Great. Just freakin' great
Jul. 4th, 2005 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsSo, now Kouryou-chan's afraid to leave the house because she thinks the neighbors are going to yell at her.
Our property sits on a hill, and the new neighbors are slightly down the grade from us. Whenever it rains, the water runs down the road and, if it rains hard enough, overslops the ridge on the edge of their property, dumping pine needles down their driveway. This is simply a fact of nature.
This afternoon, Kouryou-chan and one of the other kids were playing in a stream of water that was running down the road from the neighbors slightly up the grade from us, and the Woman Of The House (tm) comes running out and yells at them. Not asks them to stop, yells at them. That's her first instinct. Then, she turns to me and says, "Don't be making a mess of my yard."
"Excuse me?"
"Don't get fucking rude with me!" she shouts.
"I haven't said a word yet."
"Just don't get rude with me, okay?" And then she stalks off. I was completely baffled. Omaha went and had words with her, since she handles confrontation better than I do, and her response when she came back was, "We're moving. I'm not living next to people who expect the worst of their neighbors." Apparently, it's our fault that nature dumps pine needles on her driveway, and not the fact that they chose a nice house with a pine-lined easeway.
I can't help but wonder how long they'll be able to live in that house with all that rental gear. Hopefully, not long. I don't want my child to be a prisoner in her own home because our neighbors are psycho.
Our property sits on a hill, and the new neighbors are slightly down the grade from us. Whenever it rains, the water runs down the road and, if it rains hard enough, overslops the ridge on the edge of their property, dumping pine needles down their driveway. This is simply a fact of nature.
This afternoon, Kouryou-chan and one of the other kids were playing in a stream of water that was running down the road from the neighbors slightly up the grade from us, and the Woman Of The House (tm) comes running out and yells at them. Not asks them to stop, yells at them. That's her first instinct. Then, she turns to me and says, "Don't be making a mess of my yard."
"Excuse me?"
"Don't get fucking rude with me!" she shouts.
"I haven't said a word yet."
"Just don't get rude with me, okay?" And then she stalks off. I was completely baffled. Omaha went and had words with her, since she handles confrontation better than I do, and her response when she came back was, "We're moving. I'm not living next to people who expect the worst of their neighbors." Apparently, it's our fault that nature dumps pine needles on her driveway, and not the fact that they chose a nice house with a pine-lined easeway.
I can't help but wonder how long they'll be able to live in that house with all that rental gear. Hopefully, not long. I don't want my child to be a prisoner in her own home because our neighbors are psycho.
