Nutty Neighbors?

Esav,
Were your father and neighbor on speaking terms after that?
 
We have a neighbor down the road who was new to the area and never had a house with electric baseboard heating. Electric heat is about twice as much as oil heat in this area, and most homes that had electric heat have been upgraded with oil, propane and such.

Anyways, they cried the blues about its cost, and used an old inefficient woodstove to help keep the place from freezing up. He really was impressed with my forced air wood furnace and the high efficiency oil furnace in my house, as well as the propane furnace the other guy has next door.

I promised to help him out installing and setting up a new furnace for him, but after screwing me around and cheezing off everyone else in our neighborhood, he set out to do the installation himself.

He got scared off from installing the propane furnace, so what does this guy do? He goes out and buys an electric furnace! Hoping that this would be better than electric baseboards, he got really upset with his electric bills when they never went down one cent.

What a clueless dunce.
 
Bufford said:
Anyways, they cried the blues about its cost, and used an old inefficient woodstove to help keep the place from freezing up.
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Bufford said:
He really was impressed with my forced air wood furnace and the high efficiency oil furnace in my house
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You hit the trifecta of things these neighbors don't seem to grasp:confused:: combustibles.

How does one think the neighbor planned to dispose of the two 60-70 foot trees on their less than 6,000 sq. ft. city lot which abuts a thickly wooded hill? Trees that would need to be extracted with a crane? Fire!!!! Twelve hours at a time! What a good (inexpensive) idea! Can really get the job done by say 2010....(soft, green wood is nasty) until the fire company shut them down. :D They still weren't going to stop, hoping that they could make a deal with the neighbor who turned them in. Finally I explained the concept of fumes ( clearly they weren't slowed by safety concerns, fines, etc.) and once again wind and how some people may enjoy having their windows open in the summer. We even offered to split the cost of the tree removal or help carry the wood.............
Which grade did they skip?

Ps Thanks Esav for the quote:
"I'd like to help you out, neighbor.
Which way did you come in?":D
now I think I have something to use to cut her next fact finding mission short, and there will be one no doubt.
 
brewthunda said:
Neighbor: "NO! - LOOK HOW HEAVY THE BASE IS! And look at the FENCE! It's IMPOSSIBLE!!!"
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You should have picked apart her reasoning bit by bit. Rip her on every detail, starting with the fact that you can't tell how heavy something is by looking at it (see above quote).

She would absolutely hate you for it, but the fun involved might be worth it.
 
I used to have a large portable BBQ cart complete with a five gallon propane tank. I used to cover this BBQ I used to have with a large vinyl cover to protect it from the merciless Vegas sun. A gust of wind picked it up and threw it 20 feet towards the pool. Well the wind's aim was off so it hit the patio. Now I no longer have a portable BBQ. That thing had to weigh 50-100 pounds and had no wings,yet the wind threw it.

An umbrella flies easily, hasn't she seen Mary Poppins? You should send her a copy, or at least start calling her Mary Poppins. :)
 
annr, I think you should wait a week and then go back to your neighbor's house. Express your ongoing consternation that her umbrella is going to fly into your yard again and damage either your vehicles or a person.

Tell her that she needs to invest in a special "wind-resistant" umbrella and that you've located one online for only $839 (link). Tell her that you can handle the order for her if she'd like.

Also mention that you'd like her to pay for therapy for you and your family since "the incident" has caused so much upheaval and turmoil in your household. Tell her that you have lots of "evidence" to this end. Cite things like you spilled coffee on your shirt recently and your wife put on her lipstick a little crooked. Tell her that these things never happened before the umbrella catastrophe.
 
zenheretic said:
An umbrella flies easily, hasn't she seen Mary Poppins? You should send her a copy, or at least start calling her Mary Poppins. :)
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Funny you should say that because my first (knee jerk) reaction to her "it's impossible'" was "maybe it happened like Mary Poppins. You have seen that one haven't you?" Evidently she's the one in fantasy land.:)
 
Guyon said:
Tell her that she needs to invest in a special "wind-resistant" umbrella and that you've located one online for only $839 (link). Tell her that you can handle the order for her if she'd like.
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Wouldn't she just split a gut if she had to spend some money? and such a reasonable price for this kind of protection and peace of mind. Save her getting the detective, etc.

Guyon said:
Also mention that you'd like her to pay for therapy for you and your family since "the incident" has caused so much upheaval and turmoil in your household. Tell her that you have lots of "evidence" to this end. Cite things like you spilled coffee on your shirt recently and your wife put on her lipstick a little crooked. Tell her that these things never happened before the umbrella catastrophe.
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Thanks for connecting the dots. ;)Now that you mention it: I overcooked my pasta last night and the night before I didn't sleep too well, hmmmm,.................and the brake failure light came on twice AFTER the umbrella incident. :D.
 
My neighbors on one side consist of a chick in her early twenties, her three kids, and a constant stream of live-in boyfriends who rotate out every 4-6 weeks. They do a lot of screaming and arguing and rap musicing in an otherwise nice neighborhood.

Her parents still own the house and thought letting her live there for free would be a good way to straighten her out and get her established. They've apologized for their choice and promised that they'll evict her soon.

She works in some factory; her boyfriends typically don't, as they are busy sleeping in and walking around minus shirts.

They are quite broke, and even not paying rent they still can't manage to make ends meet.

One day while I was out working on my car her boyfriend (#7 or so, by my count) came over to chat me up. He was all excited because her $2,000 tax refund had recently come in. You would think that if you were broke and had a bunch of money dropped into your lap, you would go ahead and buy things like groceries and shoes for the kids. Perhaps pay the gas bill, or fix your broken muffler. You know, basic things that need to be done before you go spending money on luxury items.

These folks chose to spend their money thusly:
1) His and hers "Forever" tattoos (they broke up 2 weeks later)
2) Some sort of high end bow (as in bow and arrow)
3) The down payment on an ATV (later repo'd)
4) There was enough was left over for two cases of Busch.

Their kids still need shoes. The muffler on their van is still broken.

So overall, very irresponsible choices with money that could have been put to use on practical things. No wonder they're poor. I can't wait until they're gone and we get some nice old people or a young professional couple or something like that.
 
Years ago a friend of mine had a nosy old woman neighbor who complained about a small piece of split rail fence he put up in the corner of his property. She said it was too close to her garage so she called the city to come out and verify her charge. My friend came home just as the surveyor was finishing up and asked him how it went. The surveyor told my friend to stand on the mark on the front sidewalk and he would go stand at the other end of the property line. They could not see each other because her garage was in the way, as in 3 feet of it was built on my pals property. They could not stop laughing and she was beside herself thinking she would have to tear down her garage, but my bud never pressed the issue and she left him alone after that.
 
fishbulb said:
He was all excited because her $2,000 tax refund had recently come in.
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Ouch. I feel your pain. Fortunately my neighbors do have jobs......is it possible that it was an earned income tax credit? I'm guessing she doesn't do an itemized return:D; I'm sure there are ways, but for some reason I'm surprised she could get so much $$ back. Poor kids. Her parents are really doing them a favor, yikes!
Hope things improve:)
 
Strike while your neigbours are daft. Sell them solar powered heaters/sunbeds and anti wind fans. While you are about it single glazing is cheaper to replace (when kids and brollies are flying about) than double offer to do a swap out...............
 
These folks chose to spend their money thusly:
1) His and hers "Forever" tattoos (they broke up 2 weeks later)
2) Some sort of high end bow (as in bow and arrow)
3) The down payment on an ATV (later repo'd)
4) There was enough was left over for two cases of Busch.
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This shows that most people aren't poor because they don't have money. Most people are poor because they are stupid.
 
fishbulb said:
My neighbors on one side consist of a chick in her early twenties, her three kids, and a constant stream of live-in boyfriends who rotate out every 4-6 weeks. They do a lot of screaming and arguing and rap musicing in an otherwise nice neighborhood.

Her parents still own the house and thought letting her live there for free would be a good way to straighten her out and get her established. They've apologized for their choice and promised that they'll evict her soon.

She works in some factory; her boyfriends typically don't, as they are busy sleeping in and walking around minus shirts.

They are quite broke, and even not paying rent they still can't manage to make ends meet.

One day while I was out working on my car her boyfriend (#7 or so, by my count) came over to chat me up. He was all excited because her $2,000 tax refund had recently come in. You would think that if you were broke and had a bunch of money dropped into your lap, you would go ahead and buy things like groceries and shoes for the kids. Perhaps pay the gas bill, or fix your broken muffler. You know, basic things that need to be done before you go spending money on luxury items.

These folks chose to spend their money thusly:
1) His and hers "Forever" tattoos (they broke up 2 weeks later)
2) Some sort of high end bow (as in bow and arrow)
3) The down payment on an ATV (later repo'd)
4) There was enough was left over for two cases of Busch.

Their kids still need shoes. The muffler on their van is still broken.

So overall, very irresponsible choices with money that could have been put to use on practical things. No wonder they're poor. I can't wait until they're gone and we get some nice old people or a young professional couple or something like that.
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I just feel sorry for the children.
 
zenheretic said:
Oh the irony if you got someone much worse. :eek:
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Hooray, they're gone.

The new neighbors are a great improvement so far, as they both work and generally appear to be responsible and easygoing folks.

They also don't have a multitude of screaming children and strange "friends" hanging around all the time. And their truck has a muffler on it.

It's a shame the departing neighbors took it upon themselves to rob me on the way out of the neighborhood.
 
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