Who Are the People in the Neighborhood? (Tony)

Tony was the most dislikable person on Insane Lane for many reasons. I should like to discuss them one by one and give you examples.

Tony was extremely intrusive. My husband and I liked to have breakfast on the porch in the morning. Tony would walk out of his unit and begin talking and talking. He never asked if you wanted him there or not. You just couldn't get rid of him. He didn't work and had all the time in the world just to talk. He discussed nonsense. It was only later on that we realized that this foolish talk was reserved for us. The big deals were made somewhere else. In the evening, Tony enjoyed standing on our porch and looking into our unit, especially on Friday night, to see what we were eating for dinner!!!!

Tony was a con-man. When I first met him at the pool, he tried to sell me binders for students to organize their work. He wouldn't shut up about them. It was only when I sent him to my hubby, who sent him to someone else, that Tony got off our backs!!! His wife claimed to be an artist and on Sunday nights, right before we were ready to leave, he would tell us that we were invited into his unit for dessert. He wouldn't take, NO, for an answer. It was then that he and his wife tried to sell us some of their ceramic pieces. To shut them up, we purchased a giraffe. We took that back to our house. Then he coned us into buying another piece that we left in the unit. It was that bad!!!! He was very angry that we didn't take it home with us to show our friends. He would have liked more people to con.

He was also a troublemaker. He liked to pit people against each other by telling them that each said something bad about the other. Once he told Millie that my hubby had said something bad about her. She didn't speak to him for a summer and we never knew why until years later.

It also bothered him that we went to restaurants. After a while, I stopped speaking to him. My hubby didn't. He tried to start many fights between us both. He failed miserably.

When the time came for him to move and he asked me if I would miss him, I laughed and said, "YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING!!!!" He didn't like that at all.

As I said at the beginning of this post, Tony talked to us about nonsense. But, in my next post, I will tell you about Tony and the Assessments!!!!