There's one in every neighborhood..

"Birddog" (maintmgt)
05/19/2016 at 21:11 • Filed to: None

I’m sitting there peacefully sanding my tank and relaxing. Then “That Guy” shows up. The neighbor that knows it all..

“Lots of Bondo on that tank”

There’s no Bondo on that tank..

“Sure there is” He grabs the tank and starts caressing it. “Here, here, here.......”

You should leave now.

I’m going to have to start working with the door closed again.

On the plus side.. I GOT STUFF!! WOO!

DISCUSSION (28)

BayAreaMiataBoi > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 21:15

Is it the original primer?

BayAreaMiataBoi > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 21:15

THAT GUY!!! 8^/

MuchWagon > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 21:34

So... what’s on the tank?

Svend > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 21:36

You need this on the back of your shirt.

Kinja'd!!!

crowmolly > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 21:41

Plastic filler that’s not bondo brand? Or primer surfacer?

Birddog > MuchWagon
05/19/2016 at 21:48

Just paint.

Birddog > Svend
05/19/2016 at 21:49

Yeah, I could use those!

jkm7680 > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 21:49

One of my neighbors yelled at me for vacuuming my car at 10am. My neighbor from down the street and around the corner.... I was in my driveway.

I kept vacuuming.

Birddog > crowmolly
05/19/2016 at 21:49

It’s just several coats of paint. No primer even. Just direct to metal.

Birddog > jkm7680
05/19/2016 at 21:51

Yikes! I’d have started using my leaf blower at that point. After 10am anything is fair game.

jkm7680 > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 21:53

Totally agree. The noise ordinance or what’s it called says no loud shit before like 9am.

I’d still like to know how he was so disturbed by it, especially at how far he actually was from my house.

Svend > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 22:09

Ye’, usually when they start talking crap like that I want to shout,

“Oy knob head, f*** off already”. However I usually start to ignore them and hope they get the message.

Birddog > Svend
05/19/2016 at 22:18

I’ve walked away in the past. Sit down and crack a beer full stop. One guy started calling me lazy behind my back because every time he came over I stopped working.

Now I just tell them. Life is too short to beat around the bush..

Birddog > jkm7680
05/19/2016 at 22:19

No joke. That’s some sensitive hearing!

jkm7680 > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 22:19

I prefer to call it angry old guy.

XJDano > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 22:24

I usually just Repete, “oh, really. Yeah, maybe”

I haven’t met that guy in my neighborhood, so...... Maybe I’m that guy.

I’m kidding, I will say something so wrong to see if they buy it. Like in your case I would have told the guy that it appears to be a specially formulated bondo that’s magnetic, like they used metal flakes in it. Then go grab a magnet. Wow there is a thin layer of metallic bondo all over this tank, I’m going to need more sand paper.

WRXasaurus > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 22:51

I am so glad I don’t live in town anymore. That would really bug me if someone just came up and tried to talk to me even.

shop-teacher > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 23:17

I actually don’t have that guy in my neighborhood. I suspect my neighbor across the street, the civil engineer with the flawlessly maintained house and yard, doesn’t think particularly highly of the lack of work I’ve done to the outside of my house, but he hasn’t said squat.

Birddog > WRXasaurus
05/19/2016 at 23:23

I don’t mind hanging with the neighbors. I even encourage it with BBQ parties and such. They cross a line when they touch what I’m working on.

Birddog > shop-teacher
05/19/2016 at 23:32

He wants to say something. I almost guarantee it! I’m oddly inviting to my neighbors so a pop in isn’t unusual. This guy is new and didn’t know the rules yet.

I lost your email somehow.. Still on for Sunday?

DipodomysDeserti > Birddog
05/19/2016 at 23:55

Had my neighbor who looks exactly like Bernie Sanders ask me to stop messing with my motorcycle once (1973 CL450 with no muffler). I had just got home from work and only had the bike on for about 5 minutes. Kid down the street had been riding his dirt bike up and down the street for a while and he thought it was me. Whatevs

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Birddog
05/20/2016 at 01:16

I have similar issues. Me working in my front yard or crawling under my car is NOT an invitation to talk to me about shit you know nothing about. One person even critiqued my wife’s weeding skills...

BoulderZ > jkm7680
05/20/2016 at 01:17

“Keep yelling. I’ll start the chainsaw. Gas tank is worth 90 minutes.”

random001 > shop-teacher
05/20/2016 at 06:29

I'm pretty sure that means YOU are THAT guy....

shop-teacher > Birddog
05/20/2016 at 06:54

You’re probably right :)

Still on! Woodshop00 at gmail

shop-teacher > random001
05/20/2016 at 06:57

Noooooo, I don’t say anything about the shlock work they’re doing. The crooked staircase my neighbor a few doors down just built? Not a word from me. The city on the other hand, they’re none to happy with him (no, I didn’t call them either).

random001 > shop-teacher
05/20/2016 at 08:13

Haha! OK, you’re not that guy.

NJAnon > Birddog
05/21/2016 at 00:59

I do have a couple of those people. And I’ve already kept them at bay by somehow timing it where they are leaving for work just as I’m getting started.

They’re driving away like “@*&$! I wanted to go over there and interrupt that person to get on their nerves!”