That man mowed three times a WEEK. Sometimes four. And he blew the grass off his driveway with a leafblower at 7am. And he used a shop vac to suck up all the pine tree tidbits.

I let my kids run naked through the sprinkler and let my chickens escape once in a while when I was bored.

Not only that, but only a couple of them have any idea I work at home (and those ones don’t understand what I do). They think I’m Peg Bundy.

May not have made a difference. Didn’t for us 17 years ago when we moved into the neighborhood from hell. It got too much and we moved five years later. We’ve since discovered that our neighbors really were out to get us. Fortunately, child protective services and the police never acted on the bogus claims. (The irony is that children of the two worse offenders have grown up to be felons and drug addicts.)