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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-10-18 07:39 pm

[ SECRET POST #3941 ]


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I hate my neighbors

(Anonymous) 2017-10-19 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Or at least whichever neighbor stole my trashcan again, after I called the city hotline, confirmed the can serial numbers associated with my address, took it back and spraypainted our house number on it. I leave one trashcan outside the fence because I'm on the corner lot across the street from a middle school and rec center, which also serves as a homeless hangout, and if there's no trashcan people pretty reliably fill my bushes with plastic cups, bottles, baggies of dogshit, beercans, and random debris.

At least if I leave a can out I have less rooting around in the bushes for other people's garbage on trash day. I just hope I get it back, they cost $70, the city requires that we have them, and I don't have a car. Home Depot charges $70 to make home deliveries. I make $1,200/mo and spent my last paycheck paying off more of my dead mom's medical bills. I'm living off leftovers until I get paid, trying to save something from my next paycheck to pay my mom's lawyer so I can officially transfer mom's house to my name.

Between the persistent trashcan thief, the fucker who keeps flying his drone over and through my yard (and bounced it off my sliding glass door, after dark, a month ago, and scared the shit out of me and my cat) the people using my bushes as their landfill, and the people who steal whatever fruit and flowers they can reach, I'd almost want to sell up and move but the house is all that's left of my family and the only thing that kept me alive sometimes when I was dealing with the worst of my parents' addictions was the thought of fixing up the house and living here until I died of old age.

Re: I hate my neighbors

(Anonymous) 2017-10-19 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
You'll get it back. Report to city if they call you on it. Sorry about drone--how annoying.

Hang in there. Home ownership is a whole new ballgame, but you can swing it. Be gentle with yourself about it, adjusting and figuring out what to do.

Can you postpone paying anymore bills for awhile? Sometimes they might settle for less if you hold out, and you need cash on hand now. Just a thought, idk.

Best wishes

Re: I hate my neighbors

(Anonymous) 2017-10-19 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
That drone is violating your airspace and I should think you would be within your rights to take it down if you can catch it.

Re: I hate my neighbors

(Anonymous) 2017-10-19 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope. I hate guns, have never owned one, but practically the first thing I did was google if it was legsl to shoot them down. It isn't, and so far all the test cases have ended in victory for the drone owners. It seems like it might be illegal for drone owners to record other people on those people's private property, like if they were sunbathing nude or whatever, but that's about it. The first time I saw one up close, I'd been watering the plants on my back patio and I aimed the hose at it when it buzzed me, though. I'm really tempted to make a big poster that says something like "next time you bring your toy drone low enough, I'm gonna drown it in the bathtub," and leave it on the roof for a few days.

(Anonymous) 2017-10-19 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
(NAYRT)

DROWN THE DRONE! DROWN THE DRONE! DROWN THE DRONE!

Re: I hate my neighbors

(Anonymous) 2017-10-19 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Can you use a butterfly net?