This woman needs to meet my ex-inlaws.
3 miles down a dirt road, they lived, nearest neighbor lived up road about a mile or so.
One day the inlaws decided to burn some brush near the road, took all percautions to keep it spreading but something went wrong.
The fire did with a shift in the wind begin to spread, in-laws were frantically trying to put out the fire, down the road comes the only neighbors, young couple with a couple kids and they if not blind could see the two in one of a mess.
They the neighbors could see from perhaps 1/4 mile what was going on, they drove past these people honked their horn and left them to put out the fire by themselves. [Good neighbors that minded their own business ]
Then there is my story, bought a home that had been vacant for a couple year, moved in but before I had a chance to even meet the neighbors, I get a phone call from a 80 year old man that lived in the back.
Oh he was so old but concerned, he had found my brand new phone number from my address at the phone company [ remember when we had them?] and called me to warn me my house may have been on fire.
Seems there were billowing clouds of smoke coming from the back of my house. Poor old dude he was so worried that had I been not able to answer the phone he was fixing to call the fire department.
Funny, we for years laughed about this, old timer lived to be 92 I think. We being the old man any myself.
Back on track when we bought the home there was a very large pantry off the kitchen. We rounded up the people we needed off the boat for electrics, plumbing and some sailors helped us move in and set up a washer and dryer.
The pantry was now a laundry room. All of this was totally illegal, Nothing was done about permits, or city inspection. Any of this ring a bell for the comshore military?
What this concerned citizen saw was the vapor from my dryer, as my home had never had a dryer before and this paniced the old man.
After I calmed the old man down and went on my way what I wondered would have happend had he called the Fire Department and I was not at home??? Would the city have checked on permits to have a laundry room????--OH_OH , big time trouble.
Nasty woman needs to send Flowers to this busy a body and a thank you note.
