As the neighborhood turns

[redxblack]

There's a semi hot CSI chick with a Monster across the street, but she's a lesbian and terribly monogamous. 

so close.

but yeah, NOT NORMAL. I lived in a bad neighborhood and really didn't know much about my neighbors in the 11 years I lived there. maybe it is normal and you just have your ear to the ground better.

[Drunken Monkey]

I don't think you need your ear to the ground, or a spidey sense, or whatever, to sense a Cadillac in a tree or a hostage standoff.

[bigiain]

I don't think you need your ear to the ground, or a spidey sense, or whatever, to sense a Cadillac in a tree or a hostage standoff.

You should see my amazing powers of "not getting involved in other peoples shit"...



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[Scottish]

 Grab the and a lawn chair and watch it all from the front porch.... make sure to wear your kevlar. 

[the_Journeyman]

Sounds.  Um.  Interesting...  Of course, there's 1 small set of apartments (maybe 6 units) in my neighborhood, and another set of apartments with 8-10 units in various states of disrepair on a street across the main road through the area.  The folks that live in the houses tend to be fairly common humans.  There's me, the Ducati guy, then there's two Harley guys, the house across the street that's the crash-pad for their son's (he and his g/f live there) college friends.  There's the quiet folks from Ohio that don't wave, speak or acknowledge anyone in the neighborhood.  Then there's the apartment.  The 6 closest ones are mostly decent, there's the occasional domestic and one night a drunk driver left out driving like a maniac and tore through about 6 yards.  Across the street at the other set of apartments, most of them have makeshift doors.  They're always righting and all kinds of crazy stuff ~

JM

[Speedbag]

After 6:00 PM or so, you'd almost swear my neighborhood is abandoned. No crazy activity whatsoever.

[mitt]

After 6:00 PM or so, you'd almost swear my neighborhood is abandoned. No crazy activity whatsoever.

+1, but that is cause it is 10 degrees F out now.  In the summer time, it is nice though.

mitt

[Big Troubled Bear]

Not even close to normal and I live in Africa

[Bun-bun]

I wouldn't characterize it as a "bad" neighborhood. Single family homes on large lots with decent landscaping and acceptable schools. Mix of races, not near a college, radioactive waste site, or major powerlines. Not a whole lot of crime. There are only 14 houses on the whole block.
Here's a pic of my house.

At this point, I'm just keeping my head down, hoping whatever it is doesn't catch me or mine.

[Grampa]

least the snowmen are safe

[swampduc]

Nope. Not remotely normal. Probably built on an Indian burial ground.

[LMT]

Sounds like enlisted housing in the Air Force.  When I was in, the married guys in my shop all lived near each other.  Wife swapping while drunk, DUI in yard, underage relations with the master sgts daughter for one guy, etc.  It never ended.

[the_Journeyman]

Do keep in mind we are coming off from a full moon, if any of said crazy events happened this past weekend.  I can always tell it's a full moon by how the cats act ~

JM

[DCXCV]

Sounds entertaining.  I think it's hilarious the guy who wanted to do the swinging is striking out and the wife who he had to convince is getting all the action.  He obviously doesn't share my amusement, although he does see the irony, hence the firearm.

I don't think this is normal.  But then again, I could identify perhaps 50% of my neighbors in a line-up and I don't know any of their names despite living among pretty much the same group for three years now.

[Statler]

totally normal.

have one household member work in the medical field and the other as an attorney.   You just don't see the underbelly of a community until you see the medical and legal secrets.

Kindergarten teachers coming in for drug overdoses on the weekends, scary sex allegations in divorce complaints, etc.etc....all people are make the beast with two backsed up...some just hide it better than others.