Post #127146 by KuKuAhu on Tue, Nov 23, 2004 8:19 PM

Hmmm...

Well, we have all of those things: Homeless, greasy guys with seven broken down vehicles on the street or in the alley, trash in yards, etc.

What I'd call unusual though is the guy two doors down myself and the other neighbors have taken to calling "Dumptruck". As in, "Looks like Dumptruck is home from work."

Dumptruck, as is his namesake, drives a dumptruck. Not just for a living mind you, but he appears to drive a dumptruck everywhere. A giant blue deisel powered dumptruck. Dumptruck trip with the wife to the grocery store. Dumptruck out on a saturday night on the the town.

He also hates to turn the engine off apparently. So great is this hatred of shutting the massive beast down, that every day around noon or one, the dumptruck is parked on the street out front in front of some unfortunate souls home (never in front of his own house of course) idling away for hours on end.

Real nice in the spring with the windows open. Mmmmmmm-mmmm Dieselicious!

We also seem to have about 17 neighborhood Eminem clones that spend most of their days and nights vandalizing, screaming, fighting, breaking and entering, etc.

Small wonder that I should drink.

On a positive note, I will say that things are getting better in the neighborhood. The problem types are slowly disappearing.

Nobody is sure why they are leaving, but it's okay with me. Good for property values I s'pose.

In the meantime I'll just keep on inviting them over for a "drink" in my "basement bar". Got lots of space left...and concrete is so cheap.

Ahu