I was sitting out front today, and neighbor1 came up and was excited to tell me neighbor2 got an eviction notice on her door. She was smugly happy to tell me all about it, because she hates neighbor2 because she doesn’t cut her grass enough and doesn’t socialize (literally, that’s it).
I wasn’t picking up on the energy at first and I reacted just being like “how awful, I hope she’s ok.” Neighbor2 is a working mom with a daughter, but neighbor1 is like “I don’t know how you could fall behind on rent.”
Anyways, neighbor1 eventually shifted her energy when she saw I wasn’t matching it. But it’s weird she even thought I might.
It’s just so fucked, because it’s not a rich neighborhood, and all of us have probably gotten an eviction notice before. I guess I’m just venting. Really feeling the cruelty in the world lately.
I can’t stand people who complain about other people’s lawns. Especially knowing how pointless and wasteful they are. All it amounts to is that you’ve sinned against their suburbanite cult by not following their sacred ritual of “maintaining the property”. The not socializing thing, too. My family is neurodivergent and we’ve always had problems with neighbors acting snotty towards us because we’re “weird”. Now that I think of it, having a manicured lawn so people don’t get mad at you is a type of masking lol.
It is depressing when their devotion to the cult of normalcy causes them to celebrate the eviction of a less than perfect tenant. Such heartlessness.