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Naughty Little Girl (Amusing Neighbors)

KimberlyH

KimberlyH

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We moved into our neighborhood about 5 months ago and have been provided quite a bit of amusement since then by a child we've dubbed "Naughty Little Girl" who lives a few doors down from us. She is constantly stirring up trouble and being admonished by both her parents and her nanny and because we have a large bay window and always keep all other windows in the house open we get to see her latest and greatest stunts. She is darling (except when she shakes the gate we share with our neighbor that attaches to our home and it wakes my sleeping daughter), and very precocious.

Anyone else have a neighbors that provide them with entertainment unknowingly?
 
I've mentioned this one before. We live in a small condo development. One of our neighbors lives alone with her dog (her husband passed away and I don't think she has children). I went to her place one day to pick up something, and I almost laughed when I walked in. You know those flags that you can have made, that are made to be hung outside? Well, this woman has 12 of them hanging throughout her condo, one for each month. On each (big) flag is a picture of her dog, appropriately dressed in an outfit that goes along with whatever holiday is celebrated that month. Either that or the background on each flag depicts a holiday, with her dog front and center. They're hilarious. My neighbor clearly worships her dog, and I think it's great that she chose to honor him that way. :bigsmile:

For example:

July: dog watching fireworks
December: dog wearing a Santa hat
March or April (whenever Easter is): dog and the Easter bunny and Easter eggs

And so on...
 
Zoe, I love it!
 
yes!

We have a 7 yr old boy who lives next door and is always entertaining us through the window. Just last night he was running up and down the sidewalk in nothing but pajama bottoms. Then, a second boy in his pajama bottoms showed up and the two of them kept sprinting across our yard. I have no idea why but it was pretty funny. He also jumps his fence into our back yard, collects toads and takes them back home where he is immediately ushered back outside to release his pals. This kid drives most of the neighbors crazy, but I find him amusing.
 
Zoe said:
I've mentioned this one before. We live in a small condo development. One of our neighbors lives alone with her dog (her husband passed away and I don't think she has children). I went to her place one day to pick up something, and I almost laughed when I walked in. You know those flags that you can have made, that are made to be hung outside? Well, this woman has 12 of them hanging throughout her condo, one for each month. On each (big) flag is a picture of her dog, appropriately dressed in an outfit that goes along with whatever holiday is celebrated that month. Either that or the background on each flag depicts a holiday, with her dog front and center. They're hilarious. My neighbor clearly worships her dog, and I think it's great that she chose to honor him that way. :bigsmile:

For example:

July: dog watching fireworks
December: dog wearing a Santa hat
March or April (whenever Easter is): dog and the Easter bunny and Easter eggs

And so on...
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Zoe...you've turned what has been a crap day for me...into a much better one!

Thanks for sharing :)

I can just visualize it in my head :bigsmile: :lol:




Our neighbor who is definitely in the mafia is entertaining..
 
somethingshiny said:
yes!

We have a 7 yr old boy who lives next door and is always entertaining us through the window. Just last night he was running up and down the sidewalk in nothing but pajama bottoms. Then, a second boy in his pajama bottoms showed up and the two of them kept sprinting across our yard. I have no idea why but it was pretty funny. He also jumps his fence into our back yard, collects toads and takes them back home where he is immediately ushered back outside to release his pals. This kid drives most of the neighbors crazy, but I find him amusing.
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I used to have three little boys entertain me everyday. They were triplets and looooooooved driving their mom insane. She had 0 control over them. It got to the point where they would run out of the house NAKED on a daily basis and she would stand there screaming, pulling at her hair.
 
Autumn -- mafia, huh? That's definitely got to be interesting!

Yeah, our neighbor is a hoot. She's very much into girly things, and PINK is her favorite color. Her place is filled with these flags, and these hot pink diva/princess magnets and other slightly kitchy stuff. The funny thing is that there's a photo of her with her boyfriend (they have a LDR), and this woman couldn't have looked more matronly, in her pose and her outfit she wore for the photo. I truly don't mean to make fun...it just took me by surprise because everything else about her makes it seem like she doesn't take life too seriously (long bleach blonde hair, hot pink and white feather boas strewn everywhere)...and then you look at this picture. Too funny.
 
Zoe said:
Autumn -- mafia, huh? That's definitely got to be interesting!

Yeah, our neighbor is a hoot. She's very much into girly things, and PINK is her favorite color. Her place is filled with these flags, and these hot pink diva/princess magnets and other slightly kitchy stuff. The funny thing is that there's a photo of her with her boyfriend (they have a LDR), and this woman couldn't have looked more matronly, in her pose and her outfit she wore for the photo. I truly don't mean to make fun...it just took me by surprise because everything else about her makes it seem like she doesn't take life too seriously (long bleach blonde hair, hot pink and white feather boas strewn everywhere)...and then you look at this picture. Too funny.
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I really really wish I could see this. I bet she is a really funny/interesting person to talk to. I really really love people like her.
 
I think we are the goofy neighbors. JD and I have the Battle Roy-al in the front yard all the time and try to work our crazy ninja moves on each other while we're doing yardwork. Chase the kids around and spray them w/the hose..and our kids are the naked kids.
 
Packrat, your neighborhood equivelant of my husband and I are talking about you.

This evening Naughty Little Girl attempted to break in to another neighbors' car. She is a wild child.
 
Packrat, your neighborhood equivelant of my husband and I are talking about you.

This evening Naughty Little Girl attempted to break in to another neighbors' car. She is a wild child.
 
Bwhahaha I wouldn't doubt it! The first Spring/Summer after we were married was our first Battle Royale. It's kind of a repeat of the same thing every year. JD dragging me around the yard by a foot and me kicking at him and me running across the yard all hunched over and stealthy like to jump on his back-sometimes I can knock him over, but then when I run away he sticks his arm out and grabs my foot so I go flying all askew. You hear a lot of "Oh you mother" and "Mess w/the bull baby" from me, and JD just hysterically laughing. There have been times when we finally quiet down and are laying there laughing we realize we can hear a car running and someone is idling in the street looking at us like this :o We're kinda weird.

How old is Naughty Little Girl? I can't believe she tried breaking into a car!
 
She's 4 or 5 I'm guessing. Her nanny has infinite patience, but could probably stand to be a bit more firm. She should tape record her voice, I bet she gets horse saying "No, Naughty," "Come here," and counting to 3 as many times as she does in a day.

And I would crack up observing your battles.

My neighbors are probably so tired of seeing my boobs. I sit on the couch facing the big window to feed my daughter, hoping for an NLG sighting of course, it's like a regular peep show!
 
My neighbor (The one who looks JUST like Hugh Hefner)
Keeps a bulldozer and cement mixer in his back yard and is constantly digging and filling holes
and hiring work crews who seem to never accomplish anything.
This has been going on for at least ten years.
He used to have a wife but somewhere along the way she left.
We saw the moving van come for her things
We could ask what he is up to but why spoil the fun
 
MissMina said:
My neighbor (The one who looks JUST like Hugh Hefner)
Keeps a bulldozer and cement mixer in his back yard and is constantly digging and filling holes
and hiring work crews who seem to never accomplish anything.
This has been going on for at least ten years.
He used to have a wife but somewhere along the way she left.
We saw the moving van come for her things
We could ask what he is up to but why spoil the fun
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you sure the wife isn't in one of the holes????
 
Zoe said:
Yeah, our neighbor is a hoot. She's very much into girly things, and PINK is her favorite color.
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Zoe, I used to have this same neighbor at my last house. She loooooved pink. Too much. She painted the exterior of her house hot pink, with even hotter pink trim. Literally, the house is about the same color as the word "pink" in your post above! :errrr:
 
I am currently moving back to my grandparents to work on saving money. There is a VERY old VERY senile woman who lives down the road. She grew up on the road. She thinks she still owns the entire area. She is always pulling something crazy. She drives around in her golf cart with her 5-6 dogs in tow, sometimes in her lap, sometimes in the back, sometimes running behind. One day she was determined we had stolen her recycling bin, so broke into our yard and came and got it. My grandpa caught her and asked what she thought she was doing and she told him he stole her recycle bin :rolleyes: . We let her have that one. One day she laid down in front of our yard and took a nap :eek: . Sometimes she waves, or smiles. She can't hear. Her name is Miss Mimi. She is the most entertaining old woman ever.
 
MissMina said:
My neighbor (The one who looks JUST like Hugh Hefner)
Keeps a bulldozer and cement mixer in his back yard and is constantly digging and filling holes
and hiring work crews who seem to never accomplish anything.
This has been going on for at least ten years.
He used to have a wife but somewhere along the way she left.
We saw the moving van come for her things
We could ask what he is up to but why spoil the fun
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Are we sure that you and Autumn don't have the same neighbor?? 8)
 
Well...

Right behind us (his backyard and ours share a fence) is Creepy Old Guy. He likes to encourage dogs to bark. His two dogs (especially the one we call Old Yeller) bark all night long (they've got a dog door so it isn't like they are stuck out there -- they walk in and out as they please). He's also been "working" in his yard since we moved in 2 1/2 years ago. Not sure what he is doing hauling big stepping stones around but nothing ever looks any different when he goes inside.

Across the street from us is a big, muscular, bald guy who has his own handy-man company. Every couple of weeks he uses his pickup to tow a car out of his driveway. He and his son (also big, muscular football looking guy) walk around it and look at it (never seen them open the hood or actually DO anything with it) for an hour or so and then roll it back down to its spot in the driveway. Oh.... and muscular bald guy loves to bake -- he brought a reduced sugar blueberry cheesecake to our neighborhood BBQ last summer.


Us? Strange?
Hehehehehehehe..... never. :halo:


ETA: Just a little warning for everyone ----
blinds closed facing one direction keep out more light than the other. No matter how bright the sun is coming through the window in the morning, NEVER turn them the direction that keeps the most light out.....
I went to the mail box one evening (just across the street) and clearly saw FI naked in the living room :eek: --- they keep out more light but show EVERYTHING to all of the neighbors and people walking down the street..... We had the blinds this way for about 3 weeks :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
We have an older guy who lives in the small town we live and work in who's definitely local color, and I'm pretty fond of him actually. I believe he had some sort of traumatic brain damage at some point, and is mentally impaired but not horribly so. He is totally cheerful and sweet natured and comes by my work every day, and if I'm in my office he sticks his head in and says "Hi Kitten! Hi Kitten! Hi Kitten! Bike riding today Kitten! I have my helmet Kitten! I have my water Kitten! It's gonna be safe Kitten! Do you think it's a good day to be bike riding Kitten?"

The proper response is: "It's a great day to bike ride, Scott." [Note: it's always a good day for a bike ride if you're Scott.] I've seen him dozens of miles away on his bike, which sports an enormous American flag on the back, a really excellent bell, and is apparently held together with stickers.

And the final part of the conversation is "Ok Ok Ok Ok Kitten. Bike riding today Kitten!" And then he's off, back to bike riding. Same conversation every day for about 11 years so far, lol.

If we have cookies out for customers, he won't take one until he hunts me down and asks. Apparently one of our (rather unpleasant former) staff members yelled at him for taking two once, and now he's totally afraid of being scolded for over-cookie consumption. I always try to convince him two or three cookies are fine, but he only takes one and always asks first.

He also calls me Sharon if I am behind the desk. I'm Kitten (or rather my real first name, lol) everywhere else, but behind the desk I'm always Sharon for some reason. And my husband is, rather randomly, Jim (not his name actually), and whenever Scott finds DH he yells "GOOOOO MARINERS JIM GOOOOO MARINERS!" real loud at him. (DH usually gives him good Go Mariners Scott back which is what he wants.)

We got Scott a winter coat about five years ago- he still wears it every day, even when it's a zillion degrees out. And Snickers for christmas because he has a huge sweet tooth.
 
LittleGreyKitten said:
We have an older guy who lives in the small town we live and work in who's definitely local color, and I'm pretty fond of him actually. I believe he had some sort of traumatic brain damage at some point, and is mentally impaired but not horribly so. He is totally cheerful and sweet natured and comes by my work every day, and if I'm in my office he sticks his head in and says "Hi Kitten! Hi Kitten! Hi Kitten! Bike riding today Kitten! I have my helmet Kitten! I have my water Kitten! It's gonna be safe Kitten! Do you think it's a good day to be bike riding Kitten?"

The proper response is: "It's a great day to bike ride, Scott." [Note: it's always a good day for a bike ride if you're Scott.] I've seen him dozens of miles away on his bike, which sports an enormous American flag on the back, a really excellent bell, and is apparently held together with stickers.

And the final part of the conversation is "Ok Ok Ok Ok Kitten. Bike riding today Kitten!" And then he's off, back to bike riding. Same conversation every day for about 11 years so far, lol.

If we have cookies out for customers, he won't take one until he hunts me down and asks. Apparently one of our (rather unpleasant former) staff members yelled at him for taking two once, and now he's totally afraid of being scolded for over-cookie consumption. I always try to convince him two or three cookies are fine, but he only takes one and always asks first.

He also calls me Sharon if I am behind the desk. I'm Kitten (or rather my real first name, lol) everywhere else, but behind the desk I'm always Sharon for some reason. And my husband is, rather randomly, Jim (not his name actually), and whenever Scott finds DH he yells "GOOOOO MARINERS JIM GOOOOO MARINERS!" real loud at him. (DH usually gives him good Go Mariners Scott back which is what he wants.)

We got Scott a winter coat about five years ago- he still wears it every day, even when it's a zillion degrees out. And Snickers for christmas because he has a huge sweet tooth.
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Awww! LGK, Scott sounds wonderful! :bigsmile:
 
Irishgrrrl said:
Zoe said:
Yeah, our neighbor is a hoot. She's very much into girly things, and PINK is her favorite color.
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Zoe, I used to have this same neighbor at my last house. She loooooved pink. Too much. She painted the exterior of her house hot pink, with even hotter pink trim. Literally, the house is about the same color as the word "pink" in your post above! :errrr:
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Oh my!
 
Those are great stories. It's nice to have a colorful character in one's life.

Unfortunately we are probably the colorful characters in our neighborhood. when you were talking about naughty little girl, I first was afraid you might be one of our neighbors!
Our dog escapes just about every day so we scream his name while he runs around like a spaz; our youngest loves to run after our outside cat and hold her, and then break down crying when for some strange reason the cat runs off. So I'm sure our neighbors have overheard children screaming and crying, adults yelling and swearing and general mayhem. I'm hoping our neighbors find it humorous, or at least not too annoying. :oops:
 
LGK - Scott sounds wonderful! When you talked about him it reminded me of a man who used to come in our bookstore, and he would walk around to every customer and say hello, and then come say hello to the staff and tell them what he'd done all day. Then he'd get two chocolates and go on his way. Such a sweet person.
 
These are hilarious.

I think we're the entertaining neighbors. We are constantly outside doing something, and when I meet new neighbors they always know who I am. I'm pretty sure they think we're all kinds of crazy because we are always trying something new with the dog. When I meet new neighbors (without the dog in tow) they'll say "Oh, you two have that brown and white dog!"

We walk the dog several miles a day, we take her on bike rides, we take her while we're rollerblading, we put up an above ground pool in the backyard for her, we trained her to go off leash which took a lot of work in the front yard, etc. We told one neighbor that we bought a treadmill for the dog, and he told everyone, so that adds to their picture of us, as well. We bring my mom's dogs over and walk all of them together.

I'm pretty sure everyone is saying to each other "Those people need some kids! Or a hobby."

We have neighbors two doors down with twin sons, and DH calls them "The simple family." (Not in a bad way, that is. More in a "simplicity" over modern technology sort of way.) He gets a kick out of it because the twins have old-fashioned toys, they don't play with new gadgets or modern toys, which we think is pretty cool. He always says "Look at the twins, having their simple fun." It's pretty cute, but I get a kick out of it whenever DH comes home and says "They're having their simple fun two doors down."
 
Haven said:
These are hilarious.

I think we're the entertaining neighbors. We are constantly outside doing something, and when I meet new neighbors they always know who I am. I'm pretty sure they think we're all kinds of crazy because we are always trying something new with the dog. When I meet new neighbors (without the dog in tow) they'll say "Oh, you two have that brown and white dog!"

We walk the dog several miles a day, we take her on bike rides, we take her while we're rollerblading, we put up an above ground pool in the backyard for her, we trained her to go off leash which took a lot of work in the front yard, etc. We told one neighbor that we bought a treadmill for the dog, and he told everyone, so that adds to their picture of us, as well. We bring my mom's dogs over and walk all of them together.

I'm pretty sure everyone is saying to each other "Those people need some kids! Or a hobby."

We have neighbors two doors down with twin sons, and DH calls them "The simple family." (Not in a bad way, that is. More in a "simplicity" over modern technology sort of way.) He gets a kick out of it because the twins have old-fashioned toys, they don't play with new gadgets or modern toys, which we think is pretty cool. He always says "Look at the twins, having their simple fun." It's pretty cute, but I get a kick out of it whenever DH comes home and says "They're having their simple fun two doors down."
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LOL! I'm going to use that phrase.
 
While reading this I was feeling very sad at the fact that we have no amusing neighbors to entertain our days. Then I realized, WE are the amusing neighbors, SIGH.

My five year old regularly streaks the neighborhood. He strips as soon as he gets home and whenever the spirit moves him, he goes running out of the front door in all of his glory. This wouldn't be so bad except, well, our neighbors have five girls.

Speaking of their five girls and my five year old... a couple of years back, my little one went camping. Dad let him pee outside to his heart's content. Oh the joy of it, huh? Just wiz on the bushes and have that opportunity to feel all primal and manly! (what is it about men and peeing outside anyway?) Well, that caused some potty confusion for my little one and when he came home, he felt it was perfectly suitable to pee outside in our backyard and you guessed it...our front lawn. Please understand that we were correcting him each time he did it. One day, he was outside playing and all of the neighbor girls were outside too. Before I knew it, I hear a loud, collective, "EWWWWWWW!" There was my little boy, peeing on the lawn in their general direction!

So, yeah, thanks to my littlest...we are THOSE neighbors!


*sniff* I'm so proud! :oops:
 
Yeah, I've kinda come to the general conclusion that if you don't have the weird neighbors you must *be* the weird neighbors.

Trapper pees outside all the time. Not out front, but in the back where it's fenced in. We had to cure him of just opening up the patio doors and peeing out onto the back deck. Now he just says "I'm going to potty on your flowers mommy" and off he goes.
 
Packrat, you and JD sound hilarious.
 
housecat - omg lolololol


I'm just going to forewarn you, some boys cannot be cured of this. I know, from personal experience. :nono:
 
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