I have to wonder at what point will the board members on his “shit list”, “ignore list”, “banned list”, or whatever he’ll be calling it in a month of two will outnumber those not on it.
For that matter, I sometimes wonder how he keeps track since he doesn’t use the boards ignore list. Does he have a notebook filled with all the names that he periodically reviews to make sure that by accident he doesn’t “engage” with someone that he “banned”? Does he have posters on his wall with all the names to give him the satisfaction of feeling that he has somehow done something to punish those who wronged him?
Yeah, once I was clued in as to who I was “arguing” with, I realized I’d be better served cleaning out the Tupperware cupboard. Now all the bowls have matching lids!
He’s got a ‘blog’. Google “brazil84”. It’s the first hit. You’ll also find his “rules of debate”. And a kinda (he ****** them out) list of everyone he’s put on his ‘list’. It’s not like he’s the brightest bulb on the christmas tree string.
About the ball throwing thing…it doesn’t happen very often any more, but we used to have a family whose balls would come over the fence from time to time. Maybe once a week or so. I usually didn’t even notice until they knocked on the door and asked for their ball back. I didn’t mind that. If I did notice, I threw it over. If it was every day or several times a day, it would be irritating. Unfortunately for them, occasionally my dogs would get to the ball before I did or if I wasn’t home when it went over the fence. My one dog can take down any ball in less than 20 minutes.
I firmly believe that elderly retired women generally make the absolute worst neighbors in the world. They often hate the world, hate younger people, and have all day, EVERY day, to dream up ways and reasons to complain about their neighbors. Almost without fail, their noses are far, far too up in everyone else’s business. The results are almost never enjoyable.
I suppose there are worse things to have next door, like crack houses, etc… Ultimately, though, it’s very difficult to escape elderly hateful bitches. They’re in most neighborhoods, unlike crack houses and other even worse shit.
The letter still strikes me as being from someone very young. I don’t know any retired people who don’t have better letter writing skills, simply because they came from a generation where letters were actually written on a regular basis. I also don’t know any retired people who use 5 exclamation points in a row. (On the other hand, I do know retired people who use all CAPS because they are computer illiterate and don’t know how to turn off the Caps Lock.
They used the word “vamose”, which is something I only heard from Colonel Potter on episodes of MASH, growing up. I doubt a young person would ever have heard that word, which is a corruption of the Spanish “vamos”, which means “let’s go”.
In addition, the words “dreadful” and “scram” are similarly unlikely from a younger person.
I actually imagine this to be a woman somewhere between ages 40 and 60, without a college degree, who is very angry, difficult, and slightly mentally ill.
Of course, it could be some teenagers with a thesaurus.
Yes, it’s a fact-intensive question depending on the frequency of the balls, the kind of balls, the time of day, the age of the child, what the parents can or can’t do about it, and so on. The same thing is true for the noise issue.