Minding one’s own business doesn’t pay very well.
I’m pretty quiet. I don’t have loud parties, don’t play a radio outside, don’t have a constantly barking dog.
Many of my neighbors do.
I don’t throw trash in my neighbors’ yards — although I may sometimes “return” something that I know is not mine.
My neighbors habitually toss cans, broken things, and sometimes tree limbs into my yard.
I do not vandalize my neighbors’ property.
My neighbors trample my fence, and one has cut my roses to the ground.
What a nice place to live is Sturgeon Bay.
It can’t be envy; I live so far below poverty level that I will never see over the edge. So what is it? Do they hate me because I’m not young and live alone? Is it because I’m not healthy and wealthy?
Is it just because I don’t make a lot of trouble?