My neighbor is spreading rumors that we are growing Marijuana in our back room! Just 1 of a million problems?
Posted by pano | Under Herb Garden Thursday Aug 12, 2010My father saw the guy in the next building over and they stopped to chat and he was informed that the guy that lives upstairs from me approached the neighbor, pointed to my back window with two pots of Parsley and Sweet Basil/Oregano with a grow light that looks like this http://www.amazon.com/FA201HBCC-20-Inch-16-Watt-Fluorescent-Cabinet/dp/B000HJ75HA/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1281391060&sr=1-16 placed along the edge of the pot to help the basil/oregano to perk up after a transplant, and asked him if he thought we were "Growing Marijuana" in our back room.
The pots were, literally, on the windowsill… And I live on the 1.5th floor, so you can see that it is Parsley and Basil FROM THE SIDEWALK!
After I put the plants in the window, I put the grow light on a timer so that it would provide heat and light from dusk until dawn because my plants didn’t like the transplant and were adjusting to their new environment… He CALLED MY FATHER AT WORK and told him that "Your daughter left a light on in the back room ALL NIGHT." As if is any of his business… and later cornered my father on his way out to again inform him that ‘You have a light on…’
He just won’t leave us alone!
Should I write him a letter telling him what is in my pots and that if the owner of the building (who is NOT him btw) wants to know what I am growing, I’ll be happy to show him?
Should I just try to ignore him?
EVERYTHING we do is messed with or intruded upon by this guy that thinks he rules the world when he is just an old, mentally ill, Taxi Director at an airport… (He sits in the booth at the airport and makes sure that cabs don’t jump the line or accept passengers before they reach the head of the queue yet talks about how he is "The head of" basically everything on airport property…)
I didn’t care if he touched my laundry…
I didn’t care if he touched our grill…
I didn’t care that he told me I should have ASKED HIM if I could put a mail pouch on my front door because the foam tape I used might have "Harmed the Door"…
But now he is spreading rumors that we are doing something ILLEGAL!!!
Luckily, before I even knew what he was going around saying, I got a Mylar Emergency Blanket and draped that over a shelf of a wire shelving unit in my den, used Velcro to hang my, now 2, grow lights to hang from the top, and placed the pots with my COOKING HERBS in there with a small fan for ventilation… So now you can’t really see that there is any light at night, through the window… I put curtains on the one window but I have a poinsettia that needs the morning sun so I can’t close it all off to keep out his prying eyes…
How would you cope with a tard like this?
WOW… It feels good to vent… But seriously… My lease isn’t up for another year… We are already planning to move when the next year is up… But until then… What would you do in my place?
ok-..lol…."maintain….maintain….maintain"
your sense of humor…put the pots back in the window with big signs that say, PARSLEY, BASIL< POINSETTA and arrows pointing to the appropriate plants. your neighbors will get a chuckle out of it and mr nosy pants will get the message!
I’ve dealt with this type of neighbour before. Trust me. Most everyone knows he is an idiot and you can’t believe half of what he says. A few may believe him but that’s because they are idiots too, just like him.
Do you talk to your neighbors? Casually bring up Mr. Taxi Director and say something like, You know that I grow fresh basil and oregano, right? He thinks I am growing marijuana! He is such a moron! And then you can list some of the other stupid things he’s said or done, if you want. Offer to share some fresh herbs to your neighbors too. They will probably decline anyway but it will show that you must be telling the truth or you wouldn’t be offering.
He is a lonely crazy old man. Just ignore him.