My new neighbor is very clever.

[MineralMan]

12. I like kids. I know the parents of all those kids,

at least on a wave as we get the paper or mail level. I'm here all day, since I work at home, and people know I'm handy at fixing stuff and have all the tools. So, I've been fixing bikes and skateboards since about a year after I moved in. These kids parents are at work, and the kids in the neighborhood know they can ring our doorbell and either my wife or I will do what we can to help. I also have bandaged some skinned elbows and knees, and chased off some mean dogs who were harassing kids. I guess I'm the old geezer in the neighborhood who fixes stuff and never gets annoyed by kids making noise. There was an old guy like that in the neighborhood I grew up in. Caught him working in his garage once, and he stopped and made me a cool rubber band gun from a clothespin and a piece of wood cut on his bandsaw to look like a gun. His name was Mike Lighty. We all knew him.