Weird neighbors..

[sourland]

We had a neighbor (he has moved away) who used to stand in the corner of his field and stare at our house. If you walked towards or addressed him, he would silently turn and walk away.He did me a great favor, actually. Because of him I purchased a GSD--Rondy-- the finest animal that I have ever known. Yes, the shotgun was in the corner, and the shells were at hand out of the kids' reach. It was interesting

for several years.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I am the weird neighbor.

 

[Southernbelle]

For the most part, I have great neighbors. We don't really socialize but will stop and chat whenever we see each other.

My biggest pet peeve is at any one time, my neighbor has between 5 and 10 small, but loud, barking, agressive dogs on their property. They mostly keep them contained in a fenced yard, but they've broken loose before and terrorized my children and my chickens and pooped in my yard. They also had one of their cats get pregnant and kept all the kittens, so now I have 5 adult cats constantly prowling my backyard, hunting my chickens and pooping in my kids' sandbox. It's all pretty annoying, but I'd rather have them than some of the scary crazy people other people on here have written about.

 

[Laurajean]

A.T. Hagan :

I am the weird neighbor.

Yep, me too I'm afraid. I don't feel weird, but my neighbors think I am. I'm a woman who lives alone in a small town full of married people, and that alone apparently makes me weird to them, since they incessantly ask why I live alone, almost as though it's suspicious. Like the OP's neighbor, I do most of my chores at night. Not a vampire, just a night owl. So my lights are on or I'll be in the yard when everyone else is asleep. And I don't participate in the local vicious gossip, so that makes me a recluse. And I'm one of only two people on my dirt road that contributes money toward road work that's done by a neighbor (the other one who contributes), so that apparently makes me "uppity". I don't know why any of this makes me weird, but it apparently does. My neighbors mostly avoid me like the plague, except for a couple.

 

[yinepu]

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Yep, me too I'm afraid. I don't feel weird, but my neighbors think I am. I'm a woman who lives alone in a small town full of married people, and that alone apparently makes me weird to them, since they incessantly ask why I live alone, almost as though it's suspicious. Like the OP's neighbor, I do most of my chores at night. Not a vampire, just a night owl. So my lights are on or I'll be in the yard when everyone else is asleep. And I don't participate in the local vicious gossip, so that makes me a recluse. And I'm one of only two people on my dirt road that contributes money toward road work that's done by a neighbor (the other one who contributes), so that apparently makes me "uppity". I don't know why any of this makes me weird, but it apparently does. My neighbors mostly avoid me like the plague, except for a couple.

I'm a weird neighbor too.. and darn proud of it!

I walk around in the dead of the night with a loaded 22
I talk to my chickens (this is cow country.... people here don't talk to chickens.. at all...)
I am extremely antisocial.. I don't go out much.. I don't have people over.. kinda like the crazy cat lady that lives in an old house and avoids people.. but I am more like the crazy zoo lady with all the critters we have
I grow carnivorous plants.. which when one of my mail carriers asked what they were .. and i told her.. she somehow decided it was a better idea to stay in her mail truck when she has a package for me.. as if the plants are going to attack her or chew on the bumper of her truck
I keep tarantulas, snakes, rats and scorpions for pets... when i mentioned that at the feed store a few people took a few steps away from me.. as if i had them in my pocket and they could leap out at any moment and attack (I didn't)
I have a fire pit dug into my front yard and have been known to set bonfires in the middle of the night.. So I'm sure if we had people living nearby they would have assumed we were performing some sort of black magic rites...
I don't like kids.. never have even when i was one.. I would sooner catch a rattlesnake than touch a baby.. for some reason they just give me the creeps.. but anytime i go anywhere where there are kids they HAVE to try to touch me.. even going so far as crawling off their parent's laps and making a beeline for me... and when I cringe their parents give me the weirdest looks...
I have the attitude that if you leave me alone.. i'll leave you alone... so I'm not the type to bake a cake when i hear someone new has moved in nearby
I have some neighbors that I have never met.. or said "hi" to.. and i don't know their names.. when I did live "in town" I knew all the dog's names in the entire neighborhood.. had no idea what their owner's names were.. I always figured the dogs were better company than their owners!

so yeah.. i'm not your average next door neighbor.. aren't you glad you don't live near me?...

 

[Kschwartz]

Quote:
Yep, me too I'm afraid. I don't feel weird, but my neighbors think I am. I'm a woman who lives alone in a small town full of married people, and that alone apparently makes me weird to them, since they incessantly ask why I live alone, almost as though it's suspicious. Like the OP's neighbor, I do most of my chores at night. Not a vampire, just a night owl. So my lights are on or I'll be in the yard when everyone else is asleep. And I don't participate in the local vicious gossip, so that makes me a recluse. And I'm one of only two people on my dirt road that contributes money toward road work that's done by a neighbor (the other one who contributes), so that apparently makes me "uppity". I don't know why any of this makes me weird, but it apparently does. My neighbors mostly avoid me like the plague, except for a couple.

I'm a weird neighbor too.. and darn proud of it!

I walk around in the dead of the night with a loaded 22
I talk to my chickens (this is cow country.... people here don't talk to chickens.. at all...)
I am extremely antisocial.. I don't go out much.. I don't have people over.. kinda like the crazy cat lady that lives in an old house and avoids people.. but I am more like the crazy zoo lady with all the critters we have
I grow carnivorous plants.. which when one of my mail carriers asked what they were .. and i told her.. she somehow decided it was a better idea to stay in her mail truck when she has a package for me.. as if the plants are going to attack her or chew on the bumper of her truck
I keep tarantulas, snakes, rats and scorpions for pets... when i mentioned that at the feed store a few people took a few steps away from me.. as if i had them in my pocket and they could leap out at any moment and attack (I didn't)
I have a fire pit dug into my front yard and have been known to set bonfires in the middle of the night.. So I'm sure if we had people living nearby they would have assumed we were performing some sort of black magic rites...
I don't like kids.. never have even when i was one.. I would sooner catch a rattlesnake than touch a baby.. for some reason they just give me the creeps.. but anytime i go anywhere where there are kids they HAVE to try to touch me.. even going so far as crawling off their parent's laps and making a beeline for me... and when I cringe their parents give me the weirdest looks...
I have the attitude that if you leave me alone.. i'll leave you alone... so I'm not the type to bake a cake when i hear someone new has moved in nearby
I have some neighbors that I have never met.. or said "hi" to.. and i don't know their names.. when I did live "in town" I knew all the dog's names in the entire neighborhood.. had no idea what their owner's names were.. I always figured the dogs were better company than their owners!

so yeah.. i'm not your average next door neighbor.. aren't you glad you don't live near me?...

But your part of the BYC family, so its all good!

 

[chickenn@@b]

I came home from a birthday party one evening to find my former neighbor drunk and lying in a ditch beside the road with an almost finished bottle of tequila. She did politely sit up and ask me if I wanted a pull when I ran over to make sure she was alive! Apparently she was hiding from her boyfriend who didn't like it when she got drunk.

Then there was the neighbor who ran outside in her underwear to scream at her DH and throw empty beer bottles at him as he was driving away in the minivan. All the kids were standing at the school bus stop watching in horror, including her own. I was so glad when we moved although it did make for great entertainment.

And, my personal favorite, the next door neighbor who was arrested when it was discovered he was growing weed in his roommate's tomato garden in the front yard. He was arrested in front of the entire neighborhood. He had even hung red christmas tree ornaments on the plants to make them look like tomato plants.

 

[Ferrret]

chickenn@@b :

And, my personal favorite, the next door neighbor who was arrested when it was discovered he was growing weed in his roommate's tomato garden in the front yard. He was arrested in front of the entire neighborhood. He had even hung red christmas tree ornaments on the plants to make them look like tomato plants.

I'd like to think that's a joke, but I've read a few interesting cases of people being busted for growing marijuana.

I've always been the weird neighbor. When I was still with my parents we were the Halloween family, and no one wanted to hang out until October rolled around. Our neighbors had a great dislike for Halloween, they even protested outside out home haunt one year trying to drive people away.

Sadly for them, their efforts only drew more attention and we had an even bigger turn out.
Now living with BF we're the weird Halloween couple, making fake tombstones and other Halloween props in the backyard. And we have chickens, which so far no one has been to upset by. A few neighbors even think it's pretty neat.

I have some social anxiety so I don't talk much, which is odd to people. Being around groups of people makes me uncomfortable so I let other folks do the talking, unless I have something worth saying. I'm also in the deathly pale group, I don't tan more than a slight 'lively' tint and I'm so pale I'm translucent. I'm all around a step to the left of center personality wise, but I guess I'm normal enough that people aren't put off by me.​

 

[LoDoSilkies]

We are the weird neighbors here.

We have one car that gets driven for the weekly grocery trip, cat vet trips and maybe 2 or 3 times a year to go to work. Otherwise, it's always in it's spot. Otherwise, we both bike to work. We just walk with the dogs to the dog vet.

We have inside chickens.

 

[yinepu]

Quote:
"It's just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
Put your hands on your hips......."

sorry.. couldn't help myself.....
*wonders if anyone will get the reference*.....