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Inspired by one of my fave bloggers David Thorne, and the assurance from my therapist that I am ready to talk about it, I am finally ready to write about my sudden move back in December and the neighbours who drove me to it...
Meet the Cast of Characters:
I should have headed the warning signs on day two of the move in to my new townhouse, when the neighbour across the street yelled at my son (from across the street), "hey, number 24, what's your name." I would like to say that this bellowed greeting from across the way belonged to an adolescent child but it did not. I belonged to a young mother of a fetal alcohol syndrome toddler. A toddler who was wrapped in a durag and being pushed on a push bike by his clingy, polyester, short dress and knee high boot clad mother. I shuddered, decided to keep my distance and closed the door.
The next neighbours I met lived on the other side of my adjoining walls. There were the couple who regularly got drunk in the back yard and lost their own toddler and on the other side, their drinking mates who grew pot in the back yard (of a town house complex, may I remind you), had a confederate flag strung up in their garage and who thought nothing of setting up water slides, Halloween exhibits, projection screens, karaoke machines and all manner of annoyances on my lawn
The Boyyyz played basketball on the street, and were unable to do so without hollering profanities I could hear in my basement with the windows closed, despite being directly beside a playground filled with children. They could not go 20 minutes without a screaming match and chest bumping erupting though a full fight never happened.
The committees: Everything in the townhouse complex was decided by committee based on how much you partied with the committee members and board of directors. Being a light social drinker and non-smoker who regularly exercised, I was persona non grata. Attending meetings was like was like watching guest selection for the Maury Povich show
Be sure to check back to this blog and follow our cast of characters through just over a year of mayhem, hijinks and poor life choices
