What Chili said, smile, be social. INTRODUCE yourself to the folks around you. That is part of the problem these days, folks are damn near anitsocial shut-ins!
I was fabricating the bumper using the angle grinder all day, and had one dude that lives up the street come by and ask "why all the commotion"? then he realized I'm not smoking crack in the corner and took the noise over that, haah. I'm sure they hate it when the torch pops, music is loud with door open, and grinders going.
"Felony Flats" It's been a long time since i heard that name. Oh and my neighbors dont come out of there house enough to hate me...
My neighbor hates me because their daughter just turn 18 . The other neighbors just moved in and like greasers/car guys as they say..... so I'm doing pretty good! Don't tell anyone ....
most of my neighbors are cool, the kids that rented the house across the street from me, then proceeded to turn it into a 24 hour skate park and party house are now scared of me.
my next door neighbors are weird, i think they are that religion that wears nikes and eats poison applesauce
My neighbor hated me sooo much that not only did he call the cops on me, but he also would stand on his shed to watch us! He was 82 or so and no matter what time of day he had to be able to watch us. When we put up a privacy fence it could only go so far for city codes, he moved his chairs around to be able to watch us. One time when mowing he came over to tell me I was grubbing out his yard by mowing a 1/2 inch onto his yard. I reminded him that very day that he was an old man and he needed to grow old a little more gracefully. We started out on great terms and somewhere he got a burr up his ass and called me every name in the book in front of family and friends and then the trouble above began. I would like to have thought we were cheap entertainment for him, but the cop thing was down right a pain in the ass. Then everything got better, he passed away. Woody
my neighbor at my old house hated me. everytime he would mow his front lawn i would walk outside and he would shut the mower off and go inside until i went back in. needless to say there were alot of times it took him hours just to mow his front lawn
I live by the motto, "Don't s**t in your own back yard". I try to be neighborly. When I fire up the gasser, I push it into the street first. I only work on my car during daylight hours. Worse thing to have is a neighbor you don't get along with. Not to mention, they watch the house when I'm at work or on vacation.
We bought another house and a major consideration in buying it was that our new neighbors had a daughter the same age as ours to play with and since her mother went to school with me, we thought it would be great. WRONG! They rarely let their daughter play with ours, put up No Tresspassing signs, they will wave, but never have anything to say. They even put their daughter on a different softball team. It's there loss. I hate it for my little girl. I haven't even started all the loud car stuff yet in the garage it's only 200 ft from their house. I'm getting everything ready to build a new frame for the 46 and some major suspension mods for the 57 truck. It's about time to break out the guitar and amp and play some James Gang, ZZ Top or Allman Brothers again.
i used to run 2 of my header pipes open-pipe, i come home at midnight and went to work at 6:30... my next door neighbors lived here for 30 years, they now installed double pane windows.
Where I lived in NY I had 3 neighbors the ones on either side loved me I fixed lawnmowers ,sno blowers,bikes . The guy who lived behind me hated me. I never knew why.His wife called the town on me on more than once.When he died his son moved in and gave me a lot of old ford parts that were in basement. Where I live now it is very rual I have one close neighbor who is half my age and we are great friends.
i have the best neighbors anybody could have..before i got shot.. i was workin on my cars and some friends cars in my drive way in a subdivsion ..my neighbors to the right of me which are in there 70's would stop by if they seen me outside just to say hey and by, cool ass older folks the lady across from me is in her 50's makes us dinner sometimes cool as hell...after i got shot the neighbor hood had a community yardsale and gave us the proceeds cause i cant work..and to think i welded,grinded ,sanded and even primed and painted in my garage and driveway late evenings and never a complant ..its all about how you treat folks..o yea i forgot about the 39 chevy parts car that i have that sitting inbetween my house and my neighbors house thats been there for about 2 years now.i cant beleive how cool these folks are
My neighbors are cool, its the city "nuisance property" code I can live without! I got an old Ford f100{1964} for parts. One neighbor wants some stuff off it,so does one of the others.They got nasty "clean up your yard or else" letters from the city too! Seems some one two blocks over bitched and now the whole 'hood has to clean up its act.
My old neighbor's hated me, they went nuts the first time I started my blown alcohol motor in the garage I bought a new house last year and my new neighbor's are great. When I start up my race car they all come over to check it out. I don't make too much noise in the shop late because I get shit from my old lady and she can be worse than any neighbor
My neighbors like me? Its 11:30 pm and I just came in from running the air powered inline sander since 6pm. Between the Death metal on the stereo, the compressor running constantly, the yelling to each other OVER the music and compressor, and the sander buzing away, Im sure it was plenty loud. I live in a mellow neighborhood and when we bought our house, Im sure the neighbors were beside themselves. Tattoos head to toe, pitbulls, motorcycles and cars everywhere... 3 years later, and we are definitely the quietest neighbors on the block. The retired cop that lives across the street even comes over once in a while and talks shop- I still cant believe that.
Got the neighbor problem solved The closest neighbor is 300 yards to the NE and he has a band. I hear ya on those code enforcement officers though, had a few go's with them in McGregor Tx back in the 70s They didn't like it when my buddy fired up his 426 Hemi powered Duster 10 blocks down the street and shook the floor at my house. The guys in between caught hell.
6 aceres lotta cars, leave the next stores alone.Lotta times they give me junk and parts they cant use .Its the newbees that come in and build some fancy house with a cool paintball target sighns in their drive way. They dont understand why people like old iron and wanna be left alone.Guess were Crazy?
Every time I do something to my car outside, I wonder if the neighbor appears to be drunk. Because then he joins me immediately and starts to chat. And he does not stop. Eventually I end up doing nothing for the car. Otherwise (meaning sober) he is a nice and silent neighbor.
My parents have lived in the same house since I was a kid and have had one family move away. They sure know when my brother and I come home on leave. Him on his loud ass chopper and me warming up my roadster at 7 on a Sunday morning. We don`t have any problems though. We just get the head shake from the old couple couple next door, you know the one that says "they used to be such good kids"
I love all these stories! We don't have any neighbor's as we live in the middle of a field so I can play all I want. Problem is, the kids are getting older and Mums Taxi is getting a bit pissed at having to operate after 7pm so we were looking to move somewhere closer into the nearest town so the kids can use the local bus. Went to look at really nice estate with just 10 houses, bit of land around each one and a good landscaping job. 2nd time we went to view the house I turned up in my 56 as I wanted to gauge what the reaction of the neighbor's was going to be. Oh dear. The couple selling the house could not get us out quick enough, it was as if we told them we were going to turn the house into a mosque! On the way off of their drive way I noticed that there was a lighter patch of tarmac so, being a kindly soul and not holding a grudge, I painted a few Mickey T lines on the drive and left them a small pile of smoldering rubber... Don't think we will be invited back... Juvenile? Yes, but oh so satisfing... My wife has deiced that we should stay where we are and just buy the kids some bikes
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