Busy Stores Mega Rant!

Hello, my pretties.

This is going to be a very intense and rather rant-y post that I think just about everybody anywhere that’s ever been in a busy shopping center or grocery store, at any time ever will be able to connect with.~

Let us begin, shall we?

There seems to be this problem, a problem that when certain people get into stores, they have a mentality that they must group together and become obstacles. It doesn’t matter if it is grocery store, or a store meant for other items like clothes or home repair goods, they’re everywhere! Let’s call these people blockies. Henceforth, the mention of these people will be the utterance of the word ‘blockies’. Blockies are very common lately in a store I frequent, and on January ninth, the problem became noticeably more intense. So intense that I needed to write this.

No matter what time of day, or the day of the week, this place is slowly crawling with blockies, all massing together. The biggest problem, the thing I can never understand is the fact that these people are unable to comprehend the simple request of ‘excuse me’. I’m not even exaggerating when I say that I have counted saying excuse me upwards of 6 times at a raised enough voice that the blockies look up from whatever piece of fruit or other grocery item they’re examining for the tenth time. Now you’re thinking, ‘Okay..they looked up, obviously they’d move out of the way right?’ No. They don’t move, they simply stare for a second or two, sometimes making a face which can be likened with the one made when a loud noise pierces your eardrum, and then go back to staring at said grocery items they were examining.

Not only is there the uncanny ability to gather around fruits and vegetables, when the stockers are in full force, by the way, but the blockies are amazing at forming a walking barricade. Situations like being stuck behind blockies when you wish to immediately get to the other end of the store can be ones where self restraint comes in handy. Without the self restraint which would be able to hold back a raging beast, many times people would end up unlucky and forced out of my way, and inevitably to the concrete floor, as they are walking half that of normal walking speed.  It’s something I’ll never understand. How, and I really want to put strength behind the how..so, HOW can you walk so slow, and not even be over 40, have a limp, or have any crutch like device? I have, many times over, rolled my ankles, had high sprains, have been bitten by a rattlesnake and sometimes the right ankle can just be sore for the heck of it because of the previously mentioned things and guess what? I still manage to walk at least twice as fast as these blockies and that’s not even me walking fast in my own mind.

Now, that’s just a rant on the blockies in this particular store lately, but there are blockies all over and not to mention the ones which bring their spawn. The spawn of blockies has to be the most insufferable and infuriating thing to ever enter a store. The spawn are worse than the blockies in all ways, because not only do they inherit the ability to stand grouped together with others to block aisles and fruit/veggie bins, but they will run throughout multiple aisles, screaming and dodging in front of carts. I am almost to the point of losing count of how many times my shins have been forced to meet the metal bar at the front of the shopping cart.

Somehow, funnily enough, if you almost hit one of these spawn with your cart, or tap them as they run past because you didn’t see them coming around a corner, the parents give you a look as if you just cut out one of their kidneys in the middle of the store. And you know what? I’m to the point of not even caring. Oh, your brat fell down because they are running in a store, which can already barely hold two carts side by side in one aisle? Well! Too bad. I hope maybe they’ll learn to stay out of people’s way when in a crowded store, or to look around the corner before venturing out.

Oh. Here’s another suggestion, teach your spawn to not run in a store, and to say excuse me or sorry when running in front of people who just want their trip to be over with already. These spawn are just the same kind of brats that will go through a Walmart and scream bloody murder. They will scream because mommy decided to put back the random item they selected and then what happens when they scream? These parents just back right down and pull an ‘oh okay, it’s fine; have this thing you wanted, brat.’ That is…me getting off point. But it is another thing that enrages me beyond belief when these people are tugging along a train of children that are all screaming bloody murder over not being able to make a wreck of their path, and then the parents just give in. 

Now, let’s get back to the situation of blockies, eh? We’ve covered the spawn and their ways of destroying my shins, the grouped blockies in grocery stores who just mass together for no reason, and now we shall explore the ‘reunited blockies’. Sound hilarious, doesn’t it? The name is, yes, but the action and the experience certainly isn’t.

Reunited blockies might manage to be the most irritating out of all of these, when put on a scale of how much it gets to me. I’m sure you’ve seen these people, the people that pass each other in the store and suddenly go ‘Oh! You! I haven’t seen you since xyz!’ Somehow at this moment, despite being in a very loud and busy store, this reunion takes place between these people and they will not wait to meet out at the parking lot or possibly trade numbers, no, they will move to the middle or one edge of an (yet again, kind of small) aisle and proceed to cackle and converse. I will be in the store and need to get to some item right behind these blockies, and the thought is constantly in my mind that  this is utterly ridiculous!! How do you stand there and ignore the people giving you dirty looks for blocking them, how do you manage to lose all ability to accomplish courteousness just because you managed to see Debby from highschool fifteen years ago?

I mean, I guess it must be magical, really. But even when seeing someone I hadn’t seen in a long while, someone who had worked at a convenience store, I didn’t block the aisle, I moved my cart aside so I could speak to them for the few seconds they wished to. I didn’t lose the ability to be courteous to more than just one person, I was able to be thoughtful of anyone around. So why can’t these blockies? Why?

All these questions I ask will probably never be able to be answered, and I guess I’ll have to accept that, because I’m sure the people who become blockies don’t even know how they became one themselves. They’ve been stuck in a self-centered world of narcissism and selfishness so long, that the only thing they ever notice is anything to do with them, and how they’d benefit. Because surely, letting someone get to something behind you and interrupting your oh-so-important conversation for one minute, letting someone get to where you were going before you, or letting someone get just one hand on the same stack of produce you were looking at, because they look a bit tired of being there, doesn’t benefit you right then and there, does it?

Or wait..hey blockies and inconsiderate people in stores, how about this? Being just a bit nicer and not thinking about just you can be better in the long run. Heard of karma? I believe what comes around goes right back around and maybe hits just a bit harder when it comes to being thoughtless and selfish, so all of you in stores who are thinking about just you and what you need, listen to the people asking ‘excuse me’ multiple times. It might just do you a big bunch of good in the future. Yeah, I know. You want to get all that produce first, but there’s going to be more after they’re done getting what they need. Just be a smidgeon courteous. Mm’kay?

Thanks for reading everyone! Surprisingly (not) this was actually very fun to write out. ;D

Bloggary with Briana: Page 46

(09-03-14)
Hello!!! 🙂

Today, we’re going to a meeting with a customer to check out everything they have, and the area we’ll be working on, because they want us to install a pet door! ^-^ Because it’s all the way in Pflugerville, I had to wake up at 8:30! Amazingly enough, I set an alarm on my Iheartradio app, and it actually woke me up! So, we got there, we got everything signed, and then I looked for the screws and electronic key but they weren’t there. When we were on our way home, the customer called and was like ‘surprise, they were in the battery compartment!’ which is the one place I did not look. We were already more than halfway home, so we’re just going to do it tomorrow.

We picked up sodas on the way home, and then when we got home, my mom suggested I fix something I had been thinking of for a while! Stuffed bell peppers!

They’re stuffed with some sautéed onions, mixed in with ground up wild game meat, and some rice, all topped with cheese! I steamed the peppers first while the meat was cooking, and then when they were just getting about 50% less rigid, I took them out to cool so I could handle them. I then used a spoon and put in about three spoonfuls of meat before topping that with cheese, and then adding ¼ cup of rice and water into the pan with the meat. After that was done, I filled them to the top, added cheese, and then put the tops on!

My mom sliced several carrots and cooked them in the water the bell peppers were in. They were so sweet, it was amazing! We also served it with two sliced tomatoes each. Upon cutting open the peppers, this is what you see:

Oh, soooo good.

After relaxing a bit, I decided to vlog outside (no I have not uploaded #300 yet, I’m that much of a procrastinator, DON’T WORRY, SOON.)

Here’s my ‘little bit shorter’ hair;

Spikaaay.. But I figured out what I really wish to do with it and showed the idea to my mom.  We should be attacking it sometime soon. 💇

It’s a very pretty sunset, aaannnnd…..

My vlog-bloggerception!

Hehehe. I had to do it. Yes, I was recording! Now this will forever be the inception of Bloggary! Ehehe.

So I was out there for a couple hours, then both my mom and dad came outside. We listened to some music on my radio app, and then the breeze died….so inside we went!  After that, we had a little popcorn and watched TV! I also washed some clothes *gasp*. I had my mom wax my legs, because I had let the hair grow out specifically so the lower legs could be waxed. It was…gross, and painful! We used to wax it quite a bit a couple years ago, though…so I think we deadened some of the nerves attached to the follicles. Hah..woop for ripping out hair! (On the legs) 😂

(09-04-14)
So, we’re set to install the pet door today, and I’ve woken up at about 8:20, and I’m going to actually take a shower this morning. Yay for being clean! 😝

So we arrived around 10:40, and it was very dark around us and back south to home, plus there were a few drops of rain as we were driving up.

  We then got started on opening the packets and getting the wall template placed. I got the template in place and cut through it into the sheetrock and then my dad used his jigsaw to cut through the sheetrock completely. After that, we had to go around the corner to a Home Depot and I went in to get one 2×4 for framing around the hole in the wall!

After all that framing in, we cut out the other side, which was only covered by hardy siding and cardboard sheathing, besides the insulation that was in the wall. We trimmed the space a bit and then finally squeezed the pet door into the hole in the wall. Ta-dah!

I cleaned up and started taking tools back out at around 4:45 while my dad wrote up everything.

Well, we finally left, and then once hitting 183, we found the traffic to absolutely SUCK.

Look at all those cars!

Why? Because the lousy COTA (Circuit of the Americas) race track is hosting an event of Brad Paisley. Okay. That’s fine. We’re getting subway for dindin tonight, so no biggie, riiiight? Wrong. I went into the subway and all they had left was flatbread, one piece of whole wheat, and one of white. Niiiice subway.. Okay flatbred then! Always good to try something new I guess? Then we got sodas and headed home!

Believe it or not, the flatbread(despite not being the best at holding in all the veggies) was quite tasty! We watched some TV and then I just passed out asleep because I had a mega, horrible, wretched headache. I woke up a few hours later, though and put my leftover sandwich away, even though I was just going to end up grabbing them an hour or so later :P. So, I stayed up a little lager <–WHAT? later and then finally just gave in to sleep.

(09-05-14)
Hiiii!!!

It’s Fridaaay yeaah…
And after getting up, I went outside to help get the tools out of the truck and we went to the back for a little bit before I had to go change, because we’re going to the baaaaank. We stopped to refuel the truck first, and there were just some absolute crazies driving around the pumps.

So, we made it to the bank, then made it back home all safe and with sodas! As soon as we got home, it was time for an early dinner of egg sandwich(es)!

Doesn’t that look delicious? Ohhh it was so good. While eating, we watched ridiculousness, which was extremely funny this week. I mean, seriously… So FUNNY. After chillin for a bit, we went outside at the expectation of rain..look! Look at those CLOUDS!

And the look at this one! It’s a cute little pachyderm!

I had this thread on my shirt when I went to sit down…so…I turned it into……………………

A creepy Waluigi mustache! Hey..hey..I mustache you a question…hehehehehe!!!! 😂
 
Okay..-snort- I know, that was sooo lame, but anywaaaays…a little after the hope for the LYING clouds to drop rain died, we went back out

(Look at them…LYING.)
We tried to see if any bats would fly over.. But 0…none…nada. So much sadness…lying clouds, and then THE BATS? How dare they!!!

Haha..anyways, my mom got dough started for donuts, and we watched some TV while it was whipping up. I went outside for a bit with Finn, and we were trying to find any rats who have been hanging around(like they tend to do) when I spotted this big female orb spider. Isn’t she beautiful? I saw her on the wind chime the other day,and actually thought she was dead because she wasn’t moving and was hanging upside down. Needless to say I nearly peed. She moved quick when I touched her leg (don’t try that at home kids!), and she twitched her legs like she was waiting to bite something. So…I left her alone!

We found no rats…maybe we scared them away for good? But anyways…onto donuts!

I worked the dough flat and was allowed to cut it all out! My mom and I worked together to make some awesome donuts…and…here they are!

I ❤ U 🙂

Cute donuts, hmmmn?

We stayed up reeeaaaally late, and that just ends up reinstating my vampiric state o____o

(09-06-14)

Happy SATURDAY!

So, I woke up kind of late, and tonight Drake and Lil Wayne are supposed to be having a rap-off at the COTA…joy. So we’re going to go to the store after having a refreshing snack of sliced cukies and a few tomatoes. It was really good, but we can’t leave right away, because my dad has to ice down his knee.

Okay. We’re going into JD’s. There are an alarmingly high amount of screaming children running around. !*@!#*!@!*@#!!!!! Yes, symbols, exactly. There was this 8 yr old with a tablet, playing games on it, running around, while his sister(?) who was about 5 was chasing him and trying to pull it out of his hands. I don’t know..but I have to ask, how many of you just want to stick your leg out and trip one of them irritating children? Because..I..so badly just WANT TO. I know, that’s bad..but goodness. It wasn’t just the children I wanted to beat, though. There was this group of four guys walking closely together, irritatingly slow, and I wanted to beat them each in the face with my box of ice cream. Yes, ice cream isn’t 6billion dollars for 5 quarts, so we got some! ^_^

Finally we got to the check out, we just barely made it unscathed, and we got to a newly opened register that nobody was yet standing at. Then we made it home, despite people not understand that you have to actually turn when cars aren’t coming -_-. So, we got banquet meals, because they’re only 88¢, aaaand upon opening them, they’ve gotten smaller. Hah.

So, upon returning home, we started making salad, and then after it was nearly done, we started some chicken nugget and little crinkle fries banquet meals. It was quite yum! It was also very hard to finish, because it was such a GIANT SALAD. We spent much time watching college football….longhorns sucked..like, bad. Fighting Irish won though *yay*

THEN WE fell asleep…yeah. 😛

(09-07-14)

Happy Sunday! 🙂

So, I actually woke up near 12:30! Shocking, right?

So, my parents started on breakfast, and then after potatoes were done, I began toasting bread and moved the potatoes to another pan before starting bacon! I’m cooking two packs because they had a deal(but those were sold out, so they gave us a different item in its place at the same price) andddddddd because we’re planning on having BLT’s tomorrow!!! Yeeaaahhhh!!

So, by 2 it was ready! Tadaaaaahhhh!

With yolky little balls of sunshiiiine! So loverly, indeed!

After food, we watched Foosball Football! Okay..COWBOYS sucked today.. But at least the Broncos won, right? Yeah! (Quiet no’s in the distance) WHAT?! °-°

Anyways…at middle evening-ish time… We went and got drinks! Then we had some veggies as a snack!

After that point…it was time for the finale of Leftovers. It was…a little too focused I think on Kevin in the beginning, but the latter part had a lot of emotion in it, it was beautiful in a way. I think the ending was quite good, but I believe they’re having a season two, so….we’ll see next year? 😗 We were hungry afterwards, so we had poocooooorrrnnn!

I just noticed I kept on saying “so,” before ALMOST EVERYTHING! I’m so crazy.

But..after taking so much time to actually write this FIVE DAY BLOGGARY, IT IS TO BE PUBLISHED!!!

P.S. my apologies for taking so long, but when one watches Anchorman 2, it is hard to finish a Bloggary!

Bloggary with Briana

Bloggary with Briana: Page 43!!-The one with RANTING.

(08-20-14)
Hi! I woke up pretty late, but my mom brought forth delicious Vienna sausages for food! A couple hours later, we had a huge delicious salad!

It’s so FLUFFY DELICIOUS!!!!

After the salad, it was a little past 5, so after turning on the fan in the carport, I went and checked the mail! There was a survey in there addressed to me from the Arbor Day foundation. The packet said that there were free gifts when I completed the survey. Unfortunately, after reading through the whole thing, I found that you really don’t get anything except for a chance at ‘special arbor day’ coffee if you choose not to donate. AND that’s only if you’re one of the first 50 to send in the thing. So, they make this big thing like you’re going to win a bunch of trees and a few shrubs for filling out the survey, when in reality, you have to donate. It was pretty disappointing. I felt like Zorg after getting the box, but not the stones.

Around 8,  we went to go get sodas! When we got home, I took in the drinks while my dad put up our driveway cones. I went out there, and it turns out he tripped on his flipflop and fell. He scraped up and imbedded gravel into his left big toe and bent his little finger on his right hand back unbelievably far.

He was screaming in agony, but we got his toe cleaned, removed some pieces of rocks, and got ice on his really swollen hand. Then, after all that fun, we watched Tyrant while eating delicious candaaaay!

Then we watched TV, ie. HBO for a bit in between playing on my phone, and then the cable box reset for the first time in forever. Don’t worry, it actually did not kill the TV.

(08-21-14)

Hi! I got up late again…but today we added the vast deliciousness that is baked potato alongside our Vienna!

It’s getting infuriatingly frustrating watching the news, because all they’re talking about is the situation in Ferguson. Yaknow, what’s super irritating? The race-card pullers, that right after something happens “It cuz he black!! Death to da white cop!” Then Sharpton comes out there…just..STOP.

I was getting ready to start listening to music and play games to ignore the aggravating news, but my mom said “hey, let’s cut your hair!” So I was like OKAY! WOO!

She cut off quite a bit! It’s so short and FLUFFY prettyyy!! She said she’s going to cut more off of it soon, so it can be even shorter on the sides!💇👨

We watched just a little more news before going to JD’s to get a massive bunch of groceries!!

Now, I’m going to have to rant, because the second I got out of the truck, I knew it was going to be bad in the store. A woman with two little children and an older (about 12) girl was going in as soon as I was, and her children were running…running around the cart. It was horrible. A little boy, who’s father was playing around on his phone, was going at the Mexican squash with a toy knife (the kind that is supposed to slide into the handle to pretend stab) but he was keeping the blade from sliding into the handle. I gave him an ultimate death glare, and he backed away very quickly.

Next, a couple of INCREDIBLY STUPID CHILDREN opened up a pack of alphabet fridge magnets, right in the middle of an aisle. Right in the middle, with their parents right there! As if that couldn’t be enough fun, as I was just going back to get Dr. P, this boy ran right in front of my cart making bird noises. Yes. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.    -_- More awful children encounters ensued when going to get sodas. A girl, probably 17, was carrying a 3? year old boy, and actually almost hit me with the kid’s feet. Yes, I’m serious. She wasn’t even able to see, the way she was holding him, and he almost kicked me in the face. Needless to say, I wish I was the hulk. I would just SMASH so many things…

I started making dinner, a late European time kinda dinner, when we got home. It’s made of little Johnsonville breakfast sausages,a vegmed of sqaush, cabbage, bell pepper, onions and garlic, sliced raw thangs and a piece of bread!

We then watched a kinda awkward and funny at the same time ridiculousness that had Larry King. Then watched the heat, which hasn’t been on in forever! At about 4-ish I did a giant clothes washing brigade! Wooooooo!🙌

(08-22-14)
Today we’re going on an estimate at the house of people my parents used to know when they volunteered at the fire Dept, like.. FOREVER AGO. While there, one dog was like…rude, and did one of those half charge things. Yikes. BUT all went well, and we got priority of what they needed done first, because everything all at once is totally not an option. When we left, we were driving down the road when I felt that feeling in my nose. It was bleeding a little out of the right nostril, for no reason, except maybe pollen? I am way glad my dad has like 200 handkerchiefs in the truck, because I used to have a serious problem. A problem, that if I just barely touched my nose to blow or clean it, it would bleed. It didn’t bleed anymore though, so that’s good! We picked up drinks, and when we got back, we had a stack of tomato and cucumber slices for a snack!

It was super good, but not very filling, so  then a few hours after that, we had a salad with baked potato! Since my mom fell asleep right after ridiculousness started, we watched it again! Then, to get away from the irritating news, we watched the Expendables 2!

At about 1 am, the power went off for about 3 seconds, for no real reason. Annnnnd then we went out back to look at the stars! We were out there for over an hour, and I saw 3 shootin’ stars! When we got inside, DREDD and popcorn!

 
(08-23-14)
Well! I got up at a better time today…kind of. I went outside as soon as I got up, and since today I kinda went full vampire, I had to wear my sunglasses to keep my eyes from feeling like they were burning. My parents were watering some of the trees, so I decided to lay in the grass for a while. The grassy spot I was laying in was so, very soft and comfortable!  We were outside for probably an hour and a half, then we went inside for sliced things:

and Vienna. Afterwards, I played on my phone for a little while, like, a few hours. But, it was around 8:15 when my parents went outside and then yelled in to me that there were bats! So I was like 😆 and went out there quickly!! I tried to take a picture, but look.

Bleh. See that blurry black blob in the upper middle area? Yes. That’s a bat.

Then we were outside until near 10, because we ended up watering more things in the back and I watered my big agave in the front a ton!! Like a TON!  After that, we went inside and my mom made this,

some amazing cabbagie egg drop soup! We ate that while watching the Veronica Mars movie…which was just…not bleh…but more…mehhhhhhh. Like, ooh..wow that’s interest-mehhhhh…it wasn’t the worst we’ve ever seen though, so…that’s a plus? Yeah….so then we watched some other stuff…funny stuff…

(08-24-14)
Hallo!

I woke up a little after 1, which is a really big achievement considering that I went to sleep near…must’ve been 4? I blame World’s End and Grandma’s Boy! 😜

So, yes! This a 5 day Bloggary, but on purpose this time, I promise!! Hehehe!:roll:

Since my dad’s hand is still a little swollen, I started on the breakfast and let him cut a couple potatoes and make salsa. But that was it! I actually cooked eggs on both of the iron cooking implements we have, and it sped things up a bit! Looooook!

It was soooooooo good. Have any of y’all tried Aberdeen farms bacon? It’s so…tasty -sniffles-

While eating, we watched some news, because there was a 6.0(I think) earthquake in San Francisco today waaaay early in the morning there. The small switch of things to talk about made the news slightly more bearable.

So, we ate, we watched TV, and then I went outside a couple times just to see the sunset!

Isn’t it so pwetty? I wanted to get it darker around the tree limb and such, but every photo was like “heeyyy BRIGHT.”

Before we knew it, it was time for the final show ever of True Blood! They had an interesting way to end it, though Bill didn’t end how I was truly hoping he would, it was still very bloody messy!! It’s kind of weird though, that it’s ending, because it has been 7 YEARS! Crazy.

But the life of HBO Series goes on, because Leftovers is still going for at least another week, aaaand apparently they’ve scheduled for a season 2! This weeks episode was kind of a look back to before the big event. It kind of opens up WHY Kevin’s wife became a GR, but then it doesn’t explain much of the other things…..

After that was over, Finn said he had to peeeee, so my dad and I went outside. We went to the front, and when we looked at our pecan tree, we saw our camo plywood with a -no trespassing- sign upside down. After examining the wood, it was obvious someone had tainted with the sign, because the screw hadn’t pulled out of the wood, and the screw was screwed really far into the tree. So, we took the screw out, put the sign right side up, and screwed it back in. So, yes. Someone walked into our front yard with an impact driver, pulled the top screw out of the sign, let it hang upside down, and then screwed deeper than the screw was previously. Whoever tainted with our sign, you know who you are. I’m taking my fighting implements, possibly aluminum, with Finn and I when he barks at night. Just saying. Okay? 😘 Hah, but seriously, we have no idea who did it, because yesterday it was perfectly fine! It could be the same person who’s cracking bits off of our plastic no trespassing sign for all I know.

After going inside, I finished up blogging while we ate popcorn…aaaannnddd watched DREDD. AGAIN. Because he is the LAW.

P.S.

So sorry this is posting late! Lol. I set it up for pm accidentally instead of am, and after a little thought, I said why not just roll with it. So here it is! Do enjoy!😝

Bonus! Pictures of Finn!!!

Bloggary with Briana

Neighbors are FUN!

Oh wouldja look at that.  I’ve gone off somewhere again.  This time it was my completely insane brain nagging me with characters I wanted to design, so I spent 3 days making sims of them on Sims 3; writing biographies for them, all four generations of them, which tallied up to 13 sims.

 

Wait, no…yea..no. No they’re not.

Do you ever feel like even if you tried, you couldn’t possibly have good neighbors?  I’ve felt like that for a very, very long time. ^{(well, a long time for myself, at least)}

 

 

Where our neighbors live used to be owned by a church, then was rented out to people.  My parents always had problems with these people attempting to park in our grass, particularly after rainstorms, when the grass would be soggy and wet.  Eventually our current neighbors moved in, had a chain link fence put up (and attempted to make us pay for half of their idea), and (besides the fence thing) started out as okay neighbors.  Mind you, this is a long time ago, the above is all repeated from my parents’ recollection of events.  I may have gotten some events mixed up, if so, I’ll just come back and tell ya’ll that I edited!

 

So, over time, our neighbors decided to become terrible.  On Saturday and Sunday mornings, they would mow their grass obsessively at seven in the morning, and work on their vehicles with loud blaring music, in the morning.  When I say mow their grass obsessively, I mean every day they would take their riding lawnmower, and go around in circles around everything about a dozen times.  I thought I was bad when it came to being obsessive on stuff.  NO.  Not when compared to the other incredibly odd things my neighbor has done in the past(I swear he has an obsession with going in circles).  At some point 10 years ago, he had a motorcycle that he kept in his backyard.  Not a big deal.  Motorcycles, and anything two wheeled, really, are pretty cool.  Except when it is after 8 O’clock at night, and your neighbor looks like he came out of the movie Psycho; riding his motorcycle in CIRCLES around a tree, for about an hour.  Reading this back to myself, I even think that it’s made up, but sadly, nooooo.

 

Our neighbor has his own HVAC business, and eventually started piling old AC units and other garbage on our end of his yard.  What I mean is, he has a next door neighbor south of him, and us to the north.  He piled it on the north side of his yard!  With all the old AC units and such piled against the fence, he forgot to mention some metal wire had sort of gone through the chain linking, really low to the ground.  One day in a freaking hot summer, mowing the grass, I was met with the delightful sound of metal wire being sucked into the underside and around the blade of our mower.  It’s not a nice sound.  It’s like in a horror movie when an arm or leg is being fed to a machine and just chhhrrrxxxxxx.  You know what was really fun, was getting the wire out from the blade.  It had twisted around one blade several times, and around the base of the blades. 

 

About 3-4 years ago, our neighbors had a baby.  When that happened, some of the trash was cleaned out of their yard (HALLELUJAH).  (Now, imagine the rest of the post said in an extremely, arm flingin’, animated manner.)  But when she was old enough to walk and be irritating to the point of MURDER!! go outside, the babysitter would..OH MY GOD, just thinking about it makes me want to destroy them more than germified store children!  The babysitter was like a creeper staring out a window.  Whenever we would go outside and take Finnegan to the back with us, the babysitter would just magically decide to take the child (and a year or so later both girls) outside with her, to the neighbors back yard.  It was so freaking irritating.  All we wanted to do was sit in the back yard, under our umbrella, and maybe drink a little orange juice in the morning.  Could that happen? OF COURSE NOT.  The babysitter would allow the demon spawn to go up to the fence, and repeat over and over, and over again ‘Doggy, Doggy, Doggy, Doggy, DOGGY DOGGY DOGGY DOGGY!!!’  Finn is a nice dog, but even he got extremely irritated by this.  IT happened every day, to the point where going outside wasn’t even fun, and we had moved all of our tables about 15 feet from the fence.  She still brought the spawn of hell out to the back with her, and not being able to lure our dog over to the fence, they started chunking large, mower ruining, rocks over and through the fence.  Babysitter, what did she do?  She didn’t stop them.  She let them keep saying DOGGY over and over again, and allowed them to put rocks on our side of the fence, which we so politely put back over on their side. 

 

The most recent thing that made me despise our neighbors even more (I have no idea how that’s possible), happened when we were all sick, on January 4th(or the 3rd, pshh time..).  This person working for our neighbor was using a front end loader, starting at 7 O’clock at night, to  ‘smooth out their driveway’.  Okay, fine, BUT why did you start at 7 instead of, oh, I dunno, noon?  It was so loud, (and we were still coughing and not getting much sleep) that my dad went up to the fence, just to ask what the guy was doing it. He said ‘Because the boss told him to.’  My dad asked if there was a problem like a pipe broke or something, and when he’d be done.  The guy answered just about any question with ‘I don’t know’, and ended up acting like some little brat saying to my dad ‘Why are you coming at me man, I don’t know you, you need to show me some respect.’  Then insinuating that he might just go till midnight if it ‘pissed us off’. Seriously?  Now, when I think of coming at someone in a threatening way, I think of reaching over the fence with a baseball bat in tow, and grabbing them by the throat so I can threaten them with the bat.  That, in my opinion, is coming at somebody.  Unfortunately, after the guy kept scratching away at the gravel driveway for another hour, and my dad calling our neighbor to ask him to see when the guy was going to actually stop, the neighbor called back.  My dad was friendly in the voicemails he left, but the neighbor was not friendly when he called back.  The phone wasn’t on speaker and we could hear him yelling at my dad.  Saying things like that guy is his brother-in-law and he’s known him for however long, when he’d known us for longer, and we’d been polite about everything they’d ever done.  He wouldn’t stop yelling at my dad, about dealing with us having fires (we have small campfires, big deal), and us not wanting power/cable company people driving on our grass (wow sue me), so my dad hung up.  For the next 2 weeks, the Driveway Man, as we call him now, kept ‘smoothing out the driveway’.  Yes, that’s right, 2 weeks. My 75 year old grandfather can smooth out, AT LEAST, a mile worth of dirt road at the deer lease we hunt on, in a day or two!!!   This is with no concrete patio-thing to base the height of the road on!  So, yeah, Driveway Man, I’ll show you some respect when you can straighten out a driveway in one day, instead of taking 2 weeks, or to top that, straighten a dirt road after a downpour washed it out! 

 

These neighbors, more so than the firework stand people, have made me sing a parody of Never Gonna Give You Up, in my head.  ‘I’m gonna dig a hole, dig it dee-eep. Gonna beat you up and throw you in there.  Gonna cover you up, plant some flow-wers, they’ll never fi-ind the bodies!!’ Yeah… *awkward 80’s dancing* -eye twitch-

Alright. *Woo-Sah*.  I’ll see ya’ll next week, but not Monday, cause it’s my birthday, I’m working, and I’ll be 20!! YEAH!!!!

 

Bye for now!