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Confrontation with a neighbor (1 Viewer)

Normally i would say life is demanding without understanding and so you should make peace with him. But the more i think about it i would say just stay away and i think you will be happy living without him. 

 
parasaurolophus said:
Normally i would say life is demanding without understanding and so you should make peace with him. But the more i think about it i would say just stay away and i think you will be happy living without him. 
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But this is a walk that's part of their daily/weekly life. Do you think they should full stop part of their lives because the neighbor was a jerk one day? Imo stay the course and help, or ignore and let this other guy come to an understanding about things.

 
belljr said:
FTR - as a former Public Works employee - I would appreciate you not throwing #### at those signs....

Its all fun and games until I'd have to replace it.....
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He's keeping people in your former job employed. Stop complaining.

 
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El Floppo said:
But this is a walk that's part of their daily/weekly life. Do you think they should full stop part of their lives because the neighbor was a jerk one day? Imo stay the course and help, or ignore and let this other guy come to an understanding about things.
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I dont really care if they went for this walk under the pale moon, for so many years. This guy is trouble. He saw him hit the sign. OP tried to explain the game to him but it didnt open up his mind.

 
Perhaps in the future you could take the same walk and just eliminate the throw a walnut at the sign game? Get a dart board and play a round of darts with the wife at home after the walk?

His reaction was over blown but I would think you could make this small change, unless of course it makes you feel like he won then. That changes things completely. 

 
Biggest issue is the opportunity you missed.

"Sir, I was merely throwing walnuts at a sign, I'm not a vandall"

"I don't care what your throwing, you're vandalizing the sign! Get off my road"

"How about I throw DEEEEEZZZ NUTTTZZZZ in your mouth?!?!?!"

 
Warhogs said:
Perhaps in the future you could take the same walk and just eliminate the throw a walnut at the sign game? Get a dart board and play a round of darts with the wife at home after the walk?

His reaction was over blown but I would think you could make this small change, unless of course it makes you feel like he won then. That changes things completely. 
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Interesting, I'd go the opposite route.

Tomorrow I throw twice as many walnuts.

 
E-Z Glider said:
Neighbor (now screaming and waddling towards me like he wants to throw-down): LISTEN HERE, DONT YOU GET PISSY WITH ME BOY. I JUST WATCHED YOU THROWING..... 
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I think you handled this well.  At this point above, my interjection would have been along the lines "sir, I have told you several times that we were not throwing rocks.  You repeating it, and repeating it louder will still not make it true."  Then I would Good Day him and move on.

I imagine your wife will want to change your walking route now, but I would leave it the same.  Thankfully the nut throwing game is only seasonal.

 
You should mix it up every time you walk by his house:

Today: bounce a basketball

Tomorrow: skip using a jump rope

Next day: couple of those mini shriner cars weaving back and forth

Next day: snare drum

Next day: lasso

Next day: frisbee

 
E-Z Glider said:
About 300 yards down the road (and barely visible) is this guy's house. As we're approaching I see him start waddling towards the road (he's a big pot-bellied fella). We have the following exchange:
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You can't see this guy's house, yet he can see you throwing things at a speed limit sign?  Does he live in a bird feeder?

 
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NotSmart said:
I'm on your side, start to finish... but that said, walnuts are pretty substantial... I'd liken them to chuckin' golf balls at something.
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lol... no way. I assume a golf ball would dent the sign. These were soft and incapable of actually causing damage.

 
So you're here complaining about him on a message board, but based off your reaction to walk away?  I'm guessing you will never throw walnuts at the sign again.  So, he wins.  He got exactly what he wanted.  Advantage: Fat Loudmouth Guy.

 
Warhogs said:
Perhaps in the future you could take the same walk and just eliminate the throw a walnut at the sign game? Get a dart board and play a round of darts with the wife at home after the walk?

His reaction was over blown but I would think you could make this small change, unless of course it makes you feel like he won then. That changes things completely. 
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Deepster said:
So you're here complaining about him on a message board, but based off your reaction to walk away?  I'm guessing you will never throw walnuts at the sign again.  So, he wins.  He got exactly what he wanted.  Advantage: Fat Loudmouth Guy.
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Not really complaining, just relaying a real-life story that I thought was interesting. Not every day I get yelled at by a nut-job.  :shrug:

Will definitely keep doing the walk (we typically walk during the day on weekdays, so don't imagine Ill see him that often anyway). Will not be throwing more walnuts at the street sign (I have no interest in a 2nd confrontation with this whacko). If that was his desire and he feels good about the way he handled it, then sure, I suppose he's the "winner" here.

 
I'd have accused him of being some big government liberal upset that you hurt his big government sign trying to tell everyone what to do

 
:lmao:  So I've been thinking about this confrontation all morning here at work.  Probably because things are slow.  How this would have gone down had it been myself and my wife.  I'd like to handle it like you did.  That is the correct way to handle crazy.  But I know it would not have been so easily diffused.  I'm not a fighter.  I don't look for that.  I'm too old with bad knees and have zero interest in showing someone I am a bad ### or anything like that. 

Dude has a legitimate grief with people vandalizing his political signs or whatever.  That's BS.  He can put whatever he wants up and people should respect that.  But I would not have been able to handle the scolding like I was a child.  Especially once it was CLEAR you weren't the ones messing with his stuff.  It would have escalated from there.  The right way to handle crazy is how you did it.  But sometimes I end up handling crazy with crazy.  I'd give it a 10% chance we would have walked away like you did.  I would have told that all dude about himself.  And I'm sure it would have gotten ugly.   The minute he pulled that crap about "Do you got a problem with signs" like I was a teenager.  Not to mention my wife is crazy and does not back down from anyone.  Let alone beer belly old dude accusing you of vandalizing his signs. Get out of here with that crap.  

90% chance heated words would have been exchanged and who knows if nut dude would have escalated it from there.  Which is not something anyone wants at this point in our lives.  You handled it well, but don't change your walking route. And I'd throw walnuts at that sign again.  He doesn't own it.  Screw him.  

 
ChiefD said:
You should mix it up every time you walk by his house:

Today: bounce a basketball

Tomorrow: skip using a jump rope

Next day: couple of those mini shriner cars weaving back and forth

Next day: snare drum

Next day: lasso

Next day: frisbee
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marching band trombone in my opinion take that to the bank brohan

 
top dog said:
:lmao:  So I've been thinking about this confrontation all morning here at work.  Probably because things are slow.  How this would have gone down had it been myself and my wife.  I'd like to handle it like you did.  That is the correct way to handle crazy.  But I know it would not have been so easily diffused.  I'm not a fighter.  I don't look for that.  I'm too old with bad knees and have zero interest in showing someone I am a bad ### or anything like that. 

Dude has a legitimate grief with people vandalizing his political signs or whatever.  That's BS.  He can put whatever he wants up and people should respect that.  But I would not have been able to handle the scolding like I was a child.  Especially once it was CLEAR you weren't the ones messing with his stuff.  It would have escalated from there.  The right way to handle crazy is how you did it.  But sometimes I end up handling crazy with crazy.  I'd give it a 10% chance we would have walked away like you did.  I would have told that all dude about himself.  And I'm sure it would have gotten ugly.   The minute he pulled that crap about "Do you got a problem with signs" like I was a teenager.  Not to mention my wife is crazy and does not back down from anyone.  Let alone beer belly old dude accusing you of vandalizing his signs. Get out of here with that crap.  

90% chance heated words would have been exchanged and who knows if nut dude would have escalated it from there.  Which is not something anyone wants at this point in our lives.  You handled it well, but don't change your walking route. And I'd throw walnuts at that sign again.  He doesn't own it.  Screw him.  
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People like that neighbor are so delusional...He would shoot you and say you were trespassing or tried to attack him.  

 
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We have a little game that we have been playing here every fall for about the past 5 years or so. We stop at the tree, each pick up a few black walnuts, and see who can hit the sign first. I, of course, always win. At this time of the year, the walnuts are staring to turn black, soft, and rotten. On this particular walk, it probably took us each a good 15-20 throws before I finally hit it. Once I hit it, we continued walking.
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Best part of the story is still the humble brag that he finally beat his wife after 20 tries!  :lmao:

I can't believe the guy even got mad.  You weren't vandalizing anything.  Just throwing a walnut from one spot to another.  I could really only see him being upset if you were pelting the sign repeatedly there, Maddux.

 
Some people have a very personal relationship with their local street signs. Not surprised that most of you don't understand.

 
xulf said:
People like that neighbor are so delusional...He would shoot you and say you were trespassing or tried to attack him.  
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That's what I'm saying. For him to come at you like he did means he sits around simmering all day long, getting angry about just stuff in general. Don't become the focus of this guy's delusion and violence. You KNOW he has guns, and you are now the ####### sign vandalizer. Stay away.

 
Jobber said:
That's what I'm saying. For him to come at you like he did means he sits around simmering all day long, getting angry about just stuff in general. Don't become the focus of this guy's delusion and violence. You KNOW he has guns, and you are now the ####### sign vandalizer. Stay away.
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And in some states he wouldn't even go to prison.  He was standing his ground ( the ground under the signs ).

 
Grahamburn said:
Best part of the story is still the humble brag that he finally beat his wife after 20 tries!  :lmao:

I can't believe the guy even got mad.  You weren't vandalizing anything.  Just throwing a walnut from one spot to another.  
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I have it on good authority it was a rock. 

 
E-Z Glider said:
People are awfully judgy considering I never mentioned even mentioned the distance... or the size of the sign.... or the tremendous wind the was howling... or the low quality of the nutz I was throwing.... or the sharp pain I suddenly feel in my shoulder after the first throw.... etc.
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Circumstances were at least favorable enough so that your wife had a shot at hitting it.

 
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