I attended our neighborhood association annual meeting this evening. The talk was of falling perimeter walls, roof rats, ways to keep criminals out of the neighborhood, and getting hard-nosed with the lawn-care guys who put leaflets on our doors. "They don't seem to be able to read our no-soliciting signs...maybe we ought to put them in Spanish!" I think I astonished and annoyed some people when I said, "I actually find their flyers kind of useful sometimes." You'd have thought I had expressed appreciation for a rapist dropping by for a chat.
As much as I want to be neighborly and have neighborly neighbors, I have to wonder: are these the people I want to be neighborly with?
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