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When it comes to the next door neighbor and the neighbor across the street. We've lived in this house going on 10 years & there has never been a dull moment.
When we first moved in - the neighbor on the left and the guy who owns the garage on the right were constantly having yelling matches across our backyard. We got a charge out of it. The guy who owns the garage also races cars (this is what the neighbor on the left always complained about) and, when the neighbor on the left would start to complain about the noise, the race car engine got louder and louder. I'd sit outside with a beer listening and laughing at this - needles to say, the neighbor on the left doesn't like me much! I would wave at the cops who showed up to handle the 'noise complaint'. They always told the neighbor on the left the same thing - the car is being worked on during normal working hours and there is nothing they can do about it. This went on every spring and summer until last year - I guess the neighbor on the left decided to give up!
Now it has been the neighbor on the left vs the neighbor across the street - the complaint - they were poarking one of their 3 vehicles in front of his house (back story - the neighbor across the street has 2 driveways so there really is no reason for them to be parking in the street.) and he finally had enough and started parking his car and his scooter in the street in front of his house, so the neighbor across the street had no choice except to use their driveways.
It seems they take turn calling the cops on each other - last weekend, they called the cops on him because he was mowing his lawn at 10AM. Two days later, he called the cops on them because they were laughing too loud! If ya ask me, this is all petty nonsense. I know the cops have got to be tired of getting called to either one of their addresses.
The most recent incident - the other morning - um, Wednesday I think - my mom was up getting ready for work and she heard something outside. She didn't really pay any attention and finished getting ready for work. Next thing she knows, there's a knock on the front door. It's the police, they wanted to know if there was a possibility that anyone here had seen or heard anything concerning the neighbor on the left's vehicles. She told him no, she is usually in bed by 11 & I don't get home from work until a little after 11.
They asked her to wake me and ask if I'd seen or heard anything after I got home. (Getting woke up at 5AM when I don't have to be to work until 3PM is not my ideal way to start off the morning.) I told them I hadn't seen or heard anything and went back to bed.
As it turned out, someone hit the side of his car, then hit his scooter. Of course he is pointing the finger at the neighbor across the street. Here's the thing. His car is parked so that it is directly in front of their driveway and the chances of it getting backed into are, well, very good. So, Wednesday I was woke up around 10:30 to the neighbors yelling at each other!
My opinion - if you have a driveway you should have to use it to keep your cars in or get cited. If this was the case, this whole problem would go away. It's only going to get worse this winter - again - because either the neighbor on the left will keep his car parked there (unless there's a snowban in effect) or he will keep it in his driveway and the neighbor across the street will start parking one of their vehicles in that spot again.
I do have to wonder what type of excitement this fall and winter hold for us, whatever it is, you can bet your ass that I will be somewhere nearby with a beer in hand!
