On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Kevin Tarr wrote:
> Twenty minutes later I'm dressed and ready for a night out when again
> there is the doorbell and knocking. I open the door and there is
> Officer Friendly. (He was very polite.) He says he has a citation for
> me for TRESSPASSING. I made a joke and we laughed and we talked about
> it and finally went to the back of my land and sure enough the tire
> tracks prove I was about a foot on my neighbors land. I'm being polite
> and trying to think of a nice way to tell him where he can put the
> citation.
>
> He fills me in and says that from day one when the neighbor moved in,
> more than a year ago, she has been calling the police about troubles
> great and small. Since this was the first time he had talked to me
> about her (he was the 'special officer' who dealt with her calls) then
> either this was the first time I had come to her notice, or just
> hadn't done anything wrong. He waved the citation as long as I agreed
> to 'stay off' her property.
That doesn't sound very neighborly.
On the other hand, if this is the first you've actually seen of that
neighbor, maybe that's not so bad. Look on the bright side -- at least
you haven't had to put up with police vehicles parked in front of YOUR
house, occasionally blocking YOUR driveway, due to something having to do
with the folks next door. (The motorcycles revving up at 2AM weren't fun,
either, but it was just the once or twice, and not the erratic cycle of
the police car infestations.)
But I sympathize. I haven't seen that particular brand of strangeness in
a neighbor, but I've seen enough others to understand your annoyance.
Julia
who isn't a perfect neighbor either, but who tries to go to the neighbor
before dragging any third parties in, and appreciates those who do the
same
