Broad daylight, worker decides to urinate in my neighbor's front yard?

I replied to the business owner that I didn't believe her story, and I was not going to take down the review.


Two days later I get a message from Yelp saying they are pulling my review. They said it didn't describe a valid customer experience. I'm sure she complained, and if you check that business' page, you'll find about a dozen other one-star reviews that she got canned.


I have half a mind to ask a few people to one-star the place just to be a snot.

 

You must see a lot of odd stuff when working from home.

 

My neighborhood is pretty tame. Very middle class. About 70% families with school aged kids and about 30% empty nesters or retirees.

From my home office (front window) I can clearly see what goes on with the neighbors on either side of me, and on four or five houses across the street. Since there are several stay at home moms in that group, there are constant comings and goings.

If I work from my back patio I can see the backyards of two houses on each side of me, two or three houses behind me, and the front yard of three or four houses on the street behind me.

Usually it is boring stuff, and it is more the factor of knowing what other people's routine is more than anything interesting happen. For instance, the woman next to me drives her son to elementary school every day. I know he is often barely making it to school because the woman across the street has kids that go to the same school, and she always leaves several minutes earlier. She also does mini-daycare for a few schoolmates of her son, as the same couple of vehicles drop off kids in the wee hours of the morning (like 6AM drop-off), and pick them up after school. I could go on and on about the random stuff I pick up on just by being observant and in a good vantage point. Usually it is pretty mundane.

But the last couple of weeks I've had a handful of interesting things happen out of the norm.

 

Which just goes to show what a misnomer 'stay at home mom' is.

 

IMO, this stay at home mom does an awesome job.


She gets up in the morning and gets the older two kids off to school. She is outside often with the younger two playing in the yard with them. She mows and does other yardwork, their house always looks tidy from the outside. Even if she doesn't work outside the home, she does seem to work hard as a wife or mother.

Her husband goes to work all day, and has a pretty long commute, so he's gone 11ish hours most days it seems. Old school traditional husband/wife roles it seems. If it works for them, more power to 'em.

 

My sil/bil have a guy like you on their cul de sac. He works from home and keeps an eye on things around the neighborhood. Has everyone's cell phone numbers in case he sees anything odd happening with someone's property. Really friendly guy, looks out for everyone, keeps tabs... Though he is also highly social and will chat whenever given a good opportunity. Bil jokes that he has given this neighbor permission to shoot any intruders. Maybe that's not a joke, actually.

 

I'm not best friends with any of my neighbors, but I'd say I have good, friendly relationships with all of them. They wave and say 'hello', I always do the same. We all mostly know each other's first names. Sometimes in the winter I'll clear the neighbor lady's sidewalk. Two of my neighbor guys I often give bits of whatever I'm grilling/smoking to. The guy two houses down and I have exchanged numbers for when one of us is out of town, to keep tabs on our homes. For the most part it is 2-3 minute conversations over the fence or in the front yard. I'm cool with that. I want to be social and friendly, but don't need to be best friends with anyone right next door.

No.

 

I thought these things were pretty common now in the decaying American empire....

 

I bet it was YOU peeing on my neighbor's house!!!

 

Probably just had the address wrong.

 

I thought it looked like Stanley had some extra fiber in his diet lately...

 

He's not a dirty vegetarian like you.