Who are the characters in your neighborhood?

[TheFrenzy]

Inspired by TWO Hairy threads.

Who are the characters at your gym?

Neighbor's Halloween Decorations

So who are the characters in your neighborhood?

Are you the cool neighbor or the one screaming at people to get off your lawn?

[oldgoldy97]

[oldgoldy97]

I used to have one that shot through his house into the neighbors’ house and she yelled at him. Then the cops evacuated the neighborhood. I was at work.

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

This is the 80%

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

I used to have one that shot through his house into the neighbors’ house and she yelled at him. Then the cops evacuated the neighborhood. I was at work.

This is the 20%

Great story!

[TheFrenzy]

Whenever I tell people about where I live, I tell them that the family who owns the complex rents to a very specific kind of tenants:

People who look like they work at Game Stop.

At least half the vehicles in the parking lot have anime or video game stickers on them.

[hairysasquatch]

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

I used to have one that shot through his house into the neighbors’ house and she yelled at him. Then the cops evacuated the neighborhood. I was at work.

My one neighbor used to have undocumented people living in a sub-basement of his duplex and working at his restaurant. One day a gun went off and the local SWAT team did an extraction. They processed the individuals on my front lawn. The undocumented people were deported, supposedly. No consequences for my neighbor. The rest of my neighbors are nearly all college faculty.

Also, the above-described events occurred in the pre-smartphone era, so no pics.

Great thread!

[oldgoldy97]

It’s funny how there are some people who never seem to set a foot outside. I’m outside probably the second most of anyone, just after the guy who sits in his garage with the door open 8 hours a day.

[oldgoldy97]

There was a guy parked in front of our house today. I was walking Kenny and asked him if he was waiting for someone. He said the people right across the street who moved in a couple months ago run a personalization business out of their house. He was picking up a tumbler they were engraving for his wife.

They mow once every 3 weeks. Otherwise you never see them out.

[coltsnsox07]

My neighborhood is in the middle of a political signs on the lawn battle, twice now a Harris supporter has been caught on someone's camera pulling up Trump signs from people's lawn across the street or next to where they live.

The only thing I have out is a flag from the TV show 'Our Flag Means Death' in my backyard.

[TheHeel]

Everyone is cool on my quiet block.

[hairysasquatch]

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

There was a guy parked in front of our house today. I was walking Kenny and asked him if he was waiting for someone. He said the people right across the street who moved in a couple months ago run a personalization business out of their house. He was picking up a tumbler they were engraving for his wife.

They mow once every 3 weeks. Otherwise you never see them out.

Maybe they took stock of what was across the store and decided to minimize their exposure?

[Bergkamp11]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Whenever I tell people about where I live, I tell them that the family who owns the complex rents to a very specific kind of tenants:

People who look like they work at Game Stop.

At least half the vehicles in the parking lot have anime or video game stickers on them.

How many stickers are on your vehicle?

[Bosoxfan5990]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Whenever I tell people about where I live, I tell them that the family who owns the complex rents to a very specific kind of tenants:

People who look like they work at Game Stop.

At least half the vehicles in the parking lot have anime or video game stickers on them.

So you're describing yourself?

[patchgenie]

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

It’s funny how there are some people who never seem to set a foot outside. I’m outside probably the second most of anyone, just after the guy who sits in his garage with the door open 8 hours a day.

was he drinking a cold one?

[oldgoldy97]

Originally Posted by patchgenie

was he drinking a cold one?

Most likely. He has a wife and two teenage daughters. That might play into it.

[majestik101]

Originally Posted by coltsnsox07

My neighborhood is in the middle of a political signs on the lawn battle, twice now a Harris supporter has been caught on someone's camera pulling up Trump signs from people's lawn across the street or next to where they live.

Sounds a little like my neighborhood.

Neighbors to my left have TDS
Neighbor to my right is MAGA

[sportzluvr1]

This thread is a powder keg.

[JustRachel]

Almost everyone around here is quiet, except these 20-something clowns that live across the street. They're the type with seven cars parked randomly in the front with one of them halfway disassembled. One day maybe a year ago I watched in horror as they chucked rocks at a stray cat while tipping back cans of Natural Light. Later that evening, my husband had a talk with them. I'm not sure what he said but now every time they see me they go inside quietly.

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by sportzluvr1

This thread is a powder keg.

[TheFrenzy]

No stickers on my vehicle.

But that would make for a good pole.

[Bergkamp11]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

^ Nice, it has been awhile. Is this gif a top 3 in blowout history

[TheHeel]

Originally Posted by Bergkamp11

^ Nice, it has been awhile. Is this gif a top 3 in blowout history

Easily

[Siberian13]

We got some shady characters.

Definitely some drug dealing going on at one house down the street.

The guy across the street just lets his dog run around off a leash. Everyone hates him. I’ve told him if my dog latches on it’s game over and nothing I can do.

We got some kids that used to walk by the house and throw their trash on the ground. Told them to pick up. They looked at me like I was crazy. They got the message. Picked it up and haven’t seen them since.

Another neighbor across the street put a dead racoon in a trash bag and put it on our curb where trash pick up is. I took it and put it next to their mailbox.

There some other fun ones. But those are somewhat recently and funny to me. Especially the kids. Didn’t think they’d pick it up after throwing their trash on the ground.

[jlzinck]

Past-
Grumpy Old Guy- Was in his early 90's and used to smash his car into the garage. If you ever asked him if he needed help with anything he made Eastwood in Gran Torino look downright nice.

Teddie- Lived directly to out right when we moved in. Brough a plant over when we 1st moved in and gave it to the POS Father in Law who she though owned the house. She was married 2X in the 11 years we were here before she passed. Neither husband lived with her. Had their own homes. Her father build the 1st house on the street so our street is Bernard St, his 1st name.

PitBull Mike-
Guy who owned 2 pitbulls and a bunch of snakes, lizards and the like.
It became quite obvious as time went on that if he told you 1+1 = 2 you needed to verify.
He once asked me to feed the dogs because it was going to be in the hospital overnight.
I get there and start preparing the food for the dogs when some disheveled woman came out of a bedroom. Told her who I was and why I was there and she went back into another room.
He tells me a few days later she was his "fiancee". A couple weeks later I asked where she was. He went off on a tirade...."F her, she likes to get F'd by multiple N-words at the same time.
After the current president was elected he hung a 4' x 6' flag in his yard saying something along the lines of F Joe B and F you in you voted for him.
His almost 90 year old father, who owned the house had to come by and climb a ladder to take the flag down.
Told everyone he was "straight edge" but died on a Fentanyl overdose 2 years ago.
I was able to get his current dog adopted by a neighbor.

Will add Present characters later.

[oldgoldy97]

Longest tenured residents:

Husband and wife with two painfully shy daughters. The girls were in Scouts. Always sold cookies to us. One year one of them came over and I had no cash so I said they could come back when the wife got home. They never did come back….ever. And the parents gave us dirty looks for the next eight years. They finally now wave cautiously.

Then there is the stay inside family. Mows once every 3 weeks. Guy is mid 50 and hasn’t worked in years due to health issues of some sort. My first dealing with him was 20 years ago when we put our fence up. The guy who installed it was going to add a small piece between our 4 foot cedar fence touching their 6 foot pressure treated privacy fence. Dude comes over and was ticked. Asked to not be touching his fence because he was going to paint it. Our guy took the piece off…and they never did paint it. Then he feels comfortable to constantly ask for my tire iron. They have a constant rotation of three dogs living with them that they walk less often than they mow. And they have no air conditioning. Shades are always shut.