We used to have
professionals do the weed killing and fertilizing on our yard. Now, I take care of it. Weeds are such assholes. They are like people you can’t stand, people
who you run into all the time. Only
there aren’t just a few, there are thousands.
They lurk everywhere. Even in
your cracks (har har). My front yard
used to be pristine and nearly weed free.
In the last week, however, it has turned into weedageddon. I’ve got weeds trying to grow on top of other
weeds. So I did the only thing I could
do, I bought some Spermacide…no, no, I mean Spectracide and downloaded some
Metallica music. I’m not particularly a
Metallica fan, but it seemed appropriate for weed killing. Mostly because you can change the words to
Enter Sandman to something something about exit weeds enter grass, sleep with
one eye open and that the weeds are off to never never land. Anyway, I was spraying the Spectracide and
death-metal-head-thrashing in the front yard (I don’t recommend it, BTW. I fell
over twice and I’m fairly certain I have a terminal case of whiplash) when a
new neighbor walked up to me. She was
Italian (which made me think, “lasagna sounds good for dinner”). She
said she was new to the neighborhood and asked about what I was putting on my
yard…only when she asked she sounded like Carmelo Soprano (which led me to
think, “the mafia is after me”). I
explained my Spectracide/Metallica combo.
She left fairly quickly after that.
I like being a helpful neighbor. I
did think it was sorta weird that she asked because she could clearly see what I
was spraying. Additionally, she could
hear because I had the doors of my 1991 Honda Accord open and was playing Metallica
softly through my six 15 inch woofers and two amplifiers that occupy the entire
backseat. At any rate, I think the weeds are history. *throws fingers up in the sign of the horns*
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