Love Thy Neighbor

I’m a member of a community website called Nextdoor where you can read stuff/post about your “neighborhood”. I have found out some very interesting things about the people who live nearby and what goes down in my hood. For example, the post office truck got robbed one afternoon at 2pm right down the street from my house. I would never have known about this and other burglary type incidents that seem to happen quite regularly, if not for Nextdoor. I also wouldn’t have known that a large number of of my neighbors seem to be douches. A post about a car in a driveway blocking the sidewalk turned into an all out war -- pages and pages of comments. It was those of us who didn’t really give a shit if a car blocks the sidewalk vs. those who need more than a wheelchair-sized open space to roll their rollerblades, jog their jogging shoes and tread their asshole-ness on. Another thing my “neighbors” like to post about are things for sale. This is how I discovered that someone who dwells in my area, had a $10K couch they were selling. Seriously? Not only the monetary splurge in having a couch that expensive, but the utter decadence in having space for the ginormous beast!

--Beth