Neighbors - Uncomfortable

legion · 12-06-2006, 12:57 PM

My neighbors across the street moved in about six months after I did. They don't have any kids. From what I gather they dated for about 4 years and got married two years ago...

The guy and I are casual friends. We'd often wander over to the other's garage with two beers in hand to chat if the other was around. I would initially have described them as a barfly couple.

The fall after they moved in, we all gave a triathlon a try for fun. The neighbor-wife changed big time. She trained hard during the winter/spring/summer. She had some sort of chart with the pictures of all of the women who beat her with X's through them. The next year at the triathlon, she won her class. Everyone else in the group (myself included) did about the same. She started doing more triathlons, and duathlons, and marathons. She was gone almost every weekend doing some competition.

The neighbor-guy stayed the same person.

This fall, when discussing the triathlon, the neighbor-guy informed me that he was not going to attend as he and his wife were breaking up. He moved out about two months later. The very next weekend, some new guy moves in--I recognize him from the triathlon!!!

So now, I'm in an awkward place. I don't want to start a war with my neighbors, but it's painfully obvious what has happened. I don't approve of the behavior, but most of all, I don't want to betray my friendship with the neighbor-guy by appearing to accept the neighbor-wife's choices. So far, I have simply gone out of my way to avoid the wife and her boy-toy. I know I won't be successful forever.

masraum · 12-06-2006, 01:02 PM

Be civil, but you don't have to be buddies, just don't show any interest in the new guy or the wife for that matter.

vash · vash's Garage

AND THAT IS WHY I DATE FATCHICKS!!!!

just kidding! i gotta get back to work now..........

gaijindabe · 12-06-2006, 01:25 PM

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Originally posted by legion
So far, I have simply gone out of my way to avoid the wife and her boy-toy. I know I won't be successful forever.

Stay the course. This is the only thing that can possibly work!

jorian · 12-06-2006, 01:29 PM

This is why I don't do triathlons....

mschuep · 12-06-2006, 01:31 PM

that is lame, what a skizzy biatch

fastpat · 12-06-2006, 01:32 PM

I felt like doing a Triathlon once. I laid down and the feeling went away.

12-06-2006, 01:59 PM

Is she shaved? I bet she's shaved.....MMMMMM.....smooth........

Pictures are required...........

cmccuist · 12-06-2006, 02:22 PM

Another senseless triathlon-related divorce.

Why don't you suggest that the four of you go sky-diving. See if the skank starts hanging out with the 101st airborne. If she does, it wasn't the running. It's her and her perfectionist personality.

Rick V · 12-06-2006, 02:41 PM

Well you can be neighborly without being friends. Say Hi when you have to, nothing more. Look on the bright side, when being in the garage with 2 beers...............they are both yours!
She will more than likely throw runner boy out in the spring, she will end up a sad,old,lonely woman if she lives like this.
On a lighter note........................is she good looking?

Drago · Drago's Garage

Take it from someone else named Marc, we're going to need to see some pic's.

austin552 · austin552's Garage

BaJezus guys, can't you get past the physical thing? Just because she is serious about her body and works hard at it daily.... I mean there is more to a woman... besides she is... sweat glistening as it runs down her hot toned......

Where's the GD pics???

legion · 12-06-2006, 04:32 PM

You know, I don't have pics, but you guys would be disappointed (very, very disappointed) if I did.

austin552 · austin552's Garage

Like this?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4848963620616898294&q=jogging+girl&hl=en

Rot 911 · 12-06-2006, 04:42 PM

Same sort of thing happened where my wife and I used to live. The lived behind us. I really liked the guy and his wife was ok. One day she moves him out and another guy in. She wanted to act like nothing was going on. She never got much more than a "hello" out of me after that.

dafischer · 12-06-2006, 05:25 PM

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Originally posted by austin552
Like this?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4848963620616898294&q=jogging+girl&hl=en

Why do I get the feeeling that I'm going to have nightmares of being chased my two watermelons having a fistfight?

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

just bang her and be done with it

dtw · 12-06-2006, 05:34 PM

That reminds me of this one time, when I was dating this girl, and...

I think I'll go grab a beer.

(sorry, inside joke)

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

"if I could find my keys, we could drive out..."

Zeke · 12-06-2006, 05:46 PM

Jeez, it's a neighbor and her life. I'd wander over with the 2 beers to the new guy (if I were so inclined) if he looked at all accessible. (Actually, I'd never cross my property line with a beer unless it was decided beforehand that was invited. It was just a figure of speech taken from the context.) Unless you are in a friendship with the former husband and he is coming over to your house still, it's a new day in a different month. Chances are you won't be seeing much of the former and you had nothing to do with the breakup.

Besides, what do you know about what went on behind their door? Sounds to me like she was trapped in a dead end relationship with a "barfly."

People come and people go.......mostly for the better. I say that in the sense that water seeks its own level. I'm not dissing your "former" friend. Far from it. He may wind up in a better place, too. I think the woman was a triffle compulsive and I'll bet he avoids that next time around like the plague.