Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
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Anonymous
This seems...wrong. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Yes, we have several dedicated walkers in our community, I've never thought about it as weird. They are all in superb shape for their age. I grew up in Europe and never view walking as a weird thing. |
Anonymous
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My neighborhood as a kid also had a walking guy. Everyone said he was "harmless but weird." Looking back, I now realize he was likely autistic. He made polite scripted conversation, and sometimes took interest in our childhood interests (like if we were wearing a specific character shirt or something).
I wish this stuff was talked about more openly then, so that I could understand why he was "weird" and now I wish I had been friendlier towards him instead of a little scared of him. |
Anonymous
Okay I give up..... 
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Anonymous
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So many “weird” people in my neighborhood.
I’d say the most concerning is the family with the ten year old son with severe anger issues who also has a house full of guns. We tell our kids to stay far away. |
Anonymous
Yes. I grew up in a small town and there was a harmless but mentally disturbed man who walked everywhere and everyone called him “FU Bob” because he swore at everyone. I live in NoVa and I see the same few people on the bike trail most days. One is an older man who may or may not be homeless- he is always wearing black gloves. The other guy is probably retired and he walks and chats with neighbors hours every day. Whether I run at 6am or 8am, he’s always there. |
Anonymous
If you stay far away, how do you know they have a house full of guns? |
Anonymous
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There is a mom in our neighborhood with 2 adopted kids. She posts all the time about her daughter on the neighborhood FB group, but never about her son - seeking tutors, rides to horseback lessons, babysitting jobs, etc. When she moved in, she was constantly looking for peers for her HS daughter but blatantly ignored all comments asking the age, grade level and school for her elementary age son. We saw her once while we were on a neighborhood walk as a family and introduced ourselves- and she launched into a rant in front of our kids of how unfriendly our neighborhood is and how she wish she had stayed in DC. Other neighbors reported similarly confounding run-ins when they also tried to drop off a welcome gift or introduce themselves. She walked her son to school multiple days wearing a pajama onesie with a hood and slippers - like an adult size character costume. She seemingly leaves him home for days on end with only a HS age sibling to care for him.
Her son seems mentally disturbed during the brief time he was in my son’s class. My heart breaks for the kid because he seems unwanted or like she’s given up trying to manage him. There’s so much going on with the mom and her weird posts to our neighborhood listserve that it’s hard to even guess what is cause and what is effect when it comes to the mom and kid’s behavior. |
Anonymous
The parents have told me they do. Very nice parents, but the kids are not alright. |
Anonymous
| The people that walk their dogs onto all the garden beds on our street to go to the bathroom when there are fields of open grass just a couple blocks away. |
Anonymous
Yep, the previous poster is clueless. |
Anonymous
Oh I love this - and it would be a great plot twist... |
Anonymous
He is a human being. You and your fellow try hard Olneyites have no ownership of him. Further, you are clueless if you think people outside of Olney care about or read missives out of Olney. Consider the possibility that many many people people have observed this man walking day after day, year after year down the road in their city. Of course they will attribute him to their area! Aspen Hill walking guy remains his name afaiac. |
Anonymous
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Not necessarily the weirdest, but our neighborhood has mostly well manicured yards whereas this one house decided to stop doing any form of yard work whatsoever and now their yard is a "Certified Wildlife Habitat." It's a freaking jungle. Oh and spare me the "you have no idea how much work it is to maintain that" b.s. We live across the street from them and haven't seen any effort made in years. My daughter and I say "Certified Wildlife Habitat, where you get rewarded for doing nothing."
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