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1. Can't top that but town house politics get stupidly petty...
Mon Jul 1, 2013, 10:34 PM
Jul 2013

We live in a small 7 unit town house complex. Over the years it has gotten much better but when we moved in we were basically the only liberal family among the 7 units. All the others were petty conservative vultures. A single mother moved in to the house next to us and she was not treated well at all by several of the neighbours. One of the MOST annoying things was that we were not allowed to do ANYTHING to our property that changed the look of the units in even the smallest way because it would ruin the look of the units as a whole, yet the people who were most in arms about it had the largest, most showy garden of the 7 of us. They even cut down a tree on their property, siting it was rotten (hard to say if it was or not). At any rate this single mother wanted to put in a safety door in her front yard to protect her daughter. Well one of the other neighbours had the gall to say "honestly the safety of your daughter is none of my concern". She was a real witch and we had fights with her over many other issues over the years. Luckily they are now gone too.

I can even remember her telling me once about poisonous flowers in her flower bed and how she should remove them because she was worried the daughter of the single mother could get at them. But the way she said it was more like, I hope she get's poisoned.

List your neighbor nightmare. [View all] Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 OP
Can't top that but town house politics get stupidly petty... Locut0s Jul 2013 #1
They would fit in my neighborhood. Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #2
Something about small petty amounts of power brings out the worst in people... Locut0s Jul 2013 #3
In my case, I think where they derive their power is due to their connection to the city. Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #4
We have junky neighbors on both sides Blue_In_AK Jul 2013 #5
Are any of the cars classics? Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #9
No, the cars are just junk. Blue_In_AK Jul 2013 #30
Noisy kids. ananda Jul 2013 #6
I bet the mom was suffering from depression. Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #10
Or she was overwhelmed. blueamy66 Jul 2013 #19
Meth dealer on one side, and woman with Borderline Per. D/o on the other dixiegrrrrl Jul 2013 #7
Why the hell are we paying taxes? Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #11
It was pretty evident the cops were not interested. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2013 #15
That I have any . . . ConcernedCanuk Jul 2013 #8
I have a fiction story I hope to be getting back to soon. Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #12
. . . ConcernedCanuk Jul 2013 #13
well RILib Jul 2013 #14
Hi, RILib Bertha Venation Jul 2013 #16
no recourse RILib Jul 2013 #31
Mine are pretty mellow Bertha Venation Jul 2013 #17
mellow RILib Jul 2013 #33
Seems like I always get the crazy ones. femmocrat Jul 2013 #18
I already have one. He and his wife only communicate by screaming - and that includes the kids. EdwardSmith74 Jul 2013 #20
I'll take your challenge of a neighbor nightmare. mnhtnbb Jul 2013 #21
Good to see that there is a recovery after such a bad issue. Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #23
We had a lot less of it (money) thanks to the neighbors. At least we had the satisfaction mnhtnbb Jul 2013 #27
LOL! Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #28
Dogs running loose, noise, burning thrash illegally, and just nasty. sinkingfeeling Jul 2013 #22
I'll take your problems over mine. Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #24
The daughter and her friends of a former neighbor avebury Jul 2013 #25
Sad mentally ill man next door Spike89 Jul 2013 #26
It doesn't sound harmless RILib Jul 2013 #34
Yeah, thus the call to the police Spike89 Jul 2013 #37
the Tropicana Sun Tan Lotion Bikini Team.... NM_Birder Jul 2013 #29
A new gasoline powered leaf/clippings blower Populist_Prole Jul 2013 #32
This thread is actually making me feel better :-) RILib Jul 2013 #35
Neighbors that call the cops when you have loud parties past 3 am. Incitatus Jul 2013 #36
turn the sound down RILib Jul 2013 #38
Religious Nut with Anti-Abortion stickers on her car.. HipChick Jul 2013 #39
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