What if? It's the basis of many stories. We ask. We ponder. We wonder.
On Tuesdays I throw one out there. What if? It may be speculative. It may stem from something I see. It may be something I pull from the news.
Make of it what you will. If a for instance is not specified, interpret that instance as you wish. And if the idea turns into a story, I'd appreciate a thank you in the acknowledgements 😉
What if your new next door neighbors (they just moved in) nonverbally threatened you?
Note: I have stopped responding to comments on these "What if?" posts, but I do read them all. I realized that I kept trying to either explain or defend the question, which is not the point. I toss the question out there, and you get to interpret it as you see fit. I am frequently surprised by everyone's interpretations, and I enjoy seeing what tangents you all take.
Then that privacy fence I am wanting to put up, would have to go up.....scary thing about that what if~ The old rental house next door is under contract now.....but at what they are giving, I bet they will keep the place mowed, and cleaned up
ReplyDeleteThat could become a reality for us, as neighboring houses, increasingly, are rentals. We always hold our breath when new people move in. At this point we might consider selling and moving if something like that happened, mainly because of other things we are facing with this house.
ReplyDeleteDepends on the extent of the threat. For something like that my first step would be to see if there was a landlord to contact. I'm also one to report that kind of thing to the police! No messing around for me, or confronting anyone! We lived next door to drug dealers (who used their own product) years ago, and they verbally threatened (which usually is just venting), and we installed motion activated lights, and the police were well aware of them.
ReplyDeleteThat will surely be terrifying. But, it would depend on what led them to threaten us. In normal case, we wouldn't have done anything for someone to threaten us. If it was the result of some sort of misunderstanding, we will try to talk to them and sort that out. We will make sure that we do not do anything that will aggravate the situation. And hopefully, good sense will prevail and the issue will blow over.
ReplyDeleteI had a neighbor threaten me, over a cat, threatened with death by another neighbor, for merely existing. And she was owned, and discarded like trash, by the usual suspects, on the street behind me. After the one neighbor, also lived on street behind me, threatened her life, it upset me so greatly I put her in my bathroom. I told the neighbor next to me about the threat to her life, and she proceeded to threaten me, that she fed the cat and if I found her a new home, the pain would begin for me. Oh brother. I had her come get the cat, advised her which neighbor was threatening to kill the cat, and have avoided both ever since. The poor kitty who was young, died within six months.
ReplyDeleteI’d ignore them because that’s what would bug them the most. There are always nuts out there. Look there is a TV show about bad neighbours ending up in death…often. This is Birgit
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