So, I moved into your neighbourhood 5 years ago, and since then you seem to get a lot of amusement out of watching my comings and goings. Do you think I don’t notice your pathetic attempts at engaging me by coming out of your house every morning at 8:45 am just as I am preparing to leave for work? Have you noticed that I do not speak to you any more? I avoid all eye contact, because frankly, you are totally creepy. You and your old buddies get an obvious kick out of watching me and my yard, pretty single mother of 2, what a chuckle. Yes, my lawn may grow a little longer than yours, but I have 2 kids to raise and an important job to work at and serve my community, and I have far more important things on my mind than how long my grass is. If I was a bored, old, retired, unsatisfied, sexually repressed grumpy man, then I might have more time to anally obsess about and dote on my yard. But, alas, I have a life, which you seem to want to absorb and make a piece of your own so you can have a laugh with the old boys. You are gross, and I will never engage with you ever, so backing up your car a few inches each morning and gazing at me with your beseeching eyes simply makes me want to run the other way. How about trying to be a gentleman, have some couth and decorum. You are an embarrassment to MY neighbourhood. —Your Neighbour, Not Your Friend
This article appears in Jun 9-15, 2011.
Stop being a big tease and put out for him already… jeesh…
Hey Survivor! Should’ve made friends with him — bet HIS water never gets shut off!
I don’t care that you’re a woman or a mother. I automatically delete those things from bitches in my head and then they don’t really seem like a big deal. BUT DAZ JUS ME.
pretty single mother of 2 – translation – bitter leftover dumped by ex hubby who moved onto pastures new. Full of ourselves aren’t we?
Perhaps the old guy is a bit shy and maybe if you treat him with respect perhaps he might offer to cut your grass and keep up the property values in the hood.
You seem more pre-occupied than he is.
I would have to say yes it is annoying to have someone else stick their nose into your business it is ALSO annoying to have a neighbour that doesn’t take care of their yard. Weather is be cutting your grass or getting it treated for sinch bug etc…
Neighbours.
Can’t live with ’em.
Can’t kill ’em and eat ’em.
I once had a neighbour who seemed to know everything about me and my young wife.
He once asked me if I was “working on a novel or something” since he noticed I had been up at 3 am typing on an old typewriter in a back bedroom earlier that same day. He would have had to have been standing on a ladder outside my window to know that.
Ummmm, tell him he’s creepy. Once confronted, these people usually stop.
Ask him to mow your lawn….in more ways than one. He might be creepy, but you sound crabby. Sounds like a match made in heaven.
op, get back to me on here ok i’ll help you out with your yard work any day for you, just a jug of water as payment, so sorry to hear that’s all he has in life is to oogle over a pretty mom, sad indeed mate