Two Angry Old Men

A couple years ago we had a neighbor that dog-sat occasionally for a family member.  It was not often enough that our dogs got used to the other dog, and both Midnight and Oreo would bark like crazy whenever they happened to be in the adjacent yards simultaneously.

Because our house has a walk-out basement, the dogs would be a level beneath the main floor when this occurred and made it cumbersome to stop what you were doing and make the trek downstairs and out the back door to stop the barking.  Alternatively Shawn discovered that if he banged on the upstairs window and yelled down to our dogs they would quit barking and come back inside.

I didn't think much about it until one day I walked in from shopping to find him in this particular scenario.  It was blatantly obvious that the neighbor kids probably consider Shawn "the scary, angry old man who bangs on the window". After this epiphany I fondly began calling him "angry old man".  :)

Last night we hear some banging, and find Gavin pounding on his bedroom window and yelling to someone who was most likely just walking by on the side walk.  I don't know the scenario but I just can't stop laughing.  Shawn goes into the room to see what is going on, as I hear Gavin say though the glass "Are you friends with Tiffany or Marissa?  If you're not you need to get off our grass."  Oh how sweet....two angry old men.