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cgod  ·  2595 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: At what point is it fine to complain or ask a neighbor to turn down the stereo?

I can deal with music noise up to a point.

I had a neighbor that would leave his dog in the yard to bark for 10-12 hour stretches, sometimes overnight. That fucking dog would bark loudly every 5-10 minutes.

It made me insane. I tried to talk to him about it with civility but he wasn't listening. I got less civil.

He was convinced that I was giving him a hard time about his dog because he was a gay guy that liked to cross dress. I couldn't give a fuck about his or anyone elses sexual or sartorial proclivities, I just wanted to not listen to his shitty dog all my waking moments.

It was a strange scene, a half made up drag queen, screaming at me about being a bigot while I begged him to just put his fucking dog in at night.

I actually considered killing the dog at one point.





thenewgreen  ·  2595 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I actually considered killing the dog at one point.
Wow. That's desperation. What ended up happening? You move? Neighbor move? Dog run away? That might have been the solution, untie the dog and let it out. Or drive it three towns away, with no tags on.
cgod  ·  2594 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's not like I would actually kill a dog, but after getting woken up several times in a night I gave it something more than idle thought.

cgod  ·  2594 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Moved.