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Neighborhood antics 🤪


I like stories about weird neighbors or unusual happenings around the neighborhood. I recently posted about one in mine:
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What's happening in your neck of the woods? Have some fun. Nothing is too mundane.

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I've been in this current house for 4 years now and we've always had 2 packs of Coyotes...one to the South and one to the North...I've enjoyed their beautiful night songs, it was always sweet music to my ears!

I respect the Coyotes

But this past summer a new pack moved in down in the valley and they are a new sort!
Mean, desperate and bold
They are really aggressive critters...one bolted through my yard a week ago and My wife, my kids and my pet bunnies were out and that wild dog was running around...made me wish for my .35 rifle but some loud shouting ran him off

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Oh no, please keep a close eye on your bunnies!😰

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The bunnies, the wife and the kids are all safe and cozy in my garage now, no worries😂

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Are they ugly tho?

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The neighbour on my right is in his late 60s and owns an engineering firm (I keep telling him to retire already), but he's a bit of an old rocker and owns a few motorbikes. Every morning he takes one out before work and I hear him head off and then he comes back about 30 minutes later. Also, he plays guitar in a covers band and sometimes when they're practicing I can here Fleetwood Mac or somesuch wafting over from his house.

The neighbour on my left owns a string of nightclubs, bars and restaurants, which is handy because I'm always getting invited to parties and openings. He's about 60 now, but back in the day he would get all the 'For Your Eyes Only Girls' back to his place in the early hours of the morning and into his jacuzzi. Then, send a taxi to one off to one of his clubs, get it filled with crates of vodka and ship it back to his house - happy days!

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Sounds like a damn fine neighborhood!

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I’ve got a funny story about nightclub neighbour (actually I’ve got loads that mostly involve Grey Goose vodka) that I’ll post later.

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You had me at Vodka:)

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When we first moved in, nightclub neighbour was having one of his wild parties and for some reason we hadn’t been invited. A few days later a photographer friend of mine asked if he could use our white double garage door as a backdrop for a Ducati motorbike photo shoot. The model was wearing an all over fishnet number, leaving nothing to the imagination.

Anyway, my friend’s clicking away and my wife and I are stood watching, so I decide to ring my neighbour, “Where are you?”
“In the back bedroom Andy, why?.”
“Look out the window.”
“Why?”
“Just look out the window.”
At which point I could practically hear his eyes popping out his head as he catches an eyeful of the virtually naked model sprawled all over the bike.
“Andy I’m coming over”.
“No, you’re not invited, like we weren’t invited the other night, bye”. And I hung up.

We always got an invite after that.

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LOL!
Well played Amigo
Several of my best friendos required a proper beating or a sneaky trick to get well acquainted

No hot ladies sprawled on motorcycles in fishnet get ups sad to say

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I could practically hear his eyes popping out his head


Love it! Great story, Andy.

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Unfortunately there isn't much excitement and often only petty stuff happening in the building I live in now. It used to be a pensioners' social housing situation, assisted living, etc, and although they've now changed the usage to all ages, there is still a large percentage of the tenants who are elderly, infirm, etc. They tend to live for twitching their curtains, being nosy and gossiping. :( I don't even bother bringing friends here anymore, not even platonic ones, let alone have a "private" life.

One old guy goes out to the bus-stop outside the building, several times a day, to sit and smoke a cigarette. He sits on the seat that faces back toward the building and just looks at all our windows to "see what he can see." I keep my blinds permanently pulled down. I would move except housing costs here are through the roof and I'm economically trapped. Seriously starting to be envious of Chris Farley's "van down by the river" guy.

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My neighbours have been relandscaping their garden and have now put grass on the roof of their shed.😐

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That’s going to be hard to mow. 🤪

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Easy. Just put some cows on the roof.

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Or geese!

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Or my neighbour. She laughs like a goat, perhaps she also eats like one.

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don't get me started on robeman 😊

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Our most common problem involves loud parties by our neighbors. It seems here on the West Coast; if you're a low-class moron with a pool and a barbecue, and lots of mooching friends and relatives, anytime is a good time to party!

We first had issues with this in a gated community, where the houses were really close together, the lawns were half the size they should have been, and the walls in the houses were so thin, you could fart in an upstairs bedroom with the door shut and neighbors on both sides would hear it.
On one side, there was a nice family living there, and we were friends with them. They were a mom, a dad, and their kid, and they were probably some of the most responsible people we'd ever met. We couldn't say the same about the neighbors on the other side of our home. They were this Latino family that would throw loud parties long into the night, and keeping my poor parents awake. More than once, my parents had to call the cops on them at 1 am in the morning to shut down the party.

We moved out of there 3 years ago and live in a normal suburban neighborhood now...or as normal as it gets around here.

We have a Section 8 multi-family living behind us right now that loves to throw parties, but apparently have learned to curb their behavior. I have a feeling they had learned their lesson after the cops were called on them a few times, so they usually would shut off their music after sunset, but it could still be irritating to listen to. We can always tell they're having a party because the number of cars in front of their house goes from 8 to 20. Mom once saw the party guests heading into the house, with each adult lugging a case of beer and having at least 3 kids in tow. How classy. Their favorite activity is to get drunk while their kids spend 16 hours a day screaming while playing in the pool.

We had some nice neighbors when we first moved into my current home, but they moved out just this year (and we were very sad to see them go). While we didn't appreciate their little yap dogs barking their heads off, that noise was minor compared to what the new family did during their "housewarming" party. They threw a loud, wild, drunken party that night, and apparently forgot they had neighbors who could hear it, and my mom called the cops on them. They haven't had a party like that since then.

But the worst thing we had to deal with in this neighborhood...was the wedding party.

Our backyard slopes up into a hill, and the family next door to the Section 8 family is up there. Now they've been quiet for the entire 3 years we have living here, until this past May. We noticed some white tents being put up behind the high fence (we all have high wooden fences here). We weren't sure what was going on, until the loudest party you ever heard started up. We figured out that someone in that family had gotten married, and they were holding the reception in their backyard. It was 18...SOLID...HOURS...of loud, thumping music, and drunken karaoke. I had NEVER heard anyone murder the name of music like that family did. We couldn't even get away from it! Even with a properly insulated house, we couldn't get away from the noise!

Dad and I were soooooo tempted in spraying garden hoses into the yard, throwing a stink bomb, firecrackers, or throwing our dog's poo in, anything to ruin these idiots' soiree in repayment for their disruptive behavior. Of course, we were worried about being sued, but frankly, it might have been worth it to show these assholes we weren't gonna put up with their shit. Sad part was, my mom called the cops on them THREE TIMES...and nobody showed up. Mom finally complained to the nearest police station, and the woman on the phone told her all their officers were busy out chasing two guys that were carrying a knife and a gun. Talk about a waste of resources.

If these neighbors ever pull a stunt like that again, dad and I are not gonna hesitate in making THEIR lives miserable this time around.

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At the time of this writing, several neighbors have decorated for Halloween....3 weeks before the holiday. Despite this, I have fun seeing how creative people can get here. Apparently fake graveyards and skeletons sunning themselves on your front lawn are in vogue right now.

Now in terms of interesting neighbors, the most fascinating are across the court from us. (We live in a cul-de-sac). We have some neighbors from Africa who just LOVE the heat in summer here. They don't use air-conditioning at all, and all summer long, they have left their garage door open in the daytime, as well as the inner door, to let in heat into their house. (I hope they like swatting flies). The family consists of a mom, a dad, grandparents, and two cute kids who just LOVE my husky. Our walking route takes us past this family's house, and often the kids come out to pet him :D. They also like riding in their Power Wheels jeep, which is cute, but they really should be more careful when driving that thing. The mom in the family runs a small business in the garage, doing people's hair.

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I'm luckier than you in that my neighbors don't party much. The occasional one is okay as long as they turn the music down at a reasonable time like 9:00, but for sure by 10. It's frustrating how many folks have no consideration for their neighbors; hey, party on! 🙄

My annoyance is the guy next door whom I call Bozo. He's a nice enough guy, but he is so clueless. He couldn't care less about his yard - mows maybe once a month, doesn't clean up after his dog regularly (it's a Great Dane, for Pete's sake) and won't pick up any trash that he drops. There's always crap sitting out around his yard and house. Oh, but he does love his cars - spends oodles of time on them. I can only imagine what the inside of his house looks like.

He's in his late forties, but dresses like a 17-year-old, complete with baggy pants down to there. He's into those head-banging speakers (the ones I've taken to calling "3-block speakers" because you can hear them three blocks coming and three blocks going) and has installed them on all his vehicles (he has three). He's installed them in his house too, and oftentimes plays them so loud the siding on his house vibrates. Well, it's not actually his house - he rents it from his mom.

But on the other side of me I have neighbors who are a gift from God. They are delightful, friendly, always helpful, and we have a lot of fun hanging out on the patio with an adult beverage and shooting the breeze. I'm thankful I have them or this might be intolerable.

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My next door neighbor, whom I call Bozo because he doesn't seem to care about anything except his cars, is finally, after about a month, cutting his grass. Well, actually, he's not cutting it. His ex-girlfriend, mother of his son, is doing it. I picture the situation as her saying that he really ought to mow the lawn, and him saying, "Well, if you're that concerned about it, you can do it." So she's out there with a reel mower trying to cut grass that's nearly a foot tall, it's getting dark, and it's starting to rain. I admit I was starting to wonder when he'd get around to it or if he'd just hope for snow that would cover it up. He's such a messy Marvin. 🙄

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Is a reel mower a manual, non-powered mower? Good luck with that on an overgrown lawn

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Yes, the old-fashioned kind that maybe your grandfather used.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZarhQx8KhW0/maxresdefault.jpg

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Hmmm, this could be interesting. A week before Halloween and I've got some new neighbors moving into a duplex next door. They seem to be doing it well after sundown, under cover of darkness, going only through the back door. I discovered it accidentally the other night when I had to go out to my garage for something. I've already seen quite a bit of riff-raff come and go with that particular unit.

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Cue the Twilight Zone theme. That's a bit strange. What don't they want anyone to see??

Bozo has all his windows covered, including the one on his garage. The only one with any visibility at all is the bedroom window right across from my kitchen window. The Horse has torn up the mini-blinds on that window, although half the window is covered by a piece of furniture anyway. But the other part has a "viewing hole" and all you can see, if the lights happen to be on at night, is piles of stuff that must be five feet tall. Granted, only one side of the room is visible but I think it's safe to assume the whole room is a junk room.

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Yes, I also found it strange. It's the first time in 15 years in this neighborhood I've seen anyone move in that way. The other night as I was returning from my garage, I happened to briefly rustle some leaves which created an immediate reaction from one of them. He spun in my direction with a flashlight beam right in my face. That's also a first, armed with a flashlight. There was almost something paranoid about that reflexive action. It's been pretty uneventful here for awhile. I'm about due for some intrigue, maybe drama.

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Okay, the flashlight in the face is creepy. Maybe they're vampires and only come out at night??

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Well, I did happen to overhear one being addressed as Renfield as they lugged what appeared to be a large, heavy, oblong box through the back door.

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😱

You
are
doomed.

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Moving in illegally? Squatters?

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Not likely at all. But the mysterious, late night activity has been continuing. Now that they've gotten my attention, I'll be more vigilant than ever.

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