Why cant I have better neighbors ??

[cknmom]

Boy I don't get free intertainment sitting on my porch, boy are you lucky!!

Monica

 

[Bawkadoodledoo]

In the winter my neighbors scream like the willies while they ride down their ridiculously short icy driveway. Can hear it in the CHICKEN HOUSE

 

[AhBee01]

At least it was 10:00am we got a knock on our door at 1:00am this lady needed gas money to bail her kid out of jail! Yikes, she tried hit everyone up at some point or another!
I had someone ask for gas money cause he broke down, I felt bad but said I can't do this right now, my FIL just called and my mother in law was being rushed into surgery, which was true. He went to the neighbor and the neighbor drove him with a gas can full of gas back to his car he did run out of gas, but really if he hit everybody up what a scam! I felt bad because, "What is Jesus comes back like that" (Old country song) and I didn't help, but these days so many people are ripping you off that you are reluctant to help!
I would have did the same thing with the neighbor as you, unless I really knew her.
She would be back. It is sad, but my cousin is like that always making bad choices and then needing help, she would always ask for rides to work at one point I had to tell her to learn the bus system, she told me the bus scares her and she couldn't ever do it. Well get over it, do what you have to do, but I can't run my car to death to take everybody back and forth to work!
Yikes!
Brenda

 

[Lunachick]

Wow after reading all those posts on wacky neighbors, it makes you wonder about people in our society -how many wackos are out there? - as opposed to all of us "normal" people.

Julie, I loved your reference to the ATM written on your forehead !!

But, really, I agree with everyone else about not giving anything to her, you will help create a pest for a long time. And that you don't need.

 

[Crazy4Chicks]

I know the country song you are thinking about - very good song always makes me sad to think - " what if " but like you said it is so hard to know who to trust and who not to trust anymore.

scrambled - I know what I am going to do next time she comes -- I am going to send Clyde after her !!! ( love that rooster )

stevie - you can knock on my door asking for money anytime - just make sure I have not been to the coop yet to collect eggs

halo - that is a great idea - I love it LOL

I think I will hang a sign on my door " this is not a bank "

Julie

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

LOL. Nah I am not that mean. I hope things work out. if it dont you can always build a moat around your house and fill it with gators

edited for typos

 

[Rte.66_chicks]

It's too bad that the ones like you are all talking about are the ones who reproduce the most. Seems they think that being stupid is as much a right as is having everyone else support them. They have no concept of accountability. Very scary.

"Beware the power of stupid people in large groups"

 

[Scrambled Egg]

scrambled - I know what I am going to do next time she comes -- I am going to send Clyde after her !!! ( love that rooster )

I'll have to come after them if they hurt my favorite rooster!!!

 

[quadcam79]

you should write a book....that would be some entertaining reading material

 

[Cara]

When I lived in KS my roommate and I had the upstairs neighbour from hell in our duplex. The first night while we moved in she had him doing a million and one different favours for her, like changing lightbulbs, getting stuff down from the attic etc. She'd leave her dog on a 30ft tie out in the shared backyard for hours on end, right in the middle in front of our door, making it difficult for me to take mine out on a leash and not get leapt upon. He would bark and bark at us through the window in our own place. I put our dogs' stakes way at the back of the yard, because if I put them nearby she'd promptly put her dog out too and we'd end up with a huge tangle. Then she was aggravated because we used a chain instead of a covered cable for the dogs, and I would let the dog outside only to find the chain in a heap on the path and not attached to the stake. It was easier for me to take my dogs to a patch of grass across the street, so I took to doing that, and came home one day to find a miniature picket fence erected in the yard with signs declaring a 'No poop zone'. The weird thing was that it surrounded the area that her dog had access to. If I put a bowl of water out for the dogs, i'd find it emptied and sat out of their reach where she had tipped it out because 'it might kill the grass underneath.' Sorry lady, but my dogs' thirst comes before protecting 5" of grass. Her grandson liked to play with my dogs, which was fine, but he would knock on the door four or five times a day wanting to come in and see them. We'd have to hide and pretend we were out LOL

Since she was upstairs, her tornado shelter was our apartment and she was allowed access in an emergency. She even had a key to our place. She would show up nightly during tornado season unannounced, when there was just an advisory, complete with her unleashed dog, cat, and grandson and right in the middle of our supper time. She'd leave notes on my roommate's vehicle complaining that he had parked too close to the garage door and she had to walk around the car to get to hers instead of between the hood and the door.

We finally had enough of her grump, and called our landlord. He said that she had been the same way with the last tenants, complaining to him about what time they got home at night and other petty things. He believed she was doing it because there had not been downstairs tenants for a while, and she liked having the place to herself. He called her to tell her to straighten up, and it went from bad to worse. We'd get home to piles of dog poop on our steps and patio, and she would be as noisy as she could when she was home. We ended up calling the police on her because we were concerned that the loopy woman had keys to our place and might poison the dogs or damage our property. She would act like she wasn't home when they called on her, then crash around incessantly as soon as they were gone. It got so silly that we would call them out two or three times a night just to get some peace. Finally she decided to move, and we had a party the day she left...after she'd moved the van blocking our driveway LOL