So this week I got to relish in one of the many perks of living on base. If you don't like or have issues with your next-door neighbor just wait a little bit and either they or you will move! I am not saying I have had a real run in with this neighbors they were just a little.....strange?? Oh I'll just start from the beginning. Steve and I moved in to the house August 7th. I met the gentlemen living next-door that very day. We were letting the dogs run around in their new backyard and he happened to be out with their two dogs (little yapping dogs at that.) We introduced ourselves and had a nice conversation. He was E-6 Army (I only know because he was wearing his uniform), but we did not talk about what either him or Steve did in the military. He seemed VERY friendly and I thought um this won't be so bad living here. His wife was out of town, but he told me that she will be excited to find out that a little baby would living right next-door (I was about 5 1/2 months pregnant), as they were older and had no children. This would be the last conversation we would have in over 6 months.
The next couple of months for us were very busy (hello BABY!) and anyone who knows me know that I am kinda of shy. In the sense that I won't usually start a conversation, but I also won't end one lol. The neighbors wife made it back to town at some point, but let me tell you this I have NO CLUE what she looks like. I would catch a glimpse of her going into the house or pulling out of the driveway and I would wave, but that's about as far as it would go until February 5th ( I know the date, because it was the sunday before I left to go back to GA). Steve was flying and I am home with Grace who is just about 2 months old and there is a knock on the door. It was our neighbor and another guy who looks like the neighbor from across the street. So I open the door and they ask if they can talk to my husband. I already don't like where this is going, what could you possibly have to say to him that you can't say to me. I tell them he's working, but asked if I could help them with something. So the next-door neighbor ask me if they did anything to offend us? I am sure I gave him the craziest look ever because we haven't talked in 6 months! I tell him No and asked if we did something that would make him think that? He tells me just some stuff going on with other neighbors. So conversation continues for about 15-20 minutes about random stuff, but nothing serious. We leave it on what I thought was neighborly terms. However, this is the last conversation we ever had.
In the months to come I would see him or his wife out and I would smile wave, but would get nothing in return. I brushed it off as them just not seeing me. That was until this Tuesday evening. Steve was cleaning out the garage and Grace and I were out there supervising. We were standing in the MIDDLE of the driveway when the neighbor starts to bring his trash to curb. Steve waves a total of 3 times and still nothing in return. So the next time the neighbor is out Steve calls out "How's it going!" The guy just keeps walking!! So Steve looks at me like What the HECK!??? I shrug and go okay that was so not my imagine this time. He totally ignored us!! The very next day I am walking to the mailbox with Grace and he's out front. So I think ok let's try this again. I call out "Hey how's it going!" He looks RIGHT AT ME and NOTHING!! Are you kidding. I mean come on you could at least say SOMETHING. The only conclusion I can come to is something must have happened with housing and they think we had some part of it. Umm No! If I have an issue with you YOUR gonna know about it FIRST! If it continues then I might take other routes, but YOUR the one who I am gonna talk to FIRST! So I am thinking OH GREAT this is going to be a fun couple of years. Then God smiled and things started to look up.
Friday morning I wake up to guess what...A MAYFLOWER truck in their drive way!! They are OUT HERE!! No more awkward passings! I told myself that with these next neighbors I am going to make an effort to get to know them a little better and hopefully avoid 2 years of nonsense!!
