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December 2010 Moms
Nicole0012
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S/O crazy neighbors... are you?
Nicole0012
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Do you have crazy characteristics or behave in ways that make your neighbors write posts on message boards about you? I'm certain I do!
I leave M out in the car while I unload groceries. It's only five minutes and the car is not running and he's totally within eye-sight the whole time, but I wonder if my neighbors think I'm being abusive or something. It's just too difficult to juggle an escaping toddler and an arm full of groceries at the same time!
What might your neighbors side-eye you for?
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Re: S/O crazy neighbors... are you?
I totally unload the groceries into the house with the car parked in the garage and the back door open!
In a related note, when I get home, I pull into the garage, turn the car off, run into the house and call the dog. He comes out, runs around the garage, jumps in the car to visit V, and toddles around our yard/up the street while I get everything out of the car. Half the time he's 4 houses up and I have to yell at him to come back. Except I don't really scream at him, because he doesn't really come. So I stand there calling him and waiting for him to decide to come back. People must think my dog needs an obedience class, but I don't really care.
Hmmm, well... our neighbors are crazy, so they probably think we are the crazy ones.
On one side, the three little girls scream under our windows at 9:00pm after dark, throw dishes over their fence and let them shatter on our driveway, feed our dog bologna, leave trash everywhere, etc., etc.. SO, we tend to be knocking on their door a lot. I'm sure they feel we are equally crazy because they probably don't appreciate us coming over to gripe about their children once a week.
On the other side are people we actually really like, but lately they have decided to build a camping tear-drop trailer. This means that they are out there hammering and sawing and whatnot all day. They are right under Nate's bedroom window doing all this, so they probably get sick of us coming out at 8:00 and being all "shut up, it's bedtime".
We are going to sell our house soon and the requirement of the next house is no neighbors within arm's reach! Our houses are waaaaay too close for comfort in this neighborhood.
My neighbors are hoarders, so they better not think I'm the crazy one...
But I definitely leave A in the carseat while I unload the groceries. I don't put them away in the cabinets or anything, but I just take them to my mudroom. He's in sight the whole time! I don't think that's that weird
I am sure my neighbors thought I was post worthy when we moved in last year and it seemed that our dogs were getting out of the yard all the time- Nice way to meet your neighbors- in your work at home clothes, sweaty, walking up and down the street yelling for your dog- yep I met all my neighbors this way. Hopefully they realize that I am not always sweaty and my dogs are not always out now.
Oh we have those annoying geese in the neighborhood- well in the spring they were hanging around some bushes in my yard. I did not want them nesting in my yard. So I grabbed a broom- ran after them chasing them away. Yep sooo trashy looking but I was not dealing with geese attacks.
We've turned in multiple neighbors (we live in a condo) for smoking over their balconies and flicking ashes on our dog and our patio.
C also likes to loudly chatter and laugh (and sometimes throw a temper tantrum) in our hallway each morning at 7:15am on the way to DC. Wake up people, wake up!!!!
When days that the windows are open & DS happens to be particularly bad, I'm sure they think I'm crazy hearing me yell things like, stop that! get off of there! do NOT touch that! Didn't I tell you to stay out of there?! That's it, you're going in time out!
or if they truly knew how many times I am peeking out the window to see what's going on b/c I am so nosy! Right now I am on dog poop watch b/c there was dog poop sitting on a newspaper in front of our house. The paper got delivered & we didn't get a chance to bring it in yet & then it was mysteriously moved to a different spot on the sidewalk & had poop on it. Then there was another load of poop on the grass right next to that. I can't begin to figure out WTF the scenario was & it is driving me nuts! So now every person with a small dog that walks by is getting the look of death from me, lol. I suppose a lawn sign that said, "Hey Assholes! Curb your fuckingdogs!" would be a little harsh?