I have a neighbor that always yells at me! It drives me nuts, I am always very respectful of him because he is elderly but sometimes I can't stand him. When I first moved in he complained because my car alarm would go off in the morning, I felt like yelling at him "If you kept your cat indoors, it wouldn't jump on my car setting off my alarm!" But I bit my tounge instead.
Then when we have parties he sits on his Cadillac and yells at my friends as they pull up into the driveway. So once I asked what the problem was, and he said that the neighbors dogs bark everytime my friends pull up and they keep him awake. I tried to tell him that I had no control over the neighbors dogs but if my friends were being too loud I would quiet them down. Instead he called the cops on me, thankfully the cops didn't do anything just told me to keep things down.
But I think we are finally on good terms. A few weeks ago Corkscrew got out so I knocked on his door to look in his backyard to see if I could find him, which I couldn't. 45 minutes later he knocked on my door with flashlights in hand ready to help me search the neighborhood.
At our last party my roommate who works at Starbucks left him a pound of coffee, a box of tea, and some candies with our number to call if things got loud. They called and thanked us for the gift and told us to have fun. And thankfully the neighbor with the barking dogs has moved, so we got no complaints.
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