Heh..
Every morning at exactly 7am, Chief starts our lawn mower. He places it in the middle of the yard and duct tapes the bar thingy that keeps the mower running so that the motor keeps running.
He also removed the something or other that keeps it quiet so now, it’s anything BUT quiet.
He comes in … stays awhile… goes out .. mows a little.. comes in.. stays awhile.. goes out.. mows a little.
The first day he did this, the Chief of Police kept circling our house.
Apparently, our so-called neighbors still thought we had a generator.
There’s absolutely, positively NO love lost between my Chief and the Chief of Police and I wish I had had a camera to see his face when he realized it was a lawn mower.
Especially since every single thing I was able to find regarding the borough does not mention lawn mowers .. or any landscaping tool for that matter.
After a few days of this … and almost measuring our grass blade by blade to make sure we were WELL within regulation.. and mowing some more to ensure we were complaint .. Chief decided to move on to OTHER parts of the yard that needed cleaning up.
Can you say CHAIN SAW?
Dang.. those branches hanging over are dangerous. Why, the Code Enforcer Guy could poke an eye out the next time he trespassed on our back lawn.. they were hanging so low.
And since we just may have had plans on Mother’s Day he needed to get started early.
So again, at 7am this morning, he went out and just as he was about to start the chainsaw, the so-called “neighbors” two houses down walk out of their house..
He looks at them.. and in his best horror movie voice says:
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY.. HEH.. HEH.. HEH..
And rips the chainsaw chord.
I don’t know about you, but this imagine IMMEDIATELY came to mind:
Funny to, a little while later when he was yet again mowing the lawn, the Chief of Police drove down our street.. slowed down.. and pointed to the blade clippings in the street.
MY Chief gave him the finger .. because there’s no law against grass clippings in the street AND they pay a street sweeper God knows how much money to drive the obscenely expensive street sweeper machine down my block twice a week.
There’s no doubt that we’re being harrassed.. there’s no doubt that we are being made to feel like criminals for doing absolutely nothing against any violation or code.
In fact, a while ago the CEG was on our ass about a pile of wood that was neatly stacked in the way back corner of our yard. A thunderstorm had downed a tree and we had it cut down and stacked. It was there for about a year when the CEG started getting ornery about it.
Just so happens.. today.. we passed by a house a few blocks from us that has a huge pile of a former tree along side their fence .. on the outside of their property. You can tell it’s been there awhile (I just never noticed it) but it got us wondering… have THEY been harassed about removing it?
My guess is no.
But honestly, it’s tiring.
I have a job interview on Monday and if I get it .. we’ve decided to move. This job will be closer to Chief’s new job and we wouldn’t have to deal with the hypocrasy that is this borough.
And believe me.. as soon as I’m out of there, I’m naming names and giving details!
LIVING ME 101 