JFS2295
Silver Member
I live in a development and will help out the neighbors next to and across from me. I would do others if they asked.
All of these people are able to do their own. The one neighbor across the street is a volunteer first aider, so I’ve been more inclined to make sure he has access. His wife also had a heart attach a few years ago and not fully recovered. Bill used to go out and start the driveway and I’d come over and help out. The last two years he now just drives out in the morning with his 4x4 and leaves his wife (actually me) to do the clearing. That PMO. However, Lynn is appreciative and I often get cookies and with this years big snow she forced $50 into my coat. I’ve refused anything for years, but now I feel like I’m being taken advantage of.
The other neighbors are always out there shoveling and I come over asking them if they want some help, and usually everyone lets me snowblow the street plowed berm, the worst of it. I do usually get notes of thanks along with some occasional gifts, but thank them and state they do not have to do that. One neighbor is usually away in Vermont and I'll do the driveway so it looks like there is someone home, and they are thankful when they drive back and find it cleared.
Over the years I had good and bad neighbors, some mimicking the stories told here. Although none of the present neighbors were around at the time, what ticked me off years ago was when I would be away on business during a snowfall and my wife was out there shoveling by herself. No one ever asked if she needed help despite what I had done a few times earlier that year. Only one car in the driveway, only one women digging out – Get The Hint!
A decade or two I would have done more, or even went into “business” in the hood. But NJ has become such a litigious society that honestly I have become wearier of legal issues.
All of these people are able to do their own. The one neighbor across the street is a volunteer first aider, so I’ve been more inclined to make sure he has access. His wife also had a heart attach a few years ago and not fully recovered. Bill used to go out and start the driveway and I’d come over and help out. The last two years he now just drives out in the morning with his 4x4 and leaves his wife (actually me) to do the clearing. That PMO. However, Lynn is appreciative and I often get cookies and with this years big snow she forced $50 into my coat. I’ve refused anything for years, but now I feel like I’m being taken advantage of.
The other neighbors are always out there shoveling and I come over asking them if they want some help, and usually everyone lets me snowblow the street plowed berm, the worst of it. I do usually get notes of thanks along with some occasional gifts, but thank them and state they do not have to do that. One neighbor is usually away in Vermont and I'll do the driveway so it looks like there is someone home, and they are thankful when they drive back and find it cleared.
Over the years I had good and bad neighbors, some mimicking the stories told here. Although none of the present neighbors were around at the time, what ticked me off years ago was when I would be away on business during a snowfall and my wife was out there shoveling by herself. No one ever asked if she needed help despite what I had done a few times earlier that year. Only one car in the driveway, only one women digging out – Get The Hint!
A decade or two I would have done more, or even went into “business” in the hood. But NJ has become such a litigious society that honestly I have become wearier of legal issues.
