So I’m having a smoke on my deck Monday night and I saw you in my driveway. I said hey, how’s it goin? cuz I figured you were a bottler, but you quickly got up and mumbled something about plants and took off down my driveway with a big pot. You left a big mess of dirt in my driveway as you were stealing my plants, who the fuck does that? I thought gardeners’ just asked, I would have been fine with it. But you left a big mess of dirt and holes all over the place, and I noticed you jacked a whole bunch of other plants and left some half dug up. I’m sure this is about the most badass thing you’ve ever done since I scared you off with a friendly greeting. That and you know pillaging my backyard isn’t cool. I walked after you just to ask if you’d clean up the mess, but you ran off into your backyard.
So how about you come back during the day, clean up the mess and give me back some plants.
Otherwise, as you read this I’m mounting a raiding party on YOUR plants. We’ll put Genghis Khan to shame.
This article appears in May 29 – Jun 4, 2008.
As a fellow gardener i would be more then happy to join ur raid party!!
This is how it starts. Genuinely nice people with blooming hopes SQUASHED by the love of the HRM.
This is the Hellifax we live in. A lot of people here have absolutely no respect for other people and their belongings. Pricks on the Peninsula.
I can’t believe the audacity of some people. The way I was raised, I feel bad trespassing in order to knock on someone’s door….I can’t conceive of walking uninvited into someone’s backyard…let alone to steal stuff from them. It’s that same self-entitled attitude that let’s people walk by a car, smash in the widow and steal the change from your ashtray. I wish I knew how we could eliminate this thought process from our ‘society’.
I really don’t think that this type of behaviour is exclusive to only Halifax, Kay. Get your head out of your ass for a minute and stop being such a negative nelly.
I don’t care about the trespassing aspect, there’s always bottlers around routing through the recycling, thats fine. And it’s not like I said ‘what the fuck are you doing in my backyard?’ I just said hello. If you wanna steal plants hit up the Sobeys parking lot.It’s just such anti-social behavior, like fucking knock on my door and ask to take some bulbs if you want some, i don’t care. Just don’t pillage the whole fucking backyard.
This behavior is not exclusive to Halifax… therefore it’s okay? I don’t think so. Keep flinging insults to prove my point, yourmom
You were insulted by negative nelly? Good thing I didn’t call you a big poopy pants.I never said that behaviour was ok – you just seem to pin point HRM. All I was saying is that there’s idiots everywhere so don’t just slam this place for it.
If that had happened to me I think I might’ve just followed the plant theif home… I’ve heard about people doing shitty things like this. You can be sure he’ll be back. If he thinks you’re not home he’ll be back. Guaranteed. I hope he gets slugs or something…