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Neighbourly Revenge and Misunderstandings

The man dropped an important piece of paper outside his neighbor's house. The neighbor saw it and wrongly assumed it was done deliberately to mess with his house. Instead of asking the man about it, the neighbor took revenge by dumping trash on the man's porch. This started an escalating feud of revenge acts between the neighbors that grew increasingly ridiculous until their houses were destroyed. When they were recovering together in the hospital, they finally talked and realized it had all been a misunderstanding that could have been avoided with communication from the start. They became friends and worked together to rebuild.

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Neighbourly Revenge and Misunderstandings

The man dropped an important piece of paper outside his neighbor's house. The neighbor saw it and wrongly assumed it was done deliberately to mess with his house. Instead of asking the man about it, the neighbor took revenge by dumping trash on the man's porch. This started an escalating feud of revenge acts between the neighbors that grew increasingly ridiculous until their houses were destroyed. When they were recovering together in the hospital, they finally talked and realized it had all been a misunderstanding that could have been avoided with communication from the start. They became friends and worked together to rebuild.

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  • The Bad Neighbours

The Bad Neighbours

There was once a man who went out to look for a job. As he was passing his neighbour's
house, an important piece of paper fell out of the man's pocket.

His neighbour happened to be looking out the window. He saw the piece of paper fall, and
he thought: "What a disgrace! That guy deliberately let that fall out of his pocket. He's
trying to mess up the front of my house, and he's being sneaky about it, too!"
But instead of going out and saying something, the neighbour planned his revenge.

That night, he took his waste-paper basket and went to the man's house. The first man also
happened to be looking out the window, and saw what happened. Later, when he was
picking up the papers which had been dumped on his porch, he found the important piece
of paper that he had lost. It was torn into dozens of pieces. He thought that his neighbour
had not only picked his pocket, but had had the cheek to mess up his doorway with rubbish.

He didn't want to say anything. Instead, he started plotting his revenge. That night he
phoned a farmer to make an order of ten pigs and a hundred ducks. He asked that they be
delivered to his neighbour's house.

Of course, the next day, his neighbour had quite a bit of trouble trying to rid himself of so
many animals and their accompanying pong.

Sure that this had been a dastardly trick pulled by his neighbour, as soon as the second man
had gotten rid of the pigs and ducks, he again started planning his revenge. They continued
trying to get their own back on each other, and each time their acts of revenge got bigger
and more ridiculous. The dropping of that single piece of paper ended up invoking a rock
band, a fire siren, the driving of a lorry into a garden fence, the throwing of a hail of stones
at windows, the firing of a canon, and finally the dropping of a bomb which destroyed both
men's houses.

Both ended up in a hospital, and had to spend quite some time sharing a room there. At
first they refused to speak to each other, but, one day, tired of the silence, they got to
talking. As time passed, they became friends, until one day they finally dared discuss the
piece of paper incident. They realised that it had all been a misunderstanding, and that if
they had talked to each other on the first occasion - instead of jumping to conclusions about
bad intentions - then none of this would have happened. Even better, they would still have
their houses.

However, in the end, the fact that they were talking, and had become friends, helped them
greatly to recover from their wounds, and to work together to rebuild their houses.

The Bad Neighbours There was once a man who went out to look for a job. A

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