Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 15:03     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood.


That is me. We are the only house out of approximately 120 houses in our neighborhood who have American flag outside today.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 15:02     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My neighbor got rid of her front lawn to make a wildflower meadow. She's out there constantly working on it but it looks like a hot mess. She can easily afford lawncare service like everyone else


I think I found myself!

I'm trying to save the pollinators and bees and fireflies y'all killed with Mosquito Joe type services.

But yeah, I know I'm the weird neighbor and I like it. My parents made me do the whole "be sure you fit in" thing for a significant portion of my life and now I am free!


I still have a small loan, but majority of my front yard is Mediterranean style flowerbed with plants that attract a lot of bees. My lavender bushes are covered with bees.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 14:56     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:My neighbor got rid of her front lawn to make a wildflower meadow. She's out there constantly working on it but it looks like a hot mess. She can easily afford lawncare service like everyone else
I like her
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 14:46     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My neighbor got rid of her front lawn to make a wildflower meadow. She's out there constantly working on it but it looks like a hot mess. She can easily afford lawncare service like everyone else


I think I found myself!

I'm trying to save the pollinators and bees and fireflies y'all killed with Mosquito Joe type services.

But yeah, I know I'm the weird neighbor and I like it. My parents made me do the whole "be sure you fit in" thing for a significant portion of my life and now I am free!


I don't have a wildflower meadow but plenty of clover and I was just thinking my neighbors should thank me for letting the pollinators have a place to exist while they spray into oblivion.


Thank you both for your service. The species thankful for your oasis outnumber the naysayers exponentially. Anyone can help the environment in a big way if they start with their yard.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 14:33     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My neighbor got rid of her front lawn to make a wildflower meadow. She's out there constantly working on it but it looks like a hot mess. She can easily afford lawncare service like everyone else


I think I found myself!

I'm trying to save the pollinators and bees and fireflies y'all killed with Mosquito Joe type services.

But yeah, I know I'm the weird neighbor and I like it. My parents made me do the whole "be sure you fit in" thing for a significant portion of my life and now I am free!


I don't have a wildflower meadow but plenty of clover and I was just thinking my neighbors should thank me for letting the pollinators have a place to exist while they spray into oblivion.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 14:11     Subject: Re:Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote: I was friends with them up until I got divorced. They know the reason I got divorced yet I don't know anything about them. I don't know if the mom works or what the dad's job is, I don't know a thing about their kids and I never see them leaving the house. The husband is always home-does he not have a job? Yet, I see him leave his house early on occasion. I haven't seen the wife drive since our kids were toddlers and our kids are middle/high school age. They have lived in our neighborhood longer than I have yet I have no idea why they moved to our state from California. To top it off they never mow their lawn, so I often have to pick up the slack.

Occasionally they stop by my house unannounced with Key Lime whoopie pies, always the same dessert, they never change it.

They make small talk with my kids and ask where they go to school but I have never heard of them talk about their lives. I don't even know if they go on vacation, but they always have family visiting. I don't know anything about them and it's getting weird.


I would be asking them questions! Ask them how long they've lived in the neighborhood, how old their kids are, are they taking a vacation this summer, how was their 4th, etc. Get them to open up.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 13:53     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Aspen Hill walking guy!

Is this the man with the blond Afro?


NP: No, that's the Olney Walking Guy
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 13:45     Subject: Re:Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
I was friends with them up until I got divorced. They know the reason I got divorced yet I don't know anything about them. I don't know if the mom works or what the dad's job is, I don't know a thing about their kids and I never see them leaving the house. The husband is always home-does he not have a job? Yet, I see him leave his house early on occasion. I haven't seen the wife drive since our kids were toddlers and our kids are middle/high school age. They have lived in our neighborhood longer than I have yet I have no idea why they moved to our state from California. To top it off they never mow their lawn, so I often have to pick up the slack.

Occasionally they stop by my house unannounced with Key Lime whoopie pies, always the same dessert, they never change it.

They make small talk with my kids and ask where they go to school but I have never heard of them talk about their lives. I don't even know if they go on vacation, but they always have family visiting. I don't know anything about them and it's getting weird.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 13:35     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Neighbor thinks everyone enjoys hearing their band play boomer music, with the amplifiers turned up all the way.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 13:26     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:My aunt dated a man who was missing some fingers. She broke up with him because she thought he would be bad at massages and putting on a condom. She was obsessed with Subway meatball subs although they gave her diarrhea. She rarely made it out of the shop after eating it. I guess it was worth it.


hahaha I have the same relationship with Dairy Queen!
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 13:17     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:
Well, there are three Aspie males, one of them my husband, and three of their Aspie sons, one of them mine.

But from my perspective, the weirdest person in the street is the very loud and talkative neighbor. She's catty and spreads rumors and is distinctly unintelligent (also a little racist, and made an assumption based on our race when we moved in). But to most people, I suppose she comes off as entirely normal and average.

In my family? I suppose the two posthumous winners are my two aunts who were staunch vaccine-deniers and then died of Covid.


What is a vaccine denier?
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 13:02     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The weirdest family in your neighborhood is full of interesting people you’re afraid to befriend because you think there is safety in being like everyone else.


Nah. There are definitely weird people out there. Some families lean more autistic/on the spectrum. Some just have weird outlooks and habits. It doesn't make them interesting. It makes them weird. Just like "body positivity" people are still fat no matter how you try to spin it and say they're still beautiful.



Maybe we should start a post about horrible neighbors and start with you. I’m sure no one wants to live next door to you.


I'm the best neighbor because I keep my property immaculate, clean up after the dogs, make sure they don't do their business in houses with "no peeing" signs, never make noises, smile politely at the neighbors but don't waste their time with pointless conversation.

Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 12:55     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A couple of years ago, my neighbor was outside clearing snow from her parking space. She did this by shoveling snow from her space into the next spaces, which had already been cleared. She stomped on the remaining snow in her space. It was 37 degrees and sunny. She was wearing a tank top, booty shorts and cowboy boots. She was 54 years old at the time.


Rage inducing hot flashes aren't fun. Before I was fifty I would never have understood this neighbor, but now I do. She was just working off some hot flash menopausal rage.

Perhaps, but she put 18 inch deep snow from her parking space into the nearby spaces, which had been shoveled out earlier. The snow was piled up in previously cleared spaces and had to be reshovelled. Menopause is also not an excuse to put your garbage bag next to the community mailbox on a Saturday afternoon when the trash days are Wednesday and Saturday morning. While she may have been menopausal, she was definitely a self absorbed pos.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 11:55     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:A couple of years ago, my neighbor was outside clearing snow from her parking space. She did this by shoveling snow from her space into the next spaces, which had already been cleared. She stomped on the remaining snow in her space. It was 37 degrees and sunny. She was wearing a tank top, booty shorts and cowboy boots. She was 54 years old at the time.


Rage inducing hot flashes aren't fun. Before I was fifty I would never have understood this neighbor, but now I do. She was just working off some hot flash menopausal rage.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2023 11:50     Subject: Tell me about the weirdest person/family in your neighborhood
Anonymous wrote:My neighbor got rid of her front lawn to make a wildflower meadow. She's out there constantly working on it but it looks like a hot mess. She can easily afford lawncare service like everyone else


I think I found myself!

I'm trying to save the pollinators and bees and fireflies y'all killed with Mosquito Joe type services.

But yeah, I know I'm the weird neighbor and I like it. My parents made me do the whole "be sure you fit in" thing for a significant portion of my life and now I am free!