I just felt like sharing my recent thoughts about our neighbors. Not the ones we share our walls with, but the ones in the next building over with like 6 cars in their driveway and several more under their carport, or rather a garage with no door. But really, it is a car port.
By the way, I should warn you all this is going to make me sound really rude, but when you don't have kids and you mind your own business all the time, this is what AJ and I end up ranting about in our free time to ourselves. Perhaps this is why we don't have a lot of friends over. Okay, it's really because we don't have a sofa.
Anyhoo. A couple days ago I started telling AJ about this scene I witnessed coming home one day. There were 3 or 4 kids playing outside. Most were sitting on a car (yes ON) parked just out of the carport, and one was standing in the driveway holding a flat basketball. It appeared that they made up this game where one kid throws the basketball onto to carport roof, then it rolls down and hits the car, or sometimes the kids would actually try to catch it. Yep, that's it. As I told AJ this story he told me he usually sees them playing a similar game, where they just jump up and down on the roof of the car.
WHERE IS THE SUPERVISION?!
Seriously, that is so ridiculous. I'd slap those kids silly if they were mine.
K. Each Friday and Saturday night we go to sleep with the faint pounding beats of Mexican/Polka music. Or as we like to call it, circus music. Bump boo bump boo bump boo...Did you hear it? Man that music's the worst. How is that one genre of music so popular yet it all sounds the same, and that beat never changes? I don't get it.
The last thing I need to mention is this: I like to recycle. I'm not perfect at it, but it became a habit when living in California, and then when I moved to Rexburg it was so hard for me to throw away recyclables, since they didn't have a recycling system in place, at least not for each resident. So then we move to Logan. Yay! You mean, we get a blue garbage can too?! I had to admit, I was actually a little excited to be able to recycle again (Yeah, huge dork). I've been consciously trying to organize my garbage better. I hope you can imagine my dismay when I went to take out my separate bags of trash and our blue garbage can was full! And NOT of OUR stuff! And NOT of RECYCLING stuff! Oh, man, that bugs me so bad. There's all kinds of junk in there.
I told AJ I think they're illegal so they're not signing up for city utilities and stealing our garbage cans. I know that just sounds racist and dumb, but come on, we're talking about being responsible. I mean, what are you doing while your kids are ramming everything they can find into your car? We know you're home. We see your cars.
Hey, you know what we remind me of? Remember on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when the Griswold's have those neighbors (one is Julia Louis-Dreyfuss) and they're all into themselves and their super-cool 80's furniture and turtle-necks? They're all snobby and annoyed with the Griswold family. Yeah, we're those guys.
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I'm sorry. I sort of feel your pain. The other day I saw one of our neighbors putting their trash into another neighbor's can. It was garbage day, and we don't have recycling, and the neighbor who's can was being "borrowed" was out of town, so I didn't mention it to them. But, it seems like if you have too much trash that the least you could do is ask if you can use the neighbor's can. I have put garbage in other peoples cans a few times (like if I'm on a walk and have something to throw away), but I always feel guilty about it.
Our street is also full of unsupervised kids. When I was young we played outside all the time alone, but it was a different time. We lived in an area with very little traffic, and it just seemed safe to be outside. We weren't destroying property--just making mud pies in the "hut" on the vacant lot.
haha- bad neighbors are the worst. If I were you I wouldn't be afraid about saying something to the manager or to your neighbor.
I don't think it's a big deal to throw away some THING in someone else's garbage. I'm afraid the city will fine us or something. For now I'll probably just move our cans waay closer to us. Sometimes I don't think they even have any garbage cans, but I swear I've seen some before!
It really shouldn't bug me that much, like I said. We just have no life :)
I think your rants were funny! I agree, where is the supervision??
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