ot: the neighborhood busybody

Every neighborhood has at least one person that tells everyone everything about everyone else. They are usually pretty well hated. How do you handle that individual where you live? Do you ignore them? Do you tell them things that will male a fool out of them when they repeat them? Do you try to be friends with them to find out all their juicy gossip. I like to twist everything they say and ask if I heard that right and keep doing that until they quit talking to me out of frustration.

Yesterday that individual was outside smoking a cigarette when I was leaving for work. I pulled up next to him with my diesel truck and dusted him. When the smoke cleared I rolled down the window and said since he liked smoke I thought he would like some more...