Mystery Neighbors
My husband and I have a nice split-level home in a quiet neighborhood within a smaller town just on the outskirts of Springfield, and we really love where we live. While most of our neighbors are not close to our age or what I would call overly friendly, we have become acquainted with most of them. But one of our neighbors remains a complete mystery.
The people that bought the house directly behind ours moved in at around the same time that we did. For a long time, we didn't see much of them. Last summer we would occasionally see the man of the family mowing the lawn. To this day, neither my husband nor I have seen the lady of the house. We were informed by a neighbor who had met them that she is a pharmaceutical sales representative. I know nothing about that field, but perhaps her job involves a lot of traveling. That would explain why it seems that these people are hardly ever home, judging from the lack of lights on within their house and the state of their lawn, which has become infested with weeds that have taken over nearly all of the grass.
These mysterious neighbors have taken on a few annoying characteristics this year. For some reason, every once in a while, they like to leave all three of their flood lights on all night. Normally this would not be a big deal, but since the neighborhood is relatively new, there are no tall trees to obstruct this light from coming into our house, and while our wooden blinds help to block most of the light, there is always a bit that sneaks through and keeps me from falling asleep up in our master bedroom. The only reason I can think of for putting on backyard flood lights would be if you are having a party in the backyard. Maybe these people have been burglarized and want to keep the backyard well-lit? Perhaps they want their house to be seen by space? Or the outrageous theory I have come up with: perhaps they are vampires and do their feeding at night, leaving the lights on to guide them home? It's not unbelievable; maybe that's why we've never seen the woman, at least in the daylight.
The people that bought the house directly behind ours moved in at around the same time that we did. For a long time, we didn't see much of them. Last summer we would occasionally see the man of the family mowing the lawn. To this day, neither my husband nor I have seen the lady of the house. We were informed by a neighbor who had met them that she is a pharmaceutical sales representative. I know nothing about that field, but perhaps her job involves a lot of traveling. That would explain why it seems that these people are hardly ever home, judging from the lack of lights on within their house and the state of their lawn, which has become infested with weeds that have taken over nearly all of the grass.
These mysterious neighbors have taken on a few annoying characteristics this year. For some reason, every once in a while, they like to leave all three of their flood lights on all night. Normally this would not be a big deal, but since the neighborhood is relatively new, there are no tall trees to obstruct this light from coming into our house, and while our wooden blinds help to block most of the light, there is always a bit that sneaks through and keeps me from falling asleep up in our master bedroom. The only reason I can think of for putting on backyard flood lights would be if you are having a party in the backyard. Maybe these people have been burglarized and want to keep the backyard well-lit? Perhaps they want their house to be seen by space? Or the outrageous theory I have come up with: perhaps they are vampires and do their feeding at night, leaving the lights on to guide them home? It's not unbelievable; maybe that's why we've never seen the woman, at least in the daylight.
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