a few nights ago money asked me if i’ve been on the neighborhood app recently. truth be told i haven’t switched neighborhoods from our old one, so i found it useless to be on the app, hence my hiatus from it. he said the neighborhood has weird stuff going on at any given time and that i should check it out. today i’m walking btg and a lady raking her leaves stops me and tells me there were 3 gun shots coming from the way i was headed. she said police are investigating and they’ve gotten several calls about it. come to think of it, there were 4 police cars we passed walking 15 minutes up to that point. she said the coast should be clear as it was 20 minutes prior, but she wanted to warn me. i thought it was kind of her as i thanked her and continued on my way. a street over, a lady stops in her kia soul. she rolls down her window and tells me i have a very-well trained dog. i converse from her from the sidewalk as she is still in her car on the street. she has a puppy who is a hunting dog mix and asked for tips in training her how to walk. i told her i wouldn’t mind helping her for the simple fact i love dogs. after a few more minutes of conversing, i relay the message about the gun shots. she tells me it could be some kids on the green way and that if she had to bet, that was where they came from. 40 minutes later, bagel and i finish our walk. i get home a text from money. he sent a screenshot of a post on the neighborhood app. it was about a girl whose dog went missing, only to find out a neighbor stole her dog. bought her dog a new collar and everything. god damn.
what’s up with the neighborhood lately?
-ratha, 4:46pm, 12.27.18