Well, Maude and Claude, our wacky neighbors, are mad at us again.
Shortly after the tree crews began their work, Claude asked if he could have the wood they were leaving behind. They explained that they really couldn't give our wood away to somebody else. Claude stomped back indoors, and they spent the rest of the day glaring out the window at the workers, and yelling at them to close the fence gate and not loiter in their yard.
I spoke to Claude as the tree crews left that evening, and he made several comments along the lines of ' are you sure you want that wood?' etc. I expl that we are looking forward to using what was left of our trees in the fireplace. He then changed tactics and said that they're going to board theirs up, since using a fireplace wastes a lot of heat and probably causes hotdog fingers or something.
It's not like it's a gold mine of wood - if we burn a fire every night, it might stretch for 3 weeks.
I couldn't imagine if the roles were reversed how furious their response would have been if we asked for the wood from their trees.
5 comments:
Hotdog fingers?
That's from 'The Office'...it was one of the fake illnesses employess made up while selecting a new health plan.
Kan we git som ur wood?
HAHA you should tell them they can have the wood cuz you're going to burn kittens for heat instead.
Kittens burn longer and cleaner.
Oh, you would bring that up. It has been pointed out that burning pine deposits a lot of cresote and soot in the chimney, so maybe I should explore a greener alternative.
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