anyone home?

[cellio]

I'm going to guess that the letter from the gas company taped to a neighbor's door, informing him that his gas will be cut off tomorrow for non-payment of bills, means the odds that I'll be able to get him to trim his hedges so they don't block the sidewalk are low. Bummer.

I have never met this neighbor despite living here for 11 years and walking past his house several times a week. His hedge maintenance is consistent with his snow-removal habits, but I was still hoping to have a friendly and effective conversation. It's possible, after all, that he just hasn't noticed, if he never walks in the back of his house himself. But he never seems to be home to talk to. (Things change from time to time, like holiday decorations, and the lawn gets mowed, so it's not an abandoned property.)

Comments

[alfiechat.livejournal.com]

Monica, which neighbor is it, out of curiosity?

[cellio]

Since I just announced his financial problems to the world I don't want to identify him publicly.

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

Just tell him that your camel^* cannot get past, and he'll have no choice but to trim it, even if by hand!

^*Camel not included with suggestion.

[cellio]

Camel not included with suggestion.

Good; I really don't want to deal with local laws on pets/livestock. :-)

(City law limits a household to five dogs and/or cats. It doesn't single out any other species, but that didn't protect the friend of a friend who had several dozen chickens in her city yard.)

[evil-baron.livejournal.com]

Not home? Could be Santorum...

[cellio]

I thought the house Santorum doesn't live in was in Penn Hills.

[dragonazure.livejournal.com]

Just tell 'em it is a hunchbacked Great Dane with an attitude....