short man syndrome

When we first moved over here, almost exactly 4 years ago, the first Sunday we were at our new to us house (in town) DH was out doing what he does - cleaning up and making stuff look nice. We had an alley behind our house. On the other side of the alley was a building for a local county office (they did not use the alley for anything) and one house. So, 2 lots. DH was out in the alley mowing down the foot tall weeds and then realizing in all the weeds, mostly on each side of alley was left a bunch of junk. Old boards, pieces of metal, etc. The doors to the shop on our lot sat right on the edge of the alley.  We could barely get back there to use it! The older lady who lived in the house got in her car, slowly drove down the alley, doesn't even come to a stop as she says to DH "can I help you?" Dh says well...no...I just moved in to this house here and am just cleaning up the alley". She was snooty and snotty. (about a year later she ended up moving to her daughters and the house has been empty ever since)

2 days later the head sheriff and undersheriff show up saying they got a call of a suspicious person on "her" property. DH was like I wasn't on her property in any way shape or form. I was in the alley right of way mowing weeds down and cleaning up all the crap apparently dumped there for years. Head sheriff was a total #*#@head. He even wanted to run dh's drivers license (dh should have told him to come back with a warrant). DH was just extremely cooperative. I mean we just moved in a week before, we didn't want to alienate anyone! We also knew (that he didn't know we knew) that he was (at the time) good friends with our current neighbor here at our new house and dh kinda played dumb and said ya we  just moved in and we also bought a piece of property -  next door to so and so's..and his tune instantly changed. I then said do you need my driver's license too? He says no. Then says to dh "well, you have a pretty wife, I guess you are ok..". I was like where are we? Mayberry? LOL

About a month or so later, just before Thanksgiving, snotty lady neighbor has her brother and nephew (or someone like that) show up in a pickup and they proceed to start picking up all the CRAP on her side of the alley. OMG! There was so much crap in the 2 foot high weeds! It took them like 3 truckloads to get it all out of there. One of the items was a dead coyote carcass! Apparently for years and years the edge of the alley, just over her fence (another reason dh was not on her property - she had a fence!) was her deceased husbands dumping grounds.

#*#@head resigned from being sheriff a year later. Now he's a security guard (what he was before he was sheriff of this big county of 4000 people). We met him one more time, at a friends bbq. He was a pompous #*#@head then, too.

Today, dh is outside all day working in the yard and hears this very close, extremely rapid and loud popping noise from across the road. Our dogs (inside) freaked and neighbors dogs (outside) freaked. At first he thought it was someone firing a 22 on auto (or something like that - I don't know gun terminology). Then he thought, who would do that? it's still fire season here as well as bow hunting season just started. Who's going to be out shooting their gun like that with bow hunters out and about? (well, only#*#@head's would) His next thought 2 seconds later was boy, it really sounded like fireworks, more than a gun. Plus, none of the dogs usually react to gunshots at all. And with all the craziness going on in our country, who knows what some idiot(s) would do. He gets in our car and drives over across and down this dirt road, (all state land) where he heard it coming from. Someone was driving out in an old truck. DH of course couldn't see who it was, nor did he even know if this is the person causing the fireworks noise. It's about one lane road, so dh stops in front and walks up to his truck (his gun on his belt) and starts to ask hey, was that you doing fireworks and sees it's our ex-sheriff and his wife. And say oh, (insert name), hi, I was concerned someone was shooting off fireworks over here and could start a fire. #*#@head says "do you think I would start a fire?" DH says well, of course not, but how was I to know it was you over here?? 

Then he snarkily tells dh it was a 22. DH says the whole time his wife is sitting there giggling (these are people our age). DH say oh, ok then - with all the craziness going on everywhere I was just looking out for my neighborhood and community. #*#@head says "where are you from?" (he knows who DH is, of course it's his way of saying you don't belong to this community). By then DH has had enough of this jerk (he had enough of him 4 years ago) and says I'm from here, where are you from?. Then he says something about dh having a gun. And dh say "ya? who doesn't around here?" and he says well, you don't usually carry. Dh was thinking to himself how would this guy I've only seen twice before in the last 4 years know what I do? DH says that's because I have a conceal carry license, so most of the time I'm concealed. #*#@head says well, you aren't now. DH says I don't have to. It's an open carry state. Then #*#@head says, "well if you didn't like that you aren't going to like what's coming".

This guy is bizarre. So bizarre that our neighbor told us quite awhile ago he stopped being friends with him. They used to hunt together, mostly for wild turkeys. They didn't socialize in any other way because Mrs. Neighbor has never liked him. Why? because he's a#*#@head. "He has short man syndrome", she always says. Neighbor said that (after being hunting friends for quite a few years) this guy tried to kiss him two different times! We were like "he did not! you're joking!" He said no, I'm totally serious and the only other person I've told about this is my wife. He said he just started telling #*#@head he's busy and then stopped returning his calls a couple years ago.  DH and I gave each other one of those husband and wife looks (LOL) and neighbor says what? We told him about this strange conversation we had just a couple months before overheard with #*#@head and his brother, while we were at that friends bbq. #*#@head's brother was teasing his own adult son about some sandals he was wearing. Dad told son they look kinda "gay". #*#@head then says to his brother (totally serious) "well what if he was gay?" Father and son are just sitting there looking at him like he's crazy (because son is about to get married in a few months LOL). Father says well, he's not.  #*#@head says again "well, what if he was?". Father again says well, he's not, but I guess if he was, then that's what he is. But his sandals still look girly LOL.  We told neighbor it was just a strange conversation to sit there and listen to, especially as #*#@head always tries to come across as this macho #*#@head. Neighbor says well, I think he must be secretly gay or something, but I'm not kissing him!