Did you think
that our estate in this bay side, sleepy, Melburnian village provides us with an
uneventful lifestyle? Well, think again! We’ve had disruptive, horrible party
animals as neighbors for half a year, we have half-naked, littering neighbors,
we have weed-throwing neighbors and we have a self-appointed supervisor – not
me – who patrols the streets of the estate and takes notes of interesting facts
about all the residents which he enters onto a spread sheet. Surprisingly enough, this fact-collecting, potential
blackmailer is a man and not a woman, which shows that women are not the only
ones interested in gossiping.
In our estate, anything you say or do can and will be used against you
Sundays are
usually very slow and this Sunday was especially slow as I am working on an
essay and my family left the house to give me some hours of peace and quiet in
my study room. I was very focused on the topic and being quite productive when
I all of a sudden heard a car revving followed by screaming and shouting
outside our house. My study is on the ground floor and I looked out the windows
but all I saw was a car parked in the middle of the road, I could still hear
the shouting: ”I know you are in there, come out you coward!” as well as what
sounded like loud banging and kicking on a door. A woman in her mid-30’s,
early-40’s emerged from the entrance to the neighbors across the street. Our
friends own the house but they are renting it out to a couple in their 50’s
whom are keeping a very low profile. So low in fact that I have been wondering
if they are really living there, especially the husband who seems to be more of
a frequent visitor. The person shouting insults and accusations out on the
street was angry, nay, she was boiling mad. Hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned. The couple renting our friends’ house came out from the garage to face
the upset woman and she instantly threw herself over the man. He in return
pushed her and she hit him and threw something at him which he threw on her
car. The man’s woman, or perhaps I should specify by saying the woman living in
our friends’ house, got into her car and tried to get away. The scorned woman
then jumped into her car and tried to crash her rival’s ditto but luckily she
came to her senses and the other woman managed to flee. The man quickly
withdrew inside the house and the furious woman ran after him whilst screaming her
thoughts on him and his woman using a very foul language. I could hear the
front door once again being under attack. The closing scene of this little
Sunday spectacle was the woman standing in the middle of the road shouting
loudly for everyone to hear: ”HE’S BEEN CHEATING ON ME FOR TWO YEARS, THE
BASTARD”. She got into her car and sped away at a high speed. I was very
tempted to go knock on the couple’s door to urge the man to remind their
visitor to respect and follow the 20 km/h speed limit but I realized that
perhaps it wasn’t a good time. But if it happens again, be sure that I will be
out there to tell him – even if he is in the middle of a heated argument with
his betrayed wife and his mistress hiding behind him. There are kids playing on
the streets in our estate. So drive carefully! And watch the language!
Sirens and the men they got their vengeance on....
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