Dear Editor
It seems every neighborhood has one house on its street inhabited what I will term "Driveway Dwellers."
These are folks that have a nice back yard, but for some reason prefer to plan all of their family activities in their driveway with the garage door open. Many readers are chuckling now as they are reading this and they can wholly relate. This species first and foremost have many vehicles travelling to and from the residence and they all make noise. Who knew a minivan came from the factory with dual exhausts that would wake a zombie? Have you ever noticed folks with loud pipes usually never cut off their vehicles when they pull in their driveway but have to let it idle for five minutes or so like it was a good song on the radio? Plus the Matriarch of the Driveway usually gets intoxicated and quite robust in her opinions around 10 p.m. or so and lets the whole street know that this is "her property"(usually a renter). One added bonus is on Sundays when the 4 wheeler races begin. Forget going to the country; let’s race them in a neighborhood with small children riding their bikes.
Roy Bivins
Pace
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Irritated by neighborhood spectacle