Monday, June 10, 2013

NAUGHTY NEIGHBORS

Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

Before I tell you about NAUGHTY NEIGHBORS, I want to introduce you to some nice neighbors I've discovered in the blogosphers.

First up is Coffee Lady at My 2nd Cup. Coffee Lady had a problem with her original blog, My Morning Cup of Coffee, so she had to start over. It's been difficult for her to get in touch with her former followers to let them know where she is. I urge you to check out Coffee Lady and consider following her.

Second, meet LittleMyoo at delusions of ingenuity. I think she might be as nutty as I am, and you know that's saying a lot. So please check out LittleMyoo and consider clicking on her Follow button.

If you follow these ladies, then please tell them Janie Junebug sent you. That way they'll know who to  blame thank for all the new crazies visiting them.

Now, onto naughty neighbors. Susie at looniesuse inspired me to write this post when she wrote a post about her neighbor's rowdy grandchildren, which she then deleted because she thought it was too mean. Well, I don't want to be too mean about the naughty neighbors I had, and I didn't think Susie was mean. We had these neighbors so long ago that I think of them as an amusing memory.

It happened in a faraway land when some people built a house on the empty lot next to our house. The new people began life in our neighborhood by cutting down all the trees on their lot.




They had two children: a boy who was six, just like Favorite Young Man, and a girl, who was three. The Hurricane was born not too long after they moved into their brand spanking new house.

Girl Child had a name other than Girl Child. It was the name we had chosen if The Hurricane popped out in female form.

But after we got to know Girl Child, we chose a different potential name for The Hurricane, so that was how Baby Hurricane came not to be named Katharine.

Girl Child


We had a sliding glass door that led to the part of our kitchen where we sat down to eat meals together. As we enjoyed whatever I had cooked that day, Girl Child would suddenly appear at the sliding glass door to gaze upon us as we noshed. She's peer in at us, and I'd get up and close the drapes.

One day, I was working in the kitchen, and I heard a noise in the garage. The garage door was open because Favorite Young Man and Boy Child were running in and out and playing together. Apparently Girl Child had followed them and only got as far as the garage, WHERE SHE GOT IN MY CAR.

I took Girl Child home that day, and mentioned to her mother that she had been in my car. Mom gave me a look as if to say, Well, big deal.

From then on, I locked my car, even though it was parked in our garage.

Girl Child continued her wandering ways.

I think my favorite story is about Boy Child.

Boy Child had quite a naughty mouth, which included frequently taking the name of the Lord in vain. We attended church every Sunday, and I hadn't yet developed my own mouth that needed to be washed out with soap. So we asked Boy Child not to say Jesus Christ when something went wrong.

Boy Child would not cease and desist, and one day his father heard Dr. X telling Boy Child not to say Jesus Christ. The father said, What's wrong with saying Jesus Christ? We sent him to a preschool at a church and they said Jesus Christ all the time.

We were absolutely amazed that an adult who had a good job with a nice paycheck didn't know the difference between a prayer and a curse. Dr. X endeavored to educate father and son with no success.

Our neighborly situation definitely could have been much worse. I know some young people whose first home was across the street from a house that had all-night parties every Monday. It was loud, and people were coming and coming throughout the night. It seems those neighbors were making pornos.

I feel very fortunate to live next to Hot Young Anthony and Sweet Young Allison. If they make pornos, they do it quietly.

Infinities of love,

Janie Junebug


28 comments:

  1. when we were growing up, we had these neighbours. the 2 kids were a year younger and a year older to me. they'd call me to play and then begin kissing and touching me inappropriately. i was too young to understand anything that went on. mom sensed something not right and stopped me from playing with them. when i grew up a little and i understood why and i felt disgusted. really very disgusted. had intimacy issues but i'm okay now.

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    1. That's so sad, Jaya. They were really messed up.

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  2. Good grief- it is precisely people like those neighbors with the two kids who should have to pass a certification test before becoming parents.

    Our neighbors are the cows, the coyotes, the hawks, the armadillos, and javelinas. They haven't turned us in yet.

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    1. I've seen worse parents than those two. They weren't abusive -- just kind of clueless.

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  3. My current neighbor situation has turned me into a "drive into the garage and shut the door behind me" type person. I forgot to tell you where the rowdy kids are from...Florida!

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    1. Oh, no! I hope they're not from Jacksonville. I swear I didn't send them to you.

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  4. Hi Janie .. great to meet new blogging friends and to know they slot into the nice neighbour slot .. your nasty neighbours .. sound pains!

    I'm lucky with mine .. life can be a challenge otherwise ..

    Cheers Hilary

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    1. I'm so fortunate in the current neighbor department.

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  5. Girl child looks like quite a precocious character! I'll go check out your nice bloggy neighbors.

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    1. Thank you for visiting new friends. The real Girl Child was a very cute child.

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  6. It's sad that so many people who have children shouldn't and many couples desperate for a child can't conceive them.

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    1. Life isn't fair. But Favorite Young Man is 33 now. One of these days, maybe I'll hear that Boy Child or Girl Child won a Nobel prize. Or maybe one of them is a serial killer.

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    2. I too bad we can't pick our neighbors and their children. I have had some strange ones in my life, now the nearest ones are pretty far away. I can't even see their house.

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    3. When I lived in Illinois, our house was in the country and pretty isolated. No neighbor problems there. But when I moved to Florida I had to get used to looking out the window and being able to see people. Fortunately, seeing Anthony and Allison makes me happy.

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  7. I forgot ~~ I will go and check out the two ladies you mentioned.

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  8. We've had rowdy neighborhood children acting up in our yard too. One day when they stepped over the line, I soaked them down with a garden hose.

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  9. HA! "People were coming and coming throughout the night..." You crack me up!

    Our neighbors in Maryland (back in the Dark Ages) had two children, an adorable little 3-year-old girl, and a baby boy. The little girl liked to come over to our house to visit "Miss Soodie"... in the buff. I'd open the door, and there she was, grinning at me. I wonder if she ended up being a stripper.

    Down here in Georgia, we had a boy next door who'd come to our door when he was playing outside and had to go to the bathroom. He liked the pictures hanging over the toilet...

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    1. I would love to know what happened to some of the kids I've gotten to know over the years. Did the kids who couldn't read end up okay? Did the kids who were mean develop compassion? Favorite Young Man once saw a young man standing in line for a concert and realized he was a kid with whom he had a feud in elementary school. He spoke to the young man, and everything was cool between them.

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  10. I was wondering why these bloggers came to visit. Thank you for that. How sweet.

    Girl-child is adorable. Yep neighbors can be challenging. I am lucky to have good neighbors on both sides. So far so good.

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    1. You're welcome. When Janie Junebug writes, every now and then someone reads and obeys.

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  11. First I off to visit the ladies you have suggessed because I am a good little blogger......

    Now I would not like some kid playing in my car,I even go mad at Litte Leo when he gets into the car I tell him it's not a toy..........

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    1. Thank you for visiting the nice ladies. I still keep my car locked, even when it's in the garage.

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  12. I LOVE the Hurricane's name. It fits her so much better than Katharine ;)

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    1. Thank you. If her first name had been Katharine, her middle name was going to be Elise. Instead, it's Michelle.

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  13. I've had more naughty neighbors living here than anywhere else I've lived. Luckily I try to pass invisibly through the hallways and make no friends or enemies. That girl child would have given me the heebie jeebies--LOL! ;)

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    1. I chose a very unpleasant photo from the internet for Girl Child. She was really a very pretty little girl.

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