Elaina
One Too Many
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Well, our next door neighbors want to fight over the yard space, we don't care, and pretty much don't USE the yard, but their kids want to pick and tease mine for going into their yard, but then want to play in ours, and the guy that's never home waits until my husband is gone or it's 11 P.M. to try and intimidate us over 5 feet of space (which the last time, I met him with a loaded rifle to his face, it was too late and I was too alone for that BS) and then there's 15 people living there, and they all want to park in front of my driveway...I wound up telling them in Spanish (because none of them speak English that park over here, and I'm fluent in it, much to their surprise) if they park here again, the tires would be shredded. Luckily I haven't had problems since then, except one of the men keeps trying to steal my cat. The lady across the street is one of those really nice, and nosy ones that tell you everything that's wrong with her life but keeps an eye on you. I have a lady up the street that is nuts (she talks to herself, and we thought it was just pregnancy, but she's gotten worse since he was born) and we have the one couple that fights and get really loud at 2 A.M. when I'm trying to work and/or sleep. Then we have the families on each street that watch everyone's kids (my area is like a # sign), and there's 6 of us that take turns taking care of the kids: two take turns buying the kids ice cream from the truck, one gives them juice, I do the cookies/snacks (often ALL day long) and first aid (because I have cartoon character bandaids, and I don't sting them when they hurt), one does lunch, and one of the husband's works for Dr Pepper and gives them an afternoon soda, so it works. Funny thing is, none of us has ever met the other parents that do this (we've all talked on the phone for permissions for one thing or another), but we all know what kid belongs where and what time they have to check in.