We have a really weird neighbour - well, actually across the street. I have had 3 run ins with her now, and I have to confess I think she's a little loopy.
First encounter some time back was me in the driveway with the telescope at about 11pm. She comes home in her Nissan 300ZX (says a lot already about a 60 something year old...). Stops in the middle of the street before turning into her driveway, and shouts out "Are you looking at MY place?!". I was quick witted, and replied, "Not unless you have died and gone to the heavens". She did not like that.
Next time was a couple weeks after. We'd done the spring cleaning, and had just ONE too many branches left over after pruning to fit our wheely bin. So, JUST after the garbo had done ours, I raced over and dropped the ONE small branch in her bin. I had turned my back to start walking home when I see my wife starting to wave and yelled to her "It's OK, it's only a branch for pity's sake!".I turned around to see the neighbour had stormed out of her house heading toward me. She turned tail and went back inside, the whole while watching us from her kitchen window. I men, if it was stinky, leaking garbage, then OK (I wouldn't have anyway), but a small branch (no leaves) that would be taken in 2 minutes... WEIRD!
Now fast forward to this morning. We have been cleaning out the garage, and I had some bulky items left over. I filled ours, but missed meeting the garbo to ask him to stop to let me just drop in some more and he take it again. So, again, I raced over the road with the refilled bin, and plonked it down on the line between her and her neighbour. She comes out (I think she lives at the kitchen window), hands on hips, but too ashamed to say anything to me. Garbo comes, and takes it no problem, but when he is setting the bin down again, he knocks a branch off the tree thats on HER front verge - COUNCIL planted, and COUNCIL Land - she storms up to the driver, and tells her all about me putting the bin there yada yada. Garbo couldn't care, and left after picking her rubbish.
She wrote a note on my bin, stuck on with tape "The driver stopped to apologise for breaking a branch off the tree". OK.... so, is that a weird psychological way of hinting I should apologise to you too????????
Not apologising this side of Hades. No point. Not pandering to her odd fantasies.
Rant over
