Re: Neighbor's Lighter fluid fumes

In article <1150861028.058336.136440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
basscadet75@xxxxxxxxx says...

The Other Funk wrote:
I can just imagine what his food tastes like. If it is the lighter fluid and
not a tiki torch, why don't you make him a present of a bag of Kingsford
Match Light. It might help.

Or maybe the smell is coming from Kingsford Match Light, which smells
suspiciously like lighter fluid to me. And because it's burning, the
smell travels far and lasts a while.

But really, and I'm trying to say the nice version of what some others
have already said, if this is the only problem you have with your
neighbors, I'd just deal with it. I recently moved to a suburb of NYC
where the houses are pretty close (about 10 feet on either side, but
with decent sized back yards suitable for parties), and there's all
sorts of stuff that goes on that I could get myself worked into a tizzy
about if I really wanted to be a jerk. The guy next to me blasts WKTU
whenever he's outside, for one thing, including the entire time he's
barbecuing. The neighbor in back of him encourages it; he says to turn
it up whenever he's out there. On the other side of my house, I seem
to find at least a couple of new empty Dunkin Donuts bags on my lawn
every day, and when a new fence went up over there, they trampled down
a whole bunch of my trees in back. And behind me, where I've just got
a chain link fence, my neighbor's got about five dachsunds that act
like I'm burglarizing their house every time I water my grass.

If your biggest issue with your neighbors is that you smell some Match
Light every once in a while, for god's sake, just close your windows
for a while and turn on your air conditioning. I'm sure you do some
things that could be considered just as, if not more annoying to them.

Honestly, if somebody came over and gave me a chimney starter as a
gift, I'd see right through it and think they were even more of a jerk
than if they'd just come right out and told me to quit stinking up the
place so much. I think the only options are to either be totally
honest or do nothing. And the best option is to do nothing and just
relax.


Hear hear. On any reasonable person's list of Important Things, lighter fluid
smell has got to be way down there. There's only so much "political capital"
one has with one's neighbors, and time and fortitude is much better spent
building up the capital (getting to know one's neighbors) and spending
judicously on more important things, like safety issues and things which may
involve property damage. (And, no, I'm not convinced there'd be a safety issue
in every vapor that may waft past one's nose).

Banty


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