Just when I started to think I could trust her again, I was quickly informed just how stupid that idea really was. Over the past few days, I have been letting Ayla spend more and more time outside unattended. The lengths are not too long in my opinion but certainly better than she was getting with going out, doing her business and immediately coming back in.
So today, I looked out the window after she’d been outside for about 10 minutes and saw her walking around in the yard. A few minutes later, I look out there again and she’s no where to be seen. I throw on some shoes and start thinking, “She’s at the neighbor’s again…”
Not 15 seconds later, the doorbell rings and there is our lovely neighbor, there to tell me that our dog has once again come to visit. And as usual, Ayla comes through the hedges then and into the house. Then the woman starts to tell me that Ayla always makes such a mess on her front steps when she comes over and she’s chewed on some of their shoes and others have just gone totally missing and so on. So I asked if she would like me to come clean off the steps for her since it IS our dog. She refused but continued to complain…which led me to tell her thanks for her “understanding” of the situation of our 9 month old puppy and I shut the door in her face.
Sounds a bit harsh maybe? Could have been and not likely very neighborly or Christian either but if she was just looking for someone to complain to, I will never be that person. I would gladly pay for the shoes or clean up the mess or take any other responsibilities for our dog…but just listening to someone complain about how terrible she is when they really have no idea….not going to happen.
To be honest, these neighbors (I’ve complained about them before and yes, you can skip reading this) are a thorn in the side of many of our other neighbors. Not too long ago, one of their daughters was riding her bike in the street and she fell and put a large scratch in the door of another neighbor’s Mercedes. The Mercedes owners (who are beyond nice) requested that the damage be repaired at the cost of the parents…and they said that their insurance would not cover it and therefore they didn’t feel responsible forpaying the cost either. Um, nice…way to teach your kids responsibility.
Or there was the instance last summer when the people who share the other half of the duplex with the complainers had a problem with the water main and their basement flooded. To repair the problem, the neighbors needed to have access to the complainer’s yard where the pipes were buried. But the complainers said no because they didn’t want their yard destroyed and the neighbors had to fix the problem the hard way while their basement remained under water.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be judging these people based on their past actions but I have a real problem being nice to someone who comes over and immediately has an insulting tone of voice with me. Thankfully hubby wasn’t home at the time or he probably would have gone crazy on the woman. It was bad enough when I told him about it anyway. He insisted on going over there when he got home from work and apparently almost made the woman cry. You see, they seem to think they are better than most of the people in the neighborhood but know that hubby makes very good money doing what he’s doing so they actually don’t talk down to him…does that really help me? Not at all…but he has fun with it at least. lol
