It’s kind of like when cheaters accuse their partner of being the cheaters out of guilt, you know?
“For context, I live in South Florida, and I just moved in from Northern Indiana.
It began around yesterday evening. I was just sitting outside listening to some music, thinking about stuff, you know? I then heard the voice of who I assumed to be a woman saying, “What are you doing,” something like that. It was pretty quiet, so I didn’t assume it was directed at me ’til she wouldn’t stop. I just replied with, “What?” and she just stopped talking. At this moment, I was kind of suspicious. I just got back to my day.
Then this guy, probably in his late 50’s or 60’s, complains to the landlord that I was “spying on his wife!” I decided to just accept the fact he was mistaken and I guess it was fair enough as the houses down here are VERY close to one another.
So we went over to apologize. This guy walks out half-unclothed out of his house probably about 30 seconds of us just standing there (yay). At this point, I already get bad vibes, so I try and make it speedy. Now I’m usually a pretty chill guy and I like to keep to myself and avoid people when possible, and I already went out of my way to apologize, so what does he say? “You’re lying and full of crap. You’d best not come around my property again or you’re gonna regret it.”
… what the heck? I try to brush it off and just profusely apologize and he then starts asking, “Are you renting? How long will you be here?” I just say yes and say about a year, and in probably the rudest tone I’ve ever heard someone talk to me in, “That’s for the best” and then proceeds to pep talk me and my family. At this point, I was about to lose my mind and just wanted to get out of there before I said something I would regret. Eventually, we just walked home and finally brushed it off.
Oh! You thought that was it? We’re just getting started. Around the next day (today), I find out they’re spying on us? What the heck? I don’t know when this started, but now I’m really upset. You can’t accuse me of spying when you are directly spying on us constantly. Now, look, our landlords are really chill, like a really cool guy, but he’s not doing anything about it. He might be busy (would be fair), but, God, this guy is reaaally angering me right now and I don’t know how to handle this. We just got done with a lot of crap, and now our neighbor is just here blabbering stuff out of his mouth and then proceeding to do what they accused of me. Now what did we learn today, kids? I don’t know.”
