Countrymouse Posted November 2018
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Often, I would want to give them a piece of my mind. I am silent about it because I just do not have enough pieces left to spare.
This forum rocks, and the people on it are special!
Yes, increasing tension here, didn't used to be that way.
The tension is so thick here now.
Oh (sigh) I miss the good ol' days.
Then something changes and you never know what it was or when it happened. All you know that something is different--something change! You look back and there were no signs--no symptoms. All you know is that they are not the same. But maybe you yourself has changed then you realize you were the same from beginning to the end. What has happen you don't know. So you reexamine yourself. Asking questions with no answers and none to be found. All you know you are hurt--betrayed!
I have had a lot of this in my life. Maybe I am broken and I pick broken people for reasons I do not know. So here I am writing words for all the world to read and sending them into a void of people who I will never meet. I know I am not alone for this happens to all. It doesn't matter if your white or black, or rich or poor, or highly educated or have any education at all. One minute they are by your side and the next they are on the otherside. Never take people at face value. Keep moving, keep going forward! This is what I have learned in this life.
He also made sure to let our contactors who did some structural work for us know not to get any dirt on his patio. I mean, not one speck of anything. I think he goes out there and vacuums it daily. It's kind of amusing when he's not complaining about anything related to us.
Does not involve india ink, needles and skin.:)
Not criticizing you guys for your opinions about your neighbors, so nobody get mad. Just stating my opinion.
CW that is just petty of your neighbor LOL!
Shell, I don’t know how people can live like that-brawling one minute and friends the next! Just nuts!
the last time I visited my parents, I noticed that the neighbors cherry blossom tree was hanging over the fence by about 2 feet. I thought it was really pretty so I got my brother to cut off a few branches for me. He was so afraid the guy would call the cops on us haha! I must say, the cherry blossoms looked just lovely in a vase on the cherrywood table & mirror thing my mom has next to the front door!
TNtechie, I guess you showed him. LOL
Yes CW! My dad use to say that saying so much!
Had the world gone mad??
Funny thing about Bruce is, he makes sure everyone is following the law and the park rules yet he takes his dog in to the park despite the fact they aren’t allowed there. And he never has the dog (a friendly collie) in its leash. I wasn’t present to witness this but one afternoon when he was making his rounds the park, his dog bit a motorcycle cop on the leg as he drove by the park! The cop must not have been driving that fast. The cop gave him a ticket!
Shell you just reminded me about the brawl I saw in front of the park a few years ago! It was during the day so Bruce wasn’t around to break up the fight LOL! I was the one who called the cops. I was sitting out front reading a book while the kids played with the kids who lived next door at the time. I heard loud yelling all of a sudden & looked toward the park...I don’t know how to express this without being offensive but....I saw a junky old van and a man & 2 women I can best describe as looking like trailer trash, in a very heated argument. They were not from the neighborhood. I had never seen them or the van here before. One of the women was in the driver’s seat of the van with the door open. All 3 were screaming at each other and screaming obscenities and a racial slur (N word even though they were all white). The blonde woman outside the van started grabbing the brunette woman in the van by the hair & trying to drag her out. They were in the middle of street swinging at each other and screaming. Then an older woman who appeared to be the mom of the woman in the van got out and hobbled over to them with a cane! She wasn’t even old, maybe early 50s? Cue all 4 out there hitting each other. Best I could tell, the 2 women were fighting over the man. They left just before the cops arrived. We found some broken jewelry and a phone in the street where they had been parked. Interestingly, I only saw the blonde woman from behind, never saw the front of her during the brawl. A few hours later, I saw her and the man walking towards the park and she was visibly pregnant! Then the van came back and they were all talking civilly. The blonde woman got in the van and the man and the brunette went and sat on the park bench & were talking. It was the craziest thing!
My neighbour is a dweeb in a much less irritating way - after I complained that he was blowing his grass clippings all over my entry way when he cut his lawn he began to leave an increasingly wider section of grass along the driveway uncut. The boundary is probably 1' along the drive and I willingly mow 2' but I refuse to go beyond that so there is a jagged strip of unmowed grass - anywhere from 1" to 6" - along the front of HIS property. It doesn't bother me at all (well, not much🙄), IMO it makes him look like a fool.
I would knock on the door and ask him to move his car when I got home from work each evening until finally he stopped answering his door. So I called the police and had his car towed. He really lost it when the city posted signs saying not to block either driveway (his or mine) and stopped talking to me. I guess I made it worse when I agreed to allow the apartment's guests to park in my driveway (blocking me in) when they had company over. If I wasn't going anywhere, being blocked in wasn't a problem and I had the neighbor's phone number if I needed out.
So one morning I came out to go to work and there was the jerk's car parked in my driveway blocking me in while his driveway was empty. He told the police he couldn't be towed because he was in the driveway, not blocking it from the street. Wrong. One final tow before he decided to leave me alone. I think the police must have lost the paperwork on his car or something because it was more than 3 days before it was back.
I am seeing the same thing in my city as far as 2 to 3 generations living in one small house with tons of cars. Of cause, we are 2 people with 3 cars. I always park my Jeep on the street but my sig other parks his truck in the driveway with my Sidekick. Our travel trailer stays in storage and we bring it home to clean it and pack it when we get ready to go camping. However, now we have to park the trailer in the driveway.
It is crazy what people will call the cops on; don't they realize that they are wasting resources on petty things...resources that could be used to save somebody's life! And the really crazy part is--those same people usually won't call the cops when a real crime is happening that was the case with my neighbor who called the cops on me in my last neighborhood. Some guy was severely beaten in front of her house and she didn't call the police and she was home and awake, (but man she would call the cops on us for whatever she could think of). I called the cops because I seen it with my outdoor cameras; four guys beating one guy and he was on the ground. It is all just crazy!!!
Some people take street parking very seriously! I can not believe you’ve had 2 neighbors call the police on you for parking in front of your own house. That is just ridiculous! Out here, people get tired of others parking in front of their house. Every other week I swear someone is in the neighborhood watch Facebook groups complaining about not being able to park in front of their own house, or someone is complaining because a neighbor has put trash cans or cones on the street in front of their house to keep people from parking there. The problem is neighborhoods are getting overrun with people cramming 10-15 people in to a small single family home and there isn’t enough parking for all their cars so they park in front of the neighbors houses. I don’t blame people for getting fed up but it’s something you Just have to deal with because it’s a public street. I do think that the homeowner should have first dibs in front of their own house. It’s common courtesy but not everyone agrees with that. My neighborhood went to permit only parking because the neighborhood was tired of the employees from all the surrounding doctors offices parking here. There’s too many doctors offices and not enough parking for their patients and staff so the staff parks elsewhere. It solved the problem alright but now we have to pay for annual permit in order to park in front of our own house! We bought one the first year but haven’t since. We haven’t gotten a ticket yet (hubby parks his truck in front of the house. We are *those* neighbors with 4 cars for 2 people. Classic car is in the garage. Hubbys old beater is in the driveway with mine, truck is on the street).
I’m really surprised that a church is locking up so people can’t sleep on the pews! We’ve got one here that has become a hub for homeless addicts. It’s great what the pastor does for these people but what they do to the area is not great. It’s next to the library and they urinate and deficate on the lawn....and do drugs in the presence of children.
However, my now neighbor called the police on us for parking our travel trailer in front of our house once and he still had plenty of room to park a car in front of his house, although he only has one car and no family or friends visit him.
I guess some people just like calling the police!
maybe sit on the loo facing towards it so if you fall asleep you can rest your head on the tank 🚽
We actually like that they’ve started parking their car in front of the house because we are 2 houses down from the neighborhood park and lots of people from outside the neighborhood park in front of our house which doesn’t bother us but they often leave trash and dirty diapers on the lawn.
LOL! I don’t know but if you need one I will research that.
Maybe Amazon? You can find anything on Amazon.