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Who was the crazy person in your neighbourhood growing up?

Well, I had the evil woman to one side of the house that once organized a street meeting to confront my mother about our cats wandering about, when my dad found out he went berserk and when the woman's son slammed the door on him he nearly went through it. Then the woman on the other side was the gossip type, she'd go on and on and on and on and on and on about other people's lives to you. I'd often have to sneak down the path to avoid running into her, she told the people down the road that my father beat my mother till she lost the baby. I mean sure, my father did beat my mother, he beat us all, but that's not why she lost the baby, my mother just had problems when she was pregnant.
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Your dad sounds like the crazy person on your street...and the anti cat lady.

I had a convict who lived next door to me that would tell me wild tales of languages he knew, dogs he trained and his feats of strength. He also spent a lot of time outside my house in the dark looking in my windows.
Allelse · 36-40, M
@nonsensiclesnail Oh he was, he was at war with all the neighbours about one thing or another. He was at war with some family down the road even before I was born, something about builders leaving equipment somewhere, I dunno.

Oh, so he was trying to 'seduce' you in his own wonderful way?
@Allelse your dad sounds like a lot to deal with. Im sorry he was cruel.

I dont know what this guys goal was. But I was all of 19 and completely clueless, so he likely was.
Honestly, Ive had so many weird neighbors I dont get to know my neighbors any longer. No point.
Allelse · 36-40, M
@nonsensiclesnail Thanks, that's really nice. :) But at least he's dead so he cant hurt anybody anymore.

Oh yeah I've long given up making friends in the community, people are a pain in the ass. I lived for most of my life in one of those suburbs that likes to think they're a small town. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! 4 churches, 4 schools and everybody hating each other like poison. I much prefer the multicultural suburb I live in now where everybody keeps to themselves.
@Allelse The multicultural suburb was the best one I ever lived in. Granted the druggie guy across the way from us, the only other white people for many homes, tried to kill his girlfriend, but otherwise it was a tight knit, friendly community.
Allelse · 36-40, M
@nonsensiclesnail It's great here! So many different languages that everybody tends to just gibber jabber to each other when they know they're gonna be understood. The only problem though is the angry old white people, who when they spot me as a fellow white person, automatically assume we're best mates who also hates brown people.

Yikes!!! How did he try?
@Allelse Even teh very few other white people in the neighborhood were nice, luckily.
I think he tried to strangle her with a rope? she got away and was able to hide and call the police.
Allelse · 36-40, M
@nonsensiclesnail Just the other day I was down at the cafe and there were lots of different folk with different backgrounds, and the waiters have thick accents but are grand at their jobs. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the place has recently been bought by Lurch. He's this really tall white guy in his 20s who has recently showed up and is always there, helping here and there. Anyway, he's hosting and this angry old white man turns up.

"What's going on with this hole in the roof". Outside of the cafe is this covered walkway where there is a hole in the roof.

"Oh yeah I know, I got onto the owner but he wont fucking fix it, you can't make any sense with him, he's barely got any fucking English". Says Lurch, which was followed by them both slagging off and carrying on.

His chef and his waiters don't have English as a first language, and a lot of his customers are from all around, and there he is going all angry white man.
@Allelse Racists are exhausting, regardless of their skin tone. I often wonder about people like that, using a language barrier as a reason for anger.