Dammitall

We will have lived in our current house three years as of the end of this month. It's a duplex and the unit attached to ours has been empty for about a year and a half, but we have high hopes for the young woman we saw there last week going through an inspection of the house that she may end up being our new neighbor.

On the other side of our place is an older retired couple who have been very good to us. He is the self-styled "mayor of our end of the street" and has pledged to look out for us. He keeps a shotgun on hand for anything iffy.

On the other side of the empty unit next to us is a crack den/whore house. At least we assume it is, since we've seen drugs and money exchanged outside their house, have heard people make reference to illegal drug activity going on inside, have seen cars with sketchy looking men pull up outside the house (or around the corner) to pick up women and drive away and had a strange (drunk) man come around to our back door late at night looking for one of them.

Just last Saturday we witnessed a screaming match going on outside their front door between one woman that lives there and another woman from further up the street. Our good neighbor told them to shut the hell up and take their trash down to the other end of the street, and the guy with the woman visiting threatened to take a shit on our neighbor's lawn. The visitor then warned another woman who came out of the house that a police raid on their house will probably be coming sometime soon. It can't happen soon enough.

Fun times!

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