Monday, August 07, 2006

Neighborhood parties

We had a party in our little cul-de-sac of 15 houses or so. The house where the birthday party for what looked like a little kid, was only 4 houses north of ours. Did anyone get an invitation from the neighborhood get an invitation I don't know but we sure did not get ours and I highly doubt if anyone else got one. But don't let this fool you as the party was something among the family. Or they only have little kids and that's all. Nooo.... This was a full fledged party. Inflatable jumper in the front lawn, covering up the driveway and the sidewalk, loud and obnoxious, Spanish speaking, dj, screaming his lungs out, with disco ball of 70's, sending psychedelic light beams to the back yards of whole neighborhood. They went all out. When we went to bed around midnight, party was still going on, and even though it was a god sent cool night in Southern California heat that night, we had to close the windows and fire up the a/c. Thanks to these jerk neighbors, we most probably added another 30-40 bucks to our SCE electric bill.

The next morning, around 8 AM, we got out to walk our dogs and what did we see ? Yup, you've guessed it right. Pile of trash on the curbside, right in front of our house. If you think this was a party for the kids, maybe they'd better explain the beer cans to the child services. I knew I should have called the cops on their asses as the clock ticked over 11 PM, but I did not. And the trash, which was not there before we went to bed. Whatever they did as far as inviting neighbors or lack thereof, is not anyone else's decision, but if you really want to alienate your neighbors, this is the way to go. Keep them up until the wee hours of the morning, trash the neighborhood, create a car parking nightmare. Good going idiots.