23. A completely, totally crazy woman
My neighbor, crazy old bitch. 1 week after buying my house asked me to remove the pile of roofing shingles from the corner of my lot. She asked nice enough, however I informed her that I had a entire kitchen to install, a bathroom to put in (house was stripped when I bought it) and floors that needed redone. I only worked on the house maybe 3-4 hours a day after work. So the shingles weren’t too high on my priority list but I was obtaining a roll off dumpster next week and that I’d clean them up when I got the dumpster. (Seriously, where would I put a house worth of used shingles without a dumpster? Somewhere else in my yard?) About three days go by and she comes over and orders me to remove the shingles from my property corner (still about 10 feet away from her property), because “her dog is eating the shingles and getting sick” (Her dog weighs literally 2 pounds and is named “little bit”). I said “Well, while we’re having this discussion of your dog eating shingles on my property, I can fix this for you, keep your dog off of my lawn, for the safety of your dog, I have a 90 pound dog I am bringing when I move in and I don’t want your dog to get hurt.” She called the police on me. I informed the officers of the dumpster coming in a few days, they asked me to hurry it up, I had to tell them that you can’t hurry up a waste management company dropping off a rolloff at a residence as contractors tend to get priority. So he was fine with it. That was enough of that.
That isn’t all of it. After two years of living here, she moved her fire ring most of the way onto my property. Still having the snow plow blade on my cub cadet. I pushed it back over into her yard (it was made out of neatly stacked bricks, it became a sloppy pile of bricks and ash when I was done pushing). She got hostile over that as well. Called the police, I called a surveyor friend of a friend over and he came over right away with detailed information about my property. Officer told her to not put anything on my property again and to let me just do my own thing to avoid future confrontation.
And the latest thing she has done. Two weeks ago I planted some nice evergreens about 8 foot off my property line, two rows of them. Mostly to block off the view of her house and to add to the appearance of my property. I am saving money for more trees to transplant onto the back of my property line in much the same fashion but I don’t have the holes dug quite yet. So just the two rows of trees on my property between me and my troubled neighbor. I come home from work on thursday and she had called a tree cutting business and said that the property was hers and that her grandson had planted the trees without her permission while she was in the hospital and she wanted them removed. They destroyed my yard and removed all 14 trees. I asked my buddy across the street, “What the fuck happened?” and he gave me the company name. I found said company. They apologized and since the trees were small, they kept them, so they have given me back the trees, the owner of the company is coming out today to help me put them back in himself. Good company, probably suing the neighbor over this one.
