My Neighbors Hate Me.

[charrbq]

If your neighbors get out of hand and start complaining, and your law enforcement guys are busy, then I bet you can find someone to come over and shoot them with a super soaker and silly string. There's a big guy in the Florida that will probably have some left over after this month. That is if it isn't confiscated as evidence.

[DavidM]

Originally posted by RacerBill@Jan 12 2006, 11:04 AM
I know that my neighborhood is full of SPYS!!!!!! They even have secret meetings! How do I know, the Home Owners Association admitted that they were having a board meeting, but then said that it was not open to all the members! The even call the cops

Home owners association? That's where you went wrong. You think HOAs want neighbors with race cars? They probably told everyone at the board meeting to watch your house and file a complaint at the first sign of non-compliance.

Me, ain't no way I'd live in a neighborhood with a HOA. Cause then I'd never have a neighbor with antiques, flower pot people, and toilet bowls with plants in their well manicured yard. The HOA probably would've bitched as well when I built the carport off my driveway to park my daily driver, wifes car, and truck under because the racecar went in the garage (along with my Z).

I don't really interact with my neighbors much. They're mostly rednecks that drive around in american muscle cars and jacked-up trucks. They probably think I'm a commie cause I race a Japanese car. I think this is why they keep throwing their american fast food trash and american piss beer cans in my yard. I don't worry about noise since the guy with the jacked-up 4x4 and straight pipes drives around all the time and drowns out just about anything else. They leave me alone, though, so I leave them alone.

David

[latebrake]

Wife VS garage,
Do you work in the garage instead of watching chick movies on TV with the wife? I do. My wife likes to cut the grass. I asked her not to do that when I am in the garage or loading my golf clubs in the car,makes me look bad. I think she likes to make me look bad. Shes a SPY too. Damn!! sleeping with the enemy all along and didnt know it.

She thinks she can fix things too. the last two new lawn mowers I had is because she tried to fix them. I have enough tools to build the space shuttle but she only uses the pliers and screw driver. I think she does this to make me mad. SPIES do this to break you down you know. I'm going to check my medication just to make sure she hasent changed anything. I have been feeling a little out of body experence lately. Have to go now,she may be looking.

Lawrence

[Despr8dave]

Mark Larson
#83 G-Prod


Mark! How the hell have you been?

<---------David Scott Green/white/black 510 ( Keith&#39;s car ) and white/orange 510, early nineties. Haven&#39;t talked to you in ages.

[timrogers]

My neighbors on one side of me love me since I have only 5 cars at my house, which is 5 LESS than what they have... Their oldest son has a &#39;93 Prelude which I have loaned him countless tools so that he can work on it and helped him swap in an H22A. Now he&#39;s bought an &#39;87 Prelude with a 500Hp H22A with a massive turbo on it. Yes, I&#39;ve helped him with that too.
And helped with his brother&#39;s S-10 and Bronco.
And helped swap in a new motor into his sister&#39;s &#39;92 Prelude.
And not killed him when he&#39;s lost parts of my tools. They have me over for dinner at least once a month.
My other neighbor is jealous of my garage. Its the same layout as his garage, a drive-under garage / basement that I can squeeze 3 cars into but so much cooler than his with all of the tools, the full-sized fridge stocked with beer, the air conditioner and the vent-free gas heater I just installed. He&#39;s so jealous that under the cover of an ice storm last month, he sent his old pine tree into a death plunge that terminated in hitting the side of my garage / house. Luckily since I&#39;m a racer and know about roll cages and such, I had installed extra cross-bracing in my frame (cleverly disguised as extra insulation and vinyl siding) and the siding is the only thing that shows some damage.
None of the neighbors can complain about the noise since we live 2 miles away from Sunbelt Performance Engines and you can&#39;t hear them anyway since they are right next door to Warren Johnson&#39;s drag race shop.

[benspeed]

Originally posted by charrbq@Jan 12 2006, 07:01 PM
If your neighbors get out of hand and start complaining, and your law enforcement guys are busy, then I bet you can find someone to come over and shoot them with a super soaker and silly string. There&#39;s a big guy in the Florida that will probably have some left over after this month. That is if it isn&#39;t confiscated as evidence.

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I will send over my dogs to eat them.

[ddewhurst]

Tim, your engine swaps with your neighbors reminded me of a couple times when I came home to find:

Tools laying in the grass aside the driveway. Hmmmm, which son fixed his car. I never said a thing & neither son who both lived on their own enlightened me.

One winter evening I come home from work just after some fresh snow. Car tracks in the snow up the driveway & into the garage. Hmmmm, which son is fixing his car. Open the garage door & there is son working on Panhard bar which is bent. Hey A.J. (not his real name, but he got the point) how the hell did ya do that. Yup, it was an A.J. deal where the rearend got away & hit a curb big time. I said to A.J., would you be the same mechanic who left the tools in the grass a couple months ago. Response, yes dad that would have been me. Sorry

[gprodracer]

Originally posted by Despr8dave@Jan 12 2006, 08:00 PM
Mark Larson
#83 G-Prod
Mark! How the hell have you been?

<---------David Scott Green/white/black 510 ( Keith&#39;s car ) and white/orange 510, early nineties. Haven&#39;t talked to you in ages.

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David,
Hey man, what&#39;s up?.. Had to back away from racing for a few years due to a bad business decision. but I&#39;m back with a vengence! I have a prod car now (just built last year) Look for us in the paddock locally (same number and paint scheme). We&#39;ll be @ Sebring in Feb. if you&#39;re going. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Good to hear from you!! We should be @ all the CFR races this year, so stop by!!
Mark
#83 G-Prod

[ITS5GB]

Reminds me of a story a buddy of mine told me about his son.
After 22 years of living at home, his son graduated from a local college, got a job and moved out. The following Christmas my buddy bought his son the 1700 pc. Craftsman tool set with cabinet and all. After opening all that hardware my buddy asked his son"how do you like it?" His son replied "this is great dad, I&#39;ve finally got my own tools!!" My buddy proceeded to pick up the entire collection of tools, walk to the front door, and spray the 1700 pc. Craftsman set in to the 12" of fresh Michigan snow in the front yard. He turned to his son and said matter of factly "there, we&#39;re even."

[MarkL]

Well, I used to have a cool garage and driveway, and yard. A race car, a nice motorcycle, and a V8 Mustang. I think I may have started the neighbors off right because the first night I was in my first house, six motorcycles and a few of my friends and their girlfriends magically appeared in my driveway. After a little loud music and loud conversations, we all roared off on our bikes for a ride. Then my friend&#39;s girlfriend and her stripper girlfriend came over and layed in the sun while my friend and I were working on my race car. A couple of days later, my next door neighbor asked me if I coule please close the windows or turn down the sound if I was going to watch porno movies in the afternoon. I didn&#39;t have a VCR at the time. The old guy from two houses down cornered me as I was coming home from work a couple of days later, and I thought I was going to catch hell from him, but he said "I just had to come down and meet you, &#39;cause I heard you are a hell of a guy!" The next day, the high school kid from across the street came over as I was coming home from work and said "I just wanted to come over and shake our hand!" I&#39;m sure he was overjoyed that his parents were distracted from whatever innocent fun he was having in their basement. All of this fun came to an end about six months later when I acquired a steady girlfriend (someone who had designs on turning my place into a "Barbie Dream Castle"). All of a sudden I found out I was Married With Children, and my garage was filled with kid toys, and my race car was covered with kid toys. How did that happen? I was no longer racing, but the mother of the 15 year old next door would finally smile and say hello when she saw me.

I really miss my old garage, it was a fun place to hang out. If someone near me has a garage like this, could I come over and help drink beer I mean work on the race car?

edited for speeling

[ddewhurst]

***How did that happen?***

***could I come over and help drink beer***

Wait a minute here, why would anyone invite a neighbor to his garage when the neighbor don&#39;t know about the bird&#39;s & the bee&#39;s & how the lack of knowledge of the same stuffs the garage full of (even on the race car) toys. & worse yet the neighbor wants to HELP drink beer. That HELP drink beer may fly with some neighbors but if ya want to HELP drink beer with my neighbors they would most likely suggest you find some other people to call neighbors because they take their drinking beer seriousl. What the hell is this HELP drink beer ? Do you & your neighbor suck out of the same can ? I might share with the stripper who was around before the garage got filled with toys & ya started to HELP neighbors drink beer. Ifen ya were my neighbor ya can come over & HELP with the race car BUT ya need to drink yer own beer & please don&#39;t try & HELP drink MY beer. Neighbor, when ya get in invited to the neighbor&#39;s garage to drink beer it&#39;s time to drink get yer fair share. Maybe people drink beer differently is states other than Wisconsin. Hmmmm, ya go around those Production neighbor racers & ya better grab quick or the beer is GONE . & YOU get to replenish the beer supply (minimum 24 pack of CANS) if you are the last to reach. <_< No HELPING with those folks.

[MarkL]

**why would anyone invite a neighbor to his garage when the neighbor don&#39;t know about the bird&#39;s & the bee&#39;s & how the lack of knowledge of the same stuffs the garage full of (even on the race car) toys. & worse yet the neighbor wants to HELP drink beer. **

I was referring to how I lost control of the situation. I know how the kids came about. Helping to drink beer is done when your neighbor has too many beers to fit in the garage refrigerator, and you only get a beer if you finish a requested task, ie: welding, bleeding brakes or changing brake pads, oil changing, removing wheel doughnuts from the door of the race car, etc.

My wife won&#39;t let my friend, his girlfriend or the stripper come over anymore My neighbors weren&#39;t allowed to come over, I guess I was classified as a "Bad Influence" with all the race car, bike, and stripper stuff. I just want my garage back.

[ddewhurst]

Mark, no intent to imply anything except a continious play on the neighbor stuff.

[MarkL]

**My neighbors weren&#39;t allowed to come over, I guess I was classified as a "Bad Influence." **

I can&#39;t figure that one out, either. I thought I was pretty cool. At least the old guy down the street and the kid across from me thought so!

I guess if I was one of the neighbors who agonized over crabgrass and those punks with the loud hot rods, I could have been accepted.

Now I have septugenarian groundhog neighbors on either side, and from what little interaction I have had with them, I know that they would be way jealous of any race cars.

On a previously mentioned theme, I did buy a set of Home Depot hand tools for my stepson to keep him out of my tools, and he proceeded to leave them lying around until he lost them.

I still want to work on race cars and drink beer! Having strippers come over at the same time would just make things even better.

[R2 Racing]

Originally posted by MarkL@Jan 14 2006, 02:41 PM
All of this fun came to an end about six months later when I acquired a steady girlfriend (someone who had designs on turning my place into a "Barbie Dream Castle"). All of a sudden I found out I was Married With Children, and my garage was filled with kid toys, and my race car was covered with kid toys. How did that happen? I was no longer racing, but the mother of the 15 year old next door would finally smile and say hello when she saw me.

In my circle of friends, this has become known as "Game Over!".


Dave - I have run into you at the track before (not literally!) but you&#39;re right, it has been a while. I&#39;m not sure if you&#39;ve got my Dad in "maturity" or not - it might be a close race. :P

[Catch22]

Originally posted by ITS5GB@Jan 13 2006, 09:09 PM
Reminds me of a story a buddy of mine told me about his son.
After 22 years of living at home, his son graduated from a local college, got a job and moved out. The following Christmas my buddy bought his son the 1700 pc. Craftsman tool set with cabinet and all. After opening all that hardware my buddy asked his son"how do you like it?" His son replied "this is great dad, I&#39;ve finally got my own tools!!" My buddy proceeded to pick up the entire collection of tools, walk to the front door, and spray the 1700 pc. Craftsman set in to the 12" of fresh Michigan snow in the front yard. He turned to his son and said matter of factly "there, we&#39;re even."

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Right on brother!
My dad did the same type of stuff to me, and I&#39;m passing it on. But I have 2 girls to deal with, so I have to be creative (but yes, they still get in my tool box and they NEVER replace what they removed).

So... Every time I find one of my tools in the yard or on a bedroom floor or in a kitchen drawer, I go to their bedrooms, get a handful of something out of a drawer, and throw it somewhere.
Thus leading to the infamous "Panties in the pool incident of 2004."


It never accomplishes anything, the behavior is never modified, but it makes me feel better.

[charrbq]

Scott...is that what lead to the famous "panties in the race car" incident of 2005?

[ddewhurst]

***is that what lead to the famous "panties in the race car" incident of 2005?***

Neighbor to neighbor about a neighbor, that is COLD.


Kevin, I retired 5 years ago & will be the offical age for full retirement in another year.

[The Truth]

This is a cool thread. All of the people who use my garages just formed a HOA, but we specifically formed the HOA for financial purposes, and any sheduling of garages is dependant upon meetigs and votes of the individual home owners. We have an HOA right next door that will be 100% seperate in November of 06, with thier own garages. The homeowners with garages near some of our garages talk to us all the time, so we all don&#39;t schedule so much work that we destroy the garages.

There are 2 types of garages, National, and Regional. All the fuss was over the number of National garages and how they were distributed. The regional garages were, and are pretty much up to the home owners. Now, after a long run the unified regional garage competition between HOA&#39;s was split up, but in truth one of the big reasons was that the cars in the garages rarely crossed the continental divide. Each regional HOA has thier own comeption now, and cars are welcome from everywhere. My regional HOA has had several winners from the other HOA over the past several years, and the department within the HOA&#39;s in charge of the regional competitions talk frequently.

What I don&#39;t understand is how a combined HOA could limit the number of regional competitions at a given garage. National competitions are governed by the Great Book, section 3.17, but regional? Seriously, how is it possible?

How can any HOA dictate what you do in a regional garage? And why can&#39;t the regional garages run thier own competition, in addition to the one run by the HOA? That way all the cars in the garages all over the HOA could have many choices of which garage and which competitions to visit.

Scott

[zracre]

One of my best friends Informed me a few years ago his wife was pregnant...I congradulated him and asked him if I could have his race car he was building...he looked at me puzzled and said NO! its mine and im racing it!!! a few years later i was pulling toys out of it in preparation for a race . MarkL, I have LOTS of work to do on my cars and If you work for beer, what brand and how many to remove tar from integras???