3.20.2007

Good Neighbor / Bad Neighbor

Tonight after dinner Hannah, Amanda and I made a list of the reasons why we are good neighbors and why our neighbors are mostly bad neighbors. On a scale from negative infinity to positive ad infinitum, we scored 97, while our neighbors scored -73. Here's an itemized list of our scores:

US:
+54: Taking out the trash (2x a week, 4.5 weeks every month, 6 months we've been here)
+3: We went to their party and were super-awesome guests
+5: We invited them to dinner
+7: We invited them to Thanksgiving
+1: We did not beat their door down when they cancelled on us the day of Thanksgiving
+10: We made them an awesome Christmas cookie platter
+2: The cookie platter came complete with homemade Christmas card
+5: We invited them to our parties...
+5: ... twice
+5: They're in general cold and we put up with it
-0: Sorry, we're obviously the perfect neighbors

THEM:
-54: They leave their trash for us to take out (2x a week, 4.5 weeks a month, for all 6 months we've been here)
-3: One time they left 5 or 6 trash bags out even though they knew we were gone for vacation and birds got into it and strew the trash EVERYWHERE in our driveway and they did not pick it up. They are lucky we only took off 3 for this, because we are still stewing about it.
+5: They invited us to their first party
-5: They did not come to our parties...
-5: ... twice
-7: They cancelled on us at Thanksgiving by shoving a note under our door the day of
+1: They said thank you for the Christmas cookies
-3: They cleaned their house/made out with their boyfriend/ignored us after they invited us in to chat and try our cookies
-2: Hannah really wanted to withhold their cookies entirely but we didn't, and she still harbors some additional ill-will as a result
+5: They set up the outside grill
-1: They play really loud music sometimes late at night
-2: They host open laundry season in our garage and let their entire university use the facilities Friday straight through to Sunday
-2: They bang on Hannah's wall when she talks to us from her bedroom past 10 pm

There you have it.

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