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RE: Day 531: 5 Minute Freewrite: Thursday - Prompt: filth
Ahh the disgruntled neighbor....there always seems to be one! I've had this type and currently Jeff has one who gets under his skin. His is the town counsel who is a rich and very unkind neighbor who fusses over tree limbs that bow over his yard.
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I have difficult neighbors, or maybe I'm the difficult one. We don't have it quite as bad as my story, but close. Trees are often material for disagreement here as well. My neighbor had been using a large part of my property because the previous owners of my house planted a hedgerow a good twenty feet short of the property line. But when a tree on the portion he'd been using for more than a decade died, he figured I should pay for it. Which I did, because unlike my characters, I don't like confrontation!
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Don't get me started on my neighbor... it could be worse. That's what I keep telling myself. In so many ways, it could be so much worse. She is neat and clean. She takes good care of her animals. But I've seen her kick a stray dog (it had a collar!). "I hate strays," she says. I'm going to stop here. It can take weeks if not years for the steam kettle in my mind to stop shrieking....
I feel that way about most of my neighbors, but one was the nightmare neighbor of my worst dreams. I'd take any stray in if it came to my door. What kind of person hates a stray? I love them instantly.