What ever happened to people being real "neighbors"

[metallimonster]

The Tanners had it right.   

What ever happened to predictibility?
The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV.
Everywhere you look , everywhere you go (there's a heart).
There's a heart
A hand to hold onto.
Everywhere you look , everywhere you go.
There's a face
Of somebody who needs you.
Eveywhere you look,
When you're lost out there and you're all alone,
A light is waiting to carry you home,
Everywhere you look.
Everywhere you look.

[cyrus buelton]

 


Probably the best post of this thread



Redx - god damn, don't get me started on people cleaning up dog shit.


If I am feeling extra nice, I go out on the weekend with a nice big bag and a shovel and clean up others shit.

For the pure fact that I am sick of make the beast with two backsing stepping in it.

Our association actually paid >500$ to have a service come in and clean it up last year.


god damn. That just enrages me about people not picking up after their pets.

[hbliam]

you know nothing of my life and you do not know me.

Do not make assumptions about my life when you know me not.

After being punched in the face abused and spat upon for the last time and told to get the F out of my home I left. I took whatever I could grab and that was it. I did not have a knife or a fork. My 10 x 10 foot room is warm and safe, I am happy and safe here. My first spouse took their own life. I have lived in large fancy houses.I have in my past had more than most and I will again. This is a setback in my life, but spousal abuse is spousal abuse. I choose to live here because its all I can afford at this point in my life . It is better than the street. Do not so quick to judge others.

I speak from the experience of a life well lived.

BGB

As the others said, your initial post do not proclaim anything other then a misdirected judgement of success (or what some define success as) which came off as arrogant. You didn't get judged, your post did.

I'm glad you got out. In my line of work (LEO) I see many that don't. But just as you say "do not so quick judge others," remember that there will always be others that have walked your walk and maybe worse. I grew up with a mother that is on her 7th (!) husband, watched her be beaten, got beaten when I thought I was big enough to protect her (but wasn't), went to seven schools during k-12, and finally was on my own paying rent at 16 (a garage, bigger then 10x10 but not heated or cooled). I worked hard to have a stable home, nice things, nice cars, and am just now able to afford to finish my education. Is that as bad as being an abused spouse? I don't think so, but being an abused kid sucks to. I never use my childhood as an excuse and always remember that there is always someone that has had it worse.  

[slowpoke13]

I live in a 40' x 7' by 8' container that I share with one other individual. My neighbors would give me a magazine and I would give them one as well (even my last). We drink together, we eat together. When they can't get their computer to work, they knock on my door. Yes, it's my job, no, I'm not responsible for your personal internet. But, if I don't, who will? I'm here. If I don't, you don't call your wife tomorrow morning to wish her a happy mother's day. Would life go on? Likely. Would there be any repercussions  if I didn't? Doubtful. Will life go smoother if I do? definitely. Is it an inconvenience? Not likely.

Does any of it really matter in the grand scheme of things? nope - not one bit. you do what you want, others will do what they want. Life will go on. New neighbors will come, old ones will leave. Your personal standards of what you would "do" fora neighbor have no bearing on what anyone else's standards are.

[Pip]

I live in a 40' x 7' by 8' container

Connex?

[cyrus buelton]

I live in a 40' x 7' by 8' container that I share with one other individual.

That'd be giant for IZ

[zooom]

I have real neighbors....

I've touched them. 

in their naughty spot?!?!?!?

[Pip]

Naughty spot... happy place...

Semantics.   

[ducrider45]

Dont get me wrong, I will not suffer a fool for over 5 minutes.  Last time was a test of his obliviousness.  Good polite trick with the cell phone!

Is that why you sent me away after 5 mins?  Oh, and you told me that you had a meeting to go to. 

[rgramjet]

Is that why you sent me away after 5 mins?  Oh, and you told me that you had a meeting to go to.

Did I use the "meeting excuse" or was it "rearranging my sock drawer"??  Dont remember.  

Olney Ale House has to happen.....soon!  Im sure Zooom and Dolci will be in as well.  Yer in Ballmer right?

[redxblack]

"rearranging my sock drawer" is the second best euphemism for masturbation, right after "pulling the goalie".

[rgramjet]

Gutter mind!

[Stinky Wizzleteats]

I've seen my neighbours boobies.




They weren't that good.

[badgalbetty]

Dang Duck Fat, I didn't know we were neighbours!

[DoubleEagle]

Neighbor- one living or located near another, fellowman.

I had a Client that did business with my Company the lived in a semi closed Community on the lower South side of Columbus , Ohio called German Village.

German Village was as you might conclude an area that was once settled by Germans.

The homes have a distinct Architecture about them , there are brick streets and the area has been very well taken care of and now the homes are pretty expensive.

Most have been restored and there are many single proprietor businesses like specialty Restaurants , Bakeries, and other eclectic retail shops.

If you are lucky enough to own a home in the " Village ," you must follow the Village Associations rules w, regards to what color you can paint your house, what types of shutters you can use, type of fence you can use ,etc.

As my Client used to tell me even though the homes were almost touching each other he and his wife didn't really know his neighbors.

The neighborhood was composed of Professionals, Artists,younger people on their way up the ladder, and retired folks looking for the peace and quite and beauty of the area.

It would be a nice area to own a home  ( I looked at buying a house there ) but I doubt there was according to my Client , much neighborly stuff going on.

He said the appeal was the almost impersonal nature but feeling of complete safety within the " Village " even though it's surrounded by bad neighborhoods.

I think in places like German Village there is such a diversity of people that everyone is interested in what it is they are in to and living in the " Village " is more of a status symbol for them.

I think if you want a good " neighborly " experience, you need to live where there are people that own there home or are buying them, people that have lived there for at least 5 years, people that have kids in school and have grown up there themselves is better , people who have a vested interest in the area where they live.

People that have " Roots " there. A sense of being from there and there is their " Home."

I think you need to have " Roots " and a feeling of " Home " for people to really be neighborly.

Dolph