Now I am pissed

[SeaCat]

Recently I planted several Rose Bushes and they are doing well. All of them have plenty of roses. Also in my yard are several other flowering plants including a large number of Purple Falls. In other words the yard looks nice.

This evening we had sat down to dinner. Hell we were enjoying the hell out of home made Chicken Parm. I was about halfway through dinner when I heard something tap against the outside of the trailer. I turned and looked out the window but didn't see anything. When I heard it again I looked and this time I saw something. That something was an older guy alongside the trailer. Curious but not alarmed I sat there watching and before long he stood up and started walking away. In his arms were a bunch of roses.

I got up and stepped outside to find my bushes stripped and destroyed. I followed him down the street and watched as he walked up to a beautiful trailer with plenty of flowers in the yard. He not only walked up to the trailer but went inside so I knew he lived there.

Fuming I walked up and knocked on the door. When he opened the door, with flowers still in his hands I asked him what in the hell he thought he was doing cutting my flowers when his yard was loaded with them. He just looked at me and said that his yard wouldn't be loaded with them if he cut them.

I smiled and told him that was fine. He was welcome to the flowers as I had several pictures of him cutting my flowers and wold be showing them not only to the police and the Park Managment but to my neighbors as well. Oh he flipped out when he heard that.

How dare I take pictures of him? How dare I even think of calling the police on him? He was almost in tears as he went back inside and quickly returned with four $50.00 bills.

Yes I called the police and yes they did show up and talk with both of us. I told the police I didn't want him arrested if he was willing to pay for the plants, and if he stayed off my lot. He readily agreed.

So tomorrow I'll be out planting flowers again, and $200.00 will buy a lot of Rose Bushes.

Cat

 

[kimbalee]

Argh! What the hell is wrong with him? I would have been just as pissed as you were. I am at a total loss as to why this is acceptable behavior in his mind. He could have bought a ton of cut flowers for that $200 and not have been an ass about it. And to do it while you were home, and give you attitude too??? Supremely stupid. No damn wonder you are pissed.

 

[starrkers]

Some people! Amazing.

 

[Stella_Omega]

"I'm innocent until you prove me guilty!"

Oh. Uh-oh. Ooooops....

"I'm innocent once I've paid you off!'

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The unmitigated nerve! I happily let neighbors pick kumquats out of my front yard, nip off some Kieffer lime leaves, whatever, but I insist that they at least have the courtesy to ask first. Jeez, some people.

 

[rgraham666]

Humans.

 

[jomar]

Two questions.

Was alcohol involved and did he have on a wife beater?

 

[lisa123414]

Yeah, yeah, alright, but get to the important part - how did you cook the chicken parm? Fried or baked it first? Did you refrigerate it after you coated the chicken so the coating would set? Breasts or thighs?

 

[jomar]

Yeah, yeah, alright, but get to the important part - how did you cook the chicken parm? Fried or baked it first? Did you refrigerate it after you coated the chicken so the coating would set? Breasts or thighs?

Ohh, I like when you talk sexy.

 

[lisa123414]

b r e a s t s.....


t h i g h s....

beat the eggs

dip the pieces

s a u t e ...


in olive oil

 

[SeaCat]

The thing that gets to me was how his yard is filled with flowering plants including Roses. What in the Eight Names of Hell would posses him to do this? He left my plants cut to ribbons. He completely destroyed the five I planted last week and the five I planted two weeks prior to that.

Cat

 

[TE999]

Given that behavior pattern and the subsequent 'conversation', I figger he's gonna be moving soon; either to the Laughing Academy or The Old Folks Home.

Can you say 'senility'?

Either that or he's impossibly stupid.

 

[SeaCat]

Yeah, yeah, alright, but get to the important part - how did you cook the chicken parm? Fried or baked it first? Did you refrigerate it after you coated the chicken so the coating would set? Breasts or thighs?

Hammer the chicken flat and thin. Dip in flour, dip in beaten egg mixed with Garlic. Dip in bread crumbs. Again dip in egg and crumbs then set on wax paper. Place in fridge for an hour.

Add a bit of Olive Oil to a fry pan and heat until the oil is just starting to smoke. Add the chicken and cook to a golden brown. While you are waiting on the chicken to chill make your sauce.

In a Fry Pan add Crushed Garlic, Minced Onion and a bit of Olive Oil. Cook until the Onion is just turning. Add Crushed Tomatoes and Tomatoe Paste along with a bit of Salt, Basil, Oregano and Crushed Chili. Add a cup of Red Wine and simmer until it thickens.

In a Baking Dish add half the sauce. Place the fried Chicken on top of the sauce then cover with the rest of the sauce. Top with fresh Grated Parmesan and thin sliced Mozzarela. Bake in the oven at 350 until the cheese is melted and just starting to turn.

Now to accompany this I boiled a bit of Angel Hair Pasta in a pot of water with a touch of Olive Oil and a couple of bulbs worth grated Garlic.

Dinner was the Parm with the Pasta on the side and covered in the left over sauce.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

Given that behavior pattern and the subsequent 'conversation', I figger he's gonna be moving soon; either to the Laughing Academy or The Old Folks Home.

Can you say 'senility'?

Either that or he's impossibly stupid.

Possibly either of the above. Personally I think he is just one of these people who have pretty much gotten away with what ever they want because people are scared of their reactions and now thinks he can do what ever he wants when ever he wants.


Cat

 

[TE999]

Possibly either of the above. Personally I think he is just one of these people who have pretty much gotten away with what ever they want because people are scared of their reactions and now thinks he can do what ever he wants when ever he wants.


Cat

Maybe, but that's not 'normal' or rational behavior.

And then to say he didn't want to cut his own flowers?

He's a Looney Tune's -- get the white sports coat with the belted sleeves!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

$200, huh? Sounds like a bullshot story.

 

[Guest]

Possibly either of the above. Personally I think he is just one of these people who have pretty much gotten away with what ever they want because people are scared of their reactions and now thinks he can do what ever he wants when ever he wants.


Cat

Those would be my thoughts.

What an arrogant fool.

Very wise of you to get pictures and to call the police.

That will probably prevent it from happening again, at least in your neighborhood.

 

[SeaCat]

$200, huh? Sounds like a bullshot story.

Bullshot? What is this Bullshot you speak of? I know about Bullshit and I know about Bulls Snot but I have never heard of Bullshot. Is this some new word designed to confuse us less literary than you? Or is it a term created to confuse those of us who don't live in the private enclaves?

Cat

 

[starrkers]

The other possible motive is he doesn't want anyone else's yard to look better than his and he was working on discouraging you from further horticultural endeavour.

 

[SeaCat]

The other possible motive is he doesn't want anyone else's yard to look better than his and he was working on discouraging you from further horticultural endeavour.

Possible but it didn't work. I spent much of the morning digging out the damaged plants and replacing them.

Cat

 

[WRJames]

Oh -- I wish I could get the deer that eat my plants to pay up like that!

 

[SeaCat]

Oh -- I wish I could get the deer that eat my plants to pay up like that!

Well I suppose you could get a couple of bucks from it if you followed them home. (They don't normaly have pockets.)

Cat

 

[Weird Harold]

Oh -- I wish I could get the deer that eat my plants to pay up like that!

Deer usually only pay up in steaks, chops and roasts -- and then only if you can distract the game warden for a while.

 

[cloudy]

We have a pear tree in the backyard that only has fruit every other year, but when it does.....the branches get so overloaded with pears that they literally touch the ground.

I beg my neighbors to come get some pears. As many as they want, and as often as they want.

 

[DesertPirate]

We have a pear tree in the backyard that only has fruit every other year, but when it does.....the branches get so overloaded with pears that they literally touch the ground.

I beg my neighbors to come get some pears. As many as they want, and as often as they want.

Had some apricot and cherry trees like that at the folks when I was a kid.
I bet we had enough of each to make 5 families sick of them.