One house back ......

How do you describe your neighbors that you don't know? For example we have the "professors", the "blind people", the "gardeners", the "retirees", etc. you get my drift. Anyway, last Saturday an ambulance and a fire truck came down our street lites, sirens the whole works, about a mile past our house they stopped. On Sunday the husband and I are going to breakfast and as we drive past the house I say "thats where the ambulance and fire truck were I wonder what happened"?

He says: Which house?

Me: One house back from the "Stop" house. (the people in the "stop" house live at the corner with the stop sign and put up crazy signs during the Holidays etc. reminding people to STOP.)

Husband: The "Tin roof" house?

Me: No, other side of "tin roof" house! I told you, one house back from "stop" house.

Husband: Thats two houses, The "stop" house is 1, "tin roof" 2 then "ambulance" house, which is actually the 3rd house from the corner.

Me: No its not. You are standing in the yard of the "stop" house, you look back, there is 1 whole house THEN the ambulance house. One house back, which is what I said!

Husband: This is a waste of time, your wrong, what kind of math are you using? 1, 2, 3how much easier can it be? No wonder you have trouble giving directions.

Me: Evidently not banker-math, no wonder people bitch about being over charged. Oh,and the only reason I have problems with directions is because I never can remember which way N,S,E,W is, NOT because I don't know where I'm going. PLUS, when I give people directions to our house I tell them we are "One house back" from the corner, funny how they manage to find our house.
Then I said: I'm putting this in a post and we will find out if "one house back" is correct.

We really don't fight about anything anymore, but he says I exasperate him. So you tell me, is it 3 houses or 1 house back? See diagram below


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"Stop" house "Tin roof" house "Ambulance" House
Sits on corner