It's King Of The Hill time!

[elfs]

So, Omaha's off doing her political thing and Kouryou-chan wants hot dogs, so after an hour of weeding and mowing the front lawn I get to sit on my (admittedly somewhat tatty) deck and sip a tall glass of half 7-Up, half Hogue Late Harvest Reisling over ice and watch as the grill heats up, my laptop in lap and wireless to the downstairs feeding me a really bad Pokemon clone with a really cute catboy in it.

This is life. Kouryou-chan's out front, playing with the neighbor kids. The neighbor to the west, that is, the ones we've known for many years.

While I was weeding, I was distressed to note that the neighbors to the east, as if trying to cement their stereotype, had a pair of dead refrigerators on their lawn on the lee side of the house where it is mostly quiet and shady. Their children are in the yard but seem to be avoiding the kids from the neighbors to the west. I'm not sure what to make of that.

On the other hand I was heartened, if briefly, by the noise coming from the yard: a weed-whacker. I stopped and looked up the man doing the lawncare.

"Hi!" I said. "Same thing I'm doing, huh?"

"Yeah. Gotta do it." He wore a beer-related t-shirt. Scrawny guy with a mustache that is usually described as, well, pardon the expression, "a shitty little mustache."

I nodded. "You the new neighbor?" I pointed at the house.

"Nah. My wife, her and her boyfriend. And my kids. I just came over to see 'em and offered to do her lawn for her. Y'know, just to make a couple of bucks for gas."

Damn. Damn, damn, damn. I really should lower my expectations.

Comments

[elgatocurioso.livejournal.com]

If the refrigerators are still there in a week, call their landlord... or the next thing you know they'll have an old mustang or t-bird up on blocks that they're supposedly "gonna git runnin' again sumday".

[casualprofessor.livejournal.com]

Are the doors off the refrigerators?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

No. Nor, apparently, are they chained shut. I hear an asphyxiation hazard, ne?

[casualprofessor.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... yes indeedy.

You have an option that doesn't involve getting involved with the neighbors, or the police. Call the landlord: once notified, he has the responsibility.

It's here: http://www.leg.wa.gov/RCW/index.cfm?section=9.03.020&fuseaction=section

Things could be worse

[(Anonymous)]

Things could be worse, you could have this (http://www.joespc.com/carlos/redneck.htm) neighbor.

Re: Things could be worse

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Oh, my dog. That's horrible. "I could feel property values falling faster than his mailbox post." Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

Re: Things could be worse

[tagryn]

Just FYI, there's a couple more entries beyond what's archived on that page at: http://web.archive.org/web/20040727020207/http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm