When Patty and the kids were visiting last week, Amy’s neighbor came out yelling at me in a threatening tone about parking on the street. He came out and got right in my face claiming that his taxes pay for a specific spot on the public street, in front of his house. I just nodded and tried to be nice for Amy’s sake. I thought he was crazy, not only because it’s a public street and he doesn’t own it, but also because my car was in the driveway and had been sitting there untouched for two full weeks.
Well today he came out again. I tried repeatedly to ignore him but he kept egging me on, continuing to be rude to me. So finally I had enough and told him that he can’t talk to me like he did last week, which resulted in more yelling but this time it went two ways. As if I didn’t think he was completely nuts before, he explained to me that he was completely justified in yelling at me in a threatening manner and treating me like crap because he “was just fed up” with the noise caused by the construction of Amy’s new deck. He refused to apologize and told me that I need to apologize to him. WTF?
Basically I had nothing to do with anything involved, but that fact apparently didn’t matter to him at all. He thought it was perfectly justified to yell at your neighbor about somebody else parking in “his street” (an unrelated issue anyway), simply because he was “fed up” with construction noise made by other people, hired by somebody else to work on that other person’s house. Even kindergarteners know that you don’t treat other people that way – especially when they didn’t do anything wrong. Why not blame me for global warming since I had nothing to do with that either.
