What I want to know, and after discovering the answer to this question all other riddles in the universe will unravel, is do the better-half and I run into more scumbag idiots than is normal to run into in a lifetime or is the world just chockfull of them and it’s like stepping on an ant on a summer day? Something that just can’t be helped.
As you know, we’re buying a house. We close tomorrow. The owners or their agent turned off the power last week. Our realtor got it turned back on. The home owners were supposed to get the house treated for termites. They had an inspection the first Friday of the month. The treatment will be done on Thursday. Gee, couldn’t you get that 15 minutes of exterior spraying scheduled before you sold us the house? The owners fled the area in such a hurry they didn’t even finish clearing out their junk. There’s a gas grill that will be heaved into a dumpster by us (unless you are in the area and want to come get it right now). There are some kid toys laying in the woods just off the driveway that will be pitched at the landfill as well. And, there’s some crap in the garage that I’m not really sure what it is. The battery for the downstairs smoke alarm has beeped every single time we’ve been in the house. Couldn’t their realtor pop for the $1.50 for a 9-volt battery?
At our current house some of the complaints we’ve heard about the house is that the neighbor’s new garage is too close to the driveway. I just cracked up about that. We’ve regretted not having the cash or the savvy to have purchased that lot when it was empty. But, for crying out loud that’s the one thing you have to complain about? I can find a bunch of other things that someone could possibly complain about with regards to our property. Another couple really likes the house and their realtor thinks our house is perfect for them. They just don’t like that our house is on a hill. We’ll get right on fixing that. Hey, having a house on a hill is so much better than building a house on a flood plain. Ask the people down the hill from us. And, frankly, houses with any kind of character in our area are in very short supply. Please feel free to buy a cookie cutter house down the street that’s smack dab in the middle of an old corn field. I’m sure you’ll find lots of nothing to look at to be quite a comfort.