Saturday, October 12, 2013

Every Neighborhood Has "That Neighbor..."

It looks like the old saying is true - that every neighborhood has "that neighbor". You know, the one that mows his lawn at 5am, hangs outside watching kids like a creeper and is generally just unpleasant to be around. In our neighborhood, "that neighbor" happens to be the one next door.

Lucky me.

While he hasn't technically moved in yet, he still finds ways to constantly irritate me. Whether it's him standing outside like a creeper all the damn time being obvious about eavesdropping (our lots are close together), watching my kids play like some kind of pedophile, or complaining about one thing or another that I do, he makes me want to risk the jail time to get in one really good swing at him.

Yep, he's that irritating. Surely nobody would blame a hormonal pregnant woman for losing her composure and finally calling enough enough when it comes to an idiot neighbor that just doesn't know when to back off and leave.

The latest drama involves captain asshole sending a love-filled email complaining that I was harassing him by asking the town to enforce their own bylaws! Can you believe it?! Yes, I am completely in the wrong to envoke the protections put in place by the town to prevent losers like you from coming in and making the town a hell-hole. I am not the first neighbor to call. I am simply the only neighbor with the experience to know which department to call and the conviction to keep on it until I get a reply. I didn't do anything wrong. There was no accusations of illegal actions as he claims, I was simply asking the town to do their job. I can see where this has gone wrong - #1.) The town wasn't really interested in actually enforcing bylaws because they are scared poopless of a lawsuit and #2.) The neighbor isn't interested in playing by anyone's rules but his own. I'm not sure what he thought I should have done - stand by while he flaunted disdain for bylaws in a way that would effect my property, or knock on his door and talk to him which has had exactly a 0% success rate in the past. Neither of those seem like a great option, so I went to the town and let them deal with it.

I feel the need to mention that I am not the first person to call the town on him. That alone has said something. Also, the town is really not the easiest entity to deal with and quite frankly, most people don't have the persistence needed to pursue the necessary channels to make sure bylaws are being enforced. If wanting my rights and the towns bylaws enforced makes me unneighborly, then so be it. He pulled up shrubs, removed and discarded of a temporary fence and even called the cops. He has threatened to sue us and everything else. I'm not sure how any of that is very neighborly. All I've done is request for the town's bylaws to be upheld and for our two surveyors to come to an agreement as to where the line is so that we can put up a fence. We have young kids and a dog, a fence does not seem unreasonable.

Honestly, I hope this ass-hat just falls off the face of the planet or something. I don't want to wish him dead because that's just way more bad Karma than I need at the present, but I'd really really really like for his Karma to catch up to him so he can maybe be a little less of "that neighbor" in the future.


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