GagDragon

if my wife wasn’t bed ridden, she’d be complaining about me not having shoveled the foot and a half that’s built up at the foot of our driveway. but what’s she gonna’ do? chase me?

i live in a relatively new neighborhood and i used to think i was lucky for having such young neighbors with kids the same age as mine, or just a bit older, but i realize why my neighborhood sucks compared to every other one i lived in growing up.

when i was a kid i remember racing outside to shovel alongside my dad only to find my neighbor plowing away from our house onto another driveway. he had completed his own driveway, done mine and from the looks of it at 6am, he had no plan to stop until he ran out of gas or had to get ready for work.

were my parents crippled? did they need the assistance?

fuck no. dude was just being a neighbor cause he could.

i also remember coming home from basketball practice or a game at night and seeing my dad 4 houses down doing the same thing. noone asked him to do it, he just did it because someone else had done it for him.

there was this unspoken relationship between neighbors that even if you didnt know the motherfucker’s name youd do what you could when you could for no other reason than you could, and hell, the snowblower was already started, what’s another 30 minutes?

fastforward to now. all of my surrounding neighbors know my wife hasnt moved from the couch but to go potentially get gutted like a fish at the hospital an hour away and that im still working fulltime and all that shit and i still get completely ignored when im lugging in groceries, new crib parts, new furniture, new car seats, boxes of diapers, or whatever through a good foot of snow.

these fucking pansies said “thanks” when i mowed their lawn when they were out of town during the summer without being asked, or collected their mail when they were gone cause they asked, or brought out beers to share when i’d see em standing around shooting the shit.

everyone’s fucking cool when you’re doing shit for them, but the minute you could use a hand or even just a pathway snowblowed from garage to my truck, everyone’s too busy.

it’s horseshit.

i dont care to complain vocally because i shouldnt expect it, but i grew up doing things for people without being asked because i was able bodied and would hope someone would give a hand when i was flat on my back. now that im down a teammate it seems my entire street has forgotten what we do for each other when we know the other is going through some shit.

am i pissed? fuck yea.

but that really wont stop me from snowblowing other people’s driveways once i save up enough to buy my own this summer for next winter.

i dont do shit because i expect to get paid back. i do shit because my dad did it. and it was fucking cool to do shit for people with no promise of getting something i return.

but seriously tho, fuck my neighbors.