I should start a new thread with that title.... Better yet, a TV show! There was Stupid Pet Tricks, why not Stupid Neighbor Tricks!?
So do any of you have stupid neighbors?
Here's mine: as most of you know, we live in a heavily wooded, rural area. Black bears are as common here as pigeons in a city park. When spring arrives and they start to come out of hibernation, you take your bird feeders in. Period.
Except the lady behind us.
She insists on leaving her feeders out year-round (never mind she's honestly convinced they will not survive without her feeders...). So guess what!....she gets bears in her yard on a fairly regular basis!
Her "solution" to this "problem"???.....
give a few ear-splitting blasts on a stadium air horn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, here is a little background on this woman (she's in her 70s, FWIW). The air horn thing started about 2 years ago (she's lived here for 4). When she blew it one night at 9:45pm and woke my kids up screaming in terror, I blew my top and called the police.
That obviously put the final nail in the coffin of our dying relationship. I didn't care, I'd had enough of this carp.
We didn't speak after that, but long story short, fast forward to March of '07. She's leaving her husband who's been beating her up. He's left the house until she moves out, he has to have a police escort to pick up his mail/paycheck once a week, has a restraining order, yadda yadda yadda. So being the good people we are, we offer her any help we can. She's desitute at this point, and heading down to MA to stay with family for a bit. We rented the U-Haul truck for her and paid for it with our own money when we really didn't have it to spare, because it was the right thing to do and we are generally pretty caring people. We even got a group of guys from our church to volunteer a morning to help load the truck and move it.
We stayed in touch for a bit through last summer, but eventually I lost her number, she hadn't been calling here, and at that point we were about to put the house on the market so it was crazy here.
Last September, I watched in utter disbelief as
she moved back in with him....
Well, whatever...you made your bed, you lie in it.
So I sat back to wait and see what she had to say, what had happened, or at least "thanks for all your efforts last spring but I just couldn't make it on my own...." Something. ANY thing.
She has not ONCE, in the last nine months, said ONE word to me. She actually started to avoid me once she knew that I knew she was back. I'm sure she was embarrassed or whatever, but her silence and now her recent actions show just total disregard for everything we did for her.
And now, she's blowing the air horn at bears again....
I think the next time I hear it, I'm going out to the backyard and yell to her that I am NOT about to put up with that again, and that that's the last time she's going to hear from me about it, and if I ever hear it again she'll be hearing from the chief of police (it helps to live in a small town and have the police chief married to your kids' school principal!!...
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Ugh, sorry for the vent but this lady IS just plain crazy. I'm trying to come up with some way of initiating contact with her without being downright nasty (which I'm inclined to....
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A Snake????????????
I made it with time to spare.
but we got it all done.
Congrats! Woohhoo!!! Did you cry? I cried when both of my nephews graduated... good grief what will I do when it is my own kids?
Hi and welcome.
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