I honestly have no words. I (27) just bought my house in july 2024. We have learned that most of the neighbors are all old as hell.( i think these neighbors are 60s +) and are very nosey and ornery that young families are moving into the neighborhood in recent years. They will just walk up to you and tell you this.

I have been shopping thrift and estate sales to furnish this cute house. This morning, I came home from an estate sale with a BEAUTIFUL wingback rocking chair. (It needs to be reupholstered as the leather that was on it is in terrible condition and the previous owner started pulling it off. )

Im unloading it from the bed of my truck when neighbor , Carol, sticks her giraffe neck over the fence and starts squawking about how beautiful it is . I said thanks i got it at an estate sale for $10! This triggered the parasites in her brain and she, i shit you not, teleported over to the truck.

She starts going off about how much she needs a chair to rock her grandkids to sleep in and how much she would appreciate it if it was hers. I told her I got it for my future babies to be rocked to sleep in and that it still needs lots of work before it can be used.

This is when she starts offering me money ($15 because ” its more than what you paid for it”) then telling me i dont need it because i dont have kids yet and her grandkids are only little for so long. After firmly telling her i wasn’t interested in selling it, she offered me $20.

I was standing in the bed of the truck looking down at her on the driveway and firmly said “No, Carol im really not interested in selling this. Please go home.” And pointed to her side of the fence. Apparently this was shouting at her and being aggressive.

She ran home and later in the day her husband said something to my husband as he was getting home from a game. Telling him i (edit:” spoke to her like a dog” ) and was being a “nasty neighbor” and that my husband needs to “straighten me out.”

Are my neighbors nuts? Was I that rude to her?

( I tried to attach a photo of the chair but i cant attach it on this community)

Edit : I meant no offense when I said ” old as hell”. I know that 60 is only “half”way through a life time. I was trying to paint a caricature of who the neighbors are. There is something really wrong with the folks in the cul-de-sac.