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    2. bobert
    3. Hi, Sheepers! Enjoy that "Redneck Neighbor" website. We had a 'know-it-all neighbor once: if he didn't know about it or the answer to it, it had never happened. He was one of those 'no fertilizer' farmers out in their backyard. He planted runner beans - used old bedsprings for poles and the 'running'. Those bedsprings stayed up no matter what the month or the season. We planted bushes to spare us the sight - they finally grew tall enough to halfway cover that bedspring eyesore. So - what does the neighbor do: while we are away, he plants wild honeysuckle on his side of the fence - actually, our fence. I am still fighting the shoots from that D*@# honeysuckle! These neighbors also had rabbits in their backyard - had a warren and did keep them in that. They had a small lap dog (wife's dog),then added a a brown Doberman - Duke (husband's dog) - to their animal population...Duke was 'in love' with that poor lapdog! Never mind the leash law in our town: they waited till 'dark' and let Duke loose. One afternoon I was out in our side yard - had a long-handel shovel - so must have been planting something or digging something else up. Duke was outside with the teenage son, but Duke looked like he would like to take a bite out of my leg, or other fleshy part of my body. I thought, 'ole boy, just make a move and you are gonna get it with this shovel I got in my hands!' Forgot to mention the corn crop. Oh, yes, any farmer can tell you that growing corn is a surefire way of attracting rats - right! The neighbor would sit on their backporch and shot at the rats with a B-B pistol. Well - one year when the corn was just about ready to pick, either rats or squirrels got to it: ate all the kernals off and left the cobs on the stalks! Ha-ha-ha-ha! What a weird sight! Well - the upshot of this domestic bliss that used to be next door to us is that the husband nearly died from a massive heart attack. He recovers and, as I have been told, that like many men especially, decided to begin a new life to sort of make up for what he missed the first time around. However, he had, just previous to the bad heart attack, signed a 2d mortage on the house so his wife could get a new car: needed one to get to her job. Divorce degree: he gets his own car, he continues to pay for 2d mortage on house (taken out to get the car the ex-wife gets). She gets the house with its regular mortage payment each month -- which she eventually sells since she can't afford the house payments, expecially after spending a year in the slammer and having to make restitution on the stolen church funds. And - she gets 1/2 the ex husband's military retirement pay! Oh, Ouch! Post Divorce Degree: 1 - old bedsprings and tepee poles get torn down and put out for trash collection. 2 - Non-fertilizer garden gets all torn up...looked like somebody tok a pickax to it with big-time rage venting. 3 - Rabbits, pens and all, put out to street with sign, "Free - take 'em all" Have you ever been away from home on a trip or vacation and come home to find things happened, big time, while you were away? We went on a week's trip - came home - husband had left the wife...divorce in the works. A few months later, we go away for a few days - wife is arrested and is the slammer for grand theft! The job she needed the new car for: church office; grand theft of $10,000 from church offerings/fund raising projects. There is more but know your eyes are more than tired from reading all of this. Have a great tomorrow! Shirley: bobert@i-1.net

    04/30/2002 05:09:03