How Un-Neighborly Can One Be?

I endured another dramatic episode last week besides the Grandmother saga. Let’s call it the case of the un-neighborly psycho neighbor… this almost exact scenario happened just over 2 ½ years ago only two days before Hubby and I got married. Two days before our nuptials, our cable service died. We called out the cable company and during their field tech’s work here on our cable line, he grabbed his ladder and attempted to climb up the community utility pole (which happens to be located about 20 or so feet onto our neighbor’s property). When out of nowhere comes the neighbor screeching at him to get off her property! Well fast-forward to last Friday and the same episode repeated itself… only worse. This time there were two field techs, the supervisor was a woman and the police would not come out to deal with the problem (the neighbor). Somehow, what should have been a 30 minute cable line repair turned into a 2 ½ hour stand-off between Comcast and the neighbor. It was awful! I must have run/walk the path from the inside of our house to the driveway about 500 times trying not to get involved… and most definitely trying not to confront the “psycho” neighbor! In the past, we have managed to not have to confront her, only let the cable folks/police work it out with her… but, this time I snapped. When she waved at me like nothing was going on in the middle of this entire ordeal, I asked her what the deal was… why the cable guy could not finish his simple task… she yelled over that could not come on her property… that she was still mad at them about something that happened to her over 20 year ago by a different cable company… something about a fried TV and how lightening came into her house thru the cable line and they never compensated her… yadda yadda yadda… and it just set me off! I took off across our property and onto hers… and repeated my question… she was standing firm on her idiotic reasoning… I tried to be as nice as I could about her most stupid issue… and how they are not the same company… how we have been without cable or internet for over 5 days… she said we could use her internet, her phone, her TV… oh please! I told her to be realistic… I told her she was always asking us for favors and how we always willingly to do them and she should do this a favor to us… but, NOOOOO…. Like I said, she is a Freakin’ Psycho. I gave up and trekked home… but, in the end and about 45 minutes later the supervisor coerced her with MONEY! What a crock! She should be flogged for being bought! What a schmuck for being such an idiot and then agreeing to take money… they finally left around 7pm… poor guys on a Friday night too! And what a loser she is for dressing up to come outside to tell them to get off her property and thinking she looked good while doing it… yes, she WAS trying to pick up the cable guys! Loser. Period.