To My Neighbor:
Last weekend we honestly did not know the brick workers were going to be arriving at our home to finish a job. They were in the area and dropped by to do finish the brick re-pointing they had started earlier. We were not home so we could not possibly forewarn you or we would have.
Grinding out bricks creates dust and that is uncontrollable. What was controllable was your temper. There was no need to stand on your deck and scream down at me like a bloody madman in front of my 6 year old daughter and the workers – all because some dust blew over to your side and landed on some plants and your deck.
We could (sort of) understand your inconvenience so my wife decided to do the neighborly thing and come over to apologize. I could hear you and your wife screaming like raving psychos at my wife who was sincerely apologetic. I had all I could do to not come around the corner and shut you down. How’s the blood pressure??? My wife said your fists were clenched and you were pacing around in a defensive manner, veins bulging. Sorry, how old are you? I hope you feel ashamed (though I know you don’t) because all the neighbors could hear you raving.
What a man you are… pretty much threatening my wife who wouldn’t say ‘boo’ to anyone. The best part? …”MY CAT GOT DUST ON IT”. See, this is why the world is screwed up. People like you. Selfish, ignorant people who only think of themselves and not others. The oceans are full of pollution, people have life threatening diseases, people are starving and living on the street and you go beyond crazy because some dust landed on your property.
Someday you will need to do renovation work. But guess what? We’re understandable and reasonable people. We realize that in the city it is tight quarters and you have to be accommodating. You might want to think about wrapping your house and property in bubble wrap in the meantime… Wait, you already live in a bubble.
Oh, and all the people who walk by and tell us how nice we’ve made that dump of a house look… makes it all worth the whining we have to listen to from you as this was not the first. —Reno Dude
This article appears in Jun 17-23, 2010.
omfg Dude did not say “my cat got dust on it” no way that statement should NEVER uttered by a human being let alone a grown man; Please post his address I swear to god I will fly to Halifax and make his life a living hell 🙂
me again; you made the cat part up i mean come nobodies that fucked up are they 🙂 perhaps you should go to Pets are us and get them a kitty duster that might cheer them up some 🙂
Ok, so OP sent his wife to the monster neighbours…while hearing their raving, he stayed back and didn’t go over to defend his wife? If I was getting yelled at by a neighbour and my husband didn’t come to rescue me, I’d be popping my veins on HIM.
I don’t think the wife actually went to the house. It sounds to me like she was on her own back deck and neighbour dude lost his mind.
I had a crazy neighbor in Halifax once.
To really fuck with his mind I went & cut all the branches from some of his beloved trees that over hung my yard…. I used scaffold to get up over 25 ft. I cut those suckers down in a straight line above the fence. To say he was mad is a masssive understatement, he went into an apoplectic fit, it was grand to watch.
When he found out the police wouldn’t/couldn’t do anything to me his tirade made me wish I’d owned a camera…………….ah, good times ~:)
fences make good neighbours
So do shotguns. I’m a cat owner. She licks her own bum (no doubt because she can) I think she would survive a bit of brick dust.
Fuck fluoride; time to start putting anti-psychotics in the water supply.
some neighbours you would just like to kill. others, you would like someone else to. in this case, you should have just told him to go pound sand up his ass, and let it go at that.
Although I think your neighbour went over the top and I understand that you didn’t have the chance to warn them about the dust, having brick dust get all over your shit still sucks.
It was a hot weekend and your neighbours likely had their windows open, so the red dust probably made it’s way inside their home. This happened to me one summer I was living in a shitty apartment with no AC in Ottawa… all of my furniture, carpets, clothing were coated in fine red brick dust and had to be vacuumed and laundered repeatedly until things felt clean again. It sucked.
Sounds like your neighbour is a psycho dick head
Hi,
The neighbor really did say “MY CAT GOT DUST ON IT”.
The reason my wife went over is because she is very mild mannered, polite, diplomatic and well spoken. I am not. I would have lost my temper. I think it was the best option and it was my wife’s idea. I didn’t feel like listening to more raving.
Jennifer, I know it sucked that dust got on their stuff. That is why we went over and tried to make ammends. The way they handled it was uncalled for. We felt badly and tried to make things right. In return we were scolded and screamed at by a pair of hot heads.
Reno Dude
CP, yes, I acknowledged that they over-reacted and I respect that you guys tried to apologize.
Reno; I know what my immediate reaction would be if some dolt pitched a hissy fit at my wife. I also know what the consequences would be if I followed through. IMO you made the right call in not escalating the conflict; you kept an semi-amusing, albeit infuriating, incident from becoming a matter for law enforcement.
The migraine and/or ulcer caused by being mature are probably preferable to a night at the Crossbar Inn with bruised knuckles and a 300 lb , shaven-headed bunkmate named Rahim.
There was absolutely NO excuse for his actions. What a childish moron – man, it makes me glad to live in Hillbilly Hollow where all problems can be sorted out with a half bottle of Jack’s and a jar of scallops.
Karma is a bitch…. Yesterday the homeowners directly behind the hotheads began working on a paverstone patio and retaining wall. There was literally a huge cloud of dust engulfing the hotheads yard from the mason saws the men were using. I’m not making that up! I mean what are the odds that would happen just 2 days affter our dust up??!!
Admiral Ivan, I didn’t want to say it but what the hell..I really wanted to go over and punch his lights out because of the way they spoke to my wife. She is shy and yet rose above to go over and apologize. It was all I could do to restrain myself.
We had a few beers that night and chuckled over the CAT GOT DUST ON IT remark and then we made up all sorts of other crazy scenarios and tried to laugh it off. At least we took the high road and didn’t resort to frothing at the mouth and arguing.We accepted responsibility and did the right thing.
Incidentally, we live in a neighborhood of fairly high end and expensive homes.(Thouogh our place was a dump/squat for university kids basically…un-livable) This is the 4th home we’ve renovated and I have come to realize that the higher income peolpe have the less common sense they have and the more jerkish they are.
I hear you Reno. Been there, done it, bought the t-shirt and used it to clean the toilet.
Glad to hear about the other neighbor’s patio. Have a beer for me when the dust clears. >: )
Just one suggestion, ixnay on the armaky, lest you want to be treated to the (not-terribly)condensed version of “Eastern Philosophy For Dummies”
you show much restraint cp, i would have sent the bear over because he is calm and polite…i would have gone over gored him with my horns and left him to bleed
Or pecked his eyes out with your razor sharp beak.
Rawk
haha…soon my pretty corbies will be trained. as it stands now they have me trained^^
Send her on down to the refinery to yell at the smoke stacks, then maybe over to Tuft’s Cove power generating station. Dust dust…..DUST!!!!!!!!!!!! lol.
I guess borrowing their lawnmower is no longer an option.
they could probably still borrow it…. as long as it comes back dust free. zing!
i was thinking of the lawnmower scene from dead alive, thanks mr. jackson…you freak
can’t be as bad as ‘meet the feebles’
muppet walrus’s banging a hippo…
that’s just a little too far…. even for my sensitive eyes.
A buddy of mine has a neighbour as unreasonable as the OP has described – so now whenever she sees him shirtless on his deck, yells: ‘NICE TITS!’ He never fails to scuttle off inside.
The uncut version of the love scene from the “Team America” DVD – Those boys took it just a bit too far.
i forgot about that one zZz…it is up there with the sex scene from team america
You’re scaring me Painey RAWK!
aha, some minds do think alike colonel…rawk. notice i didn’t say great minds, strange perhaps
yeah, they’re on par.
anyone see Kermit’s “I hurt myself” any time recently?
youtube is your friend..
Thank you once again TTFN for providing much mirth to my day. One to add to my collection of pensive mood busters. Rare bad moods are instantly erased with thoughts of The Puppet Bitch, among others, and now ‘Nice Tits’! Yehaw!!!
When my parents did renovation on outside walls and roof, the workers covered up the property with plastic sheets so the dust/paint wouldn’t fly over to the neighbours. Workers around here don’t bother doing that and let dust fly everywhere?
Merry Christo