Nooooooo
Our next door neighbours for the last few years have been this elderly couple. They'd have grandkids over on the weekend but they were pretty quiet. Recently they decided they were getting too old for the house (it has steep internal stairs) but really liked the area, so when another neighbour sold up, they bought the place and moved across the road. Consequently we have new next door neighbours.
They moved here from the red zone, so the smell of sewage from the river, the occasional liquefaction, the swamp in the garden of the house on the corner, the water that inexplicably bubbles up out of the road sometimes and the sudden unexpected overnight pot holes are all pretty ho-hum for them. And the green-blue of our zone (the worst of the greens, meaning it's okay to build on but needs special foundations etc etc) is much, much better than red, or orange, or white, so it's a good move for them.
But.
But.
They have invited every child in the world to a New Years Eve party, and issued them all with noisemakers.
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They moved here from the red zone, so the smell of sewage from the river, the occasional liquefaction, the swamp in the garden of the house on the corner, the water that inexplicably bubbles up out of the road sometimes and the sudden unexpected overnight pot holes are all pretty ho-hum for them. And the green-blue of our zone (the worst of the greens, meaning it's okay to build on but needs special foundations etc etc) is much, much better than red, or orange, or white, so it's a good move for them.
But.
But.
They have invited every child in the world to a New Years Eve party, and issued them all with noisemakers.
This entry was originally posted at http://keieeeye.dreamwidth.org/200174.html. Feel free to comment there instead because LJ is a poo.