I have one neighbor thats and older lady, probably 70s. Get along great. The other side are people about my parents age. Late 50s. They have a son thats older than me and still lived at home until about 5 years ago. I bought my house when I was 22 so we did typical, 22 year old shit. They did not like that at all. We have been on the "you live there, I live here" mentality for the past 3-4 years. Works great.
Funny story, the parents were on vacation one night while the son stilled lived there. He had a girlfriend with a 99-01 gt mustang. I had the garage door cracked at around 8 pm, messing around with my camaro. I don't remember what but it was idling, exhaust cutouts closed so not super loud (it has a magnaflow catback). When I was finished, I opened the door all the way to vent the exhaust smell. I hear "Some of us have to ******* work in the morning!" Mind you, I left for work at 4 am back then. I came outside ready to "have a conversation". He goes back in side. 5 min later, I see his girlfriends car backing down the road in front of my house. Que the attempted clutch dump, kill it....twice. Then a half ass burnout.
Needless to say, que cut outs open, prostreet style burnout from the camaro (Felt bad after I did that because the other neighbors). 3:30 am rolls around and I pulled my car out of the garage and let it warm up for 30 minutes with the cut outs open, just to make sure they knew I had to go to work (camaro is high compression, forged internals, texas giant cam, ported heads, etc.). I believe that was the last confrontation we had. Not sure if the embarrassment got to him or if they finally started paying attention to the fact that I left for work before they cracked an eyelid. Obviously I'm much older now and I do see my faults when I was younger. They were ****** and added fuel to the fire .
Either way, we tolerate each other, the son now has a couple kids and its been enjoyable watching them grow and play in the back yard.
Hopefully you two can find some common ground before some stupid happens.
I have some other neighbors that were like that.
One day the they send their 12 year old son over to "talk to me".
Well, that kid was a creep
sat there and stared at me for like 10min while sitting on his bicycle in my neighbors driveway.
Then he told me "your car is annoying, you can't drive it any more because it's annoying"
Me: I look across the street and i see his parents just watching with big open eyes.
So i tell him: oh gosh, i'm so sorry. I'll do my very best to not annoy you any longer!"
He then starts going off about some other things that they wish to have me change.
So i just cut him off and tell him the old man hates kids riding their bikes in his driveway and walk off.
So i grab my keys to the ol vette.
Get in, start it up.
drive in front of his parents while still watching, and do a burnout.
Not my most mature moment.
but i think they got the message.
Part of my issue was that i worked my ass off on that vette, i even had the transmission explode on me shortly after the build.
Big learning curve trying to figure that thing out, got pretty stressed out.
In the end i succeeded.
God the next door neighbor to them has a Harley and dirt bikes.
He likes to do wheelies up and down the road.
I suspect part of that may be them...
I had a pos neighbor growing up that would attack an old man in my neighborhood.
and she would use her kids as leverage.
that old man was the nicest grumpiest old man.
like me, always doing something, building things, etc.
I took special insult to her attacks against him, and i just remembered her when the neighbor pulled that shit.
And i also was pretty young when we moved in here, first house and it was like "ahhh freedom!!"
As for my douche-canoe of a narcissist neighbor, i still remember the stories he told me about all of the other neighbors including the past owners of my house.
Looking back, and now understanding what he is and how he things.
I think both past owners of this house had issues with him.
The original owner of my house, he told me stories about drugs and how he lost his mind or some nonsense.
The guys i bought it from, i saw fire in the eyes when he talked about them.
I think that owner figured him out, or just did as i do.
ignore and do your thing.
I would love to hear the stories he tells about me, i bet they are wild and crazy.
I do know that he thinks I'm another person with a drug history.
Old website where you could search charges for people by name.
well, someone with my same first, last, and middle initial was in this one town.
He was the first one to ask me if i had ever been there.
Me: yeah been there once, i have a friend that moved there recently, Why?
Him: oh no reason, walks away.
Afterwards, people kept asking me the same question...
then people stopped talking or making eye contact with me.
strange but i never gave it much thought, until i finally looked up my own name.
then it started clicking...
When i called the cops last year, he was sure quick to mention that i carry a gun on my hip.
Me now having an idea what's in his head, i dropped the permit card real quick to stop any further conversation.
Cops tone changed pretty quickly after he processed what i was trying to tell him, strange...
