I hate nosey neighbors!

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Well I saw my neighbor we will call Bill(active duty marine) hanging in his yard yesterday so we were talking and he asked if I got my "big gun" yet. So I said sure, he wanted to see it so I ran off to get it. Our back yards are some what secluded so I had no problem letting him see it outdoors. Most of my other neighbors arethe kind that strike me as anit gun types so I like them not to know about what they dont need to know. Any way just as we were about done here comes Bills wife a really good looking woman but just nosey and dumb as ever. Alas a barage of questions with no time for answers in between, Whats that? What are you going to do with it?will that shoot a person? Will it go through a house? holy smokes can you take a breath I thought?. Just as I was going to politely answer she then blabs is that registered you have to do that you know? Hu you dont have to registre in Va but what ever. At this point I am terified she is a neighbor hood gossip this is just bad forum and I just want to go back indoors,so I just tell Bill to take it easy and start packing my gun up. Then here comes another barage of questions. How many guns do you have? I respond with I dont know. Do you carry a gun? me-I dont Know Where do you keep your guns? me-I dont know How many bullets do you have? me-I have to go now talk to you later. Bill finaly tells his wife to shut up and go back into the house.

Unbelievable man I hate her I come home with a energy drink in my hand in the morning after work and she assumes its a malt liquor. Which I have no problem drinking but its not and then calls my wife on her cell phone to tell her "Why is Eric drinking malt liquor in the drive way at 8:30 am" Bill is cool and all but damn his wife and her mouth!
 
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"Why, yes, Bobby, they're 'energy drinks,' of course."

PS: Eric, calm down, walk around a bit, look at the sky, and then post after stuff like this happens. You sound about as wound up as your "nosy neighbor" was.
 
Q: "Why is Eric drinking malt liquor in the driveway at 8:30 AM?"

A: "Location, location, location."
 
Calling this firearms related seems to be a stretch. Perhaps this forum may be of more use.
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... huh?

Whats that? What are you going to do with it?will that shoot a person? Will it go through a house? holy smokes can you take a breath I thought?. Just as I was going to politely answer she then blabs is that registered you have to do that you know? Hu you dont have to registre in Va but what ever. At this point I am terified she is a neighbor hood gossip this is just bad forum and I just want to go back indoors,so I just tell Bill to take it easy and start packing my gun up. Then here comes another barage of questions. How many guns do you have? I respond with I dont know. Do you carry a gun? me-I dont Know Where do you keep your guns? me-I dont know How many bullets do you have? me-I have to go now talk to you later.
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This thread isn't about how hysterically people react to seeing your weapon in a non-threatening environment?
 
This thread isn't about how hysterically people react to seeing your weapon in a non-threatening environment?
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Nope. It's about how he hates his neighbor's nosy wife. Look for the fine comments like "just nosey and dumb as ever", "Unbelievable man I hate her", and "damn his wife and her mouth".

It seems the firearm issue is only tangentially related to the core issue, thus I referred him to Dr. Phil's site for relationship advice. Perhaps Dear Abby would have been better?

It sure seems like Eric F already knew she was a busybody and already had concerns of being "outed" to his other neighbors. It would have certainly been prudent for him to invite Bill over to see the gun in a bit more of a private place. If the wife was that much of a concern, the backyard obviously wasn't the best option. Again, this thread seems to have little to do with the fact it was a firearm and more thant Eric F doesn't get along with the guy's wife.
 
PS: Eric, calm down, walk around a bit, look at the sky, and then post after stuff like this happens. You sound about as wound up as your "nosy neighbor" was.
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Oh I am calm and I was then too she just wears me down from time to time. I am certian she has blabed to the other hens in the neighbor hood already.

Hey Jorg you are correct in what you say however, there is more to it than just that. Why would she want to know so much about my guns and ammo? So she can tell every one. Its a security issue to me. No one but me needs to know how much and were in my house. If I had not "built the stage" in the manner I did then some one else would come out with "oh she was just interested in guns" or some other discrediting statement. I really dont hate her its just her gossip. Thats all. The comment on the energy drink adds to the story in that she in unknowledgable and will make up or mis represent the issue. Instead of a Sharps rifle it now becomes an anti-tank gun. No hard feelings
 
The lesson that should be learned here is that one should always show off his or her toys in a private environment where there is no possibility that anyone else can unexpectedly intrude. While "Bill" may be O.K. his wife is undoubtedly a champion neighborhood gossip with an anti-gun attitude. Therefore Eric F's concerns are probably well founded. His unfortunate experience should be a wake-up call for others.

As for the energy drink episode, folks do have a right to drink whatever they want, anywhere on their own property, but if it’s a concern pour the can’s contents into a big coffee mug before going outside. It wouldn’t be to the Old Fuff, who would tell the lady (?) to go pound sand.
 
Time for you to host a neighbor cook out.
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Not sure that would work, unless of course everyone brought a Texas-sized BB-Q gun... :what:

But in any case the lady's mouth would be going at top speed... :uhoh:
 
whats wrong with drinking malt liquor at 8:30 in the morning?

Why does drinking have to be dependent on the time of day?

Keep your gun indoors next time you want to show it off to the neighbor, problem solved.

And this thread is very much gun related. The OP was showing his gun off, duh.
 
El T... cooking your neighbor's wife seems all sorts of wrong even in this case.

Eric... my only advice is to consider this a lesson learned and practice other responses. "I don't know," is really not going to shut anyone down and makes you sound evasive in a bad way. Either learn to lie well with something like "this is my first...", divert well, "my god what have you done to your hair!?", or, as a last resort, tell the truth, "Lady I don't like you and they aren't for sale anyway so I'm not going to give you an inventory list." Of course you should invent your own truths, lies, and misdirections.
 
Time for you to host a neighborhood cook out.
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Agreed - imagine someone who talks that much being progun :D

She may or may not know what Bill's into. He might use a gun at work, but it's OK because he's in the business of govt-sanctioned use of force. Though I bet he gives her the short version to avoid the questions..?

I say it's a gun-related thread in that she needs to be educated, though it's as much a problem of bill and wife's relationship. I guess the easiest version is to have bill over the house next time, and/or get his wife into it slowly.
 
Bill finaly tells his wife to shut up and go back into the house.
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Bill's got the right idea.


Overall I try to be on nice terms with my neighbors, but I don't get too invovled with their business (and I don't want them involved in mine). You don't owe her any explanations.

I never tell anyone I own military surplus rifles, its always "I own a hunting rifle" if it ever had to come out (which is pretty much never). Keep it simple.
 
I never tell anyone I own military surplus rifles, its always "I own a hunting rifle" ...
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Which shows an interesting east/west coast difference maybe.

In CA if it came out that I had rifles (not common) I always made it clear that they were military surplus rifles with "historical significance". When asked why I had them I'd say something like, "I think it is too easy to lose touch with our past if it comes only from books. WWII is far more real to people if I can place a rifle from that war in their hands," and other mumbo jumbo. I wound up going to a friend's mother's house one time as a "firearms expert" after his father died. Before we got there I was warned, "Don't even hint that these guns were for hunting... it would not be taken well." So I had to act as though a couple of hunting rifles were actually for "target shooting."

Know your audience I guess.
 
Just goes to show you that you can't always expect firearm rationality from the spouse or girlfriend of someone you know to be gun-friendly. Thanks for the warning; I'd never really thought about it, and just assumed "gun people" had the common sense to a) not put in with stupid spouses, b) not put in with anti-liberty spouses.

Also: just goes to show you that many of the divorces our servicemen go through are, in all likelihood, not their fault. :what: Dumb,crazy woman!

With her, you might just try the "shock and awe" approach. Just tell her you're mall security; she'll understand. :D
 
I would dedicate the rest of her residence next door to me giving her so much fodder for gossip that it would choke a mule! I would drive her nuts! After a week, her gossip friends would start throwing the BS flag on her!

"BullSpit Louise! There's no way you saw him in his back yard in pink ladies undies with pancakes on his head in a row boat!" :evil:
 
I'm with Hero on this one.

I would counter by taking down all the liscence plates seen in front of her house while bill is deployed or on maneuvers. She'll shut up right away. For good measure make something up like what was that guy doing leaving at 3 am? He woke me up tearing off down the street like a 18 yo who just got lucky.
 
Also: just goes to show you that many of the divorces our servicemen go through are, in all likelihood, not their fault. Dumb,crazy woman!
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Except, well... they married the crazies (men and women) in the first place.
 
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