You win this round, neighborhood watch program.

July 31, 2009

in Just sad, Random crap, functions I shouldn't be allowed to attend, no one thinks this is funny but me

This is a conversation I had with my neighbor when I was bringing in groceries and it’s also why I’m never going to buy groceries again because my self-esteem can’t take it:

My next door neighbor: “So I guess you’re not going to the neighborhood watch program again tonight?”

Me: ”When is it?”

Neighbor: ”At 8:00. Are you coming this time?”

Me: ”No. I just wanted to know the best time to rob all your houses.”

Neighbor: ”…?”

Me: ”Not yours though.”

Neighbor: “Thanks?”

Me: ”Dude. I’m just kidding.”

Neighbor: *nervous laughter* ”Well I thought so but it’s kind of hard to tell with you sometimes.”

Me: ”I meant I’m just kidding about not robbing your house.”

Neighbor: ?

Me: ”That was a joke too.”

Neighbor: ”I have to go now.”

Me: ”Cool. Leave your door unlocked if you don’t want me to break a window.”

Neighbor: ”What?”

Me: *sigh* ”Nothing“.

Then I came in and told Victor about the whole thing and he’s all “Well, I think English is a second language for her so she probably just didn’t understand you” and I’m all “No. She totally understood. She just doesn’t think I’m funny” and Victor was all “Sorry, honey, but not everyone is going to get you” and then I flounced down on the couch and Victor’s all “Do you still want to burglarize their houses?” and I’m all “Well, not anymore.” and he’s all “God, stop pouting. It’s not a good look for you” and I’m all “Oh awesome. So now I’m not funny and I’m fat” and Victor’s all “I never said you were fat” and I’m all “I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHY WE HAVE NEIGHBORS” and then Victor just walked away and I felt too bad to even walk next door and throw a brick through their window mostly because I couldn’t even find a brick but I placated myself by telling myself they probably didn’t have anything worth stealing anyway.

PS. I still have more to write about embarrassing myself at Blogher but my head hurts so I’m putting it off until later, which always ends well. Hey, remember when I wrote “My trip to Puerto Rico, Part 1” and I wrote it in April of 2008 and then I got distracted and I never posted anything again about Puerto Rico ever again? That was awesome.

Comment of the day: I would totally rob their houses with you if we were neighbors. Except instead of stealing their crap, we’d just swap it all around between houses. ~ Keeley

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1 marta July 31, 2009 at 9:08 am: Ahahahahaha! You so funny Jenny! I wish you were my neighbor.
2 corrin July 31, 2009 at 9:11 am: Urgh you’re neighbor is really missing out on the laughs.
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3 Dijea July 31, 2009 at 9:11 am: Will you come rob my neighbor, I’ll let you know when our next meeting is.
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4 churchpunkmom July 31, 2009 at 9:12 am: I swear. My husband had the SAME conversation with a neighbor the other day… hunh.
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5 Sheila (Charm School Reject) July 31, 2009 at 9:12 am: Ahhhh yes – the conversations which cause your neighbors to warn their children about you…..those are always a fun time. I still haven’t finished my BlogHer recap either. I’m awesome like that.
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6 keeley July 31, 2009 at 9:14 am: i would totally rob their houses with you if we were neighbours.
except instead of stealing their crap, i’d just swap it all around between houses.
7 Nikki July 31, 2009 at 9:14 am: You are my hero!! Let’s burgle things together!!
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8 Gliding through motherhood July 31, 2009 at 9:14 am: Seriously. We all think you’re funny though so it’s all good.
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9 Kathleen July 31, 2009 at 9:14 am: Perhaps you could send Nancy W. Kappes, Paralegal, to the neighborhood watch meeting as your proxy. Your neighbors would probably totally get her.
10 Deb on the Rocks July 31, 2009 at 9:14 am: Jenny, my god, I’m so worried about you, because CLEARLY you are the one who is not understanding her. “Neighborhood Watch Program” is undoubtably code for “Ruin, Ruin, Ruin the House of Bloggess.” They are conspiring to get you, Jenny. It’s a big Anti Bloggess Conspiracy! They probably aren’t even meeting at 8. Maybe at 8:45 of something–she was just trying to trick you. I would file for an injunction and begin hoarding sacks of rice and lentils. This is getting ugly.
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11 Amy @ Taste Like Crazy July 31, 2009 at 9:15 am: Frozen chickens work well at breaking windows. Not that I have personal experience with that or anything…
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12 Aria'z Ink July 31, 2009 at 9:16 am: You could come live by me, I’m in the country outside of Houston… and cows would totally get you.
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13 ajnabi July 31, 2009 at 9:17 am: I think she was just trying to make sure you would be busy robbing other people’s houses, so she could sneak into your house and steal the funny. Oh, and I left the bricks on your back patio within easy reach of the chaise longue during the last N.W. meeting. I can’t believe you couldn’t find them.

That was a joke.
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14 Jen B. July 31, 2009 at 9:19 am: I did the same thing with my trip to England. Wrote about part 1 and 2 and I still have another week to cover. I’ll get around to it, eventually.
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15 Mama Kat July 31, 2009 at 9:20 am: If you were my neighbor I’d set cookies on your front porch every morning and ring the doorbell and run and hide behind the bushes and then watch you open the door and be all “What in the ???” and I’d just giggle in the bushes because you have no idea that it’s me leaving you those cookies in the morning. It would be SO funny.
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16 Akilah Sakai July 31, 2009 at 9:21 am: Scaring neighbors is awesome!

I wish I could do the same but I don’t even know what my neighbors look like … which is in their best interest anyway.
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17 Taylor July 31, 2009 at 9:22 am: I would’ve laughed. And, hey, at least you got a funny blog post out of it!
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18 Maxie July 31, 2009 at 9:23 am: I don’t even care if people don’t get my jokes anymore. That just means they’re lame.

You should throw a rock through their window just for kicks that says “i told you to leave the door open”

What, they could never prove anything.
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19 Amanda July 31, 2009 at 9:24 am: Maybe you should have given her the option for a robbery? Who knows, maybe that’s her thing.
Also, is it a robbery if you do it with a knife since stabbing is your thing?
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20 Princess of the Universe July 31, 2009 at 9:24 am: Out of curiosity, did you ever consider actually going to the meeting?
Just wondering…
xo
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21 Raz July 31, 2009 at 9:25 am: My neighbour has a similar sense of humour failure. She didn’t even smirk a little bit when I was taking her iPod with a gun to her head. SOME PEOPLE.
Raz´s last blog ..For What It’s Worth
22 Mr Farty July 31, 2009 at 9:26 am: Anyone who doesn’t think you’re funny totally deserves to get burglarized. As luck would have it, I have a large stack of bricks right here. Just kidding. Maybe.
23 Sprite's Keeper July 31, 2009 at 9:27 am: This is why I don’t talk to my neighbors.
Sprite’s Keeper´s last blog ..Spin Cycle: Turning strangers into friends.
24 becky July 31, 2009 at 9:27 am: LOL how could she NOT get you? or think you’re not funny? throw the brick. now.
25 JChevais July 31, 2009 at 9:29 am: Well at least you get to speak when you talk to your neighbors.

My neighbors are all really old. And they’re chatty. I’ll be Hi! And they’ll be all, “Back in the day….” and I’ll still be there 20 minutes later. That’s when I’ll pretend that my cell phone rang, express regret that it’s an important call and then scuttle away. PRETENDING to talk into the phone to someone.

Neighborhood watch meetings? That’s like all the time in our neighborhood. It’s a bit like Psycho on our street. Those old folks can spend hours staring out the window from behind closed curtains. It’s pretty freaky. You wouldn’t think that they can stand that long without leaving the window, but surprise! They can.
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26 Middle-Aged-Woman July 31, 2009 at 9:29 am: So I should assume that when I see a load of bricks on a truck that they are headed for a very funny person’s house? I can just follow and be entertained!
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27 Mrs. Flinger July 31, 2009 at 9:29 am: I think it’s funny. But, of course, I sorda “get” it. Stupid effers.
28 Nikole July 31, 2009 at 9:29 am: It’s alright you didn’t go to the neighborhood watch, the people where I come from get shot for being on neighborhood watch. It’s so not so cool to be on neighborhood watch anymore.

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=7252008
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29 shine July 31, 2009 at 9:29 am: It’s okay if I still think you’re funny, right?
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30 Karyn July 31, 2009 at 9:29 am: My neighbors don’t get me either. The last time I robbed one of them, all I got was some foot fungus cream, a strap on and a feather boa, all of which I wore the next time I gardened. I’m never invited to the neighborhood watch meetings.
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31 Kimmers July 31, 2009 at 9:32 am: I think if they have to guilt trip people into showing up for the meeting? That’s code for THIS MEETING PROMISES TO BE MIND NUMBINGLY BORING BEYOND BELIEF. If you do go, bring a bottle of Snapple but fill it with vodka. That’s the only way you survive a meeting like that. Also, if you skip the meeting, maybe go for a walk up and down the street a few times around 8, wearing all black.
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32 a July 31, 2009 at 9:32 am: You should totally go and put something in someone’s house during the meeting. I’m sure some idiot will leave their door unlocked, and while they might not notice if something’s missing, they’ll sure notice if you leave a bobcat skull with tinsel on their kitchen counter…
33 Jen July 31, 2009 at 9:32 am: New reader here. Your neighbors sound lame. Also, you probably would have felt better if you’d thrown the brick through the window. Always helps me. Just kidding. Not really.
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34 Amber Mc July 31, 2009 at 9:32 am: I talked to your neighbor and she said she was hoping to guilt you into the meeting so she could rob YOUR house. She totally thought you were on to her…
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35 Miss Grace July 31, 2009 at 9:33 am: Tell me you robbed the bitch.
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36 the5thEl3m3nt July 31, 2009 at 9:34 am: Wow I have been a lurker for a few months but that’s it I have been reeled in and I am hanging around frequently for life! Always good shizzle lol
37 Jen July 31, 2009 at 9:34 am: Oh crap! I spelled my own blog website wrong and it came up as someone else’s! Delete please and post this!!!

New reader here. Your neighbors sound lame. Also, you probably would have felt better if you’d thrown the brick through the window. Always helps me. Just kidding. Not really.

I need to go home and start this day over.
Jen´s last blog ..How do I still not have one of these?
38 Xjaeva July 31, 2009 at 9:35 am: Sometimes it’s funnier when people don’t get you
39 tena July 31, 2009 at 9:35 am: I’m the person without the filter that everyone hates in my neighborhood too.

I did want to tell you that the most important lesson I learned from you in the humor bloggers session was that you edit down your posts- like half… wow! You should make a quilt out of all that leftover!
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40 So Not Mom-a-licious July 31, 2009 at 9:36 am: Well at least your neighbor doesn’t water dirt to grow weeds. Then water weeds and act like it’s grass. And then MOW said grass, which is actually not grass, but really tall and healthy weeds, which spreads “weed seed” (sounds fun, spreading the weed seed, but it’s actually a pain in the ass) to all of our lawns. And then, after mowing it about twice, just lets it die so that all of the neighborhood can look at dead weeds, which have now turned to hay. And not even useable hay, or hay you can eat, or smoke, or do anything with! Just hay. But English is his second language, or maybe not even a language at all for him since he never says hi. So you try telling him all that!
So Not Mom-a-licious´s last blog ..The Perfect Afternoon Invitation
41 Becky Mochaface July 31, 2009 at 9:36 am: How did she not understand you? It makes complete sense to me to wait until people aren’t in their houses to break in and steal their stuff. Because if you did it while they were there, you’d get caught. Geez. Some people.
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42 Yellow Trash Diaries July 31, 2009 at 9:37 am: Was your neighbor Canadian? A lot gets lost in translation with them…
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43 C @ Kid Things July 31, 2009 at 9:37 am: I would totally rob my neighbor. Especially since he “accidentally” threw a rock through our car window earlier this year. The bastard would SO deserve it.
C @ Kid Things´s last blog ..Fruit Loops, Indeed
44 William July 31, 2009 at 9:40 am: Burglars don’t pout.
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45 mylittlebecky July 31, 2009 at 9:47 am: now you’re going to have to rob somebody (or pay someone to rob someone) or your street cred is OUT the window!
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46 Cat July 31, 2009 at 9:51 am: I have a brick. I will ship it to you.
47 JES July 31, 2009 at 10:02 am: Please tell me some sharp-eyed agent and/or editor has snagged (that’s an “n” there) you… No justice in the world otherwise!
48 Cat July 31, 2009 at 10:07 am: Jen-NY. You have NEIGHBORS so that there’s someone to converse awkwarldy with during the times when you’re caught outside A) bra-less, B) with your hands full, or C) stoned. That’s why god made them. DUH.
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49 angie July 31, 2009 at 10:09 am: pfft, i laughed. out loud. like lol. several times. and my co-worker neighbor is all “really?” about it.

yeah, i just had one of these moments with my boss. and then sulked back to my desk muttering how i hate feeling like i’m always in trouble.
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50 blueskies2day July 31, 2009 at 10:13 am: I don’t have anything worth stealing. I sometimes hope someone will rob me just so I can prove that. They’d probably set my house on fire because they would be so angry that there was nothing to steal. But the joke would be on them because they couldn’t steal anything ha ha. Except I wouldn’t have a house. But at least nothing was stolen. Ha.
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51 cindy w July 31, 2009 at 10:15 am: We had a neighbor accost us and say, “You’re going to want to come to the neighborhood watch meeting on Tuesday.” It had a really menacing, threatening tone to the way she said it. My husband and I looked at each other nervously, and we were like, “Um, we will want to go? Really?” She made it sound like if we didn’t attend, we were going on the list of neighbors they suspected were the actual criminals.

But yeah, I’m pretty sure my neighbors don’t have any crap worth stealing either.
cindy w´s last blog ..karma
52 Marion July 31, 2009 at 10:27 am: You’ve given me the perfect script when next I run into the neighbors I don’t care for. Finally, they will have something to be afraid of — running into me again!
Marion´s last blog ..Week 8 072609
53 ozma July 31, 2009 at 10:28 am: Well this is what is required in order to be truly funny: That many people don’t get it.

Your pain is our gain, babe.
54 JusMe July 31, 2009 at 10:30 am: Use a ice-cicle, it’s the perfect crime tool– it’ll melt before the po-po shows up and thus no prints. However, best of luck finding one in Houston this time of year. Maybe you should create them, market them and then sell them off to other wanna be thugs… a new way to retire– selling weapons that are not detectable, maybe the military will wanna get in on this??? I promise I don’t even want a cut on the profits, however a mention every now and then to stroke my ego would be nice.
55 Smarty Pants July 31, 2009 at 10:30 am: Your conversation posts are my absolute favorite. One was so funny I posted it on my blog with a link back to you because I thought more people needed to suffer pee inducing laughter. But now the most common key word search that lands someone on my blog is some variation of giant labia. Huh… oh well.
Smarty Pants´s last blog ..Can you keep a secret?
56 Toy With Me July 31, 2009 at 10:33 am: I think your neighbor must be messed up on *crack*! What’s there to get? You are freaking hilarious!
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57 Tracy July 31, 2009 at 10:45 am: Jenny – you can come be my neighbor… PRETTY PLEASE, and I’ll let you rob me. Except I’ll have an open bottle of wine waiting or absinthe, so really it wouldn’t be like robbing me. But when your not looking I’ll slip something of mine into your purse so that when you get home it will look like you robbed me. You’ll be so drunk you won’t know any different.
58 Cynical Nymph July 31, 2009 at 10:58 am: You know, I just be you could find an armadillo to chuck through their window if you can’t find a brick. You are, after all, in Houston.
Cynical Nymph´s last blog ..Yum Yum post
59 Cynical Nymph July 31, 2009 at 10:59 am: Ahem. “Bet.” “I just *bet*.”
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60 Kristin July 31, 2009 at 11:04 am: OMG…fucking with people’s brains is so easy. You are too funny.
Kristin´s last blog ..Never A Dull Moment
61 castocreations July 31, 2009 at 11:04 am: I’d LOVE to have you as my neighbor!!! I love that sort of sense of humor. It’s classic.
castocreations´s last blog ..Some New Old Things
62 aunt becky July 31, 2009 at 11:05 am: Thanks for not punching me.
aunt becky´s last blog ..Shockingly, It Was NOT On A Check For A Zillion Dollars
63 Gabrielle Valentine July 31, 2009 at 11:11 am: “…….???” ; )
Gabrielle Valentine´s last blog ..Beware The F-Bomb Blog Troll…He’ll Find You, Man.
64 MayoPie July 31, 2009 at 11:16 am: When I first moved in, my neighbor popped by to introduce himself while I was raking leaves. I asked him what I should do with the endless piles of them, and he said throw them into the vacant lot and they’ll turn into dirt. I said, “Really?” asking if it was just okay to throw them in the vacant lot, but he thought I was asking if leaves really turned into dirt. He then looked at me like I was really stupid and was all, “uhhh… yeah.” Then, realizing the misunderstanding and that he now thinks I’m an idiot incapable of even the most basic conversation, I started to drool a little and started slapping my knee. That was 10 years ago, and I’m happy to say that was also our last conversation.
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65 Carolyn Online July 31, 2009 at 11:19 am: I wonder how long your neighbor sat in her dark house with a flashlight and a baseball bat waiting for you.
Carolyn Online´s last blog ..Garagemahal Update.
66 Martie July 31, 2009 at 11:25 am: Only you, Jenny. Or maybe only you or me.
Martie´s last blog ..Oh, Cranberry, Please Cure Me…
67 Its A Hero July 31, 2009 at 11:32 am: I wish I understood sarcasm… Sigh.
Its A Hero´s last blog ..friday 5: taboo
68 LB @Wait, She Said What? July 31, 2009 at 11:43 am: People don’t always get my hilariousness all the time either, but I see that as more their problem then mine.

I think your neighbor has no sense of humor and is probably terrified of you which could work to your advantage!
LB @Wait, She Said What?´s last blog ..I ended up with a sunburn and almost threw up for my birthday and it was awesome!
69 Midwest Mommy July 31, 2009 at 11:58 am: I would have loved to see the look on her face, lol.
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70 TexasRed July 31, 2009 at 11:59 am: You could totally be my neighbor, but then you’d have to live in West Texas. We’d all think you were hilarious, but you’d have to deal with the cactus and other crazy neighbors. Also, the guy down the street is raising wallabies.
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71 Cedarflame July 31, 2009 at 12:14 pm: I think people from Texas own a lot of guns so you don’t want to go breaking into any place where you could end up with a lot of guns you would not know what to do with.
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72 PottyMouth Mommy July 31, 2009 at 12:15 pm: omg… that reminds me of the funniest story about a brick… and it sorta almost involves porn… yeah… gonna go giggle and see if I can find the video again….
PottyMouth Mommy´s last blog ..Tale of the pantsless man
73 beckster July 31, 2009 at 12:18 pm: That was Laugh Out Loud funny!!! (meaning, doesn’t rate just LOL, but I gotta spell it out because I did actually Laugh Out Loud!!!) I wish you were my neighbor. Mine are all too stressed out about their “lawns” and it gets boring.
74 Marisa @ Where's The Party? July 31, 2009 at 12:36 pm: I loved your Puerto Rico post, it was great. Can’t wait to read about your other Blogher experience Nancy Kappes RULZ!
Marisa @ Where’s The Party?´s last blog ..Is #5 plastic safe? This is what Brita uses to make their pitchers.
75 Lynn from For Love or Funny July 31, 2009 at 1:01 pm: Dang. I was gonna rob your house, but now you’re gonna be home so I guess I’ll rob your neighbor’s house and then they’ll blame you and nobody will ever know it’s me! Mwah ha ha.
Lynn from For Love or Funny´s last blog ..Book ‘em, Danno!
76 Mrs Chaos July 31, 2009 at 1:17 pm: I hate it when sarcasm isn’t appreciated or understood. All that energy, wasted!

(I thought it was hilarious, by the way…)
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77 LizzB July 31, 2009 at 1:27 pm: I think you SHOULD go to the meeting dressed as the Hamburglar, striking fear into the ground beef eating people all over your neighborhood.
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78 Steve July 31, 2009 at 1:33 pm: As a compromise, you could attach one of those fake cracked window stickers to a window. Probably couldn’t get one in time for the neighborhood watch meeting, though. I googled and they don’t make a brick version. Best I could find was a rock.
Steve´s last blog ..Continuity
79 Stephanie Smirnov July 31, 2009 at 1:37 pm: I don’t want to make you feel any worse because I know you’re fragile and all that but I’ve already posted two BlogHer recaps. Two. So maybe you should get with the program and quit terrorizing your ethnic neighbors. People will think you’re a racist.
Stephanie Smirnov´s last blog ..BlogHer Has Funny
80 imelda July 31, 2009 at 1:45 pm: you crack me up lady!

your HOA meetings are at 7pm so you can come across the freeway and burglarize our neighborhood earlier in the evenings
81 Miss Britt July 31, 2009 at 2:36 pm: Bricks are old school, Jenny.

Now you can just throw your iPhone through a window.
Miss Britt´s last blog ..The Sushi Experiment: A Photo Essay
82 Evening July 31, 2009 at 2:38 pm: I nominate Keeley for comment of the day! I can just imagine Humorless Neighbor opening up her dresser drawer and marveling “These are not MY underwear, WTH!”. Or the vegetarian down the street trying to figure out how the Tofu in his fridge spontaneously turned into a half eaten ham. Get the brick, we have a new mission!
83 Random July 31, 2009 at 2:58 pm: Next time just tell her you don’t need to go because when you go out of town you booby-trap your house and leave your pet cobra loose.
84 Nap Warden July 31, 2009 at 3:07 pm: See now…I just wrote a clever post…and I’m all laughing and thinking I’m clever. Then I come over here and read your post now I’m all…I’m not funny and laughing at your post. Now I have to go away and be more clever:P
Nap Warden´s last blog ..What a Lovely P*ssy You Are
85 Maddy July 31, 2009 at 3:18 pm: An interesting dilemma, no brick. I wonder what would happen if you threw yourself bodily through the window [apart from the Bandaides] The would still be breaking and entering but does your own body count as ‘malicious damage’? Just thinking aloud you know.
Cheers
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86 pOOBA July 31, 2009 at 3:49 pm: YOU L@@K SOOOO NORMAL IN YOUR PHOTOS… NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW YOU ARE EXTREMELY WACKO INSIDE…. XOX
87 JenK July 31, 2009 at 3:56 pm: Look- I get that you some of your neighbors aren’t going to get you. You’ll get over it. BUT- what’s with Victor not going out there and tossing some bricks for you? As your husband it is totally his responsibility to charge to your defense. Completely unacceptable behavior on his part.

And by charge to you defense I mean he should have shown up at the meeting carrying an armload of bricks.
JenK´s last blog ..The one with a dose of crazy. And laziness. Claziness.
88 GhtoPrincess July 31, 2009 at 4:05 pm: This is all very similar to the time my work was having an ice cream social to raise money for charity, and when the guy came to drop off another bucket of ice cream in the cooler I commented that there was more space in there then it seemed, and he’s all yeah, it’s like an old house you just never know what you’ll find. Which is when I was all Right, like if you remodel and you just might find grandma in the walls. Then he was just staring and so of course I was all except you would be finding ICE CREAM which, you know, would probably be BETTER than dead grandmas.

That’s when he left. Oddly, that was the last of our ice cream deliveries for the day.
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89 Kelly July 31, 2009 at 7:25 pm: This is exactly why I never buy groceries.
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90 Antionette July 31, 2009 at 7:54 pm: I live on a dirt road with only my family as neighbors and they don’t even “get me”, so I feel your pain.
91 jadine July 31, 2009 at 7:57 pm: First, I love it that you used the word “flounced.”

Second, if you need one ever, we have spare bricks from when our house was built…like, 6 years ago. There are about 20 of them stacked haphazardly in our garage — still with old food on them from the brick guys eating lunch over them. We’re pigs.

P.S. Since I’m over-sharing, I thought I’d mention that when we moved in, I was cleaning and shelf-papering the kitchen cupboards and stuff, and found old food behind the drawers. I guess I’m glad I found it early on. Gross.
92 beth July 31, 2009 at 8:32 pm: Just been reading your Shatner tweets??? Hysterical! That’s coke snorter, all right. I mean in the snorting out way. I wouldn’t know about the snorting in way. Honest.
93 beth July 31, 2009 at 8:33 pm: And of course I left out the “a” before “coke snorter.” Sure could use some coke… might improve my proofreading skills.
94 annie July 31, 2009 at 8:34 pm: If my husband’s transfer ends up being Houston (and god forbid because the other option is England. I’m sure you can see the difference), I will look for a house in your neighborhood. Not that this would set us up for a lifelong friendship that Steven Spielberg would want to make a movie about but because I am not a neighbor that other neighbors say “Gawd, she is such an awesome neighbor.” I am usually the neighbor that other neighbors pretend they don’t see unless I am with my daughter who is tv commercial cute, and no one can resist acknowledging her, and so neighbors whisper over their picket fences about it “I wonder if that child is adopted?” and “But who would let that woman adopt a baby?” And that would take the heat off you – provided you did not talk. Can you not talk? Because I would be a wasted diversion if you just went and talked anyway.

Think about it.
annie´s last blog ..Write It and Weep
95 Love July 31, 2009 at 9:20 pm: Your neighbor should thank her lucky stars she didn’t mention her stash of prescription painkillers. Then you know you would’ve robbed her ass.
Love´s last blog ..What’s in a name? (and when I met Oprah)
96 lydee July 31, 2009 at 10:14 pm: i get you. and i love it.
lydee´s last blog ..What I’ve Learned From Blogging
97 jenniebee July 31, 2009 at 11:19 pm: You should totally go to the next watch meeting. Offer to bring trail mix for everybody.
98 leel July 31, 2009 at 11:33 pm: ok, there needs to be a Bloggess meetup 2010. because all of the comments on here gave me a sense of hope. a sense of sameness. holy crap we would have fun. the post was awesome, and the comments OMG, hilarious as well.
phew.
thanks guys. i totally needed that LOL
leel´s last blog ..the winds of change and blogging, a new approach. Part 1.
99 feefifoto August 1, 2009 at 8:05 am: I feel for you. Valuable jokage is so often wasted on those with no sense of humor.
feefifoto´s last blog ..Questioning The Theme Of My Blog
100 Anonymous August 1, 2009 at 8:40 am: The all’s are killing me!!!!
101 Jim Gaudet August 1, 2009 at 8:55 am: That shit’s funny. Common sense hides from the neighborhood watch program..
Jim Gaudet´s last blog ..American Express and Chase reporting lower delinquencies and charge-offs
102 peedee August 1, 2009 at 9:50 am: Thats some funny stuff. Your life is randomly funny.
peedee´s last blog ..Its official – Zombie Knee
103 Bic August 1, 2009 at 10:50 am: Great post! I linked to it.
Bic´s last blog ..Slow News Day
104 TheWordWire August 1, 2009 at 11:08 am: I totally disagree that the neighborhood watch program won that round. “So I guess you’re not going to the neighborhood watch program *again* tonight?” earns only two points for passive aggression, but your response was a game-winning score.
TheWordWire´s last blog ..Stop Messing with Lord Focko’s People, People
105 Natalia August 1, 2009 at 12:00 pm: haha thats hilarious. my neighbor just scowls at us every time he sees us so i don’t even bother saying anything to him.
Natalia´s last blog ..taste bud heaven
106 Lala August 1, 2009 at 4:42 pm: I recently stumbled across your website, and I could not stop reading. I read for hours and hours and finally stumbled away from my computer muttering about liquor and serial killers and rambling about nonsense for a good 3 days. After the fog lifted, I sent the link of your website to all my friends so that they would understand what in the hell I was talking about all the time. I am proud to say that they are all hooked, and consequently blame me for ruining their lives.
107 Renee August 1, 2009 at 7:19 pm: That is so funny! I’m always humored by people who are too serious to laugh a little – or maybe they don’t get the jokes. She should have laughed.
Renee´s last blog ..The Politics of Youth Baseball
108 tracey August 1, 2009 at 7:34 pm: Somewhere there is a blog post by your neighbor about her neighbor that is on prescription drugs and dresses in wigs. She is probably petrified and has started the neighborhood watch program BECAUSE of you. FWIW, I get your jokes and would much rather have you than some of our hermit neighbors.
tracey´s last blog ..It’s Always Something…
109 Susan (Trout Towers) August 1, 2009 at 8:12 pm: yep, I bet one of your neighbors has a brick.
110 thatgirlblogs August 1, 2009 at 8:55 pm: this is v. timely as there is a neighborhood watch meeting in our hood next tuesday. maybe I should leave the funny at home.
111 LiteralDan August 1, 2009 at 11:23 pm: I bet even Jesus had to put up with a stupid neighbor who didn’t “get” his “thing”. Just let it fuel your creativity. If you ever get writer’s block, you can fairly blame it on her, and to push past it, just throw a metaphorical “block” through her window. Also, an actual one.
LiteralDan´s last blog ..How to tell you went to the wrong blogging conference
112 Just A. Reader August 1, 2009 at 11:25 pm: Neighbors are so worthless. Especially the ones who don’t get humor.

You should just go ahead and rob them.
113 Lance Bass Ruined My Life August 1, 2009 at 11:37 pm: You know what would have been funny. You should have gone to the meeting and left Victor at home so that while you were there he could go over to their and break their doors open but not steal anything so they would spend the rest of their lives wondering what the hell was taken. And then you have a full proof alibi for when they come knocking on your door. Except I have a feeling Victor would rat you out in less time that it takes Britney Spears to rip into a bag of Cheetos. Which is probably good because he doesn’t sound like he would last two minutes in jail.
114 Heidi August 1, 2009 at 11:47 pm: Fucking fuck fuck fuck a duck you are fucking funny, man! SHIT!
115 JL August 2, 2009 at 5:14 am: My neighbours are exactly the same, ‘cept I’m pretty sure they’re all Chewbaccan coz when I try to evesdrop through the walls all I hear is “Aaaaaaaarn!” So either that or they’re Velociraptors like in the first one where the cow gets lowered into the pit on the blue harness. Which would mean that the neighbour who lives above them is secretly feeding them cows, which I’m beginning to think is actually really sweet of him because now my neighbours don’t eat me when I eavesdrop because they’re still full from that first cow. This is also why I don’t borrow sugar from them because they just might be dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaurs who totally don’t eat sugar coz Wikipedia says dromaeosaurids where feathery, bird-like carnivores and weren’t known for lending their things. Which is also okay because I think I’m diabetic.
JL´s last blog ..Charles’s Stream: Great Expectations
116 Jessica August 2, 2009 at 5:26 am: And this is why I only get to know the neighborhood pets and not the people. I mean I know the animal’s like me. The cats rub up against my legs, the dog’s sniff my crouch..it’s a very validating feeling. Plus, I think it makes the people fear me a bit which is totally fine by me.
Jessica´s last blog ..Time to turn this ship around….
117 Lori August 2, 2009 at 8:45 am: I just found your website through CakeWrecks who had a list of winners…blah blah blah. Anyway, I felt it imperative for you to know that I am now your bitch. I want to be you when I grow up. I’m 35, btw, so the odds are not stacked in my favor, although I’m pretty fucking crazy already–so I think we’re looking at a 50/50 shot. Anyway, I adore you. I will read you every day, because you make me laugh until I almost pee myself (almost!) and I will follow you on twitter–or anywhere else. Love, Lori.

P.S. I am *not* a stalker. Just very enthusiastic.
Lori´s last blog ..Lack of Updates
118 follwrich2day August 2, 2009 at 8:53 am: OMG. You make me realize how much my neighbors are no fun at all. I’m leaving my damn door unlocked from now on! HA!

~Rich
follwrich2day´s last blog ..followrich2day: What’s that last ingredient? Damn. This thing is gonna fall flat baby.
119 Condo Blues August 2, 2009 at 5:41 pm: I have extra bricks at my house. You can totally use those to rob your neighbors.

They are reclaimed bricks, that means they are better for the environment. It shows you care.
Condo Blues´s last blog ..Why I Went to BlogHer ‘09
120 Coal Miner's Granddaughter August 2, 2009 at 8:55 pm: My neighborhood conversation always revolves around “Dude, we renting a cement truck to fill in the pool or what?”
Coal Miner’s Granddaughter´s last blog ..Wow.
121 Shanna August 2, 2009 at 10:22 pm: I did that swapping people’s crap around thing while I lived in a sorority house. I exchanged everyone’s dresser doors. sorority girls do not handle those kinds of things well.
Shanna´s last blog ..ATTN: easily offended ppl leave freaking NOW
122 Brittany August 3, 2009 at 7:24 am: I always thought it would be funny to make someone’s house appear as if it was burglarized, but not actually take anything. Just pry the door open with a crowbar and leave. Then they would come home and frantically look all over the place trying to figure out what was stolen. They would search for HOURS, maybe even days. Then they would start to notice odd things like one missing shoe and they’d begin to question their own sanity and wonder if they lost it themselves or if maybe, just maybe, there was someone out there twisted enough to break into their home and steal a shoe. Or maybe during their search they would end up finding all the things they misplaced throughout the years, and then they would see the break-in as a blessing and be grateful. And that is how I would do my part to benefit society.
123 Jessica August 3, 2009 at 8:14 am: Personally, I would have paid you to shoot my old neighbor put someone just bought his house instead so he had to leave, although, he only “had to” b/c it was his idea to sell it in the first place.
Jessica´s last blog ..A POLE, A NECTARINE, A PUDDLE AND MY DAUGHTER
124 RDC August 3, 2009 at 4:51 pm: When the Nazi’s celebrated “National Friendship Day” they went all out:
Free Train Rides !! Free Tattoos !! Welcoming Overnight Facilities!!! Longterm Pajama Party!!
Free MakeOvers !! Free Haircuts !! Oven Roasted Specials !! Free Dental Checkups and Filling Removal !!

May be it was better you didn’t know about it, Jen.
125 mountainmomma18 August 3, 2009 at 5:11 pm: Dude he totally called you fat, I would have kicked him in the balls, or robbed the houses and framed him.
mountainmomma18´s last blog ..My kid thinks that we’re idiots
126 Sarcastica August 3, 2009 at 6:41 pm: That’s hilarious! I wonder if you were the topic of debate at the Neighborhood Watch that evening lol.
Sarcastica´s last blog ..September
127 Eliza August 4, 2009 at 8:19 am: You are a riot! You’re always putting a smile on my face. =)
128 Chris Mannn August 4, 2009 at 1:40 pm: this is the funniest mess. this is something i would do.
129 SecondHand Karl August 7, 2009 at 1:31 pm: I can’t be bothered with neighborhood watch programs and shit. I’m lazy and apathetic. Course, I live in a one-horse town where people actually leave their doors unlocked all the time.
SecondHand Karl´s last blog ..Donkies, the British and Sexual Favors!
130 Heather of the EO August 8, 2009 at 7:30 pm: You are the best kind of weird.
Heather of the EO ´s last blog ..It’s that time…
131 Slam August 9, 2009 at 9:55 pm: Sarcasm is so misunderstood.
132 Kyooty August 10, 2009 at 10:28 am: nieghbours, ugh!
Kyooty´s last blog ..Time to ask my Readers
133 Ittybittycrazy August 12, 2009 at 8:54 pm: It’s official. Nosy neighbors suck. And that’s all there is to it.

As I alway say…. HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE.

http://www.ittybittycrazy.com/imported-data/2009/8/8/hell-is-other-people-being-neighborly.html
Ittybittycrazy´s last blog ..That’s life – Old lady
134 Shorty August 18, 2009 at 5:23 pm: “We had gay burglars come in the other night. They broke in and rearranged all the furniture.” Dunno where that’s from but I thought you might like it.
135 the real mother theresa September 20, 2009 at 12:37 am: it’s theresa with an ‘h’

You win this round, neighborhood watch program.

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