Thursday, November 01, 2007

It's a brand new day...in the 'hood

My pain in the ass next door neighbors moved out on the 31st! I was so excited I just had to take a snapshot of the moving van. My husband mentioned that they were moving out about a month ago, but until I saw evidence, I couldn't believe it.

It was a wonderful day in the neighborhood when they left - it was like a cloud was lifted. Remember that black & white scene in the Wizard of Oz, when the tornado picks up the house with Dorothy and Toto and whips it around and random cows are flying and that wicked ugly lady rides (Miss Gulch) by on her bike? It was utter chaos! Yea, well... When they were here, we were all caught up in the chaos of their existance to all of us. Everyone stayed in their homes and neighbors stopped socializing. Kids didn't even play on the street. When I'd pull up in my car, I'd pull straight into the garage and close the door behind me so that none of them would bother me with bizarre stories or ask to borrow something...

Ok, now remember right after that scene when the house lands and Dorothy opens the door and everything is in TechniColor and all the Munchkins in Munchkinland come out of their houses to celebrate?

We'll Saturday was "TechniColor" day and we're "Munchkins" in "Munchkinland". Neighbors were outdoors in front of their homes. Kids were riding bikes, my husband and the kids washed three of our cars right in front of our very house without someone asking to borrow a plunger, toilet paper, ten dollars, kool-aid AND sugar or seeing someone totally wasted off of God knows what. My husband said, you could actually hear birds singing. Funny, it was like the birds either went away or just lost their voice for the last two years.

We have the new neighbors moving in already. We plan on formally introducing ourselves in the next day or two and checking them out. I have no shame in telling them what we absolutely HATED about their predecessors. I'll let them know up from, "Don't ask to borrow nuthin'"

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