New neighbors.
I have great hope for the future of this house:
It sold recently, which means I’ll be getting a new neighbor. I’m so excited I could pee. It’s like opening a present on your 10th birthday. What’s inside? Could be that awesome Atari 2600 you’ve dreamed of owning. More likely it’s another hideous sweater from Grandma.
Once our neighbors take occupancy, I shall shower them with snooty beer and stinky cheese. Later we’ll set up playdates for the kids, complain about traffic noise, and feign outrage at $500/month heating bills. Oh the times we’ll have!
Or maybe I’ll play it cool. Shorty after we moved to Pittsburgh, our backyard neighbor invited us over for an impromptu (sausages on the grill) dinner. Caught in the enthusiasm of the moment, I upped the ante. “Great!”, I said, “I just bought some strip steaks…you can grill them too.” During dinner our host asked, “What do you think of this beer?” Excited to display my grand beer palate with a fellow beer enthusiast (alas he was not), I went into detail as to the multidimensional failings of his chosen brew. I believe that was our last conversation. A lesson for the socially retarded: Neither upstage a man’s meat, nor insult his beer.
Sounds like good advie to me.
Of course, I’ve never done either of those things and yet all of my neigbhor, old and new alike, seem to share common disdain for me. Huh.
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Wow, that’s a big, pretty house. Hope it will be filled with nice neighbors.
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I hope so. You can live like a king in Pittsburgh for not much money, carbon footprint be damned. A house in a similar neighborhood with similar schools in Chicagoland would have been 1.5 million easily. This one sold for around 250K.
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Wow, that’s a great looking house. Good luck on the neighbors. LOL
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I’ve been missing out on some good humor here. I think I will buy that house. You can keep your meat to yourself – I don’t eat steak and beer too since I don’t drink beer, but there are other things to put on the grill and so many more beverages to drink. Happy holidays to you and your fam!
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I never thought about until now, but I always hope when a house goes up for sale in my neighborhood we’ll get a family with kids. Not so much luck yet. On the entire block one couple has an 18-month old. The rest are an odd mixture of empty nesters, a gay couple, a Jewish family, a couple of DINKS who don’t wants kids and have big parties, two spinsters, a confirmed bachelor, a mean old hag and then a young couple we actually do like very much and have some interaction with. The house next door to me sits empty and I long all the time for someone to take it and transform it and fill it with kids – the exact ages of mine!!!!
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