The New Hobbit Hole

[ksen]

Whoops, I meant to ping you to #7220.

-Kevin

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Good Morning, all! It's still morning where I'm at, anyway...

Hope you all have a great day!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Screw with the U.S. and you're cockroach food.

My wife and I call it the "Godzilla Response"... mess with Godzilla and he stomps you flat, or breathes radioactive fire on you.

Good enough for Godzilla, good enough for us, IMHO.

[Sam Cree]

Good morning. Just got phone service back, a neighbor down the street ran over the phone line with his lawnmower last night.

[Corin Stormhands]

Just got phone service back, a neighbor down the street ran over the phone line with his lawnmower last night.

There's one in every neighborhood. Was he mowing at night?

I had a neighbor that used to do that. When we first moved in next door, I only saw him after dark mowing or raking leaves under his security spotlights.

I was convinced he was a vampire cause he was never out during the day. But I later found out he worked two jobs.

[Sam Cree]

No, about 6 pm, he's a nice guy, very bright, but with something missing...I think that's a criteria to live on this street, the something missing part, I mean.

I didn't figure out what happened 'til this am, though.

[Corin Stormhands]

Hey, life is dull if everyone is "normal."

[Sam Cree]

Yes, I like all my weird neighbors, a couple of them are very artistic. I'm not too sure that I'd take it as a compliment to be called "normal," anyway...

[JenB]

Good fences make good neighbors - and forty foot walls, covered in spikes and electrified, make better ones!

[Corin Stormhands]

Moats with sharks are always helpful too...

[JenB]

Or large vicious guard dogs! (I'm not a people person, and our neighbors are nuts)

[Sam Cree]

You guys sound like you could live on this street...Actually, for awhile, I considered naming my boat the "Misanthrope."

[JenB]

I don't hate people.... I just don't really like them that much. Or want them around, most of the time. The Internet is different, there's a layer of protection between you and the person you're talking to.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I considered naming my boat the "Misanthrope."

LOL! I prefer to think of myself as a "curmudgeon." ;)

[Corin Stormhands]

You guys sound like you could live on this street...

Nah, I like my neighbors. I just hate living between two perfect lawns. Although with the clover in bloom, mine is at least green.

I need some of our gardners here to come over...

[JenB]

Hmmm... my philosophy is, a lawn should provide cover for if I ever have to sneak out under a hail of bullets. And my dad's is that it's worth the money to hire someone to cut it. We're happy here, whatever the grass length!

[Corin Stormhands]

I just never realized growing up as a kid that you had to work to make grass grow. We never seeded, never fertilized our yards and they were beautiful and needed mowing more often than I cared for.

As a side story, my dad actually was mowing one night and ran over his foot. There was no permanent damage. Let's just say he and the mower were sufficiently lubricated...

[JenB]

We do nothing to our lawn. It looks fine. Of course, we have no neighbors directly next to us on either side, just woods and a big weed field, so it would look good be comparison anyway. Glad I don't live somewhere that would require actual lawn labor!

[2Jedismom]

I took care of a guy that ran over a screw driver with his push mower and shot it straight through his boot and foot and everything.

[Corin Stormhands]

Ouch!