[Ghoulish Delight]

We've had one good run in here.

The HOA put a notice in the montly news letter last summer. Something along the lines of, "Please don't congregate outside people's windows, you make a lot of noise and people would like to be able to keep their windows open."

It just so happens that we 1) live at a crossroads of the walking paths in our complex, 2) do not socialize with any of our neighbors, and 3) are one of the newest residents.

We do get people outside our window, basically daily. We often close the window if they're too loud.

We did NOT call the HOA.

But one lady decided to play detective and came to the conclusion that it must have been us who called the HOA. Does she knock on our door? Oh no, she marches up the path until she's facing our window, and shouts, ostensibly to our next door neighbor something like, "I hope I'm not talking too loud. I guess we're not aloud to have conversations anymore."

It was totally surreal. This was so completely out of left field that, despite being so blatant, it took us a minute to realize it was directed at us. I first started yelling it her just (yeah, I probably could have handled it a little better) becuase she was being so damned loud. Then I actually took the second to think about what she'd yelled and put it all together. Then I think I yelled a little more. Fortunately CP handled it from there.

It ended with a, "We're sorry. She's pregnant and we just didn't know you guys, so hormones and all." Pregnant or not, she was far to interested in creating drama than anyone I'd like to associate with. But whatever, it was a good enough apology/excuse making that successfully let the issue drop and I've literally never seen them since, so maybe it was just a bad day for her, who knows.