I have the STUPIDEST NEIGHBORS, ever.

[Ripley]

I've dealt with a lot of their crap - posted some of it here before...

But today was the most absurd. I have a wind ribbon (a piece of artwork I bought from a Vietnamese guy at an Art Festival - it is a rainbow colored pieces of acrylic that are lined up and twisted upon a stationary line so that it looks "pretty" and actually causes a color phenomenon when it spins in the wind).

Anyway, this artwork got blasted by three freaking Hurricanes already and it is only July 19!!! So I moved it to the East side of my house which is the front porch.

The STUPID NEIGHBOR says to me as I am in my front yard: "Why are you hanging that Gay Symbol in your yard? Don't you know how that looks and what will happen?"

Excuse me while I beat the living shit out of this bag of cat food because I know I can't do that to a person. When did rainbow colored art wind ribbons become homosexual references??

Some days I just want to throw it all the hell away and leave this country.

On edit: Obviously I am pissed off that they think a homosexual symbol is bad.

[Lex]

1. So what if it were a gay symbol anyway?

What's your neighbor's problem with THAT?

That's the offensive part.

[Ripley]

3. Yes, I amended my OP.

These people have attacked me because I had a Kerry sign in my window.

Their kids yelled "Die, Yankee Die" when I moved in.

The wife hates me because I don't have children.

Long list.

[eternalburn]

2. That would......

....get under my skin and I would have to put little rainbow stickers in every window of my house.......

....just for starters :)

[lildreamer316]

7. In case no one has

..welcomed you formally to DU; WELCOME eternalburn!

Carry on...B-)

[eternalburn]

26. Thank you....

...I was welcomed a few times back in late 2004 when I discovered DU and started posting :)

[kliljedahl]

4. Sorry I live next to the STUPIDEST NEIGHBORS, ever

Their first time in a home without wheels. Film at 11.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Ripley]

6. No, mine are STUPIDERER.

You numskull. :hi:

Mine are in the landscaping business, yet they let their fuckarooney hillside seep their sandy mass they brought in by the truckload end up on my GARDEN AND YARD.

Top that huh?

[kliljedahl]

8. Mine are in landscaping too

tree cutting etc. Junk pickups in the back yard, weeds growing everywhere, trash all over the yard, "race car" in the garage that "revs up" all hours of the day & night, police visiting every other week. Want photos?


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Ripley]

9. okay. mumble mumble.

Your neighbors are SHIT, but do they fuck with your truck?

I love my old '89 S-15 and the freaks egg it and dump trash in the bed.

I hate them. And I normally save my hate for War Criminals like Bush.

[kliljedahl]

12. My truck's in the garage

But I do pick up their underwear & other trash in my yard, thrown from their windows, about twice a week. They also have a Pit Bull that they let out unwatched at least three times a week. I pity them, don't hate them, but DAMN I wish they were gone. I'm sure there are other people with worse neighbors than me. I try not to use absolutes is all, "best" worst" etc. It's all relative.

Check this site out, we don't have it so bad: http://www.rudeneighbor.com


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Ripley]

20. Well hell yeah there is gonna be...

Someone else worse than me!

But I was irritated and wrote a post.

Didn't expect yall to think I was in charge of it the most.

Be nice if yall acted this way about women's issues.

[GardeningGal]

23. If someone did that to me, I'd have a weekly bonfire n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

19. Dude, do you live on the other side of the people next door to me?

Speaking of gay folks and neighbors. I had the nicest middle-aged gay couple live next door to me for years. Great guys, never any trouble, at most on a warm afternoon you could hear someone over there playing classical piano, and pretty well, too.

They moved out and this fucking NASCAR nightmare moved in. Trailers, buzzsaws, an infinite number of shaved head, surly twentysomethings working on cars and drinkin' coors and blasting shithole country yahoo music at all hours.. Totally rude, the entire neighborhood HATES them.

I really want the gay guys back. I guess I don't understand what a threat they are to my marriage and family values. One thing I would like to do, however, is somehow let these kids next door know that the previous tenants were gay men. They're just the kind of imbeciles to freak out, like... "we've been sitting on the same toilet seats! Nooooooo!!!!"

[kliljedahl]

22. Could be, I'd welcome a nice quiet couple of any persuasion right now

Forgot the shaved heads & tatoos. These guys aren't "classy" enough to drink Coors.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[ironman202]

5. Hmm i have some solutions.

i had a annoying neighbor once...I took my reverge by continuosly replacing his outside porch light bulb with a red bulb. everytime he'd turn his light on he and his whole family would come out and gawk and ponder how the lightbulb kept turning red. I loved the MUST HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE MIRACLES!!! look on their faces no... just me torturing him.

also business reply cards from magazines can be fun. make sure you fill out enough so he gets something new every day.

[Booster]

10. Oh, God. That reminds me when our Union was on strike many

years ago, a couple of guys filled out everything they could find with the name of the big boss; magazine subscriptions, real estate agents, you name it. He was inundated with all kinds of junk mail, magazines, and people knocking on his door & calling him at all hours. I remember he was very mad.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Why don't you ask him for a pre-approved list of colors that are not "GAY"

And patterns and combinations therein.

Yellow next to Orange next to Red? Whoa. Way too aesthetic and rainbow-like. Definitely questionable.

Plaid, or orange like golf pants, should be okay.

Flannel is a maybe; not Gay but could be considered lesbian.

There's nothing wrong with rainbows, whether they be gay symbols or not.
There's obviously something wrong with your neighbor.

And what'll happen? The lord will smite y'all with hurricanes? That's the weirdest part of the whole story. I'm really curious- maybe you should ask him, precisely, what "will happen"?

Here's an idea- paint the whole HOUSE in rainbows, drape tye-dye curtains all over the thing, and start cranking the grateful dead out your windows 24-7... then tell him you're not gay, you're just a hippie. Better yet, just tell him to fuck off.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. *lol*

[Ripley]

14. I try to survive.

Hope you read my posts above...obviously I do not condone their freakish anti-homosexual words.

My neighbors have two sons, one disabled (deaf), and one who is real close to draft age. They don't know what they are getting themselves into...

Bye bye little baseball star...you can now kill those anti-christian forces. They love to hate.

[Warren DeMontague]

21. No, don't worry- I didn't get that from your post.

It's just that your neighbor is *wrong* on so many levels... I mean, rainbows aren't necessarily gay, they are nice in and of themselves, but even if they are a symbol for that---

I'm sure trying to explain any of it to him would be like arguing with a carrot.

[gardenista]

15. How about you hang some rastafari colors next, and see if his gasket

blows for good.

And what the hell does he mean "what will happen"?

[DS1]

16. Hey, my Neighbor is dumber than that!

She went out in an incredibly powerful thunderstorm because the high winds had knocked over her cheap metal and nylon tent that was up since yesterday. Smart thing that, working on metal in thunderstorm in the middle of your backyard. Did she take it down the rest of the way and put it in the garage? No. She put it back up. It got knocked over again. Repeat.

[leftchick]

17. if that is the case then is my peace flag....

Which looks like this....



Is this considered a "gay symbol" as well? LOL! I wonder what my Catholic Priest across the street thinks of this hetero mom with two children??

:rofl:

[spuddonna]

18. lol What an idiot!

Sorry, i can't help but laugh... some people are just such morons...

I'm so sorry that you have to live next to someone like that! It makes life so difficult when your neighbors are asshats... :)

My dad had a beautiful garden when we were growing up. It was at the far end of our property, abutting our neighbors. Well, some new neighbors moved into the house next door (near the garden), and my dad caught the Grandmother (very nasty lady) RED HANDED stealing one night from the garden. My dad asked why she didn't just ask, he'd have been glad to share, and she proceeded to swear at him, and told him, "How dare you accuse me of stealing!" My dad was like, wtf?!

Needless to say, it was the last year he did the garden... until the Grandma passed on! :(

[Kraklen]

24. Build a fence of double-headed dildos.

All colors and varieties, make it a rainbow pattern.

And since it'll be short you'll still get to wave at him every time you see him.

I'm quite serious, you're morally obligated to piss the guy off.

[stanwyck]

25. My neighbor thinks we're Satanists

because she found a few stalks of rhubarb on her trash can. Really. And I occasionally make rhubarb crisp. (I'm a Yankee living in Atlanta). She (Christian rightwing fundamentalist) thinks rhubarb is a sign of Satan. I don't know how the rhubarb got there. I don't care. And we all wonder why her husband, a pediatric surgeon, married this dingbat. It's a mystery. He's completely normal. She isn't.
And rhubarb is a sign of Satan.
My sympathies to you, though, Ripley. Your neighbor sounds worse.