Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Four

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Robert Cromwell

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Neighbors? Why I like living out in the sticks. I can shoot a gun in my back yard and no one calls the cops or even gets excited about it.
I have good neighbors we say hi and chat a while sometimes and always help if help is needed but otherwise stay out of each others business.
 

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The police are aware of your problem and maybe having the officer stop by will help. Meanwhile the best you can do is pretend he doesn't exist. How are you at building a privacy wall?
I built a mental privacy wall, but it wasn't working. That is why I needed police intervention. Now he is pretending I don't exist, so it is mutual. I was out front reading this afternoon, and I heard a loud cough over his way. Probably intentional. The neighbor I get along with best told me I should have done it a long time ago, and if he harasses me again, I should call again. Probably.
 

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That's pretty true. I'll find someplace to temporarily store it probably in the back corner of the spare bedroom. I promised Willie a place to stay should he desire to come spend some time with us in South Florida so I hope he doesn't mind sharing a room with a table saw in the back corner. :)
I've stored a torn down Chopper, & portions of a Trans Am in my living room before. Both in one year. Ugh.
 

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Oh, I LOVE my job, and I do like the people I work with. I seem to be the humor target around here, which is fine with me. I'm a big girl. I can take it.



I'm SO glad you're back, Gracie!! Now, just rest up a little.

I had almost all the songs quoted to point out which ones were Zydeco,and which ones were Cajun French. The quotes came up without the video, SO, so much for that thought. Still, I enjoyed them all.

I'm dying of boredom over here.

Good to see you back, Willie!!
That means they like you, Roto! That's usually why I pick on people. Usually.
 

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I built a mental privacy wall, but it wasn't working. That is why I needed police intervention. Now he is pretending I don't exist, so it is mutual. I was out front reading this afternoon, and I heard a loud cough over his way. Probably intentional. The neighbor I get along with best told me I should have done it a long time ago, and if he harasses me again, I should call again. Probably.

You know, I had that happen to me once some years ago. Every time I would go in my front yard, my next door neighbor would start verbally harassing me. She didn't like all the cars parked in my front yard. That's back when I rented rooms and had roommates. One day, I came all out of myself and lashed back with the verbal tirade from hell, and she called the cops on me. :-x Cops came out, talked to me and then talked to her. They came back to me and told me to ignore her. Well, hells bells, that's what I had been doing!! They told me if they had to come back out for either one of us, both of us were going to jail. BWAHAhahahahahaha........She stopped talking to me after that. The peace was enormous.

That means they like you, Roto! That's usually why I pick on people. Usually.

Yeah, I can honestly say I get along with everybody out here quite well. I think they would be bored without me to pick on.
 

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I've stored a torn down Chopper, & portions of a Trans Am in my living room before.

Sounds like a lil' corner o' heaven to moi!

" Luv da smell of gear lube in morn..."
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Where I grew up in rural KY among the guys insulting another guy tastefully was pretty much a sign of endearment ;)

And you can still pretty much say anything about someone and as long as you tack "Bless their heart" on it you are fine :D

bless your heart :)
 

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Gear lube stinks bad. Motor oil is not so bad of a smell though.

Did ya note "Chopper & portions of a Trans Am"? Living room... ya betcha!

Besides, I think I've vaped both... Keep da honey and caramel outta my joose!
 

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I believe this came from the "Steel Magnolias" soundtrack .. correct me if I'm wrong ..
well, since you asked, I had to look it up as I didn't recall it from steel magnolias. Google says it was honeysuckle rose.

I contemplated getting some Mace. Instead, I talked to a police officer. We discussed the options, and I decided to let him talk to the guy, with the purpose of de-escalation. Three days, and no problems
Sorry you're having to deal with that, but yeah sometimes that's what it takes. Hopefully that'll keep him away from you and no retaliation. It's one thing to have disagreements, but I've never understood what makes folks want to just harass people.
 

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Oh man, I'm so sorry you're having problems with your neighbor. That's the pits. One of the reasons I've always dreaded moving was worrying about crappy neighbors. Can't get away from them. We're all just doing the best we can on this journey, why can't they at least be respectful.

I grew up in a quiet country neighborhood. People kept to themselves, but if anybody needed help we'd all show up to help - until that one family moved in. We went out of our way to help the one son play ball with the rest of the kids because he had a deformed hand. The mother was in the hospital with a heart condition so I went in and cleaned their house for her homecoming. As the kids got older stuff started happening, like setting their car on fire one night, breaking into houses, throwing stones at me when I left the house. WTH? Police were called on them regularly until finally they left in the middle of the night. Turns out they moved here because their neighborhood in Phila kicked them out. We never gave them any reason to be nasty to us and there was no way we could ignore them given where their house sat. I learned years later that the boys were in prison for murder. I had another friend who actually moved from a lovely home because of a nasty neighbor. I just don't get it.

The police are aware of your problem and maybe having the officer stop by will help. Meanwhile the best you can do is pretend he doesn't exist. How are you at building a privacy wall?
Growing up the lady next door was let's just say "out there." she would scream at us for no reason and squirt us with the garden hose and such. We hated her as kids. She moved out when II was about 7 or so and I never figured out why she hated us so much until I was an adult and was talking to my father one evening.She had had three stillborn children and then her husband got TB. Back when he got it all they could do is isolate them and wait for them to die I guess. Her husband was moved into the garage apartment behind the house and she would take his meals out to him and leave them outside the door. After he died my father told me she just slowly slipped off the deep end. Seems like she hated children and became so mean that she had no friends. I felt sorry for her then. I bring this up just to say that you never really know what's going on with people. After that I always believed that there was always a back story or cause until recently when I finally came to the conclusion that some folks are just plain bad. I am glad that I have been extremely lucky with the neighbors I have had in all the places we have lived. Hopefully that will remain the case after we move. I have met the neighbors on the right and they are great folks, the neighbors on the left are OK, a little noisy but, they're moving out and selling the place. Hopefully the new folks will be quieter. If I can get down there before they move out and start showing the place maybe I can have a little influence on who moves in. You know, let the dog out so she barks the whole time they're showing the house, etc. if I don't like the looks of the folks. (I would never really do that :rolleyes:;))
 

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Sounds like a lil' corner o' heaven to moi!

" Luv da smell of gear lube in morn..."
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When we were coming back up to Virginia this time the car spit a few drops of gas on my tennis shoe. Stank horribly all the way here. At least I thought it did. Doree didn't even notice it.:rolleyes: Some smells just bother some folks worse than others II guess. :)
 
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