Let's gossip about the neighbors

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: kelbellene

There's an old Vietnamese couple who live across the street who have lived there long before we moved to the neighborhood. In the last month or two, they started having lots of random visitors all day long. The people don't usually stay for more than a few minutes. All appear to also be Vietnamese, or at least Asian. What do you think? Drug ring? Is one of them ill, so nice people run errands for them?

NEXT

The neighbors behind our house are constantly playing ladder ball. Weekdays, weekends, any weather. Sometimes it's just one guy playing by himself. Think they're members of some sort of professional ladder ball league?

These. Are. Times. That. Can't. Be. Weathered. And. We. Have. Never. Been. Back. There. Since. Then.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

TIME OUT - What's ladder ball??

Ben Folds Five is a disaster these days, and this incident is just a perfect example of why -- poorly trained employees and an out-and-out hostility to customers is no way to run a band.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: kelbellene

http://tinyurl.com/7jxhsot

These. Are. Times. That. Can't. Be. Weathered. And. We. Have. Never. Been. Back. There. Since. Then.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

The house next door to the library, the one that someone fired into with a shotgun last year, has like 20 people living there and they're ALWAYS making fires in a barrel, and there was a runaway girl that the police were looking for and they found her in there (she comes in and uses the computer like every day) AND the big dirty guy there offered to fix my car AND one time he killed a deer and strung it up and disemboweled in within sight of the circ desk here and it was gross.

I have a picture of the house, stay tuned

Ben Folds Five is a disaster these days, and this incident is just a perfect example of why -- poorly trained employees and an out-and-out hostility to customers is no way to run a band.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: Bill Murray

Phil is Vietnamese?

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Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

ok not a picture of the house but the weird building behind their house
http://dustylife.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/20111224-0
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Ben Folds Five is a disaster these days, and this incident is just a perfect example of why -- poorly trained employees and an out-and-out hostility to customers is no way to run a band.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

sanford & son imo

Ben Folds Five is a disaster these days, and this incident is just a perfect example of why -- poorly trained employees and an out-and-out hostility to customers is no way to run a band.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: kelbellene

classy

These. Are. Times. That. Can't. Be. Weathered. And. We. Have. Never. Been. Back. There. Since. Then.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: cliff

the big dirty guy there offered to fix my car AND one time he killed a deer and strung it up and disemboweled in within sight of the circ desk here and it was gross.

holy shit ilol.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

That happened on Christmas eve fwiw

Ben Folds Five is a disaster these days, and this incident is just a perfect example of why -- poorly trained employees and an out-and-out hostility to customers is no way to run a band.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: kelbellene

Someone just visited across the street. Pretty sure the same guy stopped earlier, but they didn't answer. He left with something, but I couldn't tell what it was. WHAT IS GOING ON?

These. Are. Times. That. Can't. Be. Weathered. And. We. Have. Never. Been. Back. There. Since. Then.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: cliff

americans are disgusting animals

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: cliff

some

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: cliff

what is going on is that you need some time out the house

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: kelbellene

word

These. Are. Times. That. Can't. Be. Weathered. And. We. Have. Never. Been. Back. There. Since. Then.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: kelbellene

Another visitor.

These. Are. Times. That. Can't. Be. Weathered. And. We. Have. Never. Been. Back. There. Since. Then.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: !gas!panic!

Neighbors to the left are retired schoolteachers, aged mid to late 50s.

Neighbors to the right are older, mid to late 60s. Wife is retired educator. Husband still works for Defense Dept supply center, has considered donating his body to science when he dies.

Both couples are Democrats according to their voter registration.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: +Ill

Is one of them ill, so nice people run errands for them?

citation needed

our host, webmaster Ben Folds

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: emanstevenson

Kelly, to be fair, Ladder Ball (or Ladder Golf, as I know it as) is awesome and worth playing all day everyday

Eric: "What is this called?" (points to butt)
Korean Student in the back of class: "Nature Hole!"

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: kelbellene

Would you play it by yourself?

These. Are. Times. That. Can't. Be. Weathered. And. We. Have. Never. Been. Back. There. Since. Then.

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: ass

I've never heard of ladder ball but it definitely looks like something I would obsessively love.

Who is Bonny Bear with this wanna be combover & Minanite beard!?

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: emanstevenson

That is a good question at which I don't think I can answer right now, which probably means no I wouldn't. Point taken.

Maybe you could go play with him.

Eric: "What is this called?" (points to butt)
Korean Student in the back of class: "Nature Hole!"

Feb 23rd 2012 (16 months ago)

Posted by: emanstevenson

Ross, it's so great.

Eric: "What is this called?" (points to butt)
Korean Student in the back of class: "Nature Hole!"

Feb 24th 2012 (15 months ago)

Posted by: AsK2339

In regards to Kelbellene's Vietnamese couple: better hope one of them wasn't obsessed with bfolds ten years ago, or they could be lurking here as we speak

Are you bein' frank wit' me? Cuz ya sound like yer bein' Richard.

Feb 24th 2012 (15 months ago)

Posted by: emanstevenson

Ask, can we stay on topic please? What do you think about Ladder Golf?

Eric: "What is this called?" (points to butt)
Korean Student in the back of class: "Nature Hole!"

Feb 24th 2012 (15 months ago)

Posted by: +DrewMG

also i saw the ladder ball guys playing snow frisbee a few weeks back. i really wanted to go join them

drew you're a folky mofo

Feb 24th 2012 (15 months ago)

Posted by: Pointer

OK, so it was 2AM about three months ago and I'm getting back from a local bar with a few drinks in me, but not too much. I'm outside my apartment smoking and talking to my brother when a neighbor across the apartment complex and one floor up is walking back from what I guessed to be the bars as well. She gets to her front door, and lo and behold she doesn't have her keys. She sees us and waves to us, but it is apparent that she is completely trashed.

Anyways, she is lamenting about being locked out and asking for help when she hears a car pulling up in the parking lot. She goes towards it while yelling back at us, "Nevermind, I'm just going to have mediocre sex right now." I go back into my apartment because I'm done with the cigarette, but about two minutes later I had the realization that I should just poke my head out to make sure she either went off with the guy she was going after, or at least got into her apartment and was not drunkingly abandoned outside.

When I get outside I see the car peeling away at a pretty good speed while she is standing there screaming at the driver and throwing a board game (Apples to Apples) dramatically into the air with all the cards flying onto the sidewalk. Now, she is obviously angry, locked out of her apartment, and completely drunk so I decide to see if she needs any help.

She says her guy friend just abandoned her and she is pretty pissed off and incoherent. She gives him a call but can't put together a logical sentence. I ask her to hand me the phone just so I can try and see what the hell is going on. There is a guy on the other end and here how the conversation goes...

Me: Hey man, what's going on, I'm her neighbor from across the way
Him: That girl is crazy, I am not going back to pick her up
Me: OK, we'll she is drunk as hell and locked out of her apartment... she might need a ride out of here
Him: No, fuck her, I'm done with her
Me: Well, I can't just let her sit out here so I might have to offer her our couch until her roommate gets back
Him: Do whatever you want, I'm done with that bitch
Me: OK, just making sure it is OK with you if I make that offer.
Him: If I don't have to go back there, you'd be helping me out

So, anyways, get off of the phone and offer her our couch so she doesn't have to wait outside for 4 or so hours. BIG MISTAKE. The second this girl gets in our apartment the crazy comes out like a jack in the box. She's trying to dance with me all of a sudden and getting very touchy. Trying to cuddle up with me while I want nothing to do with this because the last thing I want is her waking up not knowing where she is screaming rape or something. I make sure she is out on the couch before I go to bed, and I set my alarm early so that I can be up before she wakes up.

I wake up around 7 and go to the couch to wake her up and make sure she isn't freaking out. Luckily she remembers the night before and is actually appreciative of what I've done. Awesome... possibly bad outcome avoided. She calls her roommate and sure enough the roommate is back and can let her in. My job is done. I go back to bed as she is getting up to go out the door.

Not 30 seconds after getting back down to my boxers and in bed this girl comes into the room and straddles me with her hips against mine. I'm somewhat shocked, but the realization that it is morning, she is now sober, she isn't bad to look at, and I'm a single guy makes it click that this might not be a bad thing.

So she has got me locked into her hips and I'm almost naked so I take my hands and put them on the side of her hips and start working them upward. She quickly hits my hands away and exclaims, "NO YOU CANNOT FEEL ME UP!" and then gets up and quickly leaves the apartment. I have not talked to her since.

Talking about unemployment... my failsafe method to win any argument on the dorg*.
-I know what this war is about... I'm unemployed
-I disagree with McCain... and I'm unemployed
-I'm not a pervert... I'm unemployed

*I also give all of you permission to use me as a "friend that is unemployed*" to win arguments outside of the dorg

Feb 24th 2012 (15 months ago)

Posted by: Emaline Jones

hey pointer

what
the

FUCK!

basically what I'm saying here is that this ends with a cock up your anal

Feb 24th 2012 (15 months ago)

Posted by: Pointer

Hey

Talking about unemployment... my failsafe method to win any argument on the dorg*.
-I know what this war is about... I'm unemployed
-I disagree with McCain... and I'm unemployed
-I'm not a pervert... I'm unemployed

*I also give all of you permission to use me as a "friend that is unemployed*" to win arguments outside of the dorg

Feb 24th 2012 (15 months ago)

Posted by: Pointer

Now that I think about it, that was more like 5 months ago.

Talking about unemployment... my failsafe method to win any argument on the dorg*.
-I know what this war is about... I'm unemployed
-I disagree with McCain... and I'm unemployed
-I'm not a pervert... I'm unemployed

*I also give all of you permission to use me as a "friend that is unemployed*" to win arguments outside of the dorg