Bad Neighbor

[Mythsaje]

Thanks to Bush, the United States has become the kind of neighbor no one wants. You know, the one who throws trash over your fence, goes through your mail, shoots at your dogs, and has the nerve to start rumors about you at the neighborhood watch party.

To make matters worse, he crossed town to beat up the poor convenience store owner whose distant cousin punched him in the eye a couple of years ago. Not because the store owner had done anything, but because he had the misfortune of being related to the other guy who he couldn't find.

We've become the kind of neighbor who has a party every weekend and unapologetically takes up all the parking spaces on the block, where the party-goers wander outside and pee through the fence.

The kind of neighbor who sends his obnoxious brother-in-law to the neighborhood watch meeting so he can yell at them for having kids who won't stay off his grass.

We should be embarassed to be Americans at this point. Not because of anything we did personally, but because this asshole claims to speak for us and act on our behalf.

[KansDem]

1. The only difference is...

One can always hope the "bad neighbor" will move away.

[MadMaddie]

2. Yea...that about sums it up....

The world knows that he doesn't speak for all Americans.....but they are wondering why we are not fighting back more than we are...don't get me wrong...small steps are being taken but.....just small steps...

[fooj]

3. I always refer to him as the one everyone wants to avoid at a party...

I like your "bad neighbor" analogy better.:toast:

[TomInTib]

5. But isn't he the guy everyone wants to have a beer with?

All these mexed missages are just screwing me up.

[JNelson6563]

4. A medieval meaning

was that of a sort of siege machine. Seems applicable in that sense of the word too.

Julie

[Warpy]

6. Drunken uncle syndrome

You know, that loudmouth, that blowhard that shows up at parties whether or not he's been invited and makes sure everybody knows he's a relative, gets a skinful as quickly as possible, and ends up picking fights with half the men there when he insults their wives.

He's the guy who shows up at your house and stands out on the front lawn taking your personal inventory at the top of his lungs at 7 AM when all the neighbors are sure to be disturbed enough to come out and watch. You're never quite sure how much of it they'll believe.

You can't ever really get rid of him because he IS a relative, albeit one you try to avoid whenever you can, and your spouse has thrown him out of your house repeatedly. Everybody associates him with you, because he's a relative. Everybody suspects that buried somewhere down deep, you're just like him in one way or another, all unpleasant.

I can't look at Stupid without thinking of my own experience with the drunken uncle. I know what his fate is likely to be, and it isn't pretty.

I just hope he doesn't take us down that road with him.