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I’ve Turned Into The Cranky Old Neighbor We Used To Hate
We Miss Dead Gary.
I think growing up, everyone has that one mean old neighbor who gets pissed off at the littlest things.
For me, it was our next door neighbor. If you even stepped on his lawn he would threaten to call the cops. We used to do it on purpose just to piss him off and wave as we took that one step onto his lawn before laughing and running off.
Well, I think I’m turning into that neighbor.
We bought our property a little over a year ago. One of the things we love about it is how quiet the area is. All the plots of land are at least 5 acres. The next door neighbors are an elderly couple who are quiet and we love to visit with them a couple of times a week.
The only other house near us is the lot across the street.
Over the past year, we only saw that neighbor twice. His name was Gary. Now we refer to him as Dead Gary.
Dead Gary was a quiet old man. From what we heard, Dead Gary was an alcoholic who owed so much in taxes he couldn’t get a job because his paychecks would be taken by the government to pay them off.
When Dead Gary died, we all wondered what would happen to his trailer and property. If we had the money we would have offered to buy it…