I was awakened by my sometimes neighbor this morning. They live in another state and have for many years, but they've kept the house for occasional visits. She said her son and his wife were going to be living there for a few months and then she and her husband would be moving back here next year. I don't know which is worse - having a bossy neighbor or no neighbor. She immediately demanded we trim our trees because they were messing up her gutters. I mumbled something. What I wanted to ask is could she just have one conversation without a demand? All she has to do is trim our trees on her property. But she wants us to pay for it, and then always criticizes the tree guy and job after. I'm not going down that road again. She's unbelievably narcissistic, to the point where she never gets my name right, never knows the names of our kids, or what my husband did for a living.
Her husband is not so bad, but really, there is no reciprocation. We do stuff they ask, but they never do anything neighborly for us. She leaves you feeling like a servant. I once asked them to take in the mail for us for couple of days, and they said their housekeeper could do it if we asked, and I presumed, paid. I've had a key for years, and every time she gets locked out she demands to be let into her own house. I've helped her with her car, her mother, whenever she calls in a panic.
I'm done. This one way street is closed.
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