Crazy neighbor lady and her mother

[PLFXpert 0]

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Stay very very busy. Kill them with kindness.

You know? I've tried this with my neighbor and alas, it didn't work Too many tubs of ice cream have I let melt while I stood there helplessly in my driveway with an obvious trunk-load full of groceries when my very own "crazy neighbor lady" was walking her dog, "Zsa Zsa" no less is its name, and insisted on talking my ear off.

First, it must be noted Zsa Zsa sees more walks a day than a rehab therapist.

Secondly, it must be (hilariously) noted that if looking out your window at the correct time to see if "crazy neighbor lady" is in her driveway, about to walk Zsa Zsa for the 10th time you can also look in the opposite direction and see EVERYONE outside run for cover. It's true and it's FUN-NY!

These days I just say, "Look lady. I've got ice cream. Bore me another time." OK---so maybe I'm still nice about it. But, I interrupt now and I am VERY stern

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[chaoskitty 0]

That kinda makes me sad. Your neighbor might be annoying but sounds more like shes just being friendly in her mind, and shes probably lonely. People dont talk to their neighbors anymore. But I guess thats alright to tell her you're busy if you've got groceries to put away.

[PLFXpert 0]

Believe me, I feel the same way. That's why I'm always so nice to her (believe it or not, some would say I'm one of the nicest people they've met. I know. I don't believe it, either).

It's definitely excessive, but more importantly she really does have no regard for when other people are in the middle of something. Though I would LOVE to have been kidding, I'd literally be standing there with the groceries in my hand and she'd stop me. Ice cream or not (and there always was and it was, indeed, unsalvagable by the time I got it in) one HAS to figure there's, at the very least, something that needs to get in the fridge. And by "stop me" I mean for 45 minutes or more---and there's never a good time to interrupt. But even when you do and say, "Hold on, let me just bring this inside really quick," she'll inevitably reply something along the lines of "Oh, go ahead. I've got to get going. Oh, but first, hey! Did I tell you...." and on it goes for at least another 15 minutes.

Anywho....I meant that to be funny, not taken quite so literally

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.