In article
<7fafc5fd-07bd-4090-9291-e0d07fb8d0ba@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
cjra says...
>
>Hmmm, we live catty-corner (kitty-corner?) from what is I think a half-
>way house of sorts...I haven't quite figured it out yet.Basically 4-6
>mentally challenged adults live there, alone. Frequently there's weird
>yelling and screeching and belching and what sounds like loud vomiting
>but I think is coughing. Though it's not exactly pleasant, it never
>occured to me to complain about it. They're all very nice and friendly
>too and though the house looks pretty bad, has the most gorgeous
>flowers in the front :)
>
>It's not ideal, but in a neighborhood you just accept some of these
>things as part of life. I'm more bothered by the idiot whose car alarm
>goes off every time a car p***** by (and it's a lousy car, no one
>would want to steal it, and we have very low crime in our area now).
>
Yep. I have an immediate neighbor who has indoor furniture on the front
****ch
and stuff all over the yard, an uncertain number of noisy miniature
pincers
running around, recurring noisy marital problems, and now five kids.
Anyone
driving through would be thinking "um - *that* house....".
But they're friendly, don't get their backs up and all defensive if
they're
approached nicely (and not too frequently) about some of their excesses,
have
done better (though not perfectly) keeping their dogs to home and quieter,
and
are clearly doing their best. Some in our circle street ask me 'how can
you
stand it' but it's really tolerable if one is willing to grant a little
special
leeway. Which all of their immediate neighbors do. Small costs for peace
:-)
Banty
|
