R and AskReddit:

Who has strange neighbors, tell what your neighbors did strange or evil?

Mewnir :

I had a widow neighbor of eighty years or older.

Every time I picked up a newspaper from the mailbox I received, I found a crossword in it that I had already figured out (I don’t tell them and I’m indifferent to them).

One day, I decided to catch someone who is guessing my crosswords. Day one: 8 in the morning, the crossword has already been solved. Day two: 7:30 in the morning, the crossword has already been solved. Day three: 7 in the morning, the crossword has already been solved. I decided to surrender.

Once I came home from a party at 4 a.m. and, passing past the mailbox before the mail was delivered, put my GoPro in it and went to sleep. The next day, I finally got him! It was my neighbor, he guessed the crossword right on the mailbox in about 10 minutes (I’ll try to find the video, but he was funny on it – periodically looking at my door, scratching my head).

The next day I bought a collection of a thousand crosswords, put it at his door, called the phone and hid in my car. After a while, he opened the door and saw the collection. I swear, he was absolutely happy, like a child who was given a puppy. He spent two hours on his doorstep, guessing crosswords, and then fell asleep.

The next day, when I was coming back from work, he approached me to apologize (like a guilty child who needed to confess something) and brought some cookie. We talked about how he served during World War II, about how the world changed.

I often bought him crossword collections until he died a year ago.

Let him rest in peace.