Blog: JAY1P on LiveVideo.com

Gender: Male
Status: Taken
Age: 50
Sign: Pisces
City: Omaha Ne
State: Nebraska
Country:

	Today	Week	Total
Posts	0	0	12
Comments	2	2	27
Views	16	21	1,615
Thumbs Up	4	4	46

Blog Archive

2008

May

What I see
Idiots Come in Swarms pt 2
Idiots Come in Swarms part 1

April

March

February

FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2008 (6:37 PM)

Return to JAY1P's blog

Idiots Come in Swarms part 1

(I'm feeling aggravated)

I have lived in the same house for 11 years now. They build parks into neighborhoods up here and out my back door and small yard is a 50 foot wide swath of grass with a sidewalk leading to the park. I can sit on my deck and watch kids play, people walk their dogs, etc. There are 2 houses on the other side of the sidewalk before it opens into the park.
We are not friends, but I refer to the ones straight across from me as "The Beverly Hillbillies" mainly because they bought and placed two concrete Lions on either side of their 30 ft driveway, like it was an entrance to a regal estate. (we're just talkin' bout a ordinary split level home here) That strikes me as ridiculous but the back of the house faces me so I don't have to see it every time I walk out back. Unfortunately, "Jed" is a Do-it-yourself type. He started off building a fence around his backyard, and in order to keep the top of the fence level, he left a 2 foot gap at the bottom on one end where the lot slopes. (I'm not sure what he thought he was fencing in). In addition, the fence does not adhere to the 90degree angle to the earth policy so popular these days, so it looks drunk. Then he built a deck that leaned so badly to the right that the stairs fell off! Then he built a shed from scratch to the left of the deck. I was initially impressed as I watched him level the earth and pour a concrete foundation and complete the structure, but within 2 weeks the whole shed tilted 20 degrees to the left. Then he bought an above ground pool that he put up without leveling anything, so it leans toward my house at 30 degrees! When he filled it up, guess what? Yes it fell over and flooded his yard! The solution? Just put a "little" water in it. You ever see an above ground pool with a shallow end?
In the years before the building frenzy, "Granny" wanted a garden, so they tilled up rows and planted various edibles. A garden can be a beautiful thing. I wanted to go over there and tell them what a hoe was for, because it wasn't long before the weeds and grass took it over and was so tall, only the okra plants stuck up out of the tangle. Then toward the end of summer "Granny" was out there with a lawn mower. I figured she had declared the garden a fiasco, like I had. I went out to watch and it turns out she was picking her tomatoes, which she never bothered to "stick" so they grew on the ground and she had set the blade high enough to miss the tomatoes, but otherwise could not find without mowing first! My Dad lived and died without ever seeing someone pick tomatoes with a lawn mower!
Describing these people has turned into a blog unto itself so I'll end part 1 here. Please keep the stupidity of these people in mind as you move about your daily activities.

Category: Blogging

148 Views | 2 Thumbs Up | 2 Comments

Add Comment | Email

Comments & Responses

Post Comment

Posted May 3, 08 by B4Salk (

)
Like our relatives, we can't pick our neighbors either unfortunately...

Posted May 2, 08 by TLDavis
Crap, you don't live behind me, do you? LOL. Can't wait for the rest, Jay.
TL