and the humane society and no one would do anything.

And then there was the guy who lived in the house across the street who backed out his driveway (drunk) to take the babysitter home. He ran over our mailbox. Came over the next day, not to apologize, but to give us a better shovel for digging out the post of our mailbox and asking "what in the heck happened to it?????" The whole time his wife was looking at a mailbox shaped dent on the back of their SUV. Hmmmm....I wonder.

Then there was the woman who had a premature baby (and nearly died herself during delivery---was in a coma for 2 weeks after the delivery) ....she moved into the house when she got out of the hospital. Turns out the father of the baby had a wife and 3 kids in Chicago and she was his "buisness meeting" girlfriend. Saw her everytime he was in town. He paid for her house, her car, her utilities, the baby's day care....everything.

Then we moved to the country and shortly after psycho dude moved in across the street. Ended up training his dog (by beating it) and the dog thought OUR yard was IT'S territory. So we couldn't get out of our house sometimes without a growling animal near our car. One time we were trapped in our pool with a growling animal circling the pool. He ended up losing the house but upon leaving he let his kids play hockey in the house, he left all the windows open (in the rainy season) took off the downspouts from his gutters and disconnected the sump pump (something you don't do when you're house sits on an old farmer's field) Needless to say, the ENTIRE basement was flooded.....the mortgage co. pumped it out, but never reconnected the sump pump so it continued to flood.

Or what about his wife, who would let her boys come over and play in our yard with my kids (not a problem as long as they followed my rules when they were here)...and then she'd bring over ice cream treats.....but ONLY for HER kids.

Oh yeah....her son, age 5 at the time liked to sling shot rocks at our cars and house. And he would flip us off whenever he saw us.

I'd type more....that's really only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to neighbor stories. We have DEFINITELY had our doozies.

 

[rhanditresmom]

I certainly can't beat ohiominnie(!), but we refer to our neighbors as "the Klopeks...(from "The 'Burbs"). They are very strange, never mow, have 2 children...we think, because we almost never see them, they are ALL rail thin and pale as ghosts. They have lived next to us for 4 years and we know nothing about them. They actually go out of their way to avoid us.

They are just kinda unusual...I guess.

 

[Mom21]

I am the strange neighbor!!

 

[JCJRSmith]

You don't remember Carl?

Its in 'da hole!!!!!

My enemy is a varmint. He's like the Viet Cong...the Varmint Cong!!

But Sandy, if we kill all the golfers won't we get arrested?

I'd keep playing. I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for a while yet.


FREEZE GOPHER!!!!

 

[luvmyboys]

Before we moved in to this house 6 years ago, we lived on the outskirts of the Ohio State campus. (DH was finishing his degree.)

I would get up early with our son, who was just an infant, and see a NAKED homeless woman in our dumpster, which was a breathtaking view just outside my kitchen window...) She was there every day it wasn't raining for the 2 years we lived there! I would leave clothing out there, food, etc... knowing she would be there. She always took the food, never the clothes. Maybe she just didn't like my style?

 

[barkley]

had one when we lived in the second story of a victorian that looked down on a one story home. the husband would drink GALLON bottles of gallo red wine and store the empties on the front porch so that they were within easy reach when his 20 something son came home drunk-he'd start cussing out the kid for drinking and chase him around the yard throwing the empty gallon bottles at him (the back yard sparkled in the sunlight from all the glass shards)-eventualy he'd either bean the kid with a bottle or cut his feet up (always ran out barefooted in his boxers) so much he'd be off to the e/r.

the victorian itself had it's share of nuts-'the mad artist' who fell behind on his alimony so he decided to turn his old v.w. into a 'masterpeice' in the community parking lot (think of spin art)-he had a thing for gallons of wine too-when he lacked inspiration he'd get drunk and play basketball with the empties into the metal dumpster. there was a guy that had lived there but noone had seen in about 3 years (we would just hear him enter and leave) the census people went nuts trying to catch him. then there was the girl who appeared to be running a bsns out of her studio-but her 'clients' never got the right apartment number and ended up knocking on everyone elses doors.

 

[eowensby]

I am convinced that my neighbors across the street have some sort of "business" going on. A big Penske moving truck will pull up or an 18 wheeler with trailer or the UPS man and stay parked on the street anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour a few times a week.

 

[ohiominnie]

I am convinced that my neighbors across the street have some sort of "business" going on. A big Penske moving truck will pull up or an 18 wheeler with trailer or the UPS man and stay parked on the street anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour a few times a week.

OH MY GOSH. That reminds me of the college kids that moved in next door to us (in a townhome) They moved in and their moving truck was a "Buckeye Chip" delivery truck. I kid you not. Potato chip delivery truck.

They lived there one week then disappeared in the middle of the night. Totally moved out overnight!!

Thanks for reminding me!

 

[MinnyGranny62]

WOW.....my neighbor doesn't seem so strange any more.