Ok, I am getting old...What is Wrong with People?

Ok, this is how Dan and I feel today..... after being up from 4:06 am and on this morning, thanks to our neighbour's son. So, remember while reading this that we
have had this happen to us twice now. It is the middle of the night,
and we are cozy in bed. Peacefully. Until all of a sudden Kia starts
barking her low gutteral someone is in the yard bark. Dan bolts straight out of bed. There are lights shining in the window. It is a cab! Dan yells "not again", and flies down the stairs. I hear the screen door open down stairs and I hear him scream: I can see you! Pay for your (insert profanity here!) CAB!!! He sees 2 dark figures running through the bush towards the neigbours. One is falling down (drunk) and the other is a girl screaming for her partner in crime to hurry up! Dan then goes and gets his shoes and tells the cab driver that the 2 girls he just drove here who ran up a $100 cab fare coming the 40+ minutes from town, just darted through our our backyard going towards the neighbours and they are not our children. So, the cabbie proceeds to swear and goes flying out of the driveway towards the neigbours house, where it is all dark! He then drives up and down trying not to wake up anyone else but wanting to find the girls and wring their necks. About a half an hour later of listening to Dan rant and pace up and down, we realize how dumb these kids are. (When this happened in September, it was dark and we had no idea where they went, or in what direction, because we were alseep and confused when the cab driver started pounding on our door. He was screaming about our daughter ripping him off, and you know the rest of the story!) Well, it is not September, and bless Thunder Bay, there is some snow on the ground, and we can follow their tracks in the morning! Suddenly, a car goes flying out of the neigbours yard, after shining their highbeams into our bedroom window. (Which is very unusual as our neighbours tend to work evening or night shifts). Well, we are up for the day. Dan proceeds to go downstairs and watch the NBA Freshman all-star basketball game he taped the night before and then he heads to the barn to do chores. I lied there cursing teenagers and the fact that before we moved here this summer, our nearest neighbour was 1/2 km away and we had some peace and quiet. I swear that my son will not be disrespectful of others and over my dead body will he be having friends pop by at 4 am! (Let's revisit this post in 17 years and see if my predictions ring true!)

Needless to say, we did follow the tracks at first light this morning. Directly from our place to the neighbours back door. I called the neighbour this morning. She was oblivious. All she knew is her son had 2 girls over in the night, and she said she had no control over what her son did after she went to bed. I told her this was the second time, and she was a little confused. She had no idea that the kids were being dropped here, waking us up or the poor cabbie losing his fare.
She promises she will get to the bottom of it, and swears it won't happen again... "but, if it does, to call and she will deal with it". Good thing Dan didn't have shoes at the back door or he would have DEALT WITH IT!!!

Either Dan and I are getting old, or we were brought up with some respect and common sense. (Amen to both!!!)