No Superman Lately

I got a lot of comments recommending that I be careful of our neighbor who was masquerading as Superman earlier this week.  I guess maybe I should explain a bit more about him. 

He can be rather strange.  He suffered from several things, physically and mentally, after having served this country in Viet Nam.  I know he is on medication.  Most of the time he is rather eccentric, but normal otherwise.  He is friendly to us, talks to Thomas when he's out, asks for help with mechanical or home projects,and offers the same kind of help.  But you can always tell when he's having a "strange" day; when he's feeling a bit off or maybe is off his medication.

Those are the times when he starts talking about someone being out to get him.  Have you ever seen a brick house that is settling, or a brick house that's foundation is maybe not settling "right", and it gets those stair-step lines along a portion of the brick?  Well, he has that on a part of one side of his house, and although we tried to explain to him what it was, he swears up and down that it was some neighborhood boys who made those marks.  He keeps a security camera trained on the street in front of his house (and therefore in front of ours too), and either watches it on his TV or records it.  That's why I say he's a good neighbor to have watch your house if you're gone.

He's extremely intelligent, but not always very bright.  And he does have a rather strange sense of humor, so I'm pretty sure that was just his weird humor asserting itself when he donned the Superman shirt and the beard and glasses.

Anyway, he is a "known" oddity, which is never quite as dangerous as the unknown one.