Neighborhood Watch

Like any good God-fearing, family-protecting neighborhood, ours welcomes you with nice signs letting you know not to mess around because we have a neighborhood watch. But, I would venture to say that not all neighborhoods have Neighborhood Watch incarnate. She lives next door and apparently does nothing besides drive around watching. She wears a hat and sunglasses so it's really hard to see how old she is. Throughout the day she'll get in her car and be gone for a few minutes and then come slowly driving home and park her car in her driveway (sometimes she's yelling like crazy when she gets out of the car, sometimes not) and then do it again a few hours later. So strange.

When we were moving in she literally stopped her car in the middle of the road at the end of our driveway to sit and stare at us getting all our stuff out of the cubes and into the house. When I smiled and waved, she just sat there staring at me...so strange. Am I missing some sort of twisted Southern custom or something?

We were telling the story of Neighborhood Watch to another family in the neighborhood who stopped by to say hi, and after some note-comparing, we figured she was the very same lady who every once in a while drives around the neighborhood honking for no reason. Awesome. She also stops in front of this family's house sometimes and watches them! Does she hate kids? Does she hate Utahns? Maybe we should get our license plates changed sooner rather than later... Sorry no pictures, although maybe I shouldn't worry about being a weird neighbor? Anyway, welcome to the neighborhood, eh?