I’ve commented once or twice about the relationship I have with my neighbor. He’s blamed me for everything short of global warming, and none of it with cause. Well, coupla years ago he sold the lot below me and across the road to some guy. House is built, and after a winter and wet spring, the driveway “sags” about 15′. I didn’t really look, but I guess the base started sliding down the mountain and messed up the concrete drive. They’ve been digging, adding soil, and packing for a few weeks now.
Just heard from another neighbor that that family is going after my neighbor over this. They claim that when he was developing the lot, he buried stumps there and so it’s all his fault.
You know what makes this so rich? I could testify that he never did that! When I first rented the backhoe I used on my site, we were friendly, and he showed me how to use the backhoe by having me practice digging out stumps on that very lot! And everyone we took out, including a monster one that we could barely haul, we carted off to a spot a half mile away. I can see it now, him coming over and saying, “Jim, buddy, how ya doin? No hard feelings, right? Love what you’ve done with the place. How’s the family? Uhhh, would you mind testifying for me against Ed?” The irony would be almost too much to bear! <G>
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It sounds like a dome neighborhood.
What goes a round
comes
around
Excellence is its own reward!
It's been said, but it bears repeating:
"The toes you step on today may be connected to the a$$ you'll have to kiss tomorrow."
did
Blah, yada, whatever, Hi how are you today
OK, this is imagery I don't need...
that's called perfect timing....
as he's asking...bring up that road issue you were concerned about a week or so ago....
I'm sure he'll be happy to help get things resolved....
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If only it'd happen that way! In idle moments I've had fun working up a list of "conditions" for cooperation...just for fun...that was one that was serious (which is likely different from being legal, but it's all hypothetical anyway). Just learned today that there's a suit against him regarding settling on a house that he built several years ago two lots away from this other lot. Must suck to be him, huh?
When the topic turned to his house being for sale, my daughter said, "Daddy, maybe you can design his new house for him!" Gotta love a kid's innocence. She kept pressing for an answer, so I finally told her, "He'd never ask, because we deal in different shapes--I design round houses and he's a blockhead."
Sounds like this guy is one of those ~2% that drag the whole industry down.
The whole society for that matter.
Maintain the high road dude!Mr T
Do not try this at home!
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Jim,
This definately sounds like a case of sowing and reaping or what goes around comes around. Im have probs with one of my neighbors again. But Thats another thread. im trusting in the sowing and reaping with this neighbor also.
Darkworks: Underground, In the Peoples Republic of California
Ron, remember that you're hearing just one side of my story. I'm sure in the eyes of his acquaintances, he's the hero who's getting screwed just for trying to do people a favor. Probably the same with your neighbor. Few people see themselves as the azz that everyone else is convinced they are. Real easy to find evidence of that not so far from here, right? :)
how could anyone who has made the cover, any cover, of FHB be an azz?
impossible!
BTW what's an azz?bobl Volo Non Voleo
as anyone here would surely confirm, i'm one of the last people on this, or any other, planet to look to hillary clinton for direction on anything, however in this instance i'll make an exception.
"i'm sorry, i can't recall."
"i'm afraid i don't remember."
"stumps (billing records)? what stumps (billing records)?"
remember, it's not perjury if they can't prove you can't remember- or something like that, i forget.
m
Just say, "I was out of the loop." Worked for GB senior.
remember, it's not perjury if they can't prove you can't remember- or something like that, i forget.
It's still perjury - the questions are (i) can they prove it and (ii) what are your personal standards?
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I know mitch, and he was having fun with this just like I am. He's seen the guy's house and the situation close up. I don't doubt that he'd do the stand-up thing if it were his neighborhood, and I believe most people here would. Still, it's fun to let off a little steam here and imagine fantastical situations where the good guys always get in the witty last comment, and walk off with the girl as the screen fades to black.
oh no sh!t? i'm old enough to know that the legality- or lack thereof- of any act is not dependent on whether or not one is apprehended or if the offense can be proven in a court of law. on the other hand, thinking, talking and laughing about doing something illegal ain't a sin either- at least not in my mind.
gee Bob, when was the last time you bought new jockeys? it would seem the ones you've been wearing lately are just a weeeeee bit too tight.... just a suggestion.
i mean really, ain't it us conservatives that are supposed to be so tight-asssed all the time? geez, you're giving the free love/free life liberals a bad name.
btw jim- don't be so sure i would do the "right" thing. andy and i had real neighbors from hell for seven lonnnnng years in denver. i swore if those lowlifes' house ever caught fire (a distinct possibility, you'd think, in a house full of chainsmoking drunks) i'd only use the hose to keep it from our house and big spruce. somebody else would have had to call the fire dept because i would have had my hands full with the weinies, marshmallows, and champagne.
lighten up Bob! learn to laugh a little- laughter is one of His greatest gifts. nobody's getting out of here alive.
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lighten up Bob! learn to laugh a little- laughter is one of His greatest gifts. nobody's getting out of here alive.
Mitch, if I had seen any indication that you were posting a lighthearted humorous message I would have responded differently.
What do I see? A worn out attack on Hillary Clinton (get over it folks) and a claim that lying isn't perjury if you don't get caught.
If, in fact, you were intending a humorous posting (and I have no way of knowing what you're intentions were other than by the message itself) than you need to work on your written communication skills, because that intention did not make an appearance in your posted message.
By the way, my experience in life (and particularly on this forum) is that when someone says something that gets successfully challenged, a very common attempt to divert the criticism is to claim "Ah, it was a joke, you don't have a sense of humor."
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I know Jim we only really percieve what we think is the truth based on what we see hear and our experiances. but my experiances with is is such that I tink your very intelloigent and rational (for a dem):>) . I really think you got a grip on things as my my neighbors your 100% right Im the jerk imagine me not wanting to hear the thump thump thump of base coming from his car all hours of the day and night every night and day and his friends too, then his cruising by the house slowly with his stereo turned up even louder after I talked to him along with his friends until I had a UH "friendly" neighbor type conversation. Where I got in his face about 2" and asked him to turn it down I said please and thank you but he got the message. well sort of after his buddies came by one night reving the engines on their cars i front of my house scareing my wife and my son well I had a father and son conversation with him his dad his sister and everyone else in the house..Since then well they sort of kept it down to a small roar. But Im the jerk.
Darkworks: Underground, In the Peoples Republic of California
Well, don't keep us in suspense; when that subpoena ad testificandum arrives are you going to use it for blackmail, or just go straight into court and lie ?
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
Go away and bother somebody else.
cloud
when he moves is he leaving the state? with the lawsuit and all you never know.
Daniel
are you anywhere near Garner
OK, #### y'all. If I can't post some silly little story without it turning into a food fight, without being libeled by a troll, without something unrelated to politics becoming about politics, without nastiness and sarcasm, then I'm gonna pack up my tools and play in another sandbox. Y'all can naff off--and that won't be censored be/c they don't yet know what that means yet.
A hint to everyone in general and no one in specific. Whenever I have a day, a week, a year when I get into arguments at every turn...eventually I stop thinking its gotta be the other people misbehaving and start to wonder at my own complicity in the ugliness.
but i like your silly little stories
bobl Volo Non Voleo
Just let it roll off, like raindrops off a dome.
Excellence is its own reward!
I thought it was funny as heck, coming from you, Cloud.
SamT
hey jim- i like your stories too. especially the neighbor related ones because they remind me that i'm now 1500 miles (instead of 15 ft) from the folks we affectionately knew as the gutterrats. your post wasn't completely removed from politics- it dealt with a moral dilemma and that is something that clearly has a public/political dimension these days. our "leaders", like most of the rest of us, obviously have a somewhat flexible sense of the concept of whether or not it's ever okay to do something wrong for the right reason. personally, in your particular case, i wouldn't lose 2 seconds sleep over testifying that "i couldn't be absolutely sure if we removed all of the stumps from the area in question. i remember taking out some, but can't really say if we got them all. etc..." which may well be true enough.
as far as i can tell, only bob didn't get the joke, the rest of us are fine. (and btw bob, when "the world's smartest woman" practically answers, "I'm sorry, I can't recall" to "Please state your name and address", that is fair game for the occasional shot, i don't care how long ago it happened. she's the friggin poster child for situational alzheimers)
m
Oh, I'll keep telling some, if only be/c I like to hear myself. <G> Or is it, read myself. But some days I grow weary of the garbage...turns a pleasant diversion into a high maintenance activity, and I'm not much into maintenance. "Hi" to Andy...our excitement last night was Meili getting stung on a finger by a bee at the gym...terribly upsetting to her.
Since your parade already got rained on with the preceding smackdown I'll go ahead and play the tape I recorded of your neighbor talking to his buddies...
"Dang Hippie, dome building, trouble maker! I should have known better than to let him practice digging in that area! Now look what happened!"
:-)>Kevin Halliburton
"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity." - I.M. Pei -
Ya know, that would figure. Bet he'll roll me in as an accessory (or even the total cause). I can hear his defense now: "Don't know what that dumb Yankee put in there when I wasn't looking!"
there's always a few who want to take the fun out of dysfunctional. but what'a a person to do or say when in the first breath bob tries to lecture/hector (lector? hecture?) me for espousing the virtues of situational ethics and then he defends hillary with the next? that was positively surreal. did anyone else catch the irony in that?
andy says hi- we'll have to get together for dinner soon. we just tried pomodoro's for lunch the other day. as we like to say, it didn't suck. (hey bob- that was a humorous reference meaning it was actually pretty good)
m
I think what Cloud was saying, in a no nonsense kind of way, was simply:
" D - R - O - P
I - T "
(Please)Kevin Halliburton
"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity." - I.M. Pei -
there's always a few who want to take the fun out of dysfunctional. but what'a a person to do or say when in the first breath bob tries to lecture/hector (lector? hecture?) me for espousing the virtues of situational ethics and then he defends hillary with the next? that was positively surreal. did anyone else catch the irony in that?
Ahh, mitch. Who brought the political stuff up? Instant message here: you did: 34288.13
Defend hillary? Nope, just called you on dragging out that tired old whine.
BTW, situational ethics would say "it's a lie/perjury, and here is why it's ok in a certain situation."
It is not "it's not a lie if they don't catch you."
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Edited 9/3/2003 12:59:00 PM ET by Bob Walker
Edited 9/3/2003 1:05:32 PM ET by Bob Walker
Hope I didn't "burst your bubble" - or should that be "deflate your dome?"
Kevin Halliburton
"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity." - I.M. Pei -
Edited 9/3/2003 12:56:29 PM ET by Wrecked Angle
Hey, you know these suckers won't deflate...me either. ("That's what he said after Viagra"...bada boom!)
I enjoyed the irony of the story, and took it at that. No political slant, no Phil vs the US of A, no RonT hates Canada, nothing. Just an amusing tale of the old kind, wherein someone (ie, your neighbor, in case any readers can't follow) learns the importance of being fair, because you never know when you might need someone's help.
Did everyone take their dickhead pills lately, or what?
I feel better. :) Plus, Meili's bee sting is improving...sad to see a little kid with her hand swelled up...much better this afternoon.