what happens if you ask the cops to do a "welfare-check" on a 40-yr-old neighbor?

[handsomeharry]

As to the OP: Don’t bother. If she is a hot 40 year-old babe, she’s got plenty of horn dogs doing all the welfare checkups she needs. She’s off partying with some 18-year old Rico Suave as we speak.

[Fubaya]

@robert_columbia

I’ve been “advised” by a friend of mine who is a local government official who seems to follow local politics and programs a lot that I should be more scrupulous to promptly throw away packaging after opening something I’ve just bought - if I microwave an instant lunch and eat it while unpacking my new microwave and then get called in to work on short notice and leave the used plastic bowl and the appliance’s foam padding on the table, then the “Hoarding Task Force” will pound on me so fast with referrals for counseling and I will end up spending the weekend with a social worker going through my closet saying, “These two things don’t fit or suit me I know, but they are grandma’s old high school dresses and I want my daughter to get them when she’s big enough, and that not 1980’s e-waste, it’s a genuine IBM Model M keyboard and these sell for up to $100 on ebay, not trash, no I don’t want to see a counselor already.”

Where the heck do you live?

[chappachula]

@Fubaya

Where the heck do you live?

I assume he lives in a normal country.
But you just got taken to whoosh-land, I think.

[Cartooniverse]

@excavating_for_a_mind

First, be a neighbor.

If the trash can is left out a day after trash pickup, move it in for her.

If the newspapers are piling up a day or two, pick them up. Keeping your neighbor’s house up in in your interest.

Check her mailbox. If it is filling up, empty it. If not, then she probably has had her mail stopped. Knock on her door every evening. If she is home, tell her about the trash cans and newspapers, and give her her mail. Ask her to let you know if she is going to be away in the future so that you can keep an eye out. If she doesn’t appreciate it (and I can’t imagine why she would), she will let you know.

Where I am from, this is known as being neighborly. Do it. If it persists for over a week, let the authorities know. If you are honest, it won’t be a problem. If you try to hide things, whether it is you that calls or someone else, they will wonder why you didn’t get involved.

Word. This should apply anywhere in civilized society. Sad, that homeowners do this but apartment house dwellers do not.

Don’t sweat the cops. They will appreciate the respect you show your neighbor, her home and YOUR community.

[MeanOldLady]

I honestly don’t even get the OP thinks “just doesn’t feel right.” Her garbage bin and mail have gone unattended and her porch light has been left on. These things are all consistent with each other. What would be inconsistent is if things were piling up and the light were intermittently on. That would suggest someone is home, but for some mystifying reason, the mail and garbage are being ignored.

@excavating_for_a_mind

Well, around here, NOT emptying a neighbor’s mailbox when it was obvious that it was filling and that the neighbor was not attending to it would be considered a sign of animosity towards said neighbor and towards the neighborhood in general. * Around here, folks care about one another; that’s what makes us different than most places.*

Yeah, well, not everybody lives in Mayberry. Where I’m from people mind their own business, which is irrelevant, because in this case there is no “business” to mind. We have some guy thinking “Hey, what’s up with the hot neighbor?”

@kayaker

If she were dead, either in her home or the closet of a guy she met in a bar; wouldn’t her employer be looking for her? I’ve had an employee no-show (sleeping in due to hangover or flu) and we are calling, concerned, after two hours.

On the day I quit my job without notice, I strolled in at noonish to declare myself done, and my boss had already called to see what the deal was by roughly 10am. I ignored the call, of course. Made my quitting more dramatic.

[Zebra]

Go knock on her damn door and report back.

Are you really afraid she’ll think you’re in lurve with her.
Do you “know” any of the other neighbors and might they have an idea about her?

[kayaker]

I’m so old, I remember when a welfare check was something that came in the mail.

[Loach]

She still dead?

[Pork_Rind]

@Zebra

Go knock on her damn door and report back.

… And so…

[QUOTE=Win Place Show]
I tried knocking on the door this evening after work, and to no surprise I didn’t get an answer.
[/QUOTE]

[handsomeharry]

Another week has passed.

Any news?

[lost4life]

@handsomeharry

Another week has passed.

Any news?

I was trying to come up with a witty quip, but failed…so yeah, what’s up with the hot dead neighbor?

[AlsoNamedBort]

Fairly obvious that OP has fallen into whatever trap befell his hot single neighbor.

Someone should really pick up his mail.

[Alba]

OP should move to excavating (for a mind)'s neighbourhood so excavating (for a mind) can post for OP on this board in case OP is not around…

[Loach]

@lost4life

I was trying to come up with a witty quip, but failed…so yeah, what’s up with the hot dead neighbor?

I’m guessing no longer hot, room temperature.

[CairoCarol]

Well at least we know the kitten was found. But this and the “my-friend-is-possibly-pregnant-but-in-denial” situations continue to plague me.

Maybe it’s the same person, and she’s gone off to “visit an aunt” for a few weeks?

[Battle_Pope]

@lost4life

I was trying to come up with a witty quip, but failed…so yeah, what’s up with the hot dead neighbor?

I think we have a connection here.

[Apocalypso]

@AlsoNamedBort

Fairly obvious that OP has fallen into whatever trap befell his hot single neighbor.

Someone should really pick up his mail.

Not until someone ascertains HIS hotness…

[Win_Place_Show]

@handsomeharry

Another week has passed.

Any news?

Sure.

The newspapers are still being thrown to every driveway in the neighborhood.

Yes, she is still good looking.

Oh, and yes she is alive and well.

[AnalogSignal]

Anticlimactic but good news. Did you find out where she was? Was she on vacation? Or involuntarily held in a mental institution like another of our threads? :eek:

[Loach]

You tell her how you swooped down and saved her? Almost.