Retarded Neighbors

[Private Pickle]

Could have been a good thread. Why do some folks feel as though they have to inject politics into everything?

That’s how they identify. There’s really not much more to them.

[donttread]

Well, many people have them.

Are mine more retarded than yours?

A couple from Santa Monica bought the house next door, paid too much for it, which was fine by me.

A month later, the male (he's fifty, bald, and hasn't earned the honor of being called a "man") was outside between our houses with a Saws-all, hacking apart Ikea furniture boxes. At 11:30 on a Tuesday night, a school night.

My daughter asked what was going on, so I went and asked.

He was cutting up cardboard boxes with a saws-all.

Okay.

I talked with him for a bit, said, yeah, that's okay, but it's a bit late, maybe find a better time to do this a bit earlier. And those Ikea boxes can be a pain.

"Ikea? Who said they were Ikea?"

Oh. He's embarassed about paying too much for the house and then having to buy put-it-together-furniture.

Okay.

"It's writtne right there on the boxes, you know."

Next week, he's leaving a line of cardboard boxes, just on his side of the property line, intended to stop what had been a communal sharing of the driveway to bring the trash bins to the street.

He's a dildo.

He's threatened now to build a fence on the property line.

Which would cost him money.

And he knows I would paint what I wanted on my side of it...

Which would cost him money after he paid too much for the house in the first place...

So now he's left, for months, large cardboard boxes from "Bob's Discount Furniture" laying on his property line....which we ignore.

And today, a Saturday morning, my wife hosed out the back patio and the water, as always, flows between the houses (because the houses were built as part of a development) and channel over to run down his driveway.

It's WATER.

He called the cops, who almost certainly wanted to hang up on his whiny ass, but told him that since it's water, it a Fire Department problem. Inter-departmental passing the buck at it's finest.

So when I get home from dropping my daughter off at robotis, I'm greeted with a video my wife made of her adventure with the men driving the big fire truck in front of our house...

...the fireman said she could wash her patio all she wants, there's no law against it. He also said if the water is flowing over into that other driveway, there's a grading problem that the property owner of the driveway will have to deal with...

...oh, and maybe I'm not supposed to backflush my pool filter as it's presently plumbed to do...they may have changed the code in the last forty years...but I figure I have several years of complaints before I'd have to do something about any citations I might get, or I just shovel the stuff into a barrel and let it air-dry in-between our houses....

I know what I'm really going to do to torque these morons, though...Trump 2020 signs...

What stories y'all got about stupid liberals from some People's Republic?

Are you sure there isn't more to his side of the story?

[Adelaide]

I'm Canadian.

We know a thing or two about obnoxious neighbours.

[MisterVeritis]

I'm Canadian.

We know a thing or two about obnoxious neighbours.

I am an American. We know too. We have them to our North and South.

[Adelaide]

I am an American. We know too. We have them to our North and South.

Case in point.

It was a joke.

[Private Pickle]

I'm Canadian.

We know a thing or two about obnoxious neighbours.

Oh please. You can’t say that without the acknowledgment that 40% of our oil comes from you. Acknowledge that and that your economy is based on it. You have free medical treatment because you’re able to sell that oil to us which makes up the basis of your economy. It gives you the ability to provide free medical service. Even though that medical service is suspect and has problems. I guess what I’m saying is that you’re medical service depends on US money. To deny that is to say you could do without our money.

[Dr. Who]

Oh please. You can’t say that without the acknowledgment that 40% of our oil comes from you. Acknowledge that and that your economy is based on it. You have free medical treatment because you’re able to sell that oil to us which makes up the basis of your economy. It gives you the ability to provide free medical service. Even though that medical service is suspect and has problems. I guess what I’m saying is that you’re medical service depends on US money. To deny that is to say you could do without our money.

The production and delivery of oil products, natural gas and electricity in Canada contributes about $170 billion to Canada’s $1.8 trillion gross domestic product (GDP), or just under 10%. http://www.energy-exchange.net/fuel-...-canadian-gdp/

You can hardly say that an economy is based on 10% of it's GDP.

[Just AnotherPerson]

Oh please. You can’t say that without the acknowledgment that 40% of our oil comes from you. Acknowledge that and that your economy is based on it. You have free medical treatment because you’re able to sell that oil to us which makes up the basis of your economy. It gives you the ability to provide free medical service. Even though that medical service is suspect and has problems. I guess what I’m saying is that you’re medical service depends on US money. To deny that is to say you could do without our money.

Well America is now the number one producer of oil in the world, and we don't have free medical. I think to say that is the only reason that they have free medical is not really accurate. Just sayin'.

[donttread]

I'm Canadian.

We know a thing or two about obnoxious neighbours.

Yeah those damned, nose in everyone's business Eskimos are apain, right?

[Private Pickle]

The production and delivery of oil products, natural gas and electricity in Canada contributes about $170 billion to Canada’s $1.8 trillion gross domestic product (GDP), or just under 10%. http://www.energy-exchange.net/fuel-...-canadian-gdp/

You can hardly say that an economy is based on 10% of it's GDP.

Yeah I can. 10% is huge.