The DU Lounge

Because our town faces Manhattan and has fabulous views of the skyline. They have had to pay huge court judgments for it.

My place has a stunning skyline view from both my windows and also my pool, which is built into the side of a mountain. My neighbor two streets up has a room at the back of his house that he likes to look from, but my trees covered the view. He came to my house and asked if he paid for the tree trimming, would I mind? We had allowed him to do tree trimming of our trees once before, only the RG handled it. This time I did.

This neighbor wined and dined me, gave me gift cards for substantial amounts, and one night he invited me over to see the fabulous view the tree-trimming had allowed. BTW, he hired an expert tree trimmer who trimmed only a small amount, just what was necessary. The night he invited me over, he had put out quite a culinary spread and we talked for a few hours, finding out that we both patronized a particular Manhattan establishment at the same time decades ago. We just never met up with each other until the tree thing.

He's a very friendly, person. An author. He gave me a signed copy of his last book, which I very much enjoyed.

So it doesn't have to be this way, Mr. Jacoby.