Some guy put up a house about two years ago just down the road. A year later he put up a metal farm shed to park his bus sized motor home in. Then he paved most of the front yard with black top.
Here’s were strange takes over. Someone plows or snowblows the whole area. The guy goes out afterwards and scraps off every lasts spot of snow, with a shovel. He then goes out onto the road, and shovels every last spot of snow off the busy road in front of his house.
One day after it stops snowing the road has no snow on that section, and most of the front yard has no snow. He must shovel the whole day.
I’m only your wildest fear, from the corners of your darkest thoughts.
Is the guy retired? Maybe he’s just bored. It does sound a bit obsessive-compulsive though.
There’s a lady lives a block from us who sweeps the street in front of her house. No trash (we don’t have litterbugs in Iowa) – just nature, leaves and dirt.
Had a clean freak sister-in-law who moved her stove every time she mopped the kitchen floor so she could clean underneath it. She’d dump an ash tray with one butt in it, wash it, and give it back to you.
Shoot – she just about freaked out when a tornado took her apartment and she came to stay with us for a few days. I came home from work, found her in the bathtub. Seems she’d seen a roach.
Hey! We were in a rental and the folks there before us were pigs, okay?!
This is someone with issues or too much time on his hands. That said, if you’d like to steer him toward my snow-clogged driveway and sidewalks I wouldn’t fight him off with a stick.
In finest dime-store psychologist mode, I’d say he’s anal as hell. But as long as he doesn’t molest your retriever or report you to the local Public Works folks, if asphalt and snow removal pops his corn then let him at it. Just a mild guess, but bet he’s a real demon on dandelions come summmer.