What Grinds Your Gears?

[sobo]

I thought you got rid of that? They move back? Bummer man! I had that issue for awhile a couple years ago., from 3-door over! they were home, and I guess, put the dogs out, they would bark constantly while they were out. Got to the point I would get my 8' ladder so my voice had open space to their back yard, and yell at the top of my lungs "STF DOGS UP!" I think others probably called animal control, because it eventually ceased.

Got rid of the primary idiot and his 4 mutts that were directly behind my house last summer. He got foreclosed! hehehehehehe...

Now, the issue is another idiot on the east side and 2 doors over. He throws his two mutts in the backyard in a kennel when he leaves in the morning, they stay out there all day barking their fool heads while I (try to) work from home, and then he brings them in around 10 or 11 pm. Hideously aggravating... I also go out to my front porch, face to the east, and bellow at the top of my lings, "STF-ing MUTTS THE HELL UP!" about every 3 or 4 days. Never seems to help...

And he's a big, fat, red-haired redneck with a full-on neckbeard. A real prize, that one...

 

[RobMa]

Got rid of the primary idiot and his 4 mutts there were directly behind my house last summer. He got foreclosed! hehehehehehe...

Now, the issue is another idiot on the east side and 2 doors over. He throws his two mutts in the backyard in a kennel when he leaves in the morning, they stay out there all day barking their fool heads while I (try to) work from home, and then he brings them in around 10 or 11 pm. Hideously aggravating... I also go out to my front porch, face to the east, and bellow at the top of my lings, "STF-ing MUTTS THE HELL UP!" about every 3 or 4 days. Never seems to help...

And he's a big, fat, red-haired redneck with a full-on neckbeard. A real prize, that one...

I had that issue as well, I had a next-door neighbor whose ex-wife for some God unknown reason would visit her ex and his new girlfriend at their place and bring her little ratty dog that they would lazily just let out the door to come shi_t in my yard and then when it wasn't doing that it would sit and incessantly bark to the point where I would become irate, I'm usually a pretty calm person and keep things under the cuff but man that would piss me off. One time the guy was outside and I said something as diplomatically as I could and he got uppity and we started screaming back-and-forth and I shut that motherfu_ker down real quick, threatened to take it to the pound if I caught it in my yard again and he never said anything to me about it again. Granted it's been years now and he still never talks to me anymore but the truth is he's at fault because he wouldn't keep the dog under control and my behavior was just a reaction to his selfishness and laziness so oh well..

 

[Cavedweller]

Now, the issue is another idiot on the east side and 2 doors over. He throws his two mutts in the backyard in a kennel when he leaves in the morning, they stay out there all day barking their fool heads while I (try to) work from home, and then he brings them in around 10 or 11 pm. Hideously aggravating... I also go out to my front porch, face to the east, and bellow at the top of my lings, "STF-ing MUTTS THE HELL UP!" about every 3 or 4 days. Never seems to help...

Pro tip: Dogs do not respond positively to yelling. You're wasting your time that way. But, you knew that.

 

[sobo]

Pro tip: Dogs do not respond positively to yelling. You're wasting your time that way. But, you knew that.

It's cathartic... at least...

 

[Mikej]

Granted it's been years now and he still never talks to me anymore

Kind of the same with one of 'em living next door to me. His little yapper wasn't the problem, it was him! Came unglued on me about parking my car in front of his house. No sidewalks. Gravel roadside fading into shatgrass that is only green in spring being as it's growing in hard dirt. I parked on the grass and straddled his water meter. He came home and blasted me for parking on his lawn and going to break his meter. He let his front yard that's river rock fill completely is with shatgrass and doesn't mow it. It's a foot tall now, can't see the river rock anymore. His gutters sag. Neighbors on the other side, "The Woke" put raised beds in their front yard. The grass is over a foot tall now. I make sure they see me spraying weed be gone along the edge where their weed seeds blow and grow. In MY LAWN!! Don't buy a G-D house with a lawn if you don't want to take care of it. STAY IN YOU APARTMENT!! Oh yeah, their cat(s), among others, come in my yard! To crap and spray on my stuff. I toss it over their fence. I sure hope it doesn't go in with their FOOD.

 

[Cavedweller]

Neighbors on the other side, "The Woke" put raised beds in their front yard. The grass is over a foot tall now. I make sure they see me spraying weed be gone along the edge where their weed seeds blow and grow. In MY LAWN!!

You need to up your game. Forget the Weed-Be-Gone. Get some KilzAll. Years ago when I lived in VA I had neighbors who didn't maintain their yard. Their weeds were constantly invading. I created what I called the "Zone of Death" along the PL. Spraying (only on my side of course) about a 2-foot strip that was permanently brown. Our friends would joke about it, and it became know as "The ZOD." That was before the Age of Woke. I'm sure your Wokesters next door would totally freak out!

 

[kmk1012]

You need to up your game. Forget the Weed-Be-Gone. Get some KilzAll. Years ago when I lived in VA I had neighbors who didn't maintain their yard. Their weeds were constantly invading. I created what I called the "Zone of Death" along the PL. Spraying (only on my side of course) about a 2-foot strip that was permanently brown. Our friends would joke about it, and it became know as "The ZOD." That was before the Age of Woke. I'm sure your Wokesters next door would totally freak out!

We moved several years ago, slightly rural as in 1-2 acre lots, and the new neighbors to the south really don't like yard work. I had a couple conversations about their blackberrys creeping over my fence but eventually made a death zone of 5 feet on their side. They weren't happy but I don't care, I already had to replace over 60 Arborviteas that were choked out by their "crop". Now, when I'm spraying, I look him in the eye and he looks away, knowing he's too lazy to perform the most basic neighborly duty.

 

[Cavedweller]

We moved several years ago, slightly rural as in 1-2 acre lots, and the new neighbors to the south really don't like yard work. I had a couple conversations about their blackberrys creeping over my fence but eventually made a death zone of 5 feet on their side. They weren't happy but I don't care, I already had to replace over 60 Arborviteas that were choked out by their "crop". Now, when I'm spraying, I look him in the eye and he looks away, knowing he's too lazy to perform the most basic neighborly duty.

I have the same beef with neighbors whose lot is covered with English ivy. Why should I have to spend half my life cutting it back because they won't do anything to control it? There ought to be a law.

 

[monks]

And he's a big, fat, red-haired redneck with a full-on neckbeard. A real prize, that one...

I didn't realize that was you over there! Howdy neighbor!

 

[NeoBlackdog]

I have the same beef with neighbors whose lot is covered with English ivy. Why should I have to spend half my life cutting it back because they won't do anything to control it? There ought to be a law.

IVY CONTROL NOW!

 

[sobo]

I didn't realize that was you over there! Howdy neighbor!

Oh, hi! Shut your damn dogs up!

 

[MannyGlocks]

My closest neighbor and I were friends for 15 or so years.

Due to his ever increasing alcoholism, his generalized anger came to a head one day while I was mowing.

He'd snarl and called me names a few times previously, because the noise my mowing made irritated him. I overlooked his obnoxiousness as he was super drunk every time...

The last time was it though. Yep, three times is 'the charm'....

He accused me of something (very drunkenly) that I didn't and would never do...vandalize one of his trees...never happened...

Now, it's probably been 5 years since that day and we've never spoken to each other since.

Sad, as when sober he's a good guy, but those days are coming to a complete close, as his sobriety is 'never now'...

 

[monks]

Oh, hi! Shut your damn dogs up!

Of you'll remind me what street we live on I will! I can't stand the yappers either!

 

[sobo]

Of you'll remind me what street we live on I will! I can't stand the yappers either!

What, they ain't your mutts? Well, there's a conundrum...

 

[The Heretic]

I have great neighbors.

The saying fences make good neighbors?

Well, I don't know about that, but I might make an argument that distance makes good neighbors.

But I am pretty sure that good neighbors make good neighbors. I've had a neighbor come over and pressure wash the roof of my shop - for hours. That same neighbor also spent days helping me clear and burn slash on my property (I did help him burn his slash, and let him use an excavator I rented to remove stumps on his property). I also gave him a Mossberg Shockwave when he moved to Montana for being such a good neighbor and other small tokens of appreciation.

Another neighbor would loan me his tractor, and I would help him maintain it, and other stuff.

I've yet to have any of my current neighbors be annoying and I in turn, try to be considerate towards them too.

 

[450Fuller]

I am a new member at 80, and a combat Vietnam SF para volunteer. I still have 4 old BMW motorcycles
that run, including a 1951 R 51/3...but a danger only to myself. My in-laws used to live in the Dalles. Prefer Alaska.
Gear grinding: ANYTHING concerning Henry Fonda's daughter....

 

[sobo]

Gear grinding: ANYTHING concerning Henry Fonda's daughter....

Amen, Brother! And I'm 15 years younger than you, so I wouldn't even have gone to VN. But seeing that traitorous biitch sitting on that NVA AA gun really chapped my butt back then...

 

[450Fuller]

Many of the old Indo-china hand Marines along with MACVSOG Green Berets still plan to attend a certain West Coast funeral, at that time many cases of ale and beer will be drunk, and then a short walk after dark
to a graveside memorial...
fill in the blanks..... or loose topsoil. VN veteran cops will be there to protect us.

SFA-LIFE
SOA-LIFE
NRA-Life

 

[thorborg]

I am a new member at 80, and a combat Vietnam SF para volunteer. I still have 4 old BMW motorcycles
that run, including a 1951 R 51/3...but a danger only to myself. My in-laws used to live in the Dalles. Prefer Alaska.
Gear grinding: ANYTHING concerning Henry Fonda's daughter....

Hanoi Jane's mendacious apology unexcepted.

 

[Cavedweller]

IVY CONTROL NOW!

Really. If you are going to cultivate a highly invasive species on your lot at least you should be required to control its spread at the property line. Why should your neighbors who don't want it be required to expend the time/effort/expense to keep it off their property? Not saying you can't have it, but keep it off my place!

I have great neighbors.

The saying fences make good neighbors?

Well, I don't know about that, but I might make an argument that distance makes good neighbors.

But I am pretty sure that good neighbors make good neighbors. I've had a neighbor come over and pressure wash the roof of my shop - for hours. That same neighbor also spent days helping me clear and burn slash on my property (I did help him burn his slash, and let him use an excavator I rented to remove stumps on his property). I also gave him a Mossberg Shockwave when he moved to Montana for being such a good neighbor and other small tokens of appreciation.

Another neighbor would loan me his tractor, and I would help him maintain it, and other stuff.

I've yet to have any of my current neighbors be annoying and I in turn, try to be considerate towards them too.

And that grinds your gears?

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