the other day, the neighbor whose dogs past and present have been roaming around not just in public but within our private property for ten (!) years reported me to the barangay.
i was at my mom's place and there was a call from the gate. i checked and two barangay personnel were there looking for someone with my nickname.
i said it's me.
they said someone is complaining about me.
i put on a face mask, went out, and there was the neighbor having a fit.
she was screaming.
she said i called her "bobo."
she said "sinugod" ko siya.
she said "sinabayan" ko pa raw "talaga" siya.
she even demonstrated how i supposedly turned and followed her to their gate!
(bobo - dumb
sugod - to charge toward someone
sabayan - time one's actions with someone else's)
i said i did not charge toward her. i was going in the opposite direction to my mom's place. neither did i time my going with hers. but yes, i called her "bobo." to my recollection my words were:
"hoy, <toot>, 'yung aso mo nasa labas na naman! 10 years na 'yan! masyado na kayong bobo!"
- "hey, <toot>, your dog was again outside! it's already 10 years! you're too dumb already!"
the day before, her dog was out. days before that, it was also out, on consecutive days peeing, even right in front of me!
this afternoon, yes, literally to this day, the dog was again out. it was on our doormats then walked over to pee on its favorite spot.
we don't have a dog. i shouldn't have to deal with dogs within our property, much more their pee and poop.
under normal circumstances, you venture out of your property to encounter these things. in this case, no, the nuisance is the one that ventures into your own privately-owned space.
imagine what ten years is.
grade school is only six years. in that span of time you learned how to read, write, add, subtract, multiply,
divide plus a host of different things.
junior high school is only four years.
add two years of senior high school and you have a total of six years.
college is only four years.
the current Medium Term Philippine Development Plan is only six years.
these people, through different dogs, could not learn how to restrain their pets in ten years! what sort of brains do they have?! to think there is urgency of compliance because there is a Republic Act.
the neighbor was insisting i charged at her and i kept on disputing it.
what she's talking about happened less than an hour earlier. how come we remember things so differently???
the neighbor so boldly declares,
"kahit panoorin sa CCTV!"
- you can see it from the CCTV!
we did not watch the footage there and then but i did watch it the following day. well, the footage matches my recollection and statements. it does not at all match hers!
how on earth did she conjure up such a story? a product of her imagination she was so convinced was real she even called the barangay.
the security footage shows me saying something to the neighbor while i was crossing over to my mom's place from mine. i was walking continuously diagonally away from the neighbor and in 6 seconds i was already inside my mom's gate. yes, i walk fast. yes, i live very near my mom.
where is the part where i charged at the neighbor???
where is the part where i followed her???
where is the part where i went near their gate???
she was so sure i did those things she even demonstrated my supposed movements! gah! never happened.
the footage contradicts her story. this neighbor was either lying or hallucinating. either way, not good.
the real story.
i was at my mom's place and she told me that it was a cousin's birthday. i told her i will post a pic of them together so i went home to get my external drives where the pics are.
on my way back to my mom's place, i saw the neighbor. that's when i rebuked her about her dog.
was my statement too strong? i don't think so.
you have to put things in context. my strong words are a reaction to the neighbor's repeated, frequent, long-running and ongoing offenses. these offenses run the gamut. they're multifront! and yes, i have pictures, videos, messages, files, even structures to prove it!
and this neighbor has the gall to be so livid about being called bobo? if that is her reaction to something like that, imagine what my supposed corresponding reaction should be for all that they've done!
going back to the arguments in the presence of barangay personnel... i point to a spot where one of the neighbor's dogs like to pee.
the neighbor's response floored me:
"dilaan ko pa 'yan, e!"
- i could even lick that!
yuckkkkk!!!
why on earth do i have to deal with these people?!
i dare her to actually go lick it and she backtracks.
whew! good thing! could you imagine if she actually knelt there and licked the concrete? ðĪĢðĪðĻ
she instead moves on to dog poop. she angrily denies that her dog poops.
i also angrily shoot back i have it on video.
guess what happens next:
she angrily stomps her foot on the ground and repeatedly goes, "bakit, nandito pa ba 'yung ta_?! nandiyan pa ba?! nandiyan pa ba 'yung ta_?!"
- why, is the poop still here?! is it still there?! is the poop still there?!
aaaarrrgggghhhhh!!!
she was the one who brought up poop! if she wants to get mad about sonething she herself raised, then do it on her own time, not mine.
the neighbor was jumping from topic to topic and even agonized about things that have yet to materialize. pleasssseeee!
for ten years you could not even handle the present and here you are making a problem out of things that you simply imagine could possibly arise?
grrrr!!! i'm not interested in your ramblings about the what ifs! conserve your brainpower for the what is! don't put too much on your plate, you can't handle the load!
the apple does not fall far from the tree. similar experiences i had with this neighbor's mom come to mind.
the neighbor's mom once accused me of doing something i did not do.
she even said she told her cousin and her friends and they were all appalled.
she was insistent i did it.
i was insistent i did not.
to settle the matter, i asked for a reenactment.
guess what, two of them, she and her maid, attempting separately several times, could not execute what she was saying i did. the physical environment simply would not allow it.
did she go back to her cousin and her friends to retract her falsehood?
i don't think so.
another time, our family came from lunch and on the way home my mom decided to visit someone in the hospital. we were just supposed to wait for my mom in the car but at the last minute she told me and my sister-in-law to go with her so we did.
the aftermath?
the neighbor's mom imputed all sorts of imaginary bad intentions about our presence in the hospital!
again, she did not keep it to herself. she spread it to her friends. she even sent a message about what she and her friends think about it.
i asked my mom to inform the neighbor about what actually transpired.
having known the truth, did she go back to her friends and tell them she was wrong?
i doubt it.
these people have wasted too much of my time. next time they have these flights of imagination, spare me. make them talk to their clique, to a psychiatrist, to the man on the moon.
