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Scenes from my driveway, x65

Me: “Heya, deadbeat neighbor! Long time! How’s tricks?”

Deadbeat neighbor: “Beg pardon?”

Me: “– Oh, shit, that’s right. I moved a while back, didn’t I? Which means you wouldn’t have the slightest idea what I’m talking about.”

Deadbeat neighbor New-ish neighbor: “No, I wouldn’t.”

New-ish neighbor: ” — And say, is that my newspaper you’ve got in your hand…?”

0 Replies to “Scenes from my driveway, x65”

  1. Slartibartfast says:

    say, is that my newspaper you’ve got in your hand

    …or are you just happy to see me?

    Try the veal!

  2. McGehee says:

    Bet’cha he’s a deadbeat too. He’s got that look.

  3. bh says:

    I see what you did there.

  4. Carin says:

    #65? Perhaps we should search and do your top 10 of the series.

  5. DarthRove says:

    One assumes that you and the new-ish neighbor, an offspring thereof, or other person has shoveled off the odd ton of Global Warmening Fallout that accumulated in said driveway?

    Because now that we’ve had some melt, I discovered about 12 newspapers scattered about my own formerly frosty driveway. Hadda be worse in Amazon Tax land.

  6. JD says:

    I saw some grass near my driveway this morning.

  7. John Bradley says:

    “You’re Newish…? That’s funny, you don’t look Newish.”

  8. cranky-d says:

    I see what you did there.

    Me too. I feel so special.

  9. Ella says:

    This is the first time I’ve lived in anything like an apartment since I lived in the dorms. Eight years of houses.

    So, I get to work from home, and sometimes I don’t move my car for days on end because I have it in my favorite spot and I don’t want to lose it. Is that normal?

  10. cranky-d says:

    Ella, I’ve done the same thing, so I think it’s normal. But coming from me, that might not mean a whole lot.

  11. bh says:

    High five, cranky.

    Deadbeat Jeff: A New Chapter.

  12. Ella says:

    I also glare out my window at the guy who drives the navy blue Armada. And by “drives” I mean he slings it around with apparently no notice of parking lines and parked cars. He wears a baseball cap, and I do not like him.

    I’m turning into that archetypal crazy old man who shakes his fist at the whippersnappers.

  13. bh says:

    Shannyn over Monet but it’s close, JD. Christina a distant third.

  14. John Bradley says:

    A crazy old man named Ella?

    It’s like nothing makes any sense any more… :)

  15. JD says:

    I am a Christina fan, bh, but she does not translate well to still photography. Monet is a cool name.

  16. sdferr says:

    That constant ringing in the earbones as you get older Ella? It’s the sound your ear-hair makes as it grows ever thicker and longer.

    Heh.

  17. The Lost Dog says:

    Hey, JD!

    You forgot the chick/bim/girl from “Disturbia”.

    WHOOOOOOOOO-EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

  18. JD says:

    It is really bad when your ear hair grows faster than the hair on your head.

  19. A fine scotch says:

    Sarah Roemer, LD? Love her. And Sarah Wynter. Shannyn, even though the name is spelled stupidly and her kid has a stupid name.

  20. A fine scotch says:

    Were you at least wearing pants when getting the newspaper, Jeff?

  21. Jeff G. says:

    This time, yes.

  22. Ella says:

    Fine, I’m the crazy cat lady. When did words become so important around here? :)

    I would also like to applaud JeffG for wearing pants. Good call.

  23. bh says:

    That was the Sandy Berger protest, wasn’t it?

    My favorite was the Reagan one where you offered him a drink.

  24. Lost My Cookies says:

    Save me the coupons?

  25. bh says:

    The Reagan one. I see that I capitalized bh back then for some reason.

  26. bh says:

    Wrong link, here‘s the right one.

  27. BumperStickerist says:

    Funny, he doesn’t look new-ish.

  28. Jim in KC says:

    I’m not detecting any trace of new-ish dialect, either…

  29. JD says:

    Are the New-ish bad with money?

  30. LBascom says:

    Handled properly, a question like that can be wrangled into a cup of coffee and jelly toast.

    You know, because of your intention to bring him the paper…

  31. serr8d says:

    Going back in time, huh?

    “Q: What do you get when you cross a white supremacist and a gorilla?

    A: A really stupid gorilla.”

    Good stuff, Jeff G. I missed all of that!

  32. dicentra says:

    OT: Andy Griffith plus Beyoncé mashup.

    http://awe.sm/52AYO

    Not bad. Not bad at all.

  33. Lazarus Long says:

    “Because now that we’ve had some melt, I discovered about 12 newspapers scattered about my own formerly frosty driveway.”

    That’s better than the little surprises left by my dogs.

  34. A fine scotch says:

    If you get ’em while they’re still frozen, LL, the poopcicles are much easier to scoop than the unfrozen versions…