Wife and I have at very least one thing in common , that being neat and tidy actually means something to us . I might be a little fake about that because if you’ve ever looked in my sock drawer you’ll understand why I wear white socks so often . It just takes too long otherwise to find a matching set, but the room it’s in is the epitome of neat for all to see . Perhaps that’s like the interesting cover of a bad book but sometimes the facade is good enough .
Three months of viewing endless piles of trash starts to grate on the wife meaning it grates double on me and we were delighted last week when the big truck and cherry picker finally arrived to start hauling all the storm debris away from in front of all our neighbors homes . We put our money where our mouth is after the storm and quickly cleaned up our own mess and hauled it all to the dump . I was about to say we didn’t mean to be show off’s but that wouldn’t have been true as we did view it as a statement of who we are as well as a good example for all to see, we being the oldest couple on the street . Seems no one else on the block had a statement to make apart from their Frig Biden flags so we were the only ones in the hood over those three months with out a mess. We came home that day to find all the three month old debris gone and short lived glee as two families quickly viewed it as an opportunity to use the empty space and promptly stacked two rooms of furniture street side . Fortunately this time it was gone within a mere five days.
Yesterday was Christmas Eve which happens to be five days from trash day and we watched the lady across the street pull a chair out of the house to deposit it on the curb . Torn and chewed and likely covered in Bulldog barf and urine I and just couldn’t seem to grasp why it didn’t just stay in the back yard until trash day . This morning is Christmas morning and we’ve just looked outside to notice that chair is now decorating the street with it’s twin .
I suppose I’ll just have to view it as a statement of who they are . That’s the way it is I guess and little is completely fair as they get to look across the street at us…. and we have to look across the street at them ….. and their two disgusting Christmas decorations
