How Well Do You Know Your Next-Door Neighbors?

[arwalden]

I only know one of my next door neighbors. The others are just strangers that I wave at whenever I'm pulling out of the driveway or walking out to the mailbox.

My backyard neighbors are idiots. Their grass is almost as high as the fence. The other catty-corner backyard neighbor plays loud BOOM-BOOM music and obscene rap until just before the hour that it LEGALLY becomes disurbing-the-peace. On the opposite back side, my neighbor has a dog that never, EVER stops barking.

At least they aren't on my own street.

-- Allen

[radwriter0555]

1. Uh... are you ME????? I have the exact, precise, identical

neighbor makeup!!!!

How HYSTERICAL!

Well, I DO have a church school behind the house too.

[Misunderestimator]

2. Same here, except the backyard thing

I don't know any of my neighbors by name, except the ones we've met through my partner's parents (who also live in the neighborhood... now that's another story altogether).
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On edit: We just moved here six months ago... but it IS a conservative area, so I doubt we'll make many friends.
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My backyard is a golf course, so I don't have the grass problem. :)

There is, however, a very loud couple of birds across the street in front, whose owner brings them out to roam and squak on the lawn every afternoon for an hour or so.

[LiberalVoice]

3. Well...

My next door neighbor is the epitimy of what the "seductress next door" should be. lol. She is so hott. lol

The fellow next to her is this crazy right wing, confederate flag hanging, dogs never shut up either, kinda neighbor. You know, the usual.

[Ernesto]

4. OK, I'm a geezer

The point is that I have always been happiest when living in a country setting. Maybe you should give it a try.

[arwalden]

7. We're working our way there. Our last home was a townhouse...

this one is on an acre. And yes... even on a full acre, the neighbors are STILL too close. Weird, huh? But I'm guessing that you understand how I feel.

-- Allen

[Ernesto]

19. A simple pleasure

being able to walk outside to take a leak any time you want!

[lovedems]

5. We are very friendly with all of our neighbors on our block.

It is great too.

Our neighborhood is wonderful. We are very close friends with many people on our block, not just our immediate neighbors. Of course we have the 4 boys and there are tons of families on our block and we all have kids the same age so our kids are always at neighbors houses our neighbor kids are at our house. It has made us all good friends.

We close our street once a year for a potluck block party and buy a keg and light a fire.

We are very fortunate to live in our neighborhood and have wonderful neighbors.

[bearfan454]

6. The guy on the left of me is cool. He is a Dem.

All the others are repukes. I get along with them for bbq, drinking beer, sports, food and garden trade offs, I just avoid talking politics with them.

[SW FL Dem]

26. Sounds like our neighborhood.

They trust me to bring in their mail, of course they all donate to the RNC. For some reason, I let the pet sitter bring in mine. Only my mailman knows I am a Dem. We get along well as long as politics doesn't come up.

[bif]

8. Don't have any right now

The one crab-ass moved out and the other one died. It's been nice and quiet for almost a year now.

[ZenLefty]

9. They leave the blinds open when they undress, or have sex

I know them pretty intimately. :o

[arwalden]

12. I Had A Neighbor Like That Once...

I don't know if it was intentional or neglegent. But I certainly enjoyed it. :o

-- Allen

[ZenLefty]

13. Their sex life is very boring.

Same old position twice a week. One candle lit by the bed. Done in 15 minutes or less.

I'd like to knock on their door and tell them "You're too fucking young to have sex that boring!! Try some new stuff. Buy some books. Videos. Something!"

Yeah, that would be neighborly of me, wouldn't it.

[arwalden]

14. Oh Dear.

indeed you are in a pickle.

Hmmm.... I couldn't decide. Would I choose to improve someone's quality of lifem but in the process make them aware of their negligence (and thus end the show)? Or would I continue to be titilated by their same old quickie-boring routine?

OR... AH-HA!~ Maybe if they knew they had an audience, then they would get into it more (some people are into a bit of exibitionism). Not that I'd know about anything like that myself from personal experience or anything, so stop thinking that.

-- Allen

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. I think they're gun-runners.

And white slavers.

And their garage smells like a still.

[democratreformed]

11. My next door neighbor is my brother on the north

My dad is my neighbor to to south.

[arwalden]

17. Ah.... Neighbors You Can TRUST With Your House Keys...

that's always a convenient situation.

I think I'd trust our friends next door with our house key... but they don't have one, yet. As for the rest... NO WAY!~

-- Allen

[left_wing_literati]

15. "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House"

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on on their way out.

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
I close all the windows in the house
and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast
but I can still hear him muffled under the music,
barking, barking, barking,

and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra,
his head raised confidently as if Beethoven
had included a part for barking dog.

When the record finally ends he is still barking,
sitting there in the oboe section barking,
his eyes fixed on the conductor who is
entreating him with his baton

while the other musicians listen in respectful
silence to the famous barking dog solo,
that endless coda that first established
Beethoven as an innovative genius.


--Billy Collins

[sybylla]

16. My neighbors to the north are Amish

They are in their upper 50's and have 10 kids, 4 of which still live at home. They help with the farm plus one daughter teaches at their school, another paints nice landscapes with quotes from the bible on them. The Mrs. and I go to the local blood drive together and volunteer when we can. They are very nice and very helpful neighbors.

On my south is a family my kids go to school with. Their son is planning on building a house on the land between us, but hasn't gotten more than a garage built yet. They put up a mobile home so the grown grand son could have a place of his own temporarily. He likes to have loud parties in the summer and sometimes plays his music so loud in his mobile home that it boom-booms in my house. But generally I don't see much of him and now that he has a regular job, his partying has cut back.

I know and am getting to know several other families in the area.

[Loonman]

18. On the right is a nice Vietnamese lady

Who always gives me vegetables from her garden.

On the left is a bunch of stupid college freshman who often lead me to thoughts of violence.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. OMG

do you live in my apartment...the booming techno music is about to drive me crazy

[supernova]

21. I know the kids; not the parents

strangely. :shrug:

Kids come to my house fairly often, they usually want to play in the woods behind me.

[Carolina]

22. I consider myself

extremely lucky to have twice found neighbors who were neat, respectful and trustworthy. The first house we had, we lucked up on neighbors who became best friends. We had keys to their house and they had keys to ours. We even became godparents to their son. One of the hardest parts of moving was leaving them :cry:

But damn if we didn't luck up a second time. Our new (as of ten years ago)neighbors have a son the same age as ours and they became fast friends (kids can often pave the way for good or bad) and that opened the door. We are not quite as close to them as we were to our DC neighbors, but we are friendly. We look out for each others houses when we're away and we even have each others keys for emergencies.

I won't move again until time for the retirement home. I don't think I could get this lucky a third time.

[VelmaD]

23. Well, I no longer have next door neighbors...

and haven't for over a month now. They got evicted for vandalising their apartment and disturbing the peace (to wit, having a fist fight on the landing between my apartment and theirs - the police got called out and everything). In fact I'm starting to get a little miffed about the situation. With no neighbors that means the City shut off the utilities and the apartment peopel haven't really cleaned it up yet and all teh bugs from that apartment keep trying to migrate to mine. *sigh*

My downstairs niehgbor is really quiet, but then again she's in her 70s.

I just got new neighbors in the apartment behind me and we're gonna have to have words about their "thumpa" music.

I miss my old next door neighbors from back a couple of years ago. They had 2 of the cutest little boys and I could always rely on the dad to go deal with anyone playing their music too loud in the parking lot. He was a pretty big black guy who looked really intimidating but was really the sweetest guy you'd ever meet.

On edit: who I REALLY miss are my parents' next door neighbors. They were already there when my parents moved in in Septmeber 1970 (3 weeks before I was born). They were a fixture in my life growing up.

[Rowdyboy]

24. To the east, a 60'ish couple who treat us like their own kids

They babysit our dog, bring over food, have us over for drinks and, a few years ago, he re-plumbed our house just to help out. Their only child lives in California and rarely visits.

To the west, a 40ish couple, no apparent kids. Friendly, but not close. They really like to work in the yard and frequently compliment us on how nice our garden looks.

To the south:

1. 84 year old widow (artist)
2. Snooty young newlyweds with an SUV
3. 50ish semi-retired couple who we adore. We recently kept their puppy for a week while they were out of town.

To the north, "waving neighbors". We speak when we see each other.

All in all, I consider us uniquely blessed. As a gay couple in a small southern town, we experience very little intolerance.

[trof]

25. My back yard is the bay.

Kinda like you, got "wavers" on one side and a very nice young couple on the other. They have a delightful 2 year old daughter who has adopted us as surrogate grandparents.

[Samurai_Writer]

27. There are 10 units in my apartment building...

5 upstairs and 5 downstairs. I'm in the downstairs, middle apartment. To my left is a young black single mom with 2 kids who works at the same place I do (different department). They are very nice, well-behaved kids and are good neighbors.

On the right there is a young hispanic couple with a baby who is a few months old. I rarely see them, only to wave at. Next to them is an old lady in her 80s that I talk to, and one each end downstairs are two black families who seem nice, but I have not really talked to them much.

Now, upstairs... 4 of the 5 apartments are part of a drug rehab program, so the occupants change about every 8 weeks. The fifth apartment has about 4 young Haitian guys living there, I think. We say hi to each other, that's about it.

Actually, the drug rehab neighbors are probably my favorite. They are always friendly and we have some interesting conversations. And they all love to go out in the big grassy area out back and play with my dog, who has kind of become the program's unofficial mascot. The two people who run the program are really cool, too.