Yeah, you read that right I can’t stand my neighbor. But it’s not for the reasons you might think. I have a neighbor of mine who lives across the street from me. He works as a landscaper, and I sometimes work with him as a hired hand so I can make some extra cash for myself. I’m currently doing vocational rehab to get myself in a new job ideally in administrative assistance.

I can’t stand my neighbor because I will be ready at the time he tells me to be ready (E.G. 9 AM) but he won’t be ready until 11 AM. Time is a valuable thing, all of us are only alive on this planet for such a finite amount of time, and I would rather not spend the time that I’m still alive waiting for something to happen that should’ve started 2 hours earlier. Respect for other people’s time should be a two-way street and my neighbor doesn’t do that. He’s even laughed at how I will be at his house, ready to go and acts all surprised about it too.

Is being a reliable person such a crime now? If that isn’t bad enough, my neighbor also teases me and infantilizes me like there’s no tomorrow. I remember one time we were working in someone’s yard in our neighborhood, it got really hot, I was trying to brave my way through the heat, but I was exhausted and my neighbor told me to go home.

The next thing I know, he ends up, making it into something that he won’t let me live down and teases me about it and makes up lies about what actually happened saying that I was “crying“ about it being too hot outside. Heat stroke is no laughing matter, also I didn’t want to go home, I was trying to stay outside so I can get as much money as possible. Since then, he’s called me a baby and tells me that I run away from the heat when it gets too hot.

I’m at my wits end with this guy, I can’t wait for things to go through with my vocational rehab and hopefully get into a position of administrative assistance. I’m only putting up with his bullshit so I can have some extra pocket money to buy alcohol.