Well Hello, Nice to Meet You!!
@cintol (11261)
United States
March 19, 2019 8:56pm CST
Have you met your neighbors? We hadn't until last week after a huge storm that took out the fence between our yards.
Needless to say that I didn't notice it until after I went onto the patio in my nightgown to check on our turtle, looked over and saw them on their patio looking at the fence that was no longer there. Yeah, that happened!
What do you do at that point?? I slowly waved, ran back in the house to dress and red faced and all had to go back out and introduce myself. I am sure that will be a meeting they never forget.
Mean while, under that fence are all my garden decorations. My bird feeders are toast, stained glass bird bath in pieces, angels, windmill, EVERYTHING gone, crushed and broken. I really hate the wind!
How did you meet your neighbors?
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22 responses
@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
20 Mar 19
I'm sorry the wind destroyed so many of your items. =( We don't really have neighbors close by where we live in the country.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
20 Mar 19
@cintol One of the things we love about where we live! Only the trees and pond surround us. Lol.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
20 Mar 19
@LovingMyBabies Sounds like a beautiful place to live, when my kids were younger we lived in the mountains in Colorado, it was so quiet and peaceful there, I miss it.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
21 Mar 19
Sorry for the mess and what a mess the wind can make. I have 9 families on my section of the apartment building and have met them all over the years.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
21 Mar 19
@cintol These are only half of the people on my side of the elevators. There are as many families on the other side of the elevators which I rarely see. There are 12 floors in the building. In emergencies I have a few friends that live on other floors.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
21 Mar 19
@1hopefulman Thats a big complex, its good though that you know the ones closest to you and a few on other floors.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
29 Mar 19
Met my neighbors when we moved in here recently.
They came up to introduce themselves, however ulterior motives not the type of people you want to know.
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@DianneN (246719)
• United States
21 Mar 19
I’m so sorry your items were ruined. And how embarrassing! Lol!
The houses in which we lived sit on a minimum or 1 1/2 acres, so never had that problem. The day we moved into our last house, a neighbor came over to introduce himself and offered us a huge discount on heating oil, etc. He owned the company, so we went with him.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
25 Mar 19
I'm sorry that storm did so much damage. :-(
At least that is a memorable introduction . :-)
They are lucky to live close to a wonderful person.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
25 Mar 19
@cintol I'm hoping the angel will fix up nicely.
You're welcome, just honest tho
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@LowRiderX (22907)
• Serbia
23 Mar 19
It's a little different here. We all know each other here. I do not understand how you did not know them? Are they new neighbors? I'm sorry about your decoration, I got a few unscrupulous neighbors in my environment 
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
24 Mar 19
@LowRiderX I wasn't angry at them, the winds were so strong that it blew it over. It broke the posts right off at the ground, I was just embarrassed because I was in my nightgown on my patio before I realized the fence was down and they were standing there. lol
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@LowRiderX (22907)
• Serbia
24 Mar 19
@cintol It should have seemed a fence to fall to meet them, I can only imagine how angry you were to them 
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@LadyDuck (458006)
• Switzerland
20 Mar 19
Oh no! I am so sorry all your garden decorations were crushed under the fence. There is no fence between our neighbor and us, just a metal fence, but their garden is behind our garden, I have to go in the backyard to see them and I only see their backyard.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
2 Apr 19
Oops! I'm sorry, Cindy! I sure didn't mean for the winds to be that strong down there! I thought maybe I'd get a flash of panties and that was all! 
I'm sorry all your yard ornaments were broken! *shake my head*
Why is your fence so far from the road?
I'm sorry all your yard ornaments were broken! *shake my head*
Why is your fence so far from the road?2 people like this
@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
2 Apr 19
@cintol Oh, I see... 
Or, rather they saw, not me! 
Yeah, when we bought our house in Aurora, we found out that a good fence made very nice neighbors and the lack of one caused us to move!
Or, rather they saw, not me!
Yeah, when we bought our house in Aurora, we found out that a good fence made very nice neighbors and the lack of one caused us to move!2 people like this
The fence was in between our back yards, we don't have alleys or anything, just the fence divided our yards.@cintol (11261)
• United States
2 Apr 19
@DaddyEvil Oh yeah, they saw all! I don't think I could live in a house without a fence, I like my privacy too much. Hoping he gets this fence fixed soon back there as I am tired of waiting already and want to start my garden.
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@mom210 (9036)
• United States
27 Mar 19
We met ours when our barn got struck by lightening and burst into flames. They cam over to check on us, made me very pleased they did. Nice to know if we needed them they would be there even though we do not know them well. I am so sorry about your stuff getting crushed, that stinks.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
28 Mar 19
Oh wow, that would be scary, I hope you didn't have animals in there! Good thing it didn't hit your house, your right though, nice that your neighbors rushed over to check on you. Those are good neighbors. Thanks, I am going to try and repair what I can and replace the rest if I can.
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@RasmaSandra (73365)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Mar 19
Sorry, to hear that. The wind can do a lot of damage. I knew my neighbors back in Latvia where we lived in the suburbs and would say hi whenever we saw them. Here in Florida, I do not know any of the people who live around me.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
20 Mar 19
Thank you, yes the wind can be a dangerous thing when they get so strong. I like our little neighborhood here, we know many of the neighbors in the front of us but this was my first meeting with someone behind on the next block. I am sure I left a lasting impression!!
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@Marilynda1225 (79699)
• United States
20 Mar 19
That looks like quite a mess and sorry you lost so many things. I'm sure seeing the fence down was more of a shock for your neighbors than seeing you in your nightgown.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
21 May 19
We are on a corner lot so only have one close neighbor and we just wave to each other or say hi when the kids used to come to the door at Halloween.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
22 May 19
@cintol We are very friendly with our neighbors at our cottage in Pennsylvania, they are lovely. In Florida, we haven't really made friends with our neighbors either, maybe it is us lol
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
22 May 19
@BelleStarr Thats too bad that the neighborhood isn't friendly anymore, I don't blame you for not wanting to be friends. Its so hard when all the friends you did make move away and are gone.
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@Juliaacv (48404)
• Canada
20 Mar 19
That must have been quite the meeting. At least you were wearing something...…
Its too bad that you had some items ruined when the wall came down, but thankfully nobody was near it and hurt.
We have never lived anywhere that we have had neighbours bordering on our backyard.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
20 Mar 19
Well that gown was a little short and very thin so but I didn't think about it because the turtle is on the porch so when you go out the door your looking straight at the turtle, I had to turn to the right to see them. I am sure it was a meeting they won't forget anytime soon!!
I wanted to live further away from people but this is where we ended up so now I have to deal with it. Its not bad when the fence is there and you can't see them.
I wanted to live further away from people but this is where we ended up so now I have to deal with it. Its not bad when the fence is there and you can't see them.2 people like this
@wolfgirl569 (95104)
• Marion, Ohio
20 Mar 19
Sorry you lost so much. I did just walk and meet mine or they walked here
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
9 Apr 19
We had only met the ones around us in the front of the house until the fence blew down!!
