There have been several threads on keeping your preps secret from your neighbors, or HOW to reach out to neighbors to develop a mutual assistance group, etc... Here's a recent neighbor interaction I had to share... 
Purely for entertainment value.
Background, I've got a bunch of awesome neighbors, some of which are openly leftist or koolaid drinking liberals. I don't normally get too political on social media, because we live in a fairly liberal area. Our neighborhood leans more conservative, but in general, it's always a good tactic to keep a low profile on the political front in our area (at least, that's been my experience). Though I've tried over the years to keep a low profile, this past year I could not sit idly by while I saw our country falling to leftists (and socialism). I made several social media posts denouncing the corrupt media, and supporting gun rights, etc.. I have one neighbor (across the street), who I like and am friendly with, but she IS that liberal loonie that insists on rebutting every point I make on social media. She chimes in and signals her virtues for all to see, and showcases how much smarter she is than me. Stuff she'd never say in person. We'll call her Monica. That's the background...
A couple nights ago, I was in our backyard and speaking to our next door neighbors. These folks have been neighbors for 10+ years, and are very mild mannered. stay at home mom, husband works some sales job, and a couple cute kids. We've always been very friendly with these neighbors, but never overly social (they don't drink - devoutly religious, and the hubby has some meat allergy, which makes our weekend meaty BBQ's kinda weird for them). They've tended to stay to themselves. The wife, who is from Alabama (with as southern an accent as you can imagine) is petite and quiet. We'll call these guys Angelina and Brad (for anonymity sake).
B&A were chatting about life, and Angelina gets real close to me and whispers "wow, Monica sure has a loud mouth" referring to Monica's propensity to chime in every time I post about patriotic stuff over the years. Then Angelina says, "I'm sure she's one of them socialists".. lol Now, I'm dying inside. Thinking, 'where the hell did all this come from'... Angelina then references a recent FB discussion I posted in, denouncing a couple of local election candidates who were openly promoting socialism and critical race theory. I didn't know about these candidates prior to this FB thread, but Angelina quickly informs me that the School Board and Town Council have been infiltrated by commies lately... She thanked me for speaking up, and said that people are starting to wake up. In her sweetest southern voice, she said "Us conservatives usually live and let live. We don't go around pushing our views on others, and we're usually pretty quiet, but there's a lot of momma bears who are waking up and starting to roar... Don't mess with the momma bears"... lol. Then she says "the only way for evil to triumph is for good people to keep quiet". I honestly got choked up at this, and was never so proud of my neighbors than at this moment... Who knew...
Now, onto the funny part:
She explains that they've been stocking up on food for a couple years, and really ramped up things during the unrest of 2020. Angelina explained that if it "gets crazy", they'd have extra food they could share with our family... I politely inquired how much food they had stocked ("enough" means different things to different people), and they both sheepishly ignored the question and said, "well, you've got the guns (you can protect us), so we have food". I didn't share anything about my preps, only to tell them I promised I wouldn't need to come knocking on their door, and maybe they could share with Monica across the street... they both laughed...
Purely for entertainment value.Background, I've got a bunch of awesome neighbors, some of which are openly leftist or koolaid drinking liberals. I don't normally get too political on social media, because we live in a fairly liberal area. Our neighborhood leans more conservative, but in general, it's always a good tactic to keep a low profile on the political front in our area (at least, that's been my experience). Though I've tried over the years to keep a low profile, this past year I could not sit idly by while I saw our country falling to leftists (and socialism). I made several social media posts denouncing the corrupt media, and supporting gun rights, etc.. I have one neighbor (across the street), who I like and am friendly with, but she IS that liberal loonie that insists on rebutting every point I make on social media. She chimes in and signals her virtues for all to see, and showcases how much smarter she is than me. Stuff she'd never say in person. We'll call her Monica. That's the background...
A couple nights ago, I was in our backyard and speaking to our next door neighbors. These folks have been neighbors for 10+ years, and are very mild mannered. stay at home mom, husband works some sales job, and a couple cute kids. We've always been very friendly with these neighbors, but never overly social (they don't drink - devoutly religious, and the hubby has some meat allergy, which makes our weekend meaty BBQ's kinda weird for them). They've tended to stay to themselves. The wife, who is from Alabama (with as southern an accent as you can imagine) is petite and quiet. We'll call these guys Angelina and Brad (for anonymity sake).
B&A were chatting about life, and Angelina gets real close to me and whispers "wow, Monica sure has a loud mouth" referring to Monica's propensity to chime in every time I post about patriotic stuff over the years. Then Angelina says, "I'm sure she's one of them socialists".. lol Now, I'm dying inside. Thinking, 'where the hell did all this come from'... Angelina then references a recent FB discussion I posted in, denouncing a couple of local election candidates who were openly promoting socialism and critical race theory. I didn't know about these candidates prior to this FB thread, but Angelina quickly informs me that the School Board and Town Council have been infiltrated by commies lately... She thanked me for speaking up, and said that people are starting to wake up. In her sweetest southern voice, she said "Us conservatives usually live and let live. We don't go around pushing our views on others, and we're usually pretty quiet, but there's a lot of momma bears who are waking up and starting to roar... Don't mess with the momma bears"... lol. Then she says "the only way for evil to triumph is for good people to keep quiet". I honestly got choked up at this, and was never so proud of my neighbors than at this moment... Who knew...
Now, onto the funny part:
She explains that they've been stocking up on food for a couple years, and really ramped up things during the unrest of 2020. Angelina explained that if it "gets crazy", they'd have extra food they could share with our family... I politely inquired how much food they had stocked ("enough" means different things to different people), and they both sheepishly ignored the question and said, "well, you've got the guns (you can protect us), so we have food". I didn't share anything about my preps, only to tell them I promised I wouldn't need to come knocking on their door, and maybe they could share with Monica across the street... they both laughed...
