From Russ.
An uninformed voter and her husband are lying in bed listening to the next door neighbor’s dog. It has been in the backyard barking for hours and hours. The uninformed voter jumps up out of bed and says, “I’ve had enough of this”. She goes downstairs. She finally comes back up to bed and her husband says, “The dog is still barking; what have you been doing?”
She says, “I’ve put the dog in our backyard, let’s see how they like it!!
Sumpin’ I don’t understand. How come the barking dog never bothers the owners? I had this problem once so I called my neighbor in the middle of the night and said her dog was keeping the neighborhood awake so I thought she should join the rest of us. She took her dog inside. The dog never bothered us again.
Good one! 🙂
I dare say that most people with a barking dog bring them in and that’s the end of it.
Those who don’t are probably “deaf” to it – background noise and doesn’t disturb their sleep.
I consider my neighbor’s barking dogs the neighborhood security system.
Had a little shit across the county right-of-way behind our place that announced every single movement in the neighborhood back there. Cats, possums, raccoons, mockingbirds . . . whatever. A fly could fart in his yard and he’d set up a din.
Drove me bats. Took to wearing earplugs to get to sleep at nite. Cops did exactly nothin about it, even tho our vaunted HOA called ’em. I left several notes on their fone and even rode my bike around there to put typed notes on their doorway sympathizing with their obvious state of profound deafness.
Then about 5 years ago we changed out our windows — put in those triple-pane hurricane-proof jobs with the gas-filled pocket. Guy did a great job of sealin ’em in, and you can barely hear the Blue Angels when they fly over the place now.
I noticed that when I went into the bathroom I could hear that damned dog’s barking through the fart-fan vent, but that’s easy to stop — just close the B/R door.
‘Course $17,000 for windows is a big chunk o’ change, but they stop ALL the friggin noise AND the U/V from comin in . . . and according to the brochure, a full-grown man can throw a brick at one but it’ll just chip or crack, won’t shatter.
Heavy moofers, tho. They tilt inward so you can clean ’em without removing the screen and going outside. Laid one on a fold-up table one time to clean it. Damned thing broke the table.
I read a story a long time ago where the neighbor got fed up with the dog barking, and went to do something about it.
It was discovered several days later that the neighbor had disappeared. …never was found. Seems appropriate. Who needs inconsiderate neighbors?
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