[Dailydrool] Unwanted stuff from neighbors (and rain)

[lea pierce]

​Drooler Jennifer writes of "downpour" cabin fever; too much rain.
Houndservant requests that all and everyone pray that all rain be
redirected to California.

Whilst there has been downpour over the last month or so in Northern
California, us spoiled sunny Californian's could use 10 years of annual 6
month of downpour. It is that dry. And it is still that dry.

Short is the memory of many; with an inch of rain, many forget that the
state's aquifer has been permanently screwed up.

So, even 'tho Houndservant, too, can get batty from rain--please feel free
to pray it this direction.

With regard to Jennifer coping with unwanted crap from neighbor's
chir'en... Houndservant was putting up with same and for 3 or 4 salvos,
patiently returned the crap.

Houndservant quite quickly tired of being pleasant, patient, and
understanding of chir'en who, notably, needed PARENTING from their PARENTS
but were not getting it.

Next time the ball came over my 5' fence... it was never seen from again.
Houndservant stuffed said ball in the shed.

Knock, knock, knock!

"Have your seen our ball? It went over your fence!"

"Why no... haven't seen it..."

Hmmmm.... shuffle, shuffle.... shuffle off home.

A second time.

The Houndservant black hole reappeared.

Knock, knock, knock. Blah Blah. "Why, no..."

Third time.

(You guessed it.)

Fourth time, no knock-knock. And then, no more flying missiles.

Even the most ill-parented child gets the picture after awhile. Tho
badly-trained progeny are often more block-headed than the most wily
basset, if they lose enough stuff....

Hard-hearted? Houndservant?

Why, yes! On the other hand, the specter of a vet bill larger than my
mortgage (and in California, mortgages can be breathtaking), was not to be
entertained. Much less any suffering on the part of a beloved hound.

In the case of Toys Gone Wild, suffering must fall upon the head of the
child.

Lose enough stuff, and the behavior shifts.

This is the entirety of Houndservant's small wisdom on this subject.

Houndservant
Ball-and-child-crap-Confiscator ​
(Houndservant would happily shoot untamed progeny with a Gopher Gun, but
that attracts the gendarmes. Houndservant's progeny grew up understanding
The Law: "finders, keepers; losers, weepers.)
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