Every neighborhood has a crazy old man. Generally these old people get so insane because they don't do anything anymore but sit in their houses and stew. Hopefully old people have family to take care of them so they don't unleash their craziness on other people. Unfortunately in our neighborhood there's an old man who's family doesn't care about him so we all have to deal with him. Here's our most recent interaction with him.
Saturday morning I hear an air horn blowing and my dog is barking out the front window. I am nursing our 2 week old baby so my husband runs out to find out what the hell is going on. Standing at the end of our driveway on our lawn with some random dog next to him is the crazy old man, blowing an air horn at our house. Paul says, "what are you doing?!?" The crazy old man says, "your dog is barking." Paul says, "because you are standing on our property blowing an air horn at him, of course he is barking." The crazy old man says, "I'm calling the pound." Paul says, "go ahead, I'll tell them you are standing on our property blowing an air horn and deserve to be barked at."
This is totally in line with his recent behavior of wandering the neighborhood and harassing dogs. He stands on the property line of houses with dogs, blows his air horn in an attempt to get the dogs to bark at him. He then screams about dogs barking in the neighborhood.
Seriously. Family...take care of your crazies!!!
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Don't you just LOVE neighbors? In our neighborhood it's a girl who constantly tries to pet our dogs through our fence, climbs our neighbors tree and calls our dogs while dangling from branches, etc.
How do you crazy-proof?
Next time, I'd have Paul go outside with a rattle and run around the guy a few times, shaking the rattle like crazy. He might even want to speak in tongues. After a few times (or if the guy stops blowing the airhorn), Paul can then say, "now, who's crazier?"
Or I'd just call the police.
Joe, that comment made me laugh out loud...I will recommend that to Paul.
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