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Another Edition of Get To Know Your Neighbors
27 · May · 2007
At Super Summer 1986 they made us play the name game. The one that goes like this - You say your name but you put an adjective about yourself in front of it that begins with the fist letter of your name. Since I was not going to be so lame as to call myself pretty, I was donned Punky Penny for the entire week by a fellow camper. But here in Maybeery you get a label - whether you like it or not.
Let me introduce myself. My name is Penny and I'm one of the Weird Neighbors.
My mailman, Kevin, let it slip to MJ and I that something has been getting around the neighborhood about the truck parking conflict. In fact he made a joke about parking his own truck in front of our house and I nearly shit myself because I worried he has read my blog. And if he read it, then EVERYONE was reading it and if EVERYONE read it then we would have to join the Witness Protection Program.
But no. He heard it from Neighbor P that The Neighborhood Asshole's (TNA) Wife said MJ and I are "weird" because we don't want this guy parking in front of our house. In fact, Neighbor P said that she and her husbands have had many problems over the years with TNA and it's not worth the fight because TNA is well connected in the town and will make us miserable if we stir things up.
Of course, when she told me this I wanted to shout "Well screw him! I 'aint afraid!" But knowing that it might sound like I was, indeed, hoping to get arrested, I held my tongue.
But that's beside the point.
Word travels fast around here. And everybody, I'm learning, gets a label. On my block alone we have a family of Witches and the latest town adulterer. If he comes out of his house with a big A sewn to his shirt, we are moving.
Posted by Penny Rene at May 27, 2007 10:56 PM
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Hmmm. . . Sounds like something from that old movie, "The Burbs"! Hang in there. TNA just needs to get used to you-- ha! I like the small-town feel of your hood. Good thing you are thick-skinned!
I guess it could be worse-- you could be living in a condo with the Scary Asians above you who never sleep and apparently, from what I hear, have a pool table AND a bowling alley (or at least that's what it sounds like right now @ midnight!). Ha! Did that make ya feel any better? Well, hell-- I tried, at least! Ha!
Take care Pennah,
K
Posted by: Kim on May 28, 2007 12:59 AM
Your blog gets better by the day! Sounds more and more like This American Life...
The voice of Ira Glass... "A young couple gets their first home. A new child. A space of their own. But one of the realities of suburban life soon springs up...the neighborhood asshole. This week on our show, we bring you stories of conflicts in paradise. Our show is in three acts; Act 1: Penny moves to New Jersey..."
Posted by: Jakey on May 29, 2007 12:53 PM
A family of witches?
Posted by: Jordan on May 31, 2007 07:19 PM