wife and I have been in the house 7 years, most of our neighbors are ok, but there's definately potential for some loony-ness.
neighbor on one side is a dumbass and an @$$hole, but he thinks he's nice. he used to own a business and he'd park his F-ing beat-up work trucks and trailors in the street in front of his house *and ours*. I'd ask him to not park in front of our house, he'd apologize then babble on and on for an hour or so about whatever BS was on his mind. One time he spent nearly two hours explaining to me how his twin brother is in jail for child molestation. I'm glad I know this (I have two kids), but he did NOT need to go into that much detail about what led to the arrest, the arrest, the trial and so on. This same @$$-hole also backed one of his work trucks into another neighbor's car late one night. He backed into the door and put a huge dent in it. He got out of his truck, walked over, looked at the dent, looked around to see if anyone saw it happen, then moved his truck farther down the street and went inside his own house. What he didn't realize is that the 20-something girl that lived accross the street from him was sitting outside in the dark smoking a cigerette and saw the whole thing. She called the neighbors who owned the car, then they called the cops. Cops didn't show until next morning, then (get this) the @$$-hole sent his teenage son out to talk to the cops instead of dealing with it himself!!! I never did hear if anyone got a ticket or what, but that car still has the huge dent in the door and it's been about 3 years.
I do have one car/Buick related story...
neighboor a few houses down moved in about 4 years ago. one saturday afternoon, only a few weeks after they moved-in, I was in the garage tinkering on my GN. new neighbor drives down the alley (in a black Nissan Maxima) and stops at the base of my driveway, rolls down his window and says, "Hey, you need to clean up all this anti-freeze! I've got cats and I don't want them to get into it!" At first, I didn't know what the he11 he was talking about since I hadn't been doing anything with the cooling system or any anti-freeze. it turned out our other neighbors had a painting contractor doing some work inside their house and he had been rinsing his brushes and rollers in the driveway. apparently they have at least one room that is painted a greenish-yellow and when the paint mixed with water, it really did look like anti-freeze running down the alley. Once I figured out what was really going on, I told the guy, "First of all, that's not antifreeze, it's paint! Second, if you look, you will see it's not even coming from my driveway, it's coming from over there (pointing to other neighbor's driveway)! And third, your cats are supposed to be on leashes if they're outside!" He said, "Oh whatever!" and drove off. What's kinda funny is, I didn't realize where this guy and his wife lived. My wife and his wife got to be friends a little while after that incident and we've let her babysit our son a couple of times. I've been over there to pick up our son and I didn't recognize him, but he was never very friendly and I couldn't figure out why until it hit me a few months ago when I saw that black Nissan Maxima in their garage! I explained the story to my wife and they don't babysit for us anymore.
neighbor on one side is a dumbass and an @$$hole, but he thinks he's nice. he used to own a business and he'd park his F-ing beat-up work trucks and trailors in the street in front of his house *and ours*. I'd ask him to not park in front of our house, he'd apologize then babble on and on for an hour or so about whatever BS was on his mind. One time he spent nearly two hours explaining to me how his twin brother is in jail for child molestation. I'm glad I know this (I have two kids), but he did NOT need to go into that much detail about what led to the arrest, the arrest, the trial and so on. This same @$$-hole also backed one of his work trucks into another neighbor's car late one night. He backed into the door and put a huge dent in it. He got out of his truck, walked over, looked at the dent, looked around to see if anyone saw it happen, then moved his truck farther down the street and went inside his own house. What he didn't realize is that the 20-something girl that lived accross the street from him was sitting outside in the dark smoking a cigerette and saw the whole thing. She called the neighbors who owned the car, then they called the cops. Cops didn't show until next morning, then (get this) the @$$-hole sent his teenage son out to talk to the cops instead of dealing with it himself!!! I never did hear if anyone got a ticket or what, but that car still has the huge dent in the door and it's been about 3 years.
I do have one car/Buick related story...
neighboor a few houses down moved in about 4 years ago. one saturday afternoon, only a few weeks after they moved-in, I was in the garage tinkering on my GN. new neighbor drives down the alley (in a black Nissan Maxima) and stops at the base of my driveway, rolls down his window and says, "Hey, you need to clean up all this anti-freeze! I've got cats and I don't want them to get into it!" At first, I didn't know what the he11 he was talking about since I hadn't been doing anything with the cooling system or any anti-freeze. it turned out our other neighbors had a painting contractor doing some work inside their house and he had been rinsing his brushes and rollers in the driveway. apparently they have at least one room that is painted a greenish-yellow and when the paint mixed with water, it really did look like anti-freeze running down the alley. Once I figured out what was really going on, I told the guy, "First of all, that's not antifreeze, it's paint! Second, if you look, you will see it's not even coming from my driveway, it's coming from over there (pointing to other neighbor's driveway)! And third, your cats are supposed to be on leashes if they're outside!" He said, "Oh whatever!" and drove off. What's kinda funny is, I didn't realize where this guy and his wife lived. My wife and his wife got to be friends a little while after that incident and we've let her babysit our son a couple of times. I've been over there to pick up our son and I didn't recognize him, but he was never very friendly and I couldn't figure out why until it hit me a few months ago when I saw that black Nissan Maxima in their garage! I explained the story to my wife and they don't babysit for us anymore.
while we and a few of our neighbors were on the front porch she comes flying around the corner on her bike with him right behind her in his truck trying to run her down, he went up the curb trying to hit her.
