One morning, my teenage son comes out and looks pretty rough for the wear...I asked him what the matter was and why so tired looking. He replies, "The neighbors kept me up." ??? Okay, so they only do not control their animals. They act like animals themselves with no regard to the neighbors. If you are a parent, you know teenagers can be moody anyway. Add no sleep to it and it can quickly become like dealing with a grizzly bear. Or at least, it seems that way to me.
My son considers himself blessed if he gets any amount of sleep at all. Seriously folks, I kid you not. We are too poor to just go out and sign for some huge, astronomical mortgage on a house that would take us away from here. We dream of the day we can move out of the neighborhood. Oh yeah, there are no noise ordinances in effect where we live, so basically, yeah you got it...they can do whatever. Should I also mention they rent and we actually are making payments to own the property where we are living. The joys of home-ownership.
What makes them Dingleberries? We noted soon after they moved in this weird noise. It sounded like someone working on a car. You know, when they crank up the car and 'rev' the engine. We noticed it went on all day long, all night long. We then noticed this car ripping around right on the property line. I was actually amazed they didn't hit a tree. The property is quite dense for trees. Especially if it was raining, we noticed this car racing all around. My first thought was the guy was a mechanic and working on cars, and geez, I wouldn't want him working on my car. Then, I thought maybe a disabled child that found joy and they let him express his anger/frustration by racing a junkard around the yard. I don't know and after the dog episodes, well, I've always been the kind of neighbor - you tend to your business and I will tend to mine. I just knew this noise was loud and surely, they would be... be decent and respect that other people have to get up early and work jobs, and so on and so forth. Nah, why did I expect that? They didn't have respect enough to respect trepassing laws. Why would they care if you needed your sleep in order to be well-rested for your job? That is what makes them Dingleberries.
This is where I don't really get what the Bible says to do....how do you love this type of person? Really, how does "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" come into play here?
My son considers himself blessed if he gets any amount of sleep at all. Seriously folks, I kid you not. We are too poor to just go out and sign for some huge, astronomical mortgage on a house that would take us away from here. We dream of the day we can move out of the neighborhood. Oh yeah, there are no noise ordinances in effect where we live, so basically, yeah you got it...they can do whatever. Should I also mention they rent and we actually are making payments to own the property where we are living. The joys of home-ownership.
What makes them Dingleberries? We noted soon after they moved in this weird noise. It sounded like someone working on a car. You know, when they crank up the car and 'rev' the engine. We noticed it went on all day long, all night long. We then noticed this car ripping around right on the property line. I was actually amazed they didn't hit a tree. The property is quite dense for trees. Especially if it was raining, we noticed this car racing all around. My first thought was the guy was a mechanic and working on cars, and geez, I wouldn't want him working on my car. Then, I thought maybe a disabled child that found joy and they let him express his anger/frustration by racing a junkard around the yard. I don't know and after the dog episodes, well, I've always been the kind of neighbor - you tend to your business and I will tend to mine. I just knew this noise was loud and surely, they would be... be decent and respect that other people have to get up early and work jobs, and so on and so forth. Nah, why did I expect that? They didn't have respect enough to respect trepassing laws. Why would they care if you needed your sleep in order to be well-rested for your job? That is what makes them Dingleberries.
This is where I don't really get what the Bible says to do....how do you love this type of person? Really, how does "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" come into play here?
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