FOR LuckyCharms!
We had bad neighbors when I was growing up.
Sickening family. Mostly the husband, just big TUB OF LARD...big mouth, profane..used to "shower" outside with a garden hose and stick his hand down his shorts to clean his genitals and ass.
He'd to throw glass beer bottles from his porch across the street to shatter on the pavement right where our neighbor parked their car. The worst was he'd come outside with a shovel and BANG on a large metal tub for mixing concrete, just to annoy and startle everyone. That went on every day at ANY TIME. The straw that broke the camel's back was the day my mother had had ENOUGH.
While he was pounding away, she went outside to ask him to stop. HE HIT HER with the shovel. ( Swung for the head but she turned and he got her right in the shoulder.)
Finally three other neighbors and my family got a lawyer and took him to court. The judge ruled they could pay a LARGE settlement to us........ or 'MOVE.'
They moved. And he thought he'd get his revenge by selling to a BLACK family in our totally white neighborhood
Little did they know the husband/father was a Reverend and his young wife and family were just as courteous and pleasant as could be. LOL!!!
Hang in there, LuckyCharms!
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I was hoping I'd connect to folks with that bit of personal history....I hope so. Ya gotta have heart, right?
We had a little old nun who taught us in grade school. Seemed like she was ninety, but what a character! She'd make a muscle in that sklnny little arm and say through all the creases: "Armstrong!", twinkling like a wee Yoda.
I remember that when things get tough.
Thank you for sharing! 
Thanks! 
to remember those people in our lives who even in SMALL ways, or by their humor combined with fortitude, are always there.
Just a split-second remembrance can prop us up in the moment when we need it.
Wow, I'm sorry. Sounds like you had it worse than I do currently!
Not by much though... 
Thanks for the post! 
You do so much to make us laugh and prop up spirits, it's concerning when you disappear. Glad you're feeling better.
And things are just as bad here.
My wife's knee is bad, and she is avoiding the part of the yard that is adjacent to the trampoline with the killer flying springs.
So she has to go out into the part of the yard that is all ice, and with her bad knee, that is not a good combo.
She takes the dog into the fenced back yard with a leash, because she is convinced that our shitty neighbors are going to throw poison over the fence, and that the dog will get into it.
No response to my email to the Town Supervisor.
And the certified return receipt snail mail letter I sent to the Town Code Enforcement Officer will not get there until tomorrow.
It's been like this for years...the Town reps are too weak to take a stand on virtually everything.
I tell my wife that I will take the dog out, but she insists that it's "her job" to do that.
Thank you for your kind words!
and I am certainly sympathetic to your situation. Houses that had original owners for years are now rentals from a "holding company" out of state.
Garbage piled up, rats, noise and loud LOUD music at all hours.
We now have a lovely apartment. Sound-proofed as f*ck....LOL! (Funny thing is OUR next door neighbor in the old neighborhood ALSO had a trampoline right up against our fence. I never considered how DEADLY those springs could be if they shot out! WOW!) 
They are pics of trampoline springs embedded into human bodies.
It seems that a lot of people don't take this seriously.
People do indeed die from those springs. They are like mini garage door springs.
That goddamn trampoline is about a foot away from the fence. The first thing the kids did was to remove the padding covering the springs. then, a 9 year old had a toddler on that trampoline, which has no net. I kept picturing someone getting impaled on my fence.
The town says to just chalk it up to "bad parenting", and that there is nothing they can do about it.
Until someone dies, I guess.
This is the same family that had an aggressive, untrained, un-neutered male pitbull that bit the babysitters face, and the dog had to be put down.
Fun times. 
We're always at the mercy of our neighbors, aren't we? There's never too high a price to put on simple consideration of others, safety for all ......and "do unto others as you would have others do unto you." 