My crazy neighbors
OK I don't know if they are really crazy... they live 3 houses from mine, on the corner. They have a tall fence around the back of their property and two huge, overgrown maple trees in the front that nearly completely obscure their house. They were so overgrown that they were hanging down over the sidewalk and you couldn't walk by without either leaving the sidewalk and going around, or bending over at the waist to get under them. I got so annoyed with dealing with that on my thrice-daily walks with the dog that I finally brought a clipper along on one of the walks and trimmed the damn thing myself. Boy did that feel good.
Anyway, they are rather reclusive. No one I know has ever been in their house. The few times we've gone to their door over the years to try to sell girl scout cookies either resulted in no one coming to the door, or a terse refusal (by the husband--apparently they don't eat cookies in that house). (Occasionally I will see the wife and she is always very nice.) They always have some kind of junk in their driveway. Their garage, which is occasionally seen open, is crammed full of old junk. Now, my garage is crammed full of stuff too quite often, but it's not old junk--for the most part it's good, usable stuff. They, for some reason, always have old junk.
For the past several months, it's been an ugly old camper-trailer. Last week their adult son started taking it apart, bit by bit. Pieces of aluminum and metal were collected in a truck bed and, I assume, turned in for cash. Then he started on everything else, and every day I would drive by and there would be less of the trailer. Yesterday, I came home from work and saw this:
I thought, WTF?? Is he really gonna try driving this to the dump like that??
Here's what's left of the trailer:
That thing on the back of it is a toilet. The little black things are mulberries from the tree above. (These are not the neighbors I was gonna ask about picking their mulberries, but maybe I'll ask these guys too, if they get rid of the rest of the trailer here, and I can get them to come to the door.) Anyway... see the broom? I wonder what the issue was with using it. The trailer is totally surrounded by little bits of wood, fiberglass insulation, and other stuff. It's just such an eyesore, and has been for weeks. I can't wait for the entire thing to be gone and hope that it doesn't sit like this for a while... they are right on the corner where I drive in and out of our alley whenever I go anywhere, and so do all our other neighbors. I'm shocked the old folks in the retirement condos behind us haven't complained to the city already. Maybe they have, and that's why the trailer is finally going away?
Anyway, they are rather reclusive. No one I know has ever been in their house. The few times we've gone to their door over the years to try to sell girl scout cookies either resulted in no one coming to the door, or a terse refusal (by the husband--apparently they don't eat cookies in that house). (Occasionally I will see the wife and she is always very nice.) They always have some kind of junk in their driveway. Their garage, which is occasionally seen open, is crammed full of old junk. Now, my garage is crammed full of stuff too quite often, but it's not old junk--for the most part it's good, usable stuff. They, for some reason, always have old junk.
For the past several months, it's been an ugly old camper-trailer. Last week their adult son started taking it apart, bit by bit. Pieces of aluminum and metal were collected in a truck bed and, I assume, turned in for cash. Then he started on everything else, and every day I would drive by and there would be less of the trailer. Yesterday, I came home from work and saw this:
I thought, WTF?? Is he really gonna try driving this to the dump like that??
Here's what's left of the trailer:
That thing on the back of it is a toilet. The little black things are mulberries from the tree above. (These are not the neighbors I was gonna ask about picking their mulberries, but maybe I'll ask these guys too, if they get rid of the rest of the trailer here, and I can get them to come to the door.) Anyway... see the broom? I wonder what the issue was with using it. The trailer is totally surrounded by little bits of wood, fiberglass insulation, and other stuff. It's just such an eyesore, and has been for weeks. I can't wait for the entire thing to be gone and hope that it doesn't sit like this for a while... they are right on the corner where I drive in and out of our alley whenever I go anywhere, and so do all our other neighbors. I'm shocked the old folks in the retirement condos behind us haven't complained to the city already. Maybe they have, and that's why the trailer is finally going away?