neighbor

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(person) by kessenich (3.1 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:14:26

Neighbors can also be rather nice and even useful. They may sign for and hold your packages for you while you're away, and even return them to you intact. They may help you carry stuff, see that you're hanging a picture straight, cook you dinner, throw good parties, and yes, lend you things. It's best that you return such things promptly.

They can also get really toasted with their friends and maybe pound on their floor (your ceiling) during a game on TV, or hawk up mucuous all the time, or hang themselves. You never know. These have all happened.

Neighbors (things), in a networking context, are routers sharing a common data link. Routers in a distance vector network route by rumor, i.e., from neighbor updates; in link state networks, a router sends link state advertisements (LSAs) to a neighbor and those LSAs are in turn flooded to that router's neighbors.

(thing) by Roland (2.4 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Dec 10 2000 at 16:42:31

Across the hall neighbors...

I've got a friend who has an unusual problem. He gets really worked up because his across the hall neighbor leaves a pair of his shoes in the hall next to his door. It's just an ordinary pair of shoes. I don't think they smell bad or anything; my friend just doesn't like to look at them when he walks by.

Now, I've had neighbors that leave trash in front of their door and I met someone the other day whose neighbor leaves cat food and a smelly pillow outside their door. These things bother me slightly.
But a pair of shoes?
I could probably get past the whole thing if that was all there was to tell. But he got so irritated by the shoes that he actually stole the lace from one of them. Not even a note or a polite confrontation in the hallway, he just steals one of his laces!
I gave him a hard time about it, so he put the lace back beside one of the shoes. The poor guy must not have realized the lace was gone, because the next day the shoes were gone, but the lace was still there.
A few days later another pair of shoes appears outside the neighbor's door and what does my friend do? Swipes another lace.

(fiction) by badme (4.2 d) (print) ? (I like it!) Tue Apr 17 2007 at 2:19:58

It was a suitably brisk morning. Suitable enough for Mrs. Merriweather to get up from bed and make some coffee and breakfast for everyone in the house, as she always did, and not begrudge another moment of sleep. Quite a brisk morning, she thought, as she unrolled the paper by herself before everyone else trampled downstairs. The usual headlines took up the frontpage: bad news all around. Mrs. Merriweather sighed and flipped over to the comics.

Mrs. Merriweather heard her doorbell ring and jumped out of her seat with a tiny gasp. Who could possibly be there, at this hour? She tried to fix her unkempt and unwashed hair quickly, taking five seconds to examine herself in the mirror before walking to the door and looking through the peephole.

A middle-age, middle-class woman of middling height and weight looked back at her through the tiny looking glass. Mrs. Merriweather had never seen her before, but she was oddly familiar, somehow. Mrs. Merriweather opened the door.

"Hello! My name is Mrs. Nelson and I'm pleased as punch to be your neighbor! I just moved in to the house at the end of the block, so I'm walking around and saying hello and seeing everyone and enjoying this beautiful place!"

Merriweather could barely keep up with her. Nelson's words tumbled and rumbled out of her mouth at machine-gun velocity, and she squeaked when she talked. Like a mouse.

"Very...very pleased to meet you, Mrs. Nelson! I'm Mrs. Merriweather."

Mrs. Nelson smiled in response; this had the effect of lighting up the entire bottom-half of her face. She beamed.

"If it isn't too much trouble, Mrs. Merriweather, one thing I told my husband when we unpacked is, I'm going to treat the first people I meet here to a breakfast as a housewarming celebration. You must come along!"

Mrs. Merriweather smiled back, and she looked back into Mrs. Nelson's face and she opened her mouth to say, yes, thank you, I'll wake everyone in the house up, we'd love to come. And then she blinked, and something changed. A shadow dropped on Mrs. Nelson's face, the lines looked deeper behind that smile. Mrs. Merriweather couldn't explain or place it but somehow, she decided right then and there that she hated Mrs. Nelson: hated everything she was and everything she stood for.

Her mouth sharpened into a line. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Nelson, we'd love to, but it's so early and we really can't, no, we simply can't," she said.

Mrs. Nelson's smile faltered a bit, but held. "Aw,ww! Too bad! Well, some other time! I mean it! I'll be stopping by soon to invite you to a wonderful dinner you won't ever forget!" she said. A hand was offered for a shake; Mrs. Merriweather accepted. And Mrs. Nelson walked off, the sun at her back, the sky in her eyes.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:24:05

neigh"bor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Neighbored (?); p. pr. & vb. n Neighboring.]

To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to.

Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore.
Sandys.

To associate intimately with. [Obs.] Shak.

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