Wiping The Neighbours Off The Car

[poliphilo]

We haven't seen our neighbours since Christmas.  Before the home improvements started, Samina was telling us she'd be back in three weeks. The workmen made a start,  then stopped, leaving windows boarded up and the backyard full of debris. They're back again now. We had a few words with the fat old guy who seems to be the gaffer (and whom I'd think twice about employing) and he was grumbling about the money having run out.

There's a skip outside the front door and the fat guy has been filling it. When we spoke to him he was standing with a wheelbarrow,  several feet above the pavement, on a plank running between the skip and the garden wall. Our car is parked facing the skip and has been getting the full benefit of the filth, which, when I brushed it off, turned out to be essentially house dust-  dry, soft, grey.

Don't they saw that house dust is mainly composed of human skin? if so, it's the neighbours I'm wiping off the car- all the neighbours going back to 1910.

The fat guy likes commercial radio- and he's placed his set against the wall of the room where I sit so I can enjoy it along with him.

Comments

[redatt.livejournal.com]

You could drive them around to show them how the place has changed over the last 100 years :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well I guess I did. They were clinging to the car for a day or two before I wiped them off. :)

hat

[(Anonymous)]

Did you notice that behind the photo of you in the hat is 'boys!!! OOH!? Reading the whole photograph, it's impossible not to read this as a part of the message. What are you trying to say? Or was it accidental? Is anything accidental?
I like the wibble wobble poem - very thought provoking.
Jenny

Re: hat

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Yes, I did deliberately take up my position in front of that graffito. The full message was "Fuck Royton boys".

[(Anonymous)]

oh, poor you! I empathize with your "enjoyment" of others' tastes in radio, TV, music, etc., when they decide to share them with any and all...

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Hi! That was me. Forgot to log in again. I do really sympathize with you on this one. It disturbs me a lot when I am forced to listen to others' stuff through the wall.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They're thick walls- and when the neighbours are home we scarcely hear them- so the fat guy must have been playing his radio awfully loud.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

When I lived in Edinburgh the upstairs neighbours kept changing but they all liked loud music but it kept rotating. One time it was sea shanties but we could also hear the bed creaking during those...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Blow the man down, bullies.
Blow the man down,
Weigh-heigh,
Blow the man down.....

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[sina-says.livejournal.com]

i had no idea what a "skip" was!