Saturday, September 24, 2011

Our Neighbors

There is an old Arab proverb that has given us some food for thought...


We have some 'interesting' neighbors in our building.

I'll just list the highlights:
It started at 5:32 am one morning.
Gunshots.
Outside our bedroom window.
Upon further investigation {after I was revived from my heart attack}, we discovered that the city came by and shot the neighbors dog.
At 5:32 in the morning. With a high powered rifle.
In front of our bedroom window.  Left a blood trail on the front walk.
Here are the facts we collected:
  • their dog got pregnant
  • their dog had a puppy
  • the puppy ran loose and started snapping at people
  • the puppy got shot {in front of our bedroom window}
  • the mom dog got pregnant again
  • the mom dog had puppies
  • the mom dog got poisoned
  • the mom dog died
  • the new puppy tried to eat our daughter on our front porch
  • I was tempted to report the puppy to the city {but was worried about the gunshots}
  • meanwhile, during all the puppy drama, the guy next door got married again {a second wife who interestingly, his son who was at university in Russia, brought his father a second wife as a gift upon returning for a visit}
  • the guy got divorced {from the second wife, she couldn't learn Arabic fast enough}
  • they crashed a taxi from their taxi company
  • they made the crashed taxi into a yard ornament
  • his poor first wife walks everywhere, even though they own a taxi company
  • and his son travels via roller blades everywhere
  • they own 15 cars
And this was all in a three month time period.  We should have interviewed the neighbor prior to renting our apartment.

Note to self: memorize more Arab proverbs

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