New Neighbors

[Stocker]

Originally Posted by Greasey Harley

I have nothing to add to this thread except this:
I am from Western Montana and I chuckled when I read the word "Crick".
That made my day.
-Russ

I grew up in NW Oregon and we always pronounced it "crick" as far back as I can remember.
We had a high school teacher from Tennessee who said "I cain't understand how you get "crick" from c-r-e-e-k." I said it was the same way you get "cain't" from c-a-n-'-t.

[67ChevyRedneck]

Originally Posted by Stocker

I grew up in NW Oregon and we always pronounced it "crick" as far back as I can remember.
We had a high school teacher from Tennessee who said "I cain't understand how you get "crick" from c-r-e-e-k." I said it was the same way you get "cain't" from c-a-n-'-t.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by Stocker

I grew up in NW Oregon and we always pronounced it "crick" as far back as I can remember.
We had a high school teacher from Tennessee who said "I cain't understand how you get "crick" from c-r-e-e-k." I said it was the same way you get "cain't" from c-a-n-'-t.

Accents are funny. I love women with an accent. There's just something about it that melts me.

I had a girlfriend with a Spanish accent. In fact she didn't even speak English when I met her. Fortunately my Spanish classes in high school paid off on that one. Because she was really good looking. And I spoke marginal Spanish. Enough to get my foot in the door.

She learned English very quickly. (By watching television of all things) And soon she could cuss me out in two languages. I'll admit it. I wasn't the greatest boyfriend.

I missed the boat with her. She was smart and beautiful. And I blew it.

Young and dumb.

[weq92f]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

I missed the boat with her. She was smart and beautiful. And I blew it.

Young and dumb.

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This must be something that happens to quite a few of us...I missed a boat and it took a long time to get past it.

-klb

[1976gmc20]

Spanish is a loving tongue
Soft as music, light as spray
Was a girl he learned it from
Living down Sonora way...

[Stocker]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

Spanish is a loving tongue
Soft as music, light as spray
Was a girl he learned it from
Living down Sonora way...

Seems like I oughta know where that came from but I'm drawing a blank....

[72c20customcamper]

I went to Dallas TX when I was 19 . Loved the accent specially from one good looking waitress at the bar in the hotel I was staying After about a week she would sit at the table and talk during slow times the funny thing was she said to me " I could listen you talk all night" promptly said if I were with you all night we wouldn't be doing much talking .

We did lots of talking over breakfast .

Guess she liked my accent

[67C10Step]

Two funny accent stories and I will try to be brief:
#1 My maternal grandmother was from Alberta Canada. In 1995 my mom, 2 sisters, grandmother and niece went up for a wedding and visit. While they were in a mall up there a woman approached my mom and asked her to talk. Long story short the woman told my mother that she could tell she was from the southern US and she loved the accent saying it was almost like singing due to the inflections in our tone. Lady said Canadians talk fast and flat.

#2 I was in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York for a month in 2008. Myself, another guy from Arkansas, and three guys from Kentucky went into a bar up there. The bartender asked where we were from and one of the guys from KY said, "We were all born and raised right here in the Mohawk Valley can't you tell?" She laughed and said, "I don't know where you guys are from but I know damn well it's south of here." We all got a good laugh out of that.

[1976gmc20]

Lady said Canadians talk fast and flat.

40+ years ago I met a couple backpacking up in BC. She was from Grassy Lake AB but had this beautiful "lilt" that you could just listen to all day. Maybe her family was Irish? He had that standard Canadian prairie "twang" that I can't describe but know it when I hear it. It's not terribly fast. Some folks from Minnesota sound about the same.

There is a definite slow flat Montana drawl. I can't understand folks that talk fast but since I've lived different places I probably talk too fast for some folks around here. I must have had a really strong TX drawl because I got teased for it when we moved to AZ, and I learned "to talk like the man on the six o'clock news" as Don Williams sang. If I ever moved back down south I would probably have it back in two weeks

If you ever come to MT and somebody asks about your "outfit" they are not talking about your clothes - they are asking what kind of vehicle are you driving?

[Low Elco]

Power Tour '16 was fun, Standing in the gas station in the middle of nowhere, Kansas, listening to the most amazing thick LA Cajun accents you ever heard. THAT was different. Nice folks, though.

[davischevy]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

I stand corrected. I should have learned that after I divorced my first wife and married my second wife.

It can get worse...A lot worse.

A doctor friend (may he RIP) told me once, after a few tries, he wasn't getting married again. He was just going to find a woman he hated and buy her a Mercedes and a house.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by davischevy

A doctor friend (may he RIP) told me once, after a few tries, he wasn't getting married again. He was just going to find a woman he hated and buy her a Mercedes and a house.

That sounds about right. I shudder to think how much I spent.

[1976gmc20]

Well, it's hard to imagine how these two Amish families could be worse than the pill-addicted violent old man that has been living over there.

With that exception, we've finally got pretty good people living all around us in this little corner of the rural subdivision.

Just in time for the rest of the country to fall apart ...

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

Well, it's hard to imagine how these two Amish families could be worse than the pill-addicted violent old man that has been living over there.

With that exception, we've finally got pretty good people living all around us in this little corner of the rural subdivision.

Just in time for the rest of the country to fall apart ...

At least it wasn't some pinko vegans from California that bought the place!

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

At least it wasn't some pinko vegans from California that bought the place!

OUCH!!!........

[67C10Step]

Man, neighbors. I sold my last house because of a bad neighbor. I mean BAD. She took it upon herself to make our lives as terrible as she could. No kidding, she must have sat in the house staring at our place because if you went outside it wouldn't be five minutes and she would come outside and start all sorts of craziness. Get in her car and honk the horn, yell, all sorts of nutty stuff. Got to the point if she met us on the road she would flash her lights and honk her horn. It kept ratcheting up and we were concerned about leaving our kids home alone.
One reason my wife and I have not sold the house we are in is because we have good neighbors. Only four houses on our short street. Just got a new neighbor and he and his family fit in better than the previous family.

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by 67C10Step

Man, neighbors. I sold my last house because of a bad neighbor. I mean BAD. She took it upon herself to make our lives as terrible as she could. No kidding, she must have sat in the house staring at our place because if you went outside it wouldn't be five minutes and she would come outside and start all sorts of craziness. Get in her car and honk the horn, yell, all sorts of nutty stuff. Got to the point if she met us on the road she would flash her lights and honk her horn. It kept ratcheting up and we were concerned about leaving our kids home alone.
One reason my wife and I have not sold the house we are in is because we have good neighbors. Only four houses on our short street. Just got a new neighbor and he and his family fit in better than the previous family.

Previous house, we had a neighbor who used to vandalize our property. Never caught the chicken-snot doing it, though. One of those deals where you know who it is, just can't catch them. We moved, and a crazy neighbor moved in next door to us a year later. The vandalism stopped after I put up surveillance cameras, though.

[1976gmc20]

When we first bought this place in 2003, we didn't know that the "little old man on social security" next door was a pervert harboring child molesters on parole. He finally went to prison and sold the place to a fellow from back east who only used it for a hunting camp. So it was fairly quiet for a while.

Then he died suddenly and his daughter rented it out to a "nice" lady and her teenage daughter who was supposedly hiding from her violent soon to be ex husband. Only it turned out she was delusional and thought everybody was trying to hurt her. She's the one with the massive Russian killer dog that I finally had to shoot to save my life.

I dunno what it is about dogs? There was another lady living a couple places west of us, and the people that rented the place west of her let their dogs run loose and wouldn't come get them so she took them to the shelter in town, so for that they got mad and threatened to burn her house down! Strange enough they were from Georgia (working at the coal mine) same as the old guy across the crick who let his dogs run loose and kill livestock. Or is it something about people from Georgia ???

There's a nice young couple in the place behind us where the pervert and the psycho-woman was, but if they ever want to sell we're going to buy the place to extinguish the right of way. We didn't have the money before, or else I would have bought it back in 2015. If that ever happens then we will have 100 acres total

[67C10Step]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

Previous house, we had a neighbor who used to vandalize our property. Never caught the chicken-snot doing it, though. One of those deals where you know who it is, just can't catch them. We moved, and a crazy neighbor moved in next door to us a year later. The vandalism stopped after I put up surveillance cameras, though.

One thing we discovered in all of it was you have zero, none, nada recourse until they finally go off their rocker and do something to you or your property (and you can prove it). Karma is a real you know what though. Turns out the guy we sold the house to was 4x as crazy as she was. Went from a house with a lawn that looked like a PGA golf course to junk cars in the yard, trees blown over, and black marks up and down the driveway. I felt sorry for my neighbor on the other side but that %^$# to the west got what she deserved. We put up a fence between our houses and she would yell, "You can still hear me!" all the time. I've never wanted to strangle someone so badly in my life.

I really feel for folks stuck next to lunatics and understand when someone finally has all they can take and snaps. Many I think have mental issues but it sure doesn't help us normal folks.

[davischevy]

The tenant in one of my rentals called and said he had a CO2 cartridge sticking out of the wall in one bedroom.

The neighbor had some equipment working and it appeared the cartridge was triggered somehow and blew through the bedroom wall.

The perpetrator never even bothered to check to see if anyone was hurt. Lucky no one was home.

[1976gmc20]

One thing we discovered in all of it was you have zero, none, nada recourse until they finally go off their rocker and do something to you or your property (and you can prove it).

Yeah, the cops are worthless. You're supposed to just wait around until the lunatic kills you when your back is turned.

[LS short box]

Couple of thoughts.
We have a number Amish folks about 30 miles north and east of of our house. We don't interact with them much and when it came time to build my shop the local builder I used had a crew of Amish guys that did a great job. The builder picked them up, on the job at 7 AM and then picked them up at 5 PM. Again they did great job. No beer 4:30. No smoke breaks. We still buy "free range" chickens from one of the guys.

Second I spent traveling the world for work and for whatever reason I kind became intrigued with accents. North UK to south UK. Northern Europe to eastern Europe Canada? Southern states from Florida (mostly to no accent) to Arkansas to Texas to New Orleans. As I was speaking to them it was fun to guess where they came from.

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by LS short box

Couple of thoughts.
We have a number Amish folks about 30 miles north and east of of our house. We don't interact with them much and when it came time to build my shop the local builder I used had a crew of Amish guys that did a great job. The builder picked them up, on the job at 7 AM and then picked them up at 5 PM. Again they did great job. No beer 4:30. No smoke breaks. We still buy "free range" chickens from one of the guys.

Yeah, the young guy behind us seems to be busy all the time and not too good at taking on a bigger job, so I'm thinking that I might see if these Amish fellows want to put the siding up on our pole barn? They could just walk across the valley to go to work, and there is no power at our barn so they should feel right at home there

Second I spent traveling the world for work and for whatever reason I kind became intrigued with accents. North UK to south UK. Northern Europe to eastern Europe Canada? Southern states from Florida (mostly to no accent) to Arkansas to Texas to New Orleans. As I was speaking to them it was fun to guess where they came from.

When I ran the store in Tincup one summer, there was a fellow from Austria hiking across the Rockies with a pack burro. As typical for late summer, there was several solid days of rain so he sort of sheltered around there until the weather cleared. I can't remember exactly but for sure we had him at our trailer for a hot family meal once or twice. His name was Horst and he had a great sense of humor: he said his donkey was "Horst's ass."

[1976gmc20]

Well, one of the fellows buying the place across the road found another bigger place for sale a few miles away, so he is selling out his half to the younger guy. So we will only have one Amish family living on that 160 acres.

He and a relative were out today building fence on the property line. The old man (former owner) is still staying up there in his shed.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

The old man (former owner) is still staying up there in his shed.

Can't the county get him out? A shed is substandard housing. And I'd bet it's full of health violations. It's not a house. And if the property has been sold then he is trespassing. I would think that they could do something about that. Kick his sorry azz out of there and take a bulldozer to that shed.

If need be. Chip in for a bus ticket to Hollywood or San Francisco. He'd fit right in with the rest of the weirdos.