Shithead neighbor is a boomer retired GI of some sort. He married a woman from a poor village in an extremely rural part of Thailand and brought her back here. She is 35-40, he is 65 at least.

He refuses to cook. He refuses to clean. He refuses to raise their child. He won’t mow his yard. He tries to get his wife to do it and if I happen to see her mowing I will go do it if I have time.

I think he married someone who was a tad naive about marriage. Or maybe a tad naive about marriage to an American GI. I think he intentionally brought someone from a far away land so she would be dependent upon him for everything.

She’s a really good person, not that that matters I guess. We shoot the shit over the back fence until he invariably comes outside to shoo her inside the house. She has brought me cuttings of succulents. She has come over unexpected and brought me dinner for no reason. Sometimes she comes over and we sit on the tailgate of my truck and talk for a while when he is gone. I fix their plumbing issues for free because she is a great neighbor and a good person. Their daughter and my daughter are a few years apart but are fairly good friends and sit on the same bus seats together to school in the mornings.

The whole thing is really fucked up and I think he’s a terrible human being, and a garbage neighbor. Fuck you Bryan.

ETA - this was brought about by an interaction I had with him today. They’ve been my neighbors since right before COVID lockdowns started.

Also, she is opening a Thai restaurant and I can’t fucking wait to eat some more of the food she cooks.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    I can only hope he has the dietary habits of a typical 60-something ex-GI, his heart explodes in the next couple years and she can take his money.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    13·
    4 days ago

    I hope you’re in a state that gives a safety net to spouses who may not be properly provided in a will and, uh… You know.

    • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      If it’s the state that I think it is, everyone gets one free murder, provided you can frame it as a “stand your ground” situation. Two if you’re a woman. But I think us-foreign-policy applies.

  • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    I think he intentionally brought someone from a far away land so she would be dependent upon him for everything.

    It’s this. In another life, I knew an Air Force guy whose wife had come over from Russia; this wasn’t quite in the immediate aftermath of the USSR dissolving – about 8 years too late for that – but I’m guessing she must have been desperate to get the fuck out of Dodge if she married this chode for a green card. The guy was both illiterate and colorblind, yet somehow a recruiter got him into a technician job that involved working around and maintaining aircraft wiring.

    At any rate, the woman didn’t speak very much English, and he would try to boss her around and then get flustered when she would have no idea what the hell he was saying. So he would repeat himself more loudly, still without whatever result he was expecting. Finally, he would repeat himself again while doing a terrible Boris Badenov-esque Russian accent, which usually pissed her off so much that she would leave the room and pretend to do housework just to shut him the hell up.

    I sometimes wonder what happened to those kids. I hope she made it out in one piece.

  • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    I think he married someone who was a tad naive about marriage. Or maybe a tad naive about marriage to an American GI. I think he intentionally brought someone from a far away land so she would be dependent upon him for everything.

    I guess maybe it goes without saying from the “extremely poor village in Thailand” part but there’s also the common thing with mail-order brides that their captors have a lot of money compared to anything available to them at home and there’s at least a perception of being in a safer environment as well (though obviously the sort of men who do this are usually not that safe to be around, especially if they view you as effectively their slave like this guy does).

    Anyway, it’s a horrible situation and I’m glad that you’re helping her stay sane. Hopefully he falls sick and dies, or maybe takes one of his army buddies to a shooting range and

  • Athena5898 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Soo…my friend is really into posions and the history involved there. In case that is ever needed. They have a mini library on the subject.

    At least she isn’t as isolated with you around.