he called the *****, poop! but really...the best would have been to take a dump in the toilet when it was in his yard. I mean, it's on his territory. Might as well mark it
Well, it sounds like you let frustrations build up etc, instead of just honestly asking him why he put his trash can in front of your house. Now the question is "How do you coexist".... Maybe let it simmer a bit and have a pow wow.....I would hate to be in a situation where my neighbor was an enemy. DD
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We had a dick neighbor. Not as bad as yours. But he was no good. He was a retired attorney. The neighbor across the street who we liked one time had a conversation with him in his front yard about this legal stuff and this and that. Just small talk. He sent him a bill for 200 bucks (this was in the 1970’s) for an hour of legal counsel. Across the street neighbor said if he ever spoke to him again he had another thing coming. His wife and he are outright crazy. One day the wife got into an auto accident. She required physical thereapy so the PT place via Medicare sent a therapist to their house. Therapist was African American and the lady of the house said, “We don’t let n****** in our house.” PT Company said she was the most qualified and that was all they could send. To this day the lady still walks with a limp. The neighbor grew huge vines and bamboo to keep people from looking into their yard. When the vines would grow too long they would cut them and throw them into our yard. In the process of them doing this our dog at the time, a 11lbs wiener dog would bark. Twice they called the cops because they said they were afraid of our dog and there was obsessive barking. The second time the cop actually told them that dogs bark. It is what they do and they would have to deal with it. Funny thing was our dog was an inside dog 80% of the time. Sometimes they would shoot bows and arrows and every now and then one would end up in our yard. My dad let them have it about how unsafe this was. My cousin who lived with us for a number of years caught the man filling his pool with the water from the hydrant in front of his house at 1am. He had the COH tool to open up the hydrant and had some long tube he would use to bring water to his pool. Anyhow now the man is dead. No one ever told us. We just noticed that only the woman lives there by herself. At our current house we have been blessed with the world’s best neighbors.
Sounds like you're not going to be able to change his behavior. Sucks man, he's a douche, and you're gonna have to live with it. Bottom line; remove his stuff from your property as soon as you notice it, don't placate him by bowing to his demands about parking, or taking care of your own yard, and when he's a douche to you, just be pleasant (i.e. "Remove my dandelions? No thanks, I like them.", "Move my car off the street? No thanks, it's public property. Have a nice day!") and move on. He'll probably eventually get tired of it, because he's likely looking for a response. That's the only way I can think to even try to get rid of him.
When you are his age in America all of your kids hate you, and all of your friends are dead. This man lived in a time where your neighbor was your beer buddy you could spew racist jokes with.
So yeah, a bitter old b*stard who would like nothing more than to crap on other people's lives while on some kind of self-imagined power trip.
You became a dick to him because he was a dick. He's 80. You don't need to take his crap, but going back and forth and calling him out is like fighting with a kid. Just try to co-exist and keep it civil.
This. Unfortunately you have to live with this guy and if you are just going to be feuding all the time its just going to make you more bitter and dickish. Everytime he puts his trash on your lawn just put it back on his. Park in front of your house and go about your business. If he complains just ignore him.
Good fences make good neighbors. Build one, a small one, and be creative with it. Maybe a garden or just a row of small trees that will grow into beautiful, majestic landmarks of the time when you and your neighbor finally got along.
