I just wanted to do a little complaining about the people who lived here prior to us. To keep them anonymous I'm going to call them Family XYZ. Here's how it all started ...
We recently went to a birthday party for our (German) neighbor. While we were there we learned a bit of sucky information about Family XYZ. Just to be more dramatic I have these mentioned from crappy to most crappy.
1. The night (yes night) before the movers came for Family XYZ's stuff (they were moving on base) they decided to throw their furniture out the window. Now, I have no idea what furniture this was, but clearly this said furniture didn't really mean a whole hill of beans to them. According to Freddy (husband of birthday neighbor) they were either throwing their stuff off the 2nd story balcony or possibly even out the windows on the 3rd floor. I haven't the foggest idea why they would do that, but it now helps us understand why Todd was mowing wood clips in our front lawn.
2. I haven't posted pictures yet, but the front of our place though lacking in flowers, isn't lacking in weeds aka the jungle. Once we started working in our yard we noticed there was a lower area that looked like you could plant something there. Well, turns out Family XYZ wanted to park in the front lawn for whatever reason even though we have our very own designated parking spots about 10 feet below the front lawn. Anyways, so again according to Freddy, Family XYZ used the car to run over the 2 meter high bushes. This whole time Todd and I have been talking about how nice it would be if we got rid of our jungle and had some nice bushes or trees there. We had put off doing it because we didn't want to spend a ton of money for them to die on us (
The last one is a doozy ....
3. Family XYZ had 2 little yippee dogs. One time Family XYZ left for a trip 6 weeks. While gone they thought it was perfectly ok to leave both dogs inside. Normally I agree with that, especially since someone was watching the dogs. But, turns out the person who was "watching" their dogs only came by the house ONCE a week. Let me repeat that ... they only came by ONCE a week to take care of inside dogs. How in the world does this make sense? I'll tell you how - it doesn't!! To make the story even better (if that's even possible!) is there was a carpet in the room the dogs were in for the 6 weeks. When we met up with Family XYZ right before they moved out they asked if we wanted to buy any of the carpets from them, so we looked around and decided yes we wanted to buy a few. Well, we paid $100 for a carpet that the dogs peed and pooped all over. I know that carpets can be cleaned, but we soon discovered after we were in the house for more than a hour that the carpet S.T.I.N.K.S. You might be wondering why we purchased the carpet if it was so smelly, well as I just mentioned we were never in the house for more than an hour and that was with windows & occasionally a door open. My real problem here is that I don't understand why they would let us buy a crappy stinky smelly old carpet? Roles reversed, I would have either said don't buy that carpet, it stinks or if you really want it you can have it for free. How hard is that?! Because it stunk so bad and we weren't sure if the smell would ever come out Todd spent the day cutting the carpet up to throw away. You might think I'm over exaggerating a bit about the smell but I'm not. Todd said that Freddy came over today while he was cutting. He said Freddy was about 15 feet away and could smell the reeking peed soaked carpet.
There I'm done.
I will say there is one positive thing that came from all these crappy things, the neighbors now have very low expectations for us!!! I think even just attempting to put some flowers in the lawn has already made them like us more than Family XYZ. I say attempting because we are still waiting to see if round #2 is going to stay alive.
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