Since we’ve lived in this house, we’ve had at least 5 different families move in and out of the house next door. NONE of which have been in the least bit normal. But then again, what is considered “normal?” We have the craziest stories, and some days as we’re spying through the blinds, all we can do is just look at each other and laugh. Our friends and family probably think that we make this stuff up!!
First, we’ve had the original owners. They lived there long enough to put up blinds and stuff, and then moved out and started renting it to the next 4 crazy families you are about to learn about. They seemed somewhat normal, although we never really got to communicate with them face to face - only through the notes they had left on our front door. Now is where the fun begins……
Second, some of the weirdest people we have ever met moved in. We’ve never spent so much time peeping through our blinds than we did during the time these people lived there. They always put on a good “show” for us. It appeared they had some money by the Mercedes and Porsches they always drove, and usually had more cars than drivers. They always seemed to take their fights outside on the front porch or the lawn and would yell and scream at each other and their kids so loud that we could hear it even with the windows closed!! (But we could spy better with the windows open, hee hee.) Sometimes, it seemed that the Dad would get pretty irritated with it all, so he’d sit in his car in the driveway and sleep. =) Of course we got a kick out of that!! One of their daughters insisted on using our backyard as a play area and a path to her friend’s house, so we had to put a lock on our gate so we could have some privacy in our
own yard. Their other daughter would scream at her sister through the screen window upstairs and then go out and drag her off her bike for no reason when she was riding around in the cul-de-sac. They also had these ugly little dogs that would scratch at the fence and growl at us and bark all hours of the night. The day we saw the moving van pull up in front of their house, we went out and celebrated!!
Third, a single guy moved in. Ahhhh, nice and quiet one would think. But no. He had a fetish with cars and motorcycles and collected all these old classics. So he would come outside only to clean and detail them, but would rev them up SO loud when he came and went. He wasn’t the friendliest of people either. We’d wave (and so did other neighbors), but he’d pretend he didn’t see us. Thank goodness when he moved……..
Fourth, were the old people. Just because you’re old, doesn’t give you the right to be cranky and mean. This man apparently hated us and made every effort to let us know it. It all started the night we couldn’t get in our driveway because there was a 4.5 drift covering it, so we parked in the neighbor’s driveway since we “knew” no one lived there. Well, he comes home and honks and swears until we come out and move the car and continues to cuss up a storm for 10 minutes straight about how we need to park elsewhere and not in his driveway. Once the weather warmed up, he accused us (and threatened us through an open window) of putting tumbleweeds in his window wells. LOL. We don’t know where we would have gotten tumbleweeds from..…. but anyways, we watched him yell at his wife, throw things at her, and rant and rave up and down the driveway. Good riddance to them!!
And lastly, we have the drug dealers – or, that’s what we call them. It intrigues us because the UPS truck, and sometimes FedEx, comes
every single day delivering packages. The guy is always coming and going (“dealing” as we assume) and they drive brand new cars. When we do catch a glimpse of them, the wife is always decked out with all this jewelry and fancy clothes, but they live like recluses, so we’re not totally sure what the story is with them…. yet. =) And here she comes now….. radio blasting as she pulls into the driveway….
So yeah, there’s never a dull moment around here. We’re just waiting to see what the next moving truck will bring. We wait with so much anticipation that it’s almost like Christmas for us!! =)
