Remember last September when Hurricane Ike was supposed to hit Corpus Christi and then that very same week this tenement on wheels showed up at our neighbor’s house?
And remember how I made a lot of jokes about Cousin Eddie coming to visit and ha, ha, ha wasn’t that funny?
And then a week later the neighbors told us they’d actually bought the RV for $2500 on the internet from a man with the worst case of plumber’s crack I’d ever seen who drove it down from Wisconsin or somewhere? (The man drove it, not his plumber’s crack. Just to clarify.)
A few days after that, the metal love shack disappeared and I (falsely!) assumed that they took it to wherever it belonged, like perhaps the city dump.
However, the mobile ghetto showed up again about a week later and it’s been parked in their driveway ever since. It’s essentially the view from our back porch, which makes the high property taxes we pay to live in this neighborhood seem totally worth it.
Between the RV and the raccoon crackhouse next door, it seems like we ought to get some kind of tax rebate.
Anyway, the neighbors walked over yesterday to let us know they are going to be out of town for a few days and asked if we’d mind keeping an eye on the place while they’re gone.
Later I told P, “It would be a crying shame if someone steals that RV while they’re gone.”
To which he replied, “Yes and it would be a bigger shame if I just happened to loan someone my truck to help them steal it.”
I’m not saying it will happen. It’s a purely hypothetical scenario.
Go P go! If that doesn’t work, I might be inclined to get out my hot glue gun and fix it up a bit or better yet, let sweet Caroline have fun redecorating! I think hot pink with big white daisies might be a nice touch…you know, before spring comes. Thanks for the good laugh early this morning. I needed it more than you know.
I think Sanford and Sons filed a police report about their stolen RV. You may want to contact the authorities over the weekend….
I feel your pain! The people diagonally across the street from us had one of those POD things in their driveway for close to 3 YEARS!!!!! It was a miserable view from our front window. Here’s to hoping that someone makes off with that Ghetto-mobile!
Living out in the middle of nowhere and having our nearest neighbor be one full mile away does have it’s advantages.
Did you mean $25.00? Surely they didn’t pay $2,500.00 for that, what did you call it? Metal Love Shack?
I feel guilty now for complaining about my neighbors really nice RV. I just don’t like looking at it in their driveway, it blocks the view of the whole street.
You mean that they bought the Metal Love Shack not for vacation purposes, but to claim as a “small house” out back of their house? Is that why the Metal Love Shack won’t be vacationing, too?
Seriously- the city would be all over someone who put that in their driveway. Some neighbors had a boat and that was a huge no-no, much less the mobile ghetto. Oh, yeah, that would be leaving if on my watch. Do it P!
Hmmmm, can P kinda push it with his truck down a hill? Seriously, I’m not kidding.
Surprise them with an extreme RV makeover when they come home…
P is hilarious. The only thing that could be funnier is if it really happens. Please keep us updated!
Looks like P has it hooked up and ready to move. It would be so sad if you didn’t have to look at it anymore.
You do know that now, if it really does get stolen while they’re gone, you and P will look suspect? Right? I promise I won’t tell anyone …
Looking at that picture, it seems like it’s parked on quite a hill … would also be a shame if their hitch came undone and it just rolled away …
I’m just sayin’.
We had this happen when we lived in Iowa. I glanced out my window to see not only “Pa” get on out of the camper, but HIS ENTIRE BUM when he bent over to get something and it escaped it’s rightful place in his drawers!!
Some things you are just not meant to see.
EVER.
IN THIS LIFETIME.
Seriously, you have the opportunity of a lifetime!!! Very funny!!
and now you will be prayin’ no one steals it until they return, because you just put motive on your blog.
never the mind that no one with 2 brain cells would talk about it on their blog first, we all know on the internets, they do.
If that was our neighborhood, you bet your bottom dollar that I’d be the person in the drivers seat.
LOL this post had me cracking up! I surprised they aren’t taking the trailer when they go on their trip!
ok that whole scenario has me laughing here!!
The thing that really, really cracks me up ( no pun intended) is your neighbor has a beautiful Mediterranean style home. The landscaping is fabulous. It has all of the hallmarks of a wonderful San Antonio home, but wait, off of the balcony of the master bedroom there is the scenic view of the “Cadillac Shack.” Too, too funny.
it sounds like you have calculated the risks wisely. i agree, the view from prison will be much nicer.
They’re not going out of town WITH the trailer? What’d the buy the stinkin’ thing for anyway? Using it to hide fugitives?
I’m starting to think our stupid HOA rules might be okay after all.
That is just amazing. No, not the scenario, but the fact that they would actually PAY someone to haul that thing down to them, much less $2500! Don’t you have some swampland somewhere that you can sell to them?
Hee hee Ha HA! And IF, perhaps, someone would load up the raccoons in the stolen RV…all the better!
please tell me you will have someone go put a sign on it “if this trailer’s a rockin….don’t come aknockin’” SO SORRY but I had to throw that in but I feel your pain!
If it does by some miracle come up missing I hope your neighbor does not read your blog.
I wonder if your neighbor reads your blog?
oh man! sorry about that eyesore. i know ALL about the hillbilly neighbor issue:
http://mamalaw.blogspot.com/2007/04/complain-complain-but-mr-clampett-aint.html
I don’t know what your problem is, Melanie. Why, that RV is just darling! LOL
I can’t believe he asked you to watch it. Clueless, obviously.
We have restrictions in our neighborhood, including no visible RV’s. Our next door neighbor thinks he’s hiding his pop-up under his trees, right in his front yard. I feel your pain.
I am glad we live in the middle of nowhere and noone can enforce rules about what we can have on our land…
but i am also glad we cannot see what our neighbors have in their yards either
steff
Perhaps it could accidentally explode or something.
Isn’t that P’s truck hitched up to it? I’m hoping with you for a robbery. lol!
You cracked me up with this one. Man, I hope they don’t read your blog!!!! hahaha
I feel your pain. LOL Our neighbor across the street has not one, but TWO RVs. One is parked beside their house in the grass, and the other, larger, very silver one was, until recently, parked in their driveway. They couldn’t park in their two-car driveway!! It’s my view from the kitchen window/front porch. I can still see the silver one parked in their back yard…
I say, GO FOR IT.
HA HA! If only you could get the crack racoons to move into the RV….
You are such a great writer!
1. let Caroline make it into her very own doll house.
2. entice the racoons to move into the camper and drive them all very far, far away.
OH.MY.GOOD.LORD! I just peed on myself laughing so hard!
BTW – I think that thing came from my neighbor’s house!! haha! Glad I don’t see it anymore!