A Neighborly Encounter

We occasionally hear one of the neighbors behind my house calling for a cat or dog. It’s a rather annoying sound to hear “Tweeters! Tweeters!” in a voice I can’t even begin to describe, but it cuts over the sound of the TV and is not pleasant. Anyway, we’ve been trying to figure out if it’s the neighbor right behind us or the one kitty-corner behind, but it’s always been dark out when we’ve heard it, so we couldn’t see who it was.

We thought it was the lady in the house behind mine cause she’s a little, um…odd…anyway. She apparently owns the house, but doesn’t live there. She uses it for the yard and basement to have “greenhouse” room for her seed business or something like that. There are never any lights on and usually no one outside, which is kind of nice cause it’s like not having neighbors. When she is out in the yard, she wants to talk and is just generally a bit annoying. At one point when David was helping me with something in my yard, she asked if he was my dad, which I’m sure he was thrilled about. She also at one point asked if my mom, aunt and I were “three generations of family”. My aunt was not pleased.

The first summer there was a guy there taking care of the yard, but they don’t really take care of the yard anymore, so weeds and vines are starting to overgrow into my yard. There’s also a pile of garbage that they won’t get rid of. But for quite a while now, there hasn’t seemed to be anyone around, though the cars are always in the driveway. Needless to say, I don’t really care for this particular neighbor, so it fit that she’d be annoyingly calling a little cat that we’ve seen wandering around her yard. But since she’s never there, we weren’t sure it was her, and of course we had to know.

Last Friday, the annoying “Tweeters!” started up about 6 pm, so it was still light enough to figure out who it was. Mr B. walked to the back door to look out, and came quickly back saying, “AHH!! I need a scotch bright pad and rubbing alcohol. AHH! I gotta get that sight out of my eyes! AAHHH!” Once he calmed down slightly, he continued, “It’s the lady right behind, and she wasn’t wearing a top and they were down to here.” He motioned around his waist area. “She just had on a skirt and then nothing. AHH! I can’t get that image out of my head. AHH!”

I thought it was rather amusing. He apparently didn’t think so. :)