Neighborhood Tales

You may remember a story long about about our neighbor who we refer to as Johnny Grass Seed.  If not check out this previous post...

He has now become part of the trio we call the Grasssseeds, there is Mrs. Grassseed, a new baby Grassseed and of course Johnny.  Johnny lives in infamy as a douche.  Mrs and the baby are on good terms as decent people...  but that is up for discussion.

Since the last post when Johnny yelled at us for being loud, we've really taken things down a notch.  Which isn't to say we were too loud in the past...  I mean we've never held a kegger or any other type of big time party here, those were all at good ol' 1856.  But anyway, with the birth and prenatal care of the Lil' Boss, keggers and parties were especially on hiatus.

Moving on to the Spring of '08...  As a result of our quitting smoking there was much less reason to be on the deck during the cold Chicago winters, therefore, we saw little of the Grassseeds.  But as winter thawed, I noticed that the Grassseeds seemed to be carrying around a baby!  This, of course, was big time news because A) We are nosy neighbors and B) we didn't think they were married or at least the Boss didn't.

Then, one day in the Spring we came across the Grassseed family whilst walking Bascom (I'll post more on this pet peeve "Parents Walking Their Children in Strollers" later.  I mean, would you normally just walk around the block on a nice day by yourself or are you literally walking your child like it's a dog?  I mean we have a dog, it's normal to walk a dog and bring the child with, not the other way around!).  Anyway, since the Grassseeds enjoy walking their child and we have to walk the dog, we at times have crossed paths.  Since they are neighbors, the friendly pleasantries are passed along between one another.  The truth is that the Boss talks to them, if it was me, I'd just say hi and keep walking.  And now it brings me to the point of this tale...  I convinced the Boss she should invite them over for dinner sometime!  And she agreed! 

But...  it hasn't happened yet.  I'm fairly convinced that she wants to invite them over just to get a better understanding of the craziness that seems to consume Johnny Grassseed.  Take for instance...

We walk past the trio with our quartet a week ago in front of the condo and of course we stop to ogle each others child to privately see which is cuter (ours of course).  While Mrs. and the Boss talk about diapers or some other nonsense, Johnny mentions some graffiti on the building across the street...  To make a long story short, this led to a discussion about crime and gangsters and criminal activity around the neighborhood and how he has called the police several times for suspicious behavior like a man going into his trash can!  Yeah...  that's what I thought.  Crazy bastard!

Anyway...  We'll keep you posted about the dinner and whether it ever happens.

Comments

[Manny]

Where has Squad been lately?

[squad.]

I have been in the office today for a grand total of about 80 minutes.

Can I trade days? Maybe Tuesday's With Squad?

Let me know.