Dear Neighbor...

JOEBunny

I am very sorry that you are currently not working after taking a package where you got paid for 8 months, and you are now in month 9 of being out of work.  I understand that you have to leave your 3 year old in daycare, so you don't lose your spot when you do get a job, so you sit at home on the computer all day, bored. 

My DD loves to play with your son, so I have to be nice to you. 

I would just like to point out that when you get drunk, you are even more obnoxious and socially clueless than normal, and you have been getting drunk earlier and earlier and more and more often. 

I would also like to point out that I invite my friends over to play with my DD and to visit with me, not so you can come over with your wine and talk loudly in a monologue while your child is either at daycare or beating mine with a stick and throwing toys all over the yard that I end up having to pick up.  

Finally, saying things like, "I like a lot of your friends, but not all of them and I would like to spend more time with some of them, but not others."  is both rude and assumptive, especially since my friends generally find you obnoxious, loud, and rude and are only talking to you because you have come over uninvited again. 

You are my neighbor and our children are close in age, so I will be nice to you.  Your husband is a dear, but you really need to cut back on your drinking and shut your trap because when I become a sleep deprived mom of two I just might blow my top.  

Vent over.  I suck at confrontation, but if this chick doesn't get a job soon, I am seriously going to have to figure out a way to get my point across.

pincushions

that would suck... thank goodness our neighbors keep to themselves or the most part!

AnnapolisLari

Yeah, that's where I would start drawing some lines.

My dad was an alcoholic, and I don't want my kids to see someone who perpetually has a drink in their hands.

JOEBunny

Most of my neighbors are awesome and I love hanging out with them.  This one in particular and one other, we have to include because we do hang out with all the others frequently, but the recent increase in drinking has gone from making her just overbearing to unbearable.  I think she also wants me to bring her into my SAHM circle and there is no fn way I am doing that, she can make her own friends.

breezee_bean

that really stinks!  I am sorry. 

Alibabs

Ugh. That's terrible for you! We have crap neighbours. I'm mean really awful! Their housse is joined to ours and we here them scream and verbally abuse their kids all.day.long. We don't know any  of our other neighbours. It really sucks. Whoever said that Ireland was warm and welcoming was sooooo talking about before the 90's boom time.