Quote From: ceildh1I lived in a subdivision ONCE and ONLY ONCE, and I have concluded that neighbours are generally too much trouble.
We've lived next door to something that can only be described as a scene from "Animal House " the mounties were there every weekend. Since we were renting, we did not have a dog at the time, but we still had to pick up doggie doo because the neighbours dogs weren't very good at knowing where the property lines were, and the party house next door had two babies in it, and their mother didn't think diapers should be kept tied up (no kidding, both my kids were trained at the time and I was still picking up diirty diapers ) was social services called , yup and what a joke, "she's only nineteen, and the babies are only eleven months apart ", give me a break, stressful, sure, but if your old enough to make them, then you'd better grow up and raise them. Off the soapbox now.
Then there was the woman up the street who would sit in her window and give the neighborhood kids the finger, a grown woman ! Anyway, she did this to a group of twelve to fourteen year old boys, okay what do you think she got right back ? She called the police on these boys, her and her husband would have knock down drag out fights in their backyards, that is when she wasn't harassing the other women on the street when she couldn't find him, if their husbands worked nights, or if the woman was single, she would force her way into the house insisting her husband was there ( trust me when I say we women weren't lining up for him ).
Then there was the other one who insisted his boxer/pitbull mix didn't need to be kept behind his fence, I have nothing against any breed of dog, I 'll make that clear, but this dog was a nasty piece of work, we became public enemy number one the night it almost attacked my son for having the NERVE to go out to the van to get something, my husband was going to kill it himself.
Now my nearest neighbours are an elderly couple, we can see the house, but there is quite a bit of space there. It is so quiet, I revel in it. I've come off as being a snob, but there's not enough time or space here to tell everything, suffice to say I like keeping to myself.
This story is DEFINITELY "Bush League" compared to what happened on the show, but it's worth sharing.
Our next-door neighbors are 4 male college students (Mommy & Daddy apparently bought the place for Junior to live in while he attends school & he shares w/3 buddies). Although we haven't always liked the parties that could get a tad loud (I can't count the party they threw that was REALLY loud enough for our other neighbors to call the cops, as it occurred while we were on vacation), or the fact that they only cut their grass about 4 times a year, or the backyard skate ramp (that they worked and played on at ALL HOURS), things were more-or-less amicable -- until recently. The darlings threw a shindig on a Friday night, as was obvious on the Saturday morning when the beer bottles were in the gutters and the cars were still parked all up & down the street, including trash in our gutter and a car blocking our driveway. Hubs tried several times to get them to move it (knocking at 9 and 11 AM, no answer, talking at 11:30 to one of the GFs, who said it would be taken care of and no action, knocking AGAIN at 12:30, talking to the "man" of the house, STILL no movement), but by 12:45 PM, we had had ENOUGH. It took a call to the cops to get the issue resolved, unfortunately.
Needless to say, if our driveway is blocked again "the morning after," we're going straight to calling the cops, since that's what it seems to take to get them to act.
BTW, in some neighborhoods in college towns, it's "Animal House" upon "Animal House", relieved only by the relatively few single-family homeowners who have decided to tough it out. So, we're pretty lucky in this subdivision.
(Original Air Date: 09/19/07) Are you the kind of neighbor who loans a cup of sugar and always waves hello, or do you keep to yourself and call the cops the minute you hear loud music? Dr. Phil talks to guests who say they definitely don’t live in Mr. Roger’s neighborhood! Kerry says her next-door neighbor, Kevin, has been stalking and threatening her for four years. She says he vandalized her home and even tried to run her over, all because she refused to go on a date with him. Kevin denies Kerry’s allegations and says she threw eggs and dog feces at his house, shot a BB gun through his bathroom window and called his job making death threats. You won’t believe what he caught on videotape! And, Kerry’s other neighbors say she’s been terrorizing them for over 12 years. Fearing retaliation, they join Dr. Phil via satellite. Then, Misty says her neighbors, Donna and Larry, have a faulty, smelly septic tank that floods her property. Donna and Larry say the problem is not the water from their tank, but Misty’s uneven driveway. Who’s responsible for the dirty water in Misty’s driveway, and will their relationship stay afloat? Tell us what you think!
