This post is about an experience I had within his tiny little "courtroom" in May, when my father and I were supposed to appear in truancy court over the number of absences I've had in one school year. My father is mostly deaf, and so he speaks very loudly just out of habit when talking to us. Obviously, whoever talks to him has to speak either very close to him or loudly. However, throughout the court session, Judge Neighbor repeatedly kept talking to my dad at a normal volume despite being told multiple times to speak to him loudly. Every time my dad sat closer to the judge (with permission given by Neighbor himself at the start of the session), he would grow more irritated. He also seemed to be irritated just by the fact that my dad can't hear, and so every time my dad would ask judge neighbor to repeat whatever he said, he would shout his disbelief, claiming that if he were to ask him to repeat anything more, he would hold him in contempt of court.
Another thing the judge did was pretty much ignore my questions to him and the plaintiff, all while answering questions made by the plaintiff. I'm guessing he was ignoring me only because I'm a teenager, and he only takes the plaintiff's questions seriously because he's older than me. Classic case of ageism you can find anywhere here in Boerne, only because old geriatric MAGA conservatives run the city government and the jobs here. Anyway, this guy should definitely be removed from office or at least reprimanded. We already have enough "isms and ists" in Boerne.
