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Who are the people in your neighborhood? (pg. 2)
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
I'm moving there, find me a house for $175'000 ? :p |
Sorry Ian... my neighbour just sold his for $290K... and it's the smallest one on the block (prices are skyrocketing in Waterloo). |
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| _Ocean_Drive_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
You know how you can tell how ASS BACKWARDS people's priorities in life are? Just say hello, wave, or smile politely at random people walking down the street, and see their reaction.
My buddy and I were out enjoying the sun on his front porch the other day and we gave friendly greetings to all who passed. How many of those people do you think smiled or waved, or said hello back? Not many. In fact, most of them seemed shocked, appalled, or offended!!
There's something wrong with people when a simple friendly hello from their fellow man is offensive!! |
I thought Americans were generally friendly to strangers... BUt then again, some of what you said doesn't surprise me. Alot of people are 'in it for themselves' nowadays. There's no sense of community, more about the individual...
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
In my neighbourhood....
Mrs. Hazard and will take Canine Hazard for a walk, which should take 30 minutes but will normally take 45-50 due to the conversations we end up in with various people we will meet enroute (say 3-4 short conversations per walk).
There is a man on our walking route who just finished fixing up an early 80s Ferrari GTO... when I mentioned to him that it has long since been my dream car he took me for a spin... even let me drive it.
My neighbour's children play in my back yard.
At least once a week someone from our street will walk across the backyards and invite everyone to their house for drinks.
When I built a deck in my backyard a couple of weeks ago neighbours showed up with tools to see if they could help, others popped by to see how it was going.
When my fence (decorative on the front lawn) was vandalized a month ago a passerby picked up the boards that had been removed and placed them by my front door.
My neighbourhood is like something out of 1950s suburbia... I love it. |
That sounds really nice! Where d'you live? |
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| Ian |
| heh. we're about to put ours on the market for about $280'000 ish but that's cos my mums job is expiring in 6 months, I wanna move out, and I have a small amount of cash in this, about $35000 so I can fund some education plus lifestyle changes and my bros home now for a bit cos you canucks wouldn't give him a work permit, so he's gaining field experience here to try again in 12 months time (plus he's aiming to be married to the candian girl in like 16 months :p) |
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| Psy-T |
| i know my neighbours from the same building, and a sculptor who lives in the same street as me and puts out some new random abstract suclptor every month or two on display around his house, and that's it. |
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| get nyce |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Nah I don't have expectations of people, that's not what I meant. I would have stopped smiling and waving a long time ago if that's how I thought. :p |
lol i know but you shouldn't be disappointed if people don't reciprocate the greeting. i mean granted i say wdups to the 'regulars' on my block but the dudes who stay asking for stuff i just ignore them then they actually get offended that you ignore them can you believe that! lol they get all loud like hey im askin you a question, then you say back, yea you ask me the same every day no i dont got no money for you, no i dont got no food for you...
so let me tell ya, there's this one FAT dude that always hangs on my block asking people for . so one day im comin back from the pizza store with a slice of pizza in a box and he goes hey you got any extra food for me? i said nah i just got this pizza for my dinner and he goes do you have an extra sandwich upstairs or anything you can give me. lol im like WTF, i say no and i walk into my building. i go back out to get a cig from the hotel doormen next door and he's still out there...so after my smoke he goes hey and i ignore him, and he goes hey im talkin to you, i said look i dont have anything to give you and he goes do you have an extra AM/FM radio I can have? LOL WHAT THE ! haha |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by get nyce
lol i know but you shouldn't be disappointed if people don't reciprocate the greeting. i mean granted i say wdups to the 'regulars' on my block but the dudes who stay asking for stuff i just ignore them then they actually get offended that you ignore them can you believe that! lol they get all loud like hey im askin you a question, then you say back, yea you ask me the same every day no i dont got no money for you, no i dont got no food for you...
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But I never said I WAS disappointed that people don't reciprocate, lol.
I said it's disappointing that people don't know the pleasure of simple kindness/friendliness. |
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| all-nite-freak |
| in the small time that i have spent in the bahamas i have realized im the youngest non black person to actually live there by at least 7 years. |
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| _Ocean_Drive_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by get nyce
lol i know but you shouldn't be disappointed if people don't reciprocate the greeting. i mean granted i say wdups to the 'regulars' on my block but the dudes who stay asking for stuff i just ignore them then they actually get offended that you ignore them can you believe that! lol they get all loud like hey im askin you a question, then you say back, yea you ask me the same every day no i dont got no money for you, no i dont got no food for you...
so let me tell ya, there's this one FAT dude that always hangs on my block asking people for . so one day im comin back from the pizza store with a slice of pizza in a box and he goes hey you got any extra food for me? i said nah i just got this pizza for my dinner and he goes do you have an extra sandwich upstairs or anything you can give me. lol im like WTF, i say no and i walk into my building. i go back out to get a cig from the hotel doormen next door and he's still out there...so after my smoke he goes hey and i ignore him, and he goes hey im talkin to you, i said look i dont have anything to give you and he goes do you have an extra AM/FM radio I can have? LOL WHAT THE ! haha |
rofl.
Where in NYC d'you live (roughly)? |
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| Zoso |
| Only two sets of neighbors for me: the in-laws and the "other" neighbors. The "others" are Native American, or so they claim. She's full blooded something or other and he's "part" Native American. I love looking out and only seeing two houses, though I'd prefer to see none. |
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| DJ_Eternal |
| quote: | Originally posted by get nyce
perhaps the way you BELIEVE in a greater good, isn't exactly how everyone else believes in seeing the greater good in each other. i learned that disappointment comes from expectations and im not saying its 'bad' to expect people to be kind-hearted and naturally for the 'greater good', just the harsh reality (common knowledge) is that people don't have time to find out about other peoples lives or care to stop and simply return a greeting without thinking/expecting that they want something in return. As ed as it sounds, it's the truth so yes common knowledge isn't so common but in a ed up way it's understood ya know |
That's how I've felt recently. In this respect, the less you expect of people, the less dissappointed you feel when something doesn't go the way you'd hoped.
:) |
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| _Ocean_Drive_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zoso
I love looking out and only seeing two houses, though I'd prefer to see none. |
pics or stfu |
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| Zoso |
| quote: | Originally posted by _Ocean_Drive_
pics or stfu |
Let me see what I've got on hand at work, sir. Slim pickins, I fear. |
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