Humor: Neighbors

by Burnsy

THY NEIGHBOR "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. would you be mine? could you be mine?... " Huh ? Fred Rogers, better known as television's "Mister Rogers," was a cultu...read more

by Karen Williams

The Almost-Lost Art of Window-Watching My mom loved to watch out the window. When her daily housework was done and supper was on the stove, she would check out the neighborhood from each of three windows in our li...read more

by Marian Huyck Grossi

THE HEARING AID BRAZIL NUT She was a feisty neighbor; the kind you wished you could keep up with on your morning walks. Thirty years older than me, she walked far faster and with a skip in her step, seeming oblivious t...read more

by Rick Dickert

Neighbor's Kids They say that good fences make good neighbors. This always sounded a little cold to me, until the afternoon I was on my backyard patio and heard the neighbor's kids combining lawn darts with ninja combat...read more

by Lizzie Flynn

How to get the neighbors to hate you in 5 easy steps I have lived in a city or town my entire life. This has given me a lifetime of experience with neighbors and how to interact with them. When you first move into a nei...read more

by Ruth Woodhouse

I think the funniest story I have about neighbours dates back to when I was a young adult still living at home with my mother. We lived in a semi-detached housing commission home and the elderly couple in the adjoining ho...read more

by Linda Ann Nickerson

PERTURBIA IN SUBURBIA Stepping out to grab the mail, I caught some sights that made me wail. And yet, I lived to tell the tale, Although my home is now for sale. My next-door neighbor, Mr. Schwartz, Who works dow...read more

by K L Arena

Basic Instructions for Safety It's about a month before our wedding when my husband-to-be moves into a new apartment. A couple of friends come over to help us move and arrange some odd bits of furniture. So far, there's...read more

by Charles Hightower

Tree of Contention Jerry didn't notice the tree right away. He bought the house mid-winter, when the oak, hickory, and sweetgum were bare of leaves, and all looked dead. His first improvement involved the property...read more

by Michael Aubrey

Having thought back on all the neighbors I can vividly remember, beginning in my parent's realm; hearing the mutterings of my father in reaction to his neighbors offenses, (the construction worker;s beer bottles discar...read more

by Trinell Hartranft

Joshua remembered in complete accuracy the day that she arrived, ringing his doorbell. The night before, he partied pretty heavily with his buddy Brandon and a few of the other guys from the office. Since it was Brandon'...read more

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by Kristy Dean

The mere thought of my neighbors is causing me to rub my face with my hands and clench my teeth. I close my eyes and shake my head and wonder if I even want to get started with this one. Sometimes I think that my neigh...read more

by Gloria Burnett

I was eight years old. My brother was nine. One sunny day the neighbor man came running and yelling, into our backyard. "Charlie, Charlie, help, help!". Charlie was our dad. The neighbor man was very heavy and none o...read more

by Dane Xouis

The houses in my neighborhood are so close together that they overlap, which is useful if you're looking to study the genetic code of your next door neighbor, the chain-smoking, odor absorbing, power tool maniac. It's a...read more

by Sangeetha Bala

love thy neighbor... Love thy neighbor,am told is what the bible preaches.unfortunately,not all devout Christians follow this.my neighbor for one,surely doesn't abide by it!man, we believe,...read more