We’re Just Not That Into You
Posted on 14 June 2009 by Shout Joanna
It was the start of a relaxing night in. We had In N Out for dinner and a cheap rental from VideoMax. At only seven o’clock we were in our pajamas, cuddling on the couch ready to watch our new release. “He’s Just Not That Into You”, not entirely relatable to lesbos, but entertaining nonetheless.
About an hour into it, I started to get annoyed. Not by the movie, although I was disappointed to see so many attractive women in the same movie Not kissing each other, but by the twenty minutes of noise outside our apartment. Living in a metropolitan area, you get used to noise. But this was an unusual amount of car doors slamming and yapping and kids screaming. I couldn’t stand it.
Our front door opened to a family using our driveway as a rest stop and sitting on our porch. The doors to their big, white SUV were open and they were just chillin and smokin and talking really loudly. Their kids were running around the truck screaming. It was like that movie trick when you open a door to another world where all this stuff is going on and you just watch, wide eyed in amazement.
Our neighborhood is. . . ok. We’ve had some illegal activity around. We pay more attention these days and we definitely don’t want a bunch of strangers hangin on our doorstep. I mean, I would never in a million years even think to do that. Go to a park or a business. McDonalds has a big funhouse to play in, go there! It was an intrusion.
“Oh hi, sorry”, they said when they heard the door. And they continued to sit. “Uh, We’re trying to watch a movie. Go somewhere else.”, said my girlfriend, Morgan. One girl in the truck had a brain and said, “Mom, let’s go.”, while two other girls went into a giggle fit. Morgan was shocked and stood there staring at them until they packed up and left five minutes later.
Seriously, c’mon.
Do you live in my neighborhood? There was a whole lot of ruckus down the street from us last night. Lots of slamming car doors. I don’t want to be an old fogey, but 6 and seven year old kids playing hide and seek in our shrubbery at 1 am? Ugh, definitely need to restore school budgets and include classes on manners and civility.
Firstly, I HATED that movie.
Secondly, good for you for creating boundaries. Many hetero’s are always pointing the finger saying we are the cause of the problems in this world. Let’s point the finger BACK AT THEM. Try managing your children, try procreating with INTENTION rather than disregard. I pray for the children of dumb ass parents like this. Hopefully they will break the cycle.
Yeah, the neighborhood boundaries thing… gets me fired up right away. Everyday is a pool party for mine, and the pool is directly across from my bedroom window. They like to fire up the top 40 radio about an hour before I like to wake up. The kids’ friends like to park their bikes in my yard, and 5 years ago, when we moved into the house that was for sale for two or more years, we had to convince them that our yard was no longer the neighborhood playground… ..oh and the rusty unregistered ’86 Isuzu Trooper stayed parked in front of our house for a month. The icing on the cake: They bitched when my friend stopped by and parked in front of their house!