{"id":55018,"date":"2011-08-04T21:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T01:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/55018\/mister-potatoheads-harmed-making-blog\/"},"modified":"2011-08-04T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T01:42:21","slug":"mister-potatoheads-harmed-making-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/55018\/mister-potatoheads-harmed-making-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"No Mister Potatoheads Were Harmed In the Making Of this Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in a recent blog, I have new upstairs neighbors.\u00a0 The last guy who lived up there was single guy, an engineer at Boeing who worked really long hours a long way away, so he didn\u2019t make a lot of noise.\u00a0 Now, there is a young family living up there and since August 1st, there\u2019s been non-stop rumble, thumping and small voices being very loud.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve re-discovered the joy of my nice $100 Koss headphones.<\/p>\n

I came rolling up on my bicycle this evening to find the whole family out in the front yard doing various we\u2019ve-just-moved in activities. <\/font><\/p>\n

I stopped at the front stairs of our shared rental property and said, \u201cHi, you must be my new neighbors.\u201d\u00a0 I looked at the young 20-something mom directly in front of me and smiled.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh My God!\u201d<\/strong> she screamed and rushed me.
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\nWHOAH! LADY!\u00a0 WHAT THE HELL?!?!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Only, she wasn\u2019t looking at me, but through me.\u00a0 She zipped around my bicycle and picked up the two year-old who was on the other side.\u00a0 See, it seemed that me and my bicycle were blocking her direct path to her child who was standing on the edge of the sidewalk-less street we live on that maybe a dozen cars pass through per day.\u00a0 This meant that the kid could go bolting out into the street at any moment and she\u2019d be powerless to stop him because I was in the way.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get between a Momma Bear and her cubs, I suppose.<\/p>\n

These people were obviously very tired from their move because they greeted me, their new intimate neighbor with all the enthusiasm of a wet fish.\u00a0 I learned their names and welcomed them.<\/p>\n

Then I rolled my bike around the back the house where I lock it up and saw this:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Now, I don\u2019t really use my backyard very often, but now that it has turned into a playground, I\u2019m guessing the possibility of future use has been greatly changed.<\/p>\n

Kind of looks like an accident scene involving a couple very unfortunate Mr. Potato Heads.<\/p>\n

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Took this picture out my front wondow, which is quite dirty at the moment.\u00a0 I realize they\u2019re just moving in, so I\u2019m going to assume the massive dollhouse is not going to be a permanent fixture.
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Bliss might have fun turning it into a cathouse though. <\/font><\/p>\n

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What was your worst neighbor ever?\u00a0 Feel free to share your story.<\/p>\n

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As I mentioned in a recent blog, I have new upstairs neighbors.\u00a0 The last guy who lived up there was single guy, an engineer at Boeing who worked really long hours a long way away, so he didn\u2019t make a lot of noise.\u00a0 Now, there is a young family living up there and since August […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-life","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}