Our next door neighbors are odd. Sure, most next door neighbors are a little odd it seems, but ours are really odd. Let me give you a few examples of the oddness of our neighbors:

  • If we mow the grass, no matter if they just did the day before, they will come out and mow their grass.
  • They own two sets of identical cars. They have two identical, red Mitsubishis and two identical, grey Dodges.
  • They always watch goings-on through the drapes. They know everything about the neighborhood.

    So what I saw Saturday afternoon shouldn’t really surpise me at all, but it did. I was going through the house closing windows when I heard an odd “whirring” sound. I looked through the front window and I saw the neighbor vacuuming the yard to pick up their grass clippings.

    Just an hour earlier I had seen them raking the yard and bagging the clippings, but apparently that wasn’t enough. They were actually vacuuming the yard.

    So about the time you think you live next to the oddest neighbors in the world, just remember they could be vacuuming their yard.