Is it just me, or does this show affect others the same way? Every episode leaves me shaking my head in disbelief. Utter disbelief...at the lengths people will go to over...NOTHING. I mean NOTHING. I don't get it.
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I completely agree! I understand what you mean about people getting worked up over NOTHING since we have a neighbor and her husband who we were close to at one point and then from one day to the next she and he were cold as ice. I still have no idea what happened. Looking back I realize that I was always making excuses for her erradic behavoir. That's why I'm so thankful for our other neighbors, they are wonderful and truly are like family. Believe me when I say that this show makes us really appreciate each other. We have neighbors that are like foster parents to us, to neighbors that are just like siblings. We have keys to each others houses just in case there's an emergency. Which actually came in handy last year when Marie our Mother/neighbor saved my life after finding me passed out in our living room. I swear she's like a guardian angel! So Grace do you have to Fear Thy Neighbor or are yours pretty cool?
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Wow, goddessvenom, that's an amazing, awesome story about your neighbor saving your life. I hope you're okay now!
My neighbors and I are good. We're not super-duper close, but we're certainly on good terms. The kids from one side come over all the time to retrieve balls they've sent flying into my yard. They're just as cute and polite as can be, and always ask permission to go to the backyard. I'm on good, casual terms with the adults on both sides. I wrote in another thread how my neighbor on one side and I mutually agreed on replacing the wooden fence that divides our properties along our driveways; we mutually agreed to make it a little taller than the old fence and a little longer, and we had it done so both sides are 'pretty' sides, and we split the cost. It was just painless, no problem at all. I feel confident that if I needed their help, either neighbor would be there for me, as I would for them.
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I'm glad to see that you have good neighbors yourself sweetie .
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Quite a few of these folks seem to be mentally ill. It appears there is not much to do except to not be too friendly with your neighbors right away.
Other people just have to be right or think they are more important than others. It would be best just to let small things go before they cross the line to big things. It's kind of like road rage when someone takes advantage of you by cutting you off, getting your parking space, etc. You are in the right, but if they are so angry and pull out a gun and kill you, what difference does it make? Let small things go.
Is it vibes a person gives off that makes another person not like them? Does one person remind the other person of someone he doesn't like? Have we had past lives where we encountered others? Why are some kids bullied and others are not? Who knows? It's really sad, but an individual must be careful not to be too friendly with people you do not know - like new neighbors.
TV shows like this are eye-openers to people who would never dream of acting this way, and yet some do.
Quite a few of these folks seem to be mentally ill. It appears there is not much to do except to not be too friendly with your neighbors right away.That's how I see it, too, zoesmom. Much better to proceed slowly and see how things develop.
It would be best just to let small things go before they cross the line to big things. It's kind of like road rage when someone takes advantage of you by cutting you off, getting your parking space, etc. You are in the right, but if they are so angry and pull out a gun and kill you, what difference does it make? Let small things go.I completely agree with this. I remember, years ago, when I'd get REALLY UPSET with idiot drivers who'd do things like cut me off, or slow down/speed up when they saw my turn signal on, or who'd grab a parking space right out from under me, etc. I'd shout obscenities, give them the finger, etc. Then I heard about the first road rage incident, a car-to-car shooting in Dallas (where I was living at the time). All of a sudden it was like, wait, really?, is it REALLY worth getting all worked up about? Of course the answer was NO! Just like that I completely changed and have never looked back. Now I just let things go. (Of course, I'm back home in Southern California, where drivers don't do crap like preventing me from changing lanes, but still.)
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