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81 year old grandma is "original neighbour from hell"
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In the suburban neighborhood of my childhood, we kids used to take turns walking across Old Lady Hardy's glistening green grass. In retrospect, we were horrible little hellions, but at the time it was wildly funny to watch her sit in her window with her dark glasses and omnipresent tea mug, just waiting for one of us to commit a Crime Against Foliage so she could shake her cane at us and bellow hilarious Irish-accented swear words until we ran away, breathless. She should have come out and beat us. We'd have deserved it.
Well, I totally thought of that old lady when I read this article about an 81-year old grandma who was recently sentenced to jail for being the "original neighbour from hell." The elderly women tormented her next-door neighbours, Angela and Roberta Casa and their daughter, for nearly a decade.
Among her crimes: telling the Casa's 13-year old daughter that she was a witch and "would cast a spell on her family and kill her pet dog", hammering the wall dividing the two houses, exposing her bottom to Mrs. Casa and telling Mr. Casa to go back to Italy. She also drew in white chalk around Mrs. Casa's car, as the horrified woman sat inside it. I know! Can you imagine? Why am I fighting laughter? I'm sure it wouldn't be very funny if it happened to me.
I'm grateful Nolan's grandparents would never expose their bottoms to their neighbours. Wildly grateful.
Well, I totally thought of that old lady when I read this article about an 81-year old grandma who was recently sentenced to jail for being the "original neighbour from hell." The elderly women tormented her next-door neighbours, Angela and Roberta Casa and their daughter, for nearly a decade.
Among her crimes: telling the Casa's 13-year old daughter that she was a witch and "would cast a spell on her family and kill her pet dog", hammering the wall dividing the two houses, exposing her bottom to Mrs. Casa and telling Mr. Casa to go back to Italy. She also drew in white chalk around Mrs. Casa's car, as the horrified woman sat inside it. I know! Can you imagine? Why am I fighting laughter? I'm sure it wouldn't be very funny if it happened to me.
I'm grateful Nolan's grandparents would never expose their bottoms to their neighbours. Wildly grateful.
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4-18-2007 @ 4:53PM
shannon said...Did i miss something. What happened to blogging baby? Is this Kristin Scott?
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4-18-2007 @ 3:57PM
SKL said...What is it about some elderly people? When we were kids, it was a lady we dubbed "Mrs. Peekaboo." She used to threaten to call the cops because Big Wheels going over the sidewalk in front of her house were too noisy. Needless to say, where do you think we rode our big wheels?
My brother had a newspaper customer whom he dubbed "the Hemorrhoid" for similar reasons.
And then there was the one on the next street, who somehow got a hold of our phone number. "Where is that little boy?" "I don't know, he's not home." "Why don't you know where he is? Isn't it supper time? Why isn't he home for supper? Where are your parents?" "I don't know, why do you ask?" "I want him to come over and sweep my driveway." If he was dumb enough to go over there, she would make him work for 2 hours and maybe give him 25 cents if he did a good job. Ugh.
I think it's a bit much that they put this old lady in jail. Sounds like she's just getting a bit senile. I know the mooning thing is pretty bad, but my grandma once told me that that was how female Euro-immigrant neighbors used to flip each other off.
Does bring back funny memories - I guess they shouldn't be funny, but they are.
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4-18-2007 @ 4:57PM
Ann Adams said...BB changed its name a couple of weeks ago and this is the one and only Kristin.
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4-18-2007 @ 5:50PM
Nancy Toby said...Wait, it's BAD to expose your bottom? SINCE WHEN!???
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4-18-2007 @ 8:54PM
Ann Adams said...You mean I can't moon my neighbors? Drat.
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4-18-2007 @ 11:39PM
rebecca Biernesser said...i got a neighbors I would moon, if it meant they quit coming over and telling me about "personal" stuff. And we are talking Personal, you go to the grave with personal....lol
We had an old couple across the strett growing up that would walk from property line to property line (she lived on a corner lot) and if you went by, say on a bike, she would like her dog off the leash and let it try to bite you. OF course these are the same people that would hollar that they would shoot you if you stepped on their crub, and heaven help if a ball went into their yard...lol
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4-20-2007 @ 12:25AM
Kristin said...Hahaha. Nancy and Ann, I have never met you but the whole mooning thing is not allowed for any of us over the age of 21. For the good of mankind. :-)
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