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Not Heidi

(1,529 posts)
Sun Mar 2, 2025, 07:19 AM Mar 2025

Passive-Aggressive BS [View all]

Mick is a guy I met in the partial hospitalization program I was in a couple of years ago. Somehow he learned that he and I lived on the same street.

He appeared at my door a couple of times, asking for money for food. Being who I am, how could I say no? I gave him a twenty the first time he asked; a ten the second. But my wife was pissed - not at me but at Mick.

The next time the doorbell rang after dark, Kathy answered the door. They got into a heated argument in which several "fuck yous" were thrown about. He hasn't come to the door since then.

However, we believe he's come to our house to vandalize things. My front license plate was bent twice. Our trash and recycling bins* were moved to the driveway, directly behind my car. (Minor, but irritating.)

The latest insult was that we found the backyard flooded one afternoon. Our sprinklers don't work, but they seep at an astounding rate. Little fish could've swam among the grass, I swear.

We've bought a group of tiny cameras to put up around the outside of our house, but none of us can figure out how they work. I think my music teacher can figure it out (this just occurred to me: if he can teach me music theory so that I can understand it, surely he can figure out our cameras).

How passive-aggressive is this BS?!

* The member of our household whose job it is to bring in the bins does so in the dark of morning as they don't like to be seen.

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Passive-Aggressive BS [View all] Not Heidi Mar 2025 OP
Nothing passive about it Easterncedar Mar 2025 #1
Agreed. N/P Not Heidi Mar 2025 #4
Wow, that is annoying bucolic_frolic Mar 2025 #2
Thank you, BF. Not Heidi Mar 2025 #3
Problematic neighbors are the worst Niagara Mar 2025 #5
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