Your neighbor seemed like a nice guy. Older, hard worker, loves his wife and dog. Until his wife leaves for a week to see her grown children. Enter his older brother for a visit. Drunkeness ensues. Ok I can understand one or maybe two days of bacchanal behavior when you haven’t seen your older brother for 6 years.
However, when the party lasts for five days and you are falling down drunk, you don’t go into work, you let your dog run out in the street and don’t know it and you contact women who are paid to come over and entertain you and your brother, that’s beyond the pale. You are an idiot!
Your wife has survived an abusive childhood and first marriage. She deserves better than you.
I was going to post about our neighbour, and how we found out he was a jackass when he mowed down the hedge between our houses (and yes, our yard does look like hell now, thanks for asking), but that’s really not in this guy’s league at all. Our neighbour is a jackass - your neighbour is a waste of skin.
Update: He’s still drunk and decided to drive. Mr. eenerms and an other neighbor took his keys ways because he left them in the truck. Kept forgetting things. Told him Not to drive. His wife comes back tonight.
Not to one up you. But I found out 3 years after I moved into my house that the old man next door had had two previous bouts with pedophilia. and about a year ago, he got another charge of it. He’s currently in jail. He’s done a LOT of other things rather asshole’ish but the pale in comparassion.
We live in a weird sort of condo that was converted from a weird sort of house… I think. Anyway, my previous downstairs neighbor was a nasty old bitch. If I was in the backyard she would spy on me through the blinds. She had a habit of chasing off stray cats with the hose and leaving the water running. Her daughter came over once to yell at us for some damn thing the harpy imagined. She frequently complained to the landlord that we would stay up too late… not that we were keeping her awake or anything, just that we were up too late. On the other hand, she cooked some kind of heavily spiced roast every few days at about 5 in the morning, which we could smell through the ventilation ducts. Once she even offered to buy the whole property from the landlord, at which point I suppose she would kick us out. The landlord told her to fuck off (not in those exact words) and she ended up moving away.
We have Mr. Lawsuit two doors down in our building. He’s sued the condo association twice, and has threatened one of the neighbors because they removed a tree that touched his property line. He’s a drunk and a prick and was canned off the condo board for not paying part of his dues (which was the cause of one of the suits). Nobody talks to this prick and everyone wishes he would die. A friend of ours told us the guy has a heart condition and that if we see him having a heart attack to “be sure to dial 119”.
My dad was once living in a fairly high end neighborhood and kept his old crappy 1977 truck parked out front. Well the neighbor across the street got all pissy about it and instead of just asking my dad to move it, wrote a long letter and stuck it to my dad’s truck saying how it looked like shit and property values, blah blah blah. The guy wrote his name and phone number but the letter wasn’t addressed specifically to my dad, so my father made 50 or so copies and stuck them on cars all over the neighborhood. Needless to say the neighbor got majorly pissed because he got bitched out by all the other neighbors.
I have a friend who owns a home with a garage, and the concrete driveway is shared with the neighbor`s house, who has an identical mirror-image garage. the entrances to the garages are perpendicular to the street, so you need the entire pad to turn into the garage. This arrangement has existed for 50 years.
A new lady moved into the neighbor house, and she doesnt have a car. So she put a fence down the middle of the driveway, because she didnt like him driving his car on her side of the driveway. This made his garage completely unusable. He asked her nicely to remove the fence, she responded by making all kinds of unreasonable demands, such as demanding that he chop down a 50 year old tree in his yard because some of the branches 30 feet up are over her property. Eventually, he had to take it to the city, but found out that a formal easement had never been set up giving each owner right of way to the pad. So, he lost the use of his garage forever.
This is much more common than one might think. Frequently it resulted due to relatives buying adjacent properties and sharing a resource such as a driveway. Human nature being what it is, they never saw the need to formalize the arrangement, and their heirs inherited more than property as a result.
I am not ANAL, and all the other acronyms and disclaimers, but this might not be the end of this. There is a thing (at least in Massachusetts) that is called something like “easement by prescription”, which involves “open and notorious use” of a piece of property by someone other than the owner for an extended period of time (I think 20 years). Sorry to be so uninformed; a question to GQ could get a lawyer to weigh in. If this arrangement stood for 50 years as you state, that should be ample precedent for this to be in effect. Might be worth checking out.
We rented the downstairs floor of a house. A very young couple were occupying the upstairs. They sold drugs from there. When they were finally evicted, they stole our cucumber plants from the garden. That was too weird for words.
I haven’t seen the guy in several years. Last I talked to him, he was still trying to deal with the woman. I don’t know if it had progressed to the lawsuit stage, so I don’t know how it ultimately came out. I do know that it was a huge pain in the ass for the guy for a long time.
