Neighbors and Neighborhoods

So as we've learned I have a felon on one side of me and the person my best friend got fired for sexual harrasment on the other (though it wasn't just her there were 10 other complaints against him).

The guy that lives behind me is a cop. Which is ironic and funny. You see I've lived in the same house from when I was born until I was 18. Since then I've lived in 3 different houses and all of those has always been right next door to a cop. Not that I much care being as though I was going to be a cop at one point in time but instead decided to go down the avenue labelled "more money, doesn't require getting shot at just shit on with every joke in the book". Anyways, I'm a bit off track here. I don't particularly like any of my neighbors really. The cop is okay, but doesn't like it when dogs bark. Okay well I have a mini dachs that is the definition of a small ankle biting yappy dog, but only if men or other dogs are around. The cop has a dog as well. A pointer. A very very very energetic pointer that enjoys running up and down the back fence line trying to get the dachs to play which means the dachs barks. Now really...is that my fault. I was scared of the cop before I moved in because the jerk neighbor had told me that the cop called the cops (he's not a cop for the town we live in) on his dogs because they were barking. I don't just let my dogs bark at all hours, I'm not a mean person and I can't stand hearing Basco bark anyhow. They obviously aren't out between 10p and 8a unless it's a weekend because I'm at work so I wasn't that worried, but he has a thing for not liking dogs that bark and it bugs me. His dogs barks sometimes too. They are dogs, they bark sometimes. I think it's a cop thing because everywhere I've lived the cop neighbor always hated if the dogs made any noise at all. What is it with cops? (I mean I love that they serve and protect, but geesh) They all also seem to enjoy putting weedNfeed on their lawn to make it look perfect.

The felon. As far as I know this is his story (granted it came from his mouth mostly I just pieced together the parts he neglected to tell me when I looked him up online). He is around 30ish now (32 I think but not sure). When he was 18 he got into a gang/bar brawl with his 'buds' and after the cop shows up and gives him an assualt ticket he steals the cop car and blah blah blah. So he spent a little time in jail/prison (not sure which) but came out with a felony conviction. Of course he also tells me how in the summer he has big parties and his buddies come over and they all sit outside and smoke pot. I'm 25 and I have never smoked pot. Odd I know. I just hate smoke in general therefore can't convince myself to try it (and I would get caught because I am that fucking unlucky). At any rate, I am not thrilled about this party idea because I work every other Sat. night and prefer there isn't a bunch of pot smoking people next door that might feel the need to do something felon-like and break into my house in the middle of the night. Especially since this said neighbor knows I have an xbox 360, 2-56 screen tvs in my living room, 2 surround sounds, a Nintendo wii, and 3 computers. I like my stuff and you don't want to know how'd I'd react if any of my possession were missing when I got home. And you really don't want to know how I would react if my dogs were missing when I got home. (Granted nobody would be able to steal Basco because he has a knack for biting anybody who tries to touch him without my permission).

And Mr. Sexist. At work he was always bashing his wife and obviously making sexual comments to other people, but his wife is SO nice. I'm not sure he really knows my best friend had a hand in his departure at his last job, but she did. She wrote up a 5 page thing about him. Of course there were the 3 older women he said, "I like older women because they are more experience" to that wrote up stuff. Oh and shall I mention the 2 gay men he told they were going to hell because they are gay. At any rate, the man has issues, but he's always been pretty nice to me. I gave him a program for their computer to copy dvds, and he invited me to swim in his pool any time I want. Yeah right! Like I'm going to do that. Well I might if it was the middle of the day and he was working and it was just his wife. She babysits during the day though and I'm not a huge fan of children so that won't happen. His wife and kids come between our fences to see the dogs though. She's nice. I dont' know why she married him. Anyways....

My across the street neighbors on the right are parents of a person I worked with at GM. Nice lady I worked with, but I don't think the parents probably care for me too much at all. The first couple of months I was there my brother backed out of my driveway and he backed out of his and they hit each other. Nice job guys! Then about 2 months ago (when my lazy best friend was living with me) she lets the dogs out at like 7a and they were barking and barking and finally at 7:30a the husband came over and knocked at the door and told her to shut them up or he'll call the cops. I don't blame him one bit but my best friend and I look sort of alike except shes skinny and I'm not so I don't know if he knew the difference. And shes a bitch in the morning so I can imagine how well that went.

Then I always have to use air conditioning instead of leaving my windows open because my across the street neighbor to the left has people coming and going at ALL hours. And I have a yappy dachs that barks at every car door that shuts. Gotta love those yappy dogs. He's a decently nice guy and I invited him over for a hockey game, but he didn't bite. He's a smoker along with all of his friends though so I am thinking he didn't want to go somewhere where he had to go outside to smoke.


This was a pointless post really. My point was that I hate neighbors and neighborhoods and I want to move back into the country.