Moments in my life

[mme_hardy]

Yesterday the gardener came to me to show me something. He kept asking a question and I kept spreading my hands and saying "I don't know." He said "You don't understand me, do you?" I said "No, but I speak a little Spanish." Then he asked me, enunciating carefully, whether I knew that the next-door neighbor -- not the shouty one -- was throwing dog poop over our shared fence. Then he indicated a *large* pile of dog poop behind our hedge. Years' worth.

None of it is fresh, so it is possible the neighbor has given up this bad habit.

Comments

[recessional]

. . . wtf.

[kore]

My mouth actually just did something like a combination of :C and :0. WHAT?

[lnhammer]

Uh .........

[movingfinger]

Put it in their green bin.

[lexin]

I was going to say the same thing.

[legionseagle]

That's the problem with learning languages in school. I once found myself on an all-night train through the Francophone parts of Canada in the course of which a drunk pulled my and my companions' rucksacks from the rack onto our heads, gurned at us drunkenly for a bit and passed on down the carriage. The only word for what I felt when the (not in the least bilingual) steward arrived was "ivresse" and it didn't help.

[mme_hardy]

I do pretty well with our housecleaners, enough so that they prefer communicating with my broken Spanish over their broken English. A certain amount of pantomime goes on on both sides.

[caulkhead]

My German teacher used to tell a story about how he ended up working as a temporary bin man in a Swiss mountain village*, and, having misjudged his throw and tipped a bin all over himself, came up with the German equivalent of "Oh dear me", to general hilarity.

He made sure we were better equipped.

*all the regulars having been arrested for drug smuggling.

[askerian]

... *squints at your neighbor meanly*

i mean ... what the hell?

[edenfalling]

...who even DOES that?

[mme_hardy]

Bad people.

[movingfinger]

Are these the gits who confronted you about the color of the house (which still looks great, by the way)?

[mme_hardy]

Thanks! I need to have it power-washed. No, because of the weird layout of our street they're actually around the corner from us but their yard backs on our fence.

[athenais]

Either they've stopped it or their dog(s) died. Wow, that's a nasty surprise.

[mme_hardy]

My husband points out that the dog pile is too big to have accumulated since the last major rainfall, so they're probably still up to it. As it were.

[rinue]

This is unbelievable. I mean, obviously I believe you. But dear lord. I have never in my life.

[ironed_orchid]

They are terrible people.

[madrobins]

Maybe Good fences make good neighbors--but the neighbor in question has to abide by the fence. That's really... creepy.