Most of the time, I keep to myself when I get in or out, when I am on the go.
In the last few months, I have gotten to know some of the people on my floor, directly or indirectly.
Sometimes I know them, because I will see them in passing, or because they might be playing some music a little loud, or if they are smoking heavily. For each
one I don't know, I seem to have nicknames for.
And there are some I never see. I am not complaining though.
Sure it must be different for everyone.
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Posts: 1589 (07/24/08 5:26 PM) V.I.P. |
In my neighbourhood, you don't see anyone outside practically after Halloween...until Easter.
I had more in common with the older people who have since moved either to the Isles of the Blest or to live with their kids. But the new ones next door seem to be very nice...they actually invited us over to a bbq last Saturday night and we had a nice time, well Mike and I did. Ernie wasn't feeling spectacular. |
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Posts: 7448 (07/24/08 6:58 PM) She Who Must Be Obeyed. |
We are cordial with all of our neighbours but we don't go to each others' parties or anything. I dunno, we tend to be private people especially at
home. I don't want people popping in all the time for a cup of coffee or to borrow a cup of sugar...I know that's prolley kinda wrong but that's
the way it is.
"There are shoes in my sand".
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Posts: 240 (07/24/08 7:33 PM) |
I know the neighbors on one side of us. They're Jordanian and really don't speak much English, they're nice though. I don't know their names,
and I probably couldn't pronounce them if I did. LOL, the husband sits out on the porch and smokes, we don't smoke in our apt either, so we're
always kind of sitting out there together. He knows ONE complete sentence in English, "Hello, how are you?" I say, "I'm fine, how are
you?" He says, "Fine... but its hot!" Sadly, they're moving back to Jordan at the end of the month, their daughter has graduated from
college and has moved to Tempe, so I guess they've finished their work. I did get from him that he was really homesick and will be happy to get back to
Jordan.
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We know most of our neighbors, three households close to us are relatives of my husband the other neighbors are an extended family that owns almost half a
country block, lol most are decent neighborly people everybody kind of helps one another out when the cows/horses get out or something serious is going on.
One day a couple of months ago during/after a big thunderstorm a large tree branch fell down on the elderly lady neighbor's powerline to her house and it
looked to us like it fell on her house so my husband runs over to her house to look and see and I'm on the phone to the old lady asking if she's
alright and the other neighbors next door are calling me, within a minute or two asking if I see a strange guy walking around in the old ladys yard. lol Then
when the electric company came out to trim the fallen branch there was about 8 people from the neighborhood standing around watching the exciting event unfold.
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Posts: 240 (07/24/08 10:15 PM) |
blazengreen wrote: Its really nice to live in a neighborhood where people watch out for each other, its kind of rare these days. You're very lucky. |
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Yes, I agree we are very fortunate to live in a good neighborhood.
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Posts: 1589 (07/25/08 8:27 AM) V.I.P. |
Growing up every family knew every family...pretty sad that noone watches out for anyone anymore.
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Posts: 4022 (07/25/08 12:42 PM) Dream Traveller |
I know what you mean SC.
As a kid, I practically knew everyone who was on my street. As an adult, it is not the same. In some ways, I can understand though, not that I am looking for any attention. 99 |
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Posts: 406 (07/26/08 10:49 AM) |
I live in a dorm full of kids. In the evenings it's hell around here. Sometimes I miss my truck and the peace and quite I had in it.
The weekends are the quietest around here. I do have a couple of buddy's around here but most of the time I keep most of the students at arms lenght. The dorm staff and I get along really good. The dorm manager is a retired Marine Sargent Major and we speak the same kind of language and I have a great deal of respect for him. There is one of the desk workers that screwed her way into her job and I have no respect for her at all. The farian students, I wish they just go back to where they came from. 
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Posts: 240 (07/26/08 12:10 PM) |
Although, I didn't think so at the time, growing up in a small town was a wonderful thing. Our school had no money, no fancy phase elective courses,
just the basics. When the band needed uniforms, they put coffee cans in the local businesses and had chicken suppers, car washes, spaghetti suppers... we got
those new band uniforms in record time. 400 kids in the school, 6th grade thru 12th, the band was only 9-12 and we had 100 members, think of those numbers.
It was common for a teacher to call on a student, and have to run down the whole family tree before they remembered "which one they were". They not
only knew our parents, they knew cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, the guy next door... and yes, if people had needs, the community rallied 'round
them. The ladies in the grade school cafeteria would actually report to our parents if we weren't cleaning our plates. The place was like Mayberry and
still is. I was down there when I went back to Indy on vacation last September, it pretty much looked the same, I hope it was the same, "inside".
Its a beautiful little town, I kind of hated to leave. It was a really good place.
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