Darren is the worst neighbor

So I'm sitting on my couch catching up on what I PVR'd and I end up watching George Carlins final performance (It's Bad For Ya!) before his death.

Now for the uninitiated; George Carlin's comedy is blue and rude and unapologetic with plenty of expletives and it was while viewing this that a neighbor knocks on my door. 

I press pause and go to open the door.

The neighbor apologizes profusely and (doesn't complain about the volume) but says that some kids that play in the yard could overhear the content and perhaps it’s inappropriate. I was gob smacked. I'm being asked by a neighbor I barely know to censor what I watch and listen to in the privacy of my own home!

Now I could have said sure I'll do something and maybe lower the volume to a whisper and close the windows and draw the curtains on a balmy 28 deg/C summers afternoon in Durban. I might actually have done that except for three things:

1. This person hadn't asked me to change the Volume - He had asked me to change the content! Now, I’m not a big fan of censorship. Not from government, not from organizations and not from the guy next door. This does not sit well with me as anyone who has written in to ask me to avoid writing comedy about their personal sacred cow can attest to.

2. I'm an hour into watching one of the most caustic, vicious and unashamedly vulgar comedians every to grace the face of this planet and unfortunately some of it rubs off.

3. This was the owner of the unit who's friend from Jhb had parked my car in - forcing me to abandon The Amashova..!

With these 3 strong and justified mitigating circumstances, what I did next did not contribute towards great neighborly relations...

I said; "Hang on, let me see..."
And left the door open, went back inside and pressed un-pause on the remote control.

The timing of what played when I pressed play was the kind of comedic timing that George Carlin himself would have been proud of.

Pause.

And as I closed the door to the already departing neighbor, it was George's last piece of advice that I should perhaps I should have headed.

I don't think I'm going to be borrowing any sugar from my Neighbor anytime soon!