Neighbors

[jdomep]

What is your worst/best neighbor experience

The Good...

Picture if you will an open gate and a mini and a mini donk running around like lunatics at 7 am, and me trying to figure out what to do. A neighbor from a mile or so down the road stops in the middle of the state road we live on - jumps out of her car and manages to help me get Willy and Prissy back in their pasture. I'd like a neighbor like that on all sides

The Bad...

New neighbors were her about a few months (they were mennonite and had 7 or 8 children) they were nice enough but quiet. We had bought a bedroom suite at an auction years before that would have been perfect for a little girl and after boy #4 we figured we weren't going to use it so we asked them if they wanted it - ofcourse they took all 6 pieces.

Then one day a year or so later (dead of summer) she comes to my door with a box of fresh tomatos and says there is a booklet in the box for me and she leaves. "Hmmm that's weird" So I look and it is a paphlet on how to dress to be a good mother:new_shocked: and that I should never wear a bathing suit in front of my kids, show affection to my hubby etc!! OMG - after that little love note I was ticked. We have 6 acres and fenced in yard where we played in our pool - obviously someone was spying on me! So when dh came home I went to the driveway in my bathing suit and kissed him

I was so angered that they judged me as a mom for what I wore and them "supposidly" being religious were "judging me". Kind of hypocritic if you ask me.

Now...the ugly

Neighbors across the other street operate as a mechanic on weekends and there are 10-15 cars stashed over there at any given time. It's illegal according to township ordinances - but can't say anything because they scare me

 

[Relic]

l love all my neighbors the nearest ones live about a mile south so never hear or see them the rest is fields and cattle for miles in all other directions. l do know everyone in the area and everyone seems to know about us and the horses. l used to only wear nothing out on the back deck when l was alone till one of the farmers wifes when l went to get my mail told me l did that seems her husband caught me a few times while out inspecting his fields he'd leave his truck on the road and walk the fields so l never do that anymore. One morning my husband woke me to call the cops some indian was sleeping in his truck in the garage and wouldn't get out said it was to cold. That one was kind of scary and l worried for a long time about going in the barn in the mornings and finding someone asleep in the hay or something. Creepy feeling when someone sees you and you don't know out in the middle of nowhere till someone tells you.

 

[nootka]

I do NOT envy you your situation!

That was pretty sneaky and underhanded to put that pamphlet in there, trying to push their religious beliefs on you. And if they don't like it, whey were they watching!?!?

In town, our houses were very close to the neighbors, but I thought about a book I had read about Native Americans in very ancient times and how they lived together in small camps within one big camp. Yes, they could see what was going on, but it was considered rude to actually watch, and they kept their eyes averted from others' camps on purpose, never actually looking into their camp/shelter.

I did the same w/my neighbors though they left their windows open all the time, but I found on more than one occasion, neighbors staring into MY windows (I never shut my curtains during the day, but again, never did anything unsavory in there, either, or at least not that I thought so! *LOL*).

Made me mad to see people staring at me, even if I was only washing the dishes!!! I felt like yelling "get a life" and those people need to mind their own business.

The people across the street, can you have a friend report them somehow?

Liz M.

 

[Triggy&Blue&Daisy Too]

I am pretty lucky in that I like my neigbors and neighborhood very much. People look out for each other and generally the obnoxious stuff only happens occasionally, like someone running their yard tractor to cut their grass at 10:00 pm. After all they DO come with headlights.

Mainly all our trouble, damage and noise comes from the jr high school kids who walk through our neighborhood on their way home. They leave garbage everywhere, destroy landscaping, speak unbelievabe filth to each other and sometimes us too if we're outside minding our own business. I've always thought the little 8@s&@rds should be put in suspended animation and not unfrozen until they are 30.

 

[tifflunn]

We love our neighbours!!! They are the Best! We all have our weakness- weird relatives, loud children, unrulely teens, loud cars, once a year partys. But someoe strange goes knocking on your door you can bet 2-3 neighbours know there descriptions and a licence plate of the car they were driving- or if you come home late one night without your partner- you bet everyones watching to see if you need help., we all take note when the very pregnat to be mom is escorted out the door by a flustered soon to be dad- and we all wait like a bunch of hens when dad returns with good news. We don't go out of our way to be noisy you just notice and take note incase you are called upon to be a neighbour- we will really miss them when we get our farm- probably our ownly regret.

 


We have had neighbours from the bad and ugly- that leaves you feeling unsafe in your own home little alone walking out the door. Or that belive it is O.K. to have a junk yard infested with vermin next to the local play area

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As it stands my neighbours get

 

[chandab]

Can't recall any bad or ugly neighbors, but then again maybe I've blocked them out.

I do recall a good neighbor incident.

Super Bowl Sunday 1986 or so, lady knocks on the door and asks to use the phone. As we show her to the phone, she proceeds to tell us that my dad has fallen on the ice in the drive-way and she is going to call an ambulance. My dad severly broke his leg and she figured that once my mother knew what happened that she would be too upset to call herself (funny how a stranger could know my mom so well.

). We hadn't yet met the new neighbors across the street, so what an introduction. Very nice people.

 

[Magic]

I love our neighbors.

All of them are (fairly) quiet, mind their own business but are always ready to help in any way if needed. It's a great neighborhood and I will miss it when we end up moving...

 

[Steph_D]

I've got the good and bad, all wrapped up in one

My neighbor (the man that I bought my house from) is an 80+ year old cattle farmer. I get free hay, free pasture, and he watches out for me. In return, he'd like to feel me up about every 6 months or so

This last time was the last straw. The draft horse had let my horses into his cattle field, WAY back there. I was heading back there with a halter and lead when he picked me up in his truck and drove me the rest of the way. I got my yearling colt haltered and was sitting there chatting in the middle of a field full of cattle when he starts hugging on me and telling me how much he likes me, while trying to put his hands up my shirt

Ok, so I started walking VERY fast, faster than Moony wanted to walk and ended up more like draggin him all the way home. I ended up with all 4 of my horses following, plus the draft, plus the neighbor in his truck. Police are out of the question since they won't do anything anyway, so I just stay away from him. Hubby's a truck driver, gone 3 weeks out of the month. Now I have it to where he thinks hubby's home again and he doesn't bother me.

Then again, should we discuss the 3 bars across the highway? Or how about the neighbor who let his draft horse run loose before someone caught him and brought him to our house? No wonder I keep to myself around here, and keep my doors locked

 

[jacks'thunder]

Well let me see.... the good would have to be the only neighbors we have. My inlaws!! You would think it would be the bad but it's not. They are the best! The bad and the ugly mixed in one shot was my old neighbor. When I was dating my husband I had my own house with very close neighbors. When I would go to work I'd take my dog out for a walk in the morning and when I got home. one day I stayed home from work, for some reason, and planed on a nice quiet day at home. My dog started barking like crazy at the window and I peeked out to see. It was my neighbor peeking in at me! So I screamed and he hurried in to his house. Him being 80 somthing he could not move that fast so I know it was him. A couple weeks go by and I had another day off and the same thing happened only this time he was squirting water in my window at my dog. He must not have known I was home because he was swaring at my dog while squirting at him. I whipped out my super soker and snuck up to the window and BANG got him really good in the face! After that I took my dog to the baby sitters every day and shut the windows on that side of the house for the rest of the time we lived there! I just have to say he was a crab! Nobody liked him in our neighborhood. The really bad part is I'd still go over and shovel his walk in the winter and say hi when ever I saw him. He started getting really goofy a while later and backed in to a school bus that had to stop in front of his house everyday. And he started to park sideways because he thought we were parking in his driveway. We moved not to long after that.

Kinda makes me wonder what ever happend with him and his new neighbors.

Just one more thing! I found out from the neighbors across the street that he had tortured my dog and cats that way for months before I squirted him! I'm soooo glad we moved!

Leya

p.s. Steph_D I just wanted to say YUCK!!! I had a boss that was like that! Bad news! And he always happend to be around when everybody else left and it was just me there! YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!!!! It makes me sick to know people are like that!

 

[keeperofthehorses]

The Good: There are two houses across the road from me with wonderful neighbors. We watch out for each other and keep in close contact. We are always swapping goodies from our gardens. Whenever the ambulance comes (been two weeks now, knock wood), they come over to see if they can help with the horses or the house work. Love 'em.

The Bad: The neighbors behind us took it upon themselves to cut down about 30 trees on our side of the property-line fence a few years back. I had asked them to stop about 6 times before finally calling the sheriff. A few months after that, they told the sheriff that Darrin had beat up their gardener. You should have seen the look on the sheriff's face when he saw the fresh scars from Darrin's open heart surgery. It was pretty obvious he wasn't up to beating anyone. Took a few sheriff visits back and forth before we came to an uneasy truce. They are known around here as Mr. and Mrs. Idiot.

The Ugly: The neighbors to our north have recently moved to town (they say it's just for the winter) and left behind their 4 dogs; 2 boxers and 2 min pins. They used to have 5, but the Boston Terrier quit eating when their twins were born and they refused to take him to the vet because 'he was just being stubborn'. We are pretty sure he starved to death, because one day, he was just gone. Supposedly they have someone taking care of the dogs, but I don't think they are. They are left out all night long in these nasty little pens (boxers and min pins have no hair!) and they bark non-stop. I've talked to her 3 times since she left and told her that her dogs are very unhappy. It looks like Animal Control will have to be brought in on this one, as I don't think they are getting fed regularly and I know their pens aren't being cleaned. The smell would knock you over. These are really vindictive people, so we are a little worried about what is going to happen once we call Animal Control.