Know Your Neighbor

Yesterday evening my wife and I went to see the new elementary school built right opposite our home. There were a few other families from the neighborhood. People started talking and this is a list of things I found out about a few different neighbors:

• The old man who lives three houses from ours, works part time at a local hardware store. You can rent him for 20 dollars an hour as a handy man. He is very thorough and professional. He gossips a lot and knows everything about everyone in our neighborhood. His wife is not all that friendly, though.
• The person who lives in the first house on our street never maintained his lawn until now. The house which is right behind his house is on sale now. So, those guys are now paying for this guy’s lawn maintenance as well and they even have new mulch in his front yard.
• The white guy who lives five house from ours has married a Fiji Indian. They party way too much. They have loud Indian music all the time. Their trash bin overflows every week. Also, they don’t stay in this home all seven days of the week. Thus, you see their garbage can on the road for at least five days in a week. They are supposed to keep the bin out only on the day of the garbage pick-up. Hmmmm, maybe everyone should complain.
• The old man from the first bullet above cannot tolerate any nonsense. People who live right behind his home partied too much. They were quite loud a few times. He went and shouted at them and now they are no longer party animals.
• My immediate neighbor to the left does not make a lot of money. If both of them don’t work even for a week, it’s hard for them to do the mortgage payments. The husband drives an hour and a half to reach his office. They have two children. the son is apparently very moody and the daughter is very cranky. The lady of the house talks way more than required.
• Cops have stopped by several times to check on our neighbors. Maybe they don’t get along all that well?
• The new family which moved into our street last month has a kid who will start high school this year.
• The lady who stays two houses from ours, is absolutely unfriendly. She doesn’t talk with anyone, not even with her own kids, really!!!
• Our next street has two houses on sale and both have the lawns completely dried up. That’s because the banks own those houses now and utility bills are not paid, and thus the city has stopped water services to those houses. And, that means our street is very beautiful and perhaps the best in the neighborhood. With such colorful people, why not?

My wife and I sighed and went back to our backyard to stare at the sky to see how many meteors we can spot. I forgot all about the gossip, until now.

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