Just Another BIG Reason To Get The Heck Outta Dodge!

Guess which drama queen strikes again? Yep! Our crazy old psycho neighbor is back to her old tricks again. After that whole show-down in our driveway last month (see THIS BLOG), I was confident we were safe from her anti-cable company antics for a long while... WRONG. Last week I received a voice mail from her informing me that the power line on her house was damaged by our cable guy when he worked on our cable (over 7 weeks ago mind you!) and that she was having a private contractor come repair it. Oh and she also also wanted to tell me that while this so-called contractor was there she was also going to have him disconnect our cable line off "HER" pole and have him them roll it up to the street and leave it. (This is her way of "getting back at that comcast").. her message continued on about how comcast won't address her issues because she is not a customer of theirs (duh!) and how she is just notifying us that we will not have cable/internet after May 8... How nice of her to "notify us" and give us the complimentary/neighborly heads-up- you freaking psychopath! I am SO over this woman and all of her cable-hatred driven drama!! Why cannot she just live out her retirement years in peace and leave her nice working neighbors alone? I am really starting to think she is just looking for some attention... So I called Hubby (who was outta town at his job site) and let him know the latest drama with the fruit-loop next door... I assured Hubby that I would NOT address this issue with her now or ever again- it is his turn! Besides, my sky-high level of anger towards her is not healthy and having to deal with her would only make matters worse for all of us. Well..... Hubby tried to contact the cable company and never got a response before he decided to just confront her directly (by phone). He asked her what was going on to which she responded that our cable guy had pulled her power line off her house... yadda yadda yadda... Hubby said that they were out over 7 weeks ago and she is just now discovering the loose connection? He told her that it could have been like that for months and she just did not see it... she of course automatically blames the cable man (who never touched the power lines or her house for that matter- besides that fact that the power lines are about 8-10 ft above the cable lines on the pole). He tries to explain to her that she cannot remove items off of a public utility pole and that there are hefty fines associated with it (including possible jail time)... she won't listen. He tells her that the pole is not "hers" and it the property of the power company... to which she says that it is MY pole since it is on MY property! He tries to reason with her and she just refuses to listen... she says that she "has" to take care of this cable company issue (of course, we really do not understand WHAT the issue is... except that she thinks their lines should not be on "her" pole).. Again, can you say psychopath?? By the end of the call, she tells Hubby that she just "cannot deal with that cable company's crap anymore" and he responds that "well, we cannot deal with your crap anymore"... and proceeds to inform her to never ask us for another favor in the future if this is how she wants to deal with her so-called "problem"... and then he hung up on her. Wow. For my Hubby to end the call on that note and hang up on her... just Wow. You go boy!
Well, since I was in Denver from this past Friday to Sunday, Hubby stayed home and worked in the yard (between rain storms) and fortunately never saw her! How uncomfortable would that scenario be? I personally think he should have carried a weapon for back-up protection... just in case... Oh well, I guess her self-imposed "deadline" is this Friday the 8th... thankfully Hubby will be in town and I guess if she gets her "private contractor" (who is her son by the way) to cut our cable on Friday or over the weekend, we will just have to call the cable company and have them come out and hook it back up. And hopefully we do not have to be there this time to "deal" with the stand-off that will happen between her and them once again for the cable re-installation.
Of course, Hubby is banking on her crying Wolf and not doing any thing. Personally, I am wondering if she is having her son do it for her Mother's Day gift... again, psychopath!!

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.