Thursday, May 16, 2013

Be a Good Neighbor (Or at Least, Not a Shitty One)


Your house is your castle. I get that.  You are king of your castle.  However, your rights to be happy and comfortable in your home end where they start infringing on someone else’s rights to enjoy living in their home.  Do you love watching TV late at night?  Great!  Turn down the volume.  Most places have noise ordinances, and if you only have an enormous television, there’s a good chance that watching it between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. is a violation of the law.  Make sure it’s low enough that people trying to sleep around you aren’t disturbed.

You want to smoke pot?  Well, OK, that’s illegal (and, really, kind of sad if you’re older than college-aged), but - whatever.  But when you smoke in your apartment, all of your neighbors are getting high, too, whether they want to or not.  Maybe buy an air purifier or something to keep the smoke from disturbing everyone else.  Some of us really can’t afford to get the munchies.

Other ways to be a good neighbor involve:
1.  Cutting trees that invade your neighbor's air space or grounds.
2.  Paying your share to maintain a joint fence.
3.  Not walking your dog on their lawn.
4.  Not allowing your pet to terrorize or attack their pets.
5.  Calling 911 if their house is on fire.

Ways to be a bad neighbor:
1.  Laugh when your dead tree falls on the neighbor's house (you'll stop laughing when you get the bill!)
2.  Refusing to contribute to the share of maintaining a joint fence while insisting that your neighbor replace it and refusing them to walk on your property to do so.
3.  Encouraging your dog to shit on their lawn, sidewalk, driveway, etc.
4. Laughing when your dog eats their cat and/or children.
5.  Setting the neighbor's house on fire just watch it burn.

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