SE7EN

I once saw a recording of a live stand-up comedy show starring Dylan Moran. He spoke about not making “a too big of a deal” of the whole “Hello-thing”. He described the word “Hello” as some kind of a word eater, When you meet someone you hardly know and haven’t seen him/her in a long time you usually say hello, and then suddenly you’re all out of words. You’ll just end up talking about the weather, and the weather is not on the list of things I want to discuss here. So, there you go, no hello.

I haven’t been polluting this blog with my boring words in a long time, but I think that is going to change from now on. I’ve had stuff to do. You’ll hear about a lot of things soon enough.
First of all though;

Envy.

Envy is NOT pretty. Christianity defines envy as one of the seven deadly sins. The way I was brought up I guess I’d define it as a weakness.
Today I witnessed envy in one of its more awful forms. I was at work, ( I work as a landscaper / gardener ). And we we’re constructing this stone wall on behalf of a client of ours. I’ve built similar stone walls hundreds of times all over town before, (they’re commonly used to add support to various flower beds, if the difference in height is great on a short distance of space) and the response I’ve gotten this far, have always been positive.

Today, it was negative. Don’t get me wrong now, our client was thrilled with it…he absolutely loved it. But, his neighbour on the other hand, wasn’t quite as excited as our client.

I started working at 8 am. Around 1 pm a man showed up. He introduced himself as the lawyer of the local housing committee . Then he continued to tell us that our clients neighbour felt that the stone wall we were building, somehow violated some kind of law. He himself couldn’t see where the problem resided. After taking some pictures the lawyer told us that we could finish our work, but that he had to discuss the matter with the board…

First of all;

The stone wall, with its flower bed, added gigantic amounts of character and harmony to the neighborhood.

Second;

Our client’s neighbour can’t see the wall from his house, and thus, it shouldn’t bother him.

And last but not least;

STOP SUING PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE YOU ENVY THEM! Especially when they’re making your neighborhood pretty.

I honestly have not been this disappointed in mankind in a long time. The man that sued our client showed such envy that I just want to go over there now and humiliate him in some way. Oh yeah, I didn’t mention that the whole thing is going to court. I’d understand him on some level if he would be poor, but judging from the size of his house, I’d say he is one of the wealthier chaps around…
maybe money does that to you?

Anyways, I’m just a bit wound up, it wasn’t my intention to return to this blog shouting.

Apart from the scenario described above, the summer has been nothing but good to me. I’ve laughed, shed tears of joy and absolutely felt like home. I’ll get back to you soon again.

Until then,

Ship ahoy, pirates do annoy!

A random stone wall I found on the web.

~ by 4oclocksandwich on September 3, 2009.