“A few months back, we had a rental home down from us that had terrible tenants. Their dogs barked all hours of the night and ran wild, their kids left their stuff all over the neighborhood, and he blared music from his garage basically all weekend long.
One glorious day, these people just up and moved. The whole neighborhood breathed a sigh of relief but sat back waiting on the next tenant to come in. To everyone’s surprise, though, the long term owner decided to sell it after the last tenant. The house goes on the market, sells in 7 days, and a few days ago, the people closed and showed up with a Uhaul. They drove a newer Nissan truck and had a kid and a small dog. Everyone seemed to think we’d finally gotten a quiet family to finish off the otherwise perfect neighborhood.
So this evening, I invited my family over for dinner, and after we were out on the back porch enjoying the cool air, out of nowhere, we hear a screaming woman.
“You hurt me every day!”
“You’ve been gone for 4 hours! Where have you been?!”
“I had to give my kid up for adoption, so you could keep your kid!”
My family and I walk out front, and lo and behold, it’s the new family. The man is sitting on the tailgate of his truck, and the woman’s pacing like a psycho in front of him flailing her hands around. One by one, I start seeing my neighbor’s lights come on, and people walking outside slowly. Before we knew it, the whole neighborhood is out watching the absolute show.
Needless to say, after about 20 minutes of tons of profanity and having to explain to my child not to be worried, I threw in the towel. I’ve called the cops for emergencies a lot but never to nark on anyone; it’s just something you don’t do where I’m from. Tonight, though, I finally had to, the argument just kept escalating and the language kept getting stronger to a point I was worried it’d get physical quick (her to him).
Lowkey, I find it funny but highkey, it really sucks. It’s a good neighborhood, but now we’re all right back to square one, worried we’ll be caught up in something that we don’t want to be in just because of this one house. They didn’t even make it two days, lol. Like, how can you screw it up before you’re even fully moved in?”
