Maybe he saw you being friendly with most of your neighbors...We are friendly with most of our neighbors,
Then there's the #sshole across the alley from us. Most annoying neighbor ever. He married the woman that already lived there. We didn't know he was such a nuisance at first. Constantly coming over and bugging us, to the point where we wouldn't go outside if we saw him, unless we absolutely had to. Took forever for him to get the hint, we finally had to be downright rude! Everyone tries to avoid him.
Maybe he saw you being friendly with most of your neighbors...
Did you ever just say "hey, we're kind of busy right now. Can we visit some other time?" ?
I don't think introducing yourself to your immediate neighbors is a bad thing, but I wouldn't give out any info. Not even for "just in case" purposes. You're new and unproven. Don't force it.
Well... I can't say "I don't understand". A few doors down there's an old guy who comes over when we're doing anything outside in the front yard to offer "advice". He tells us we're mowing wrong, watering the newer trees wrong, planting the wrong flowers,...whatever it is we're doing. We indulge him. He's lonely. I hope someone treats me with a little bit of indulgence and kindness when I'm a few decades older (if I make it that long!)...
Maybe he saw you being friendly with most of your neighbors...
Did you ever just say "hey, we're kind of busy right now. Can we visit some other time?" ?
Same here. Our long-time neighbor is 90 and lives alone. Once in awhile I will avoid her if it's truly not a good time to chat. Other times, I will go out of my way to say hi, help her put her trash bags in the receptacle, etc. She and her late husband have always been good neighbors.Old is one thing and I enduer those folks as they deserve it most times. Middle aged and annoying is another.
For years we were the only home out here. When the houses started popping up like popcorn, the street still didn't go all the way through to connect to another street and there was just big field at the end. One of the people that moved in (about the 15th house or so) got all the house numbers and sent a printed up flyer in the mail to each home inviting the whole place to an old fashioned "block party" at the end of the dead end street...complete with a decent little fireworks display. Everybody who showed up brought snacky foods to share and their own cooler/drinks and lawn chairs. There was a bonfire for marshmallows and before it got dark, there were kites, frisbees, and Nerf stuff abounding. It was really kind of neat.
New and unproven? Lol no offense but I don't have to prove anything to anybody and if they don't like it they can get over it and throw the note in the trash. Nothing is being forced I'm just doing what I would think appropriate and what my style is. Some people get grumpy about it it's not my problem. I'm just trying to be courteous and neighborly.
He even came into our house once without knocking!
I have one neighbor that I only ever see when she comes tearing down the road. I introduced myself and asked her to please slow down, and she avoids me now. Nicer than what I wanted to tell her.
New neighbor made quite the first impression. He's got 3 of those god awful pugs or whatever who walk around with their *******s displayed to the world, and he doesn't leash them off course. I was working on something in the garage and saw all three of the little bastards come and **** on my lawn. Had my hands full and decided not to deal with it at that time.
Next day, I saw the same thing happening and decided to make things interesting. Walked outside as his dogs were doing their business on my lawn again and screamed "clean your dog's **** up." He looked pretty mortified. Could have been because I was only wearing underwear.
He walks the other way now.
modify it so that instead of water, it would spray some kind of awful-smelling stuff on the dog so that his owner would get a nice surprise when he went home.
Isn't that called "pet skunk"? lol
Isn't that called "pet skunk"? lol