The word ‘fuck’ is not a reason to run over to my driveway and try to lecture me on language etiquette, you pansy little cunt. It is also not a reason call the police you offended little bitch, especially when you weren’t even being addressed. They are just going to laugh at you like they did.
So, next time, take a few minutes to get over the vapors and go back in your shitty fucking hovel. You don’t like me and I don’t like you. Don’t make amends. Don’t try to smooth things over. Don’t address me. Don’t say 'Good Morning." Don’t say “Good Evening.” Don’t even tell me my fucking house is on fire. Just pretend I don’t exist and fuck off.
The neighbor’s kid’s friends at out last house got bored, came over one night and poured paint remover on my wife’s brand new car, still with paper license plates and lit it on fire. 8K worth of damage, then I had to buy a 6K security system.
At our new house after I reported a neighbor’s kid’s doing $1700 worth of damage to the greenbelt they targeted my house and started driving through my circular drive on their bikes and kicking holes in my manicured shrubs. Now that they’re older their friends have driven through my yard in pickups 3 times. I have to leave an expensive sports car in a closed garage for fear of being keyed. Saturday morning I had to wash eggs off the house. 35 times now I’ve been vandalized and the parents won’t do crap. I’m installing yet another video camera system.
While 99% of my neighbors are awesome, I’d fucking kill to be in a situation where the worst one was only a “Polly Prissypants.” Perspective man, perspective.
I hear ya and totally sorry that happened (is happening). In the moment of being charged at in your driveway for saying a bad word, however… you tend to lose perspective.
Seriously? People are calling the OP out for this? I’d be pissed at this as well. Assuming the OP wasn’t screaming “FUCK” at the top of his lungs at 2am or something, the neighbor overreacted. Calling the police because of swearing? Give me a break.
That’s cuz you smell like a dead dog’s asshole and have the disposition of Gladys Kravitz with period cramps. Nobody wants to interact with you. Just because nobody says anything to your face, doesn’t mean they don’t hate your fetid guts.
I can picture a scenario in which the OP utters the single word “fuck” in the course of a conversation with someone, and the busybody neighbor trots over to dress him down for it.
I find it equally easy to picture the OP classing up the neighborhood by spewing obscenities at the top of his lungs, at which the neighbor approaches to ask if he would kindly not swear in the presence of her small kids, or at least keep his voice down, and he responds by smoothing back his mullet with one oil-stained hand, hurling his empty can of Milwaukee’s Best onto the growing pile, and crudely suggesting an anatomical destination for herself and her children.
Maybe some context for your usage of the Queen Mother of all Dirty Words would help us decide who’s overreacting here.
Were you saying it loudly enough to be heard clearly, off your property? Or did she overhear a conversation and blow a prissygasket?
ETA: And yes, I think there’s a difference. Neighbors have a right not to listen to you scorch paint and set the lawn afire because you dropped a tool or cut your finger.
What difference does it make whether or not it could be heard? No, neighbors have no such right, nor do you, nor do I. If we had that ‘right’, at least half the population would be in jail. My assertion is supported by the non-action of the police who arrived at the scene. Hearing or seeing things you don’t like is the downside to living in an urban setting. Had he been screaming at her directly, she would perhaps have been right to call the cops out of fear for her safety. As it stands, the woman should have either ignored it, or politely mentioned her objection to the curse word, and gone back to minding her own fucking business. Calling the cops is the act of a moron.
Unless, y’know, potty mouth went off on prissy pants, and lost his shit, screamed more than obscenities, bordering on threats possibly.
Then maybe calling the police might not be such a bad idea. What if it’s your Gran?
Of course we’ll never know, because as presented, the OP is lacking all context. Which has turned this into the Schroedinger’s cat of bad neighbour threads. Without context he could be the asshole, or she could be. And until we know…are they both assholes?