Modern Vespa

I.e. the perfect spider

Like wolf spiders too. Just can't get my wife to warm up to them, though.

I.e. the perfect spider

Like wolf spiders too. Just can't get my wife to warm up to them, though.

Yes, it is a disposable / recyclable device that lets women pee standing up.

Yes, it is a disposable / recyclable device that lets women pee standing up.

Technically we can automatically pee standing up....just that there seems to be a desire to be tidy about it.

Still, I doubt you'll see the ladies christening things about the yard...

Yes, it is a disposable / recyclable device that lets women pee standing up.

Hubby sees skank stealing flowers over the fence in the neighbors yard. (The good neighbor who has been helping me every day with shots and dressing changes while I've been laid up) He pops outside onto the porch and yells at the skank that the flowers are for looking at, not for stealing. Skank yells back, "Don't grow them if you dont want people to pick them. Go ahead and call the cops. I've had the cops called on me before." SMH

I'm 2500 miles away and that response raise my ire.
The answer might be "If you don't want pounded with a baseball bat, don't steal other people's work and belongings."

Maybe one of those sprinklers that motion detect and squirt her. Load the hose with dye or ink.

Normally you would have easily won that battle but the meth would have been an equalizer I think.

I have a book around here somewhere called spite mallice and revenge... Basically a huge book of ways to get back at people. Never used any of them but they are rather funny.

I have the exact same book. I bought it on a sale rack 20 years ago. I used to prominently display it on my desk at work.

Mean-spiritedness often has nothing to do with it. Serious property damage often does.

I've seriously considered putting up such a sign myself, but have so far resisted. I live at the end of a narrow dead-end road that has an official county roadsign about a half mile back at the last intersection that clearly says DEAD END -- NO TURNAROUND. Nevertheless, we still get a lot of sightseers and delivery trucks (sometimes huge ones that should have no business trying) coming all the way down to the end of the street. The garbage trucks have figured out how to maneuver safely and always dispatch a man to guide the driver when backing.

There are three driveways at the dead end where one could easily turn around a passenger car safely if only a little bit of care is exercised. One driveway already has a "No Turnarounds" sign. That leaves me -- on the right side facing the dead end -- and the neighbor directly across the street. My driveway has an entrance about 12 feet wide, but widens out to about 20 feet thereafter to allow parking two vehicles side-by-side.

The problem is totally oblivious drivers who -- despite the wider driveway on the left offering an easier and safer turnaround -- notice two cars parked side-by-side in my driveway and assume, without bothering to look, that my driveway is that wide at the entrance. They pull past my driveway, then back -- without turning their heads or watching their mirrors -- into where they assume my driveway opening is... right across the "peninsula" that contains an H-shaped structure holding my mailbox and my two neighbors' as well as carefully tended plantings of seasonal flowers.

After having plantings destroyed and the mailbox structure hit, I tried reflectors on stalks to mark the driveway entrance... which, of course, were promptly and repeatedly mowed down. I then installed 6" x 6" timber curbing, well-anchored into the ground. They backed right over that as well and continued to destroy the flowers and hit the mailbox. Worse, they sometimes got a rear wheel stuck and dug huge divots trying to free themselves.

A few years ago, when I had some serious landscaping done, I had an 800-lb. boulder placed behind the curbing in an effort to protect the mailbox.
No luck; the boulder gets repeatedly pushed up against the mailbox, plowing flowers in its wake, leaving me to try to lever it back in place... not easy!

I've watched countless drivers do this. They screech to a halt when they -- surprise! surprise! -- discover the dead end, slam the car into reverse without ever turning their heads or checking their mirrors, and proceed to back over my landscaping... cursing when they realize they've backed over a curb. They're usually gone before I can get out of the house to vent my wrath. If I manage to get out the front door, they often flip me the bird as they take off, presumably for having the audacity to put a curb in their way.

I even watched, astonished, as a furniture delivery truck backed into the driveway across the way (without the helper getting out to guide the driver), then proceeded to drive FORWARD over my curb and push the boulder into the mailboxes... all in clear sight of the driver. I managed to get out of the house and take down the license number and company name before he got out of sight. I called the company, and the management had the two perpetrators return, grumbling, to the scene to help me move the boulder back.

If that makes me weird, Halijaro, I'd ask you to consider being in my shoes for a while.

I came across this on the 'net today:

I was at Stratford station in London watching the crane engineers (I was waiting for a train, it's not a hobby..) finish their work and begin the decent down the long ladder when one slipped and lost all contact with the ladder!

Thank god they have several platforms on the way down, he wasn't too far off one and seemed ok but I can imagine he'd need a change of pants.

Was just sitting on couch looking at MV on the IPad when my dachshund puppy set this down next to me. I freaked out!