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This happened back in 2000 and still makes me laugh.
I was living with my dad in our family home in the suburbs and our longtime neighbour was slowly going senile. She was a widow and I believe he kept her behaviour under control. Since he died she had gotten a little odd.
In the winter here we all fed the birds due to the harsh weather and they helped to brighten the dreary winter days. Normally that is no big deal as everyone did it. Well, she decided she wanted to feed the birds all year long.
I told her that was a bad idea as the birds need to find their own food after winter. She still insisted. I told her feeding them will cause issues for us and her. She said I was wrong and didn't know what I was talking about. I told her OK and said just you watch.
Well, by mid June the birds were making an awful mess around the feeder and now we had all sorts of weeds growing everywhere. The thistles were the worst as now I couldn't even walk barefoot in my own back yard. This pissed me off as it made for extra yard work while I was doing my regular 6 days a week job. I complained and it fell on deaf ears. By July things really heated up, hehehe.
First, the birds mess had caused issues with her in ground pool and weeds everywhere. Then came the mice. We lived in a rather rural part of the north-end of the city with lots of fields, streams, ponds and trees. The mice brought in the snakes (garter snakes). She hated mice and snakes and, like I warned her, they got into her house. I LOL'd so hard when she bitched about it. It got worse for her when her garden shed was taken over by chipmunks. Dozens and dozens of chipmunks. Her son came over and he was shocked and pissed off at her for letting this happen. I told him that I warned her what would happen and she wouldn't listen to me. It cost her hundreds of dollars for an exterminator to remove them. The bird feeder never went up again.
I guess the phrase fuck around and find out applies here.
TLDR: neighbour woman gets stupid and pays the stupid tax.
This is just one of several stories of her not thinking things through.
I was living with my dad in our family home in the suburbs and our longtime neighbour was slowly going senile. She was a widow and I believe he kept her behaviour under control. Since he died she had gotten a little odd.
In the winter here we all fed the birds due to the harsh weather and they helped to brighten the dreary winter days. Normally that is no big deal as everyone did it. Well, she decided she wanted to feed the birds all year long.
I told her that was a bad idea as the birds need to find their own food after winter. She still insisted. I told her feeding them will cause issues for us and her. She said I was wrong and didn't know what I was talking about. I told her OK and said just you watch.
Well, by mid June the birds were making an awful mess around the feeder and now we had all sorts of weeds growing everywhere. The thistles were the worst as now I couldn't even walk barefoot in my own back yard. This pissed me off as it made for extra yard work while I was doing my regular 6 days a week job. I complained and it fell on deaf ears. By July things really heated up, hehehe.
First, the birds mess had caused issues with her in ground pool and weeds everywhere. Then came the mice. We lived in a rather rural part of the north-end of the city with lots of fields, streams, ponds and trees. The mice brought in the snakes (garter snakes). She hated mice and snakes and, like I warned her, they got into her house. I LOL'd so hard when she bitched about it. It got worse for her when her garden shed was taken over by chipmunks. Dozens and dozens of chipmunks. Her son came over and he was shocked and pissed off at her for letting this happen. I told him that I warned her what would happen and she wouldn't listen to me. It cost her hundreds of dollars for an exterminator to remove them. The bird feeder never went up again.
I guess the phrase fuck around and find out applies here.
TLDR: neighbour woman gets stupid and pays the stupid tax.
This is just one of several stories of her not thinking things through.
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