Mar152012

An Irrefutable Offer/YOU CANNOT PASS THIS UP

So I’ve done it.  I no longer live in Denver.  Land of cassette tape belt buckles, evil finger muppets, golf balls, box cutters, etc.  I now live in New York. Land of prostitutes in mink coats, rude cabbies, gays, jews, skyscrapers and bagels.  I thought I had left behind the quaint treasures of my yard, but upon waiting for the bus a few days ago, I’ve discovered that true shit in my yard will always find me.  Let’s take this gem for instance.

For those of you with cataracts. I’ll transcribe:  “JVC 27″ Colour Television in EXCELLENT CONDITION This is the best BARGAIN of this year asking  $100 DOLLARS Do not be shy Check it out Give us a call at XXX-XXX-XXXX  CALL US ANYTIME”

Let’s take a moment to consider this.

1. WTF?

2. WTF?  It’s nearly duct taped to a fucking tree.

3. How fucking bossy is this ad?  it’s one fucking order after the other.  CALL NOW… CALL ANYTIME… DON’T BE SHY.  Fuck, Don’t tell me what to do, Whitney.

4. Is this really a good deal?  a 27 inch tv for 100 bucks whose biggest selling feature is that it’s “COLOUR”?  what a racist way to refer to a TV.  and what’s the alternative?  Black and White?  What is this, the 60′s?

5. Where’s the punctuation?  This isn’t fucking Ulysses.

And finally, CALL ANYTIME?  Really.  I’ll bet if I had posted this at 2AM on the interwebs, I don’t think they’d be so eager, sitting by to take your call.

Sadly, this is still classier than craigslist.  Not that I’d know a thing about that.

 

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Jan042012

Evening Lurker/Whitney Hit a New Low

In what may just be my last Shitinmyyard post (it’s going to be shit on the street in a few weeks), I’m unsure of how to interpret this one.

Yes, this is a fucking box cutter casually thrown into my snow covered yard.

Some potential ideas.

Whitney Houston was in my yard looking for crack and dropped her weapon of choice?  Cause that bitch will cut you.

well, that may be all the ideas I have.  WTF?  it’s like right by my door.

thoughts?

 

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Nov032011

Future Good Karma/More Insight Into Being Judgemental

The other night I was walking in with my groceries and other things and saw… a fucking wallet.  And not just ANY wallet: a Chain wallet with a fucking shark on it.  YES.  I found a kid’s wallet in my yard.  I immediately assumed it was one of my neighbor’s grandkids.

After snapping a photo in its natural habitat, I decided I should probably investigate and immediately return (cause I’m that fucking nice).

Upon opening the wallet, I was stunned to find, a Driver Fucking License (yea “Driver.”  For some reason Colorado only calls it a Driver License, unless your at the office you get it, then it’s “Driver’s License.”  We’re all high here, don’t judge.  Yea, I totally thought an adult’s wallet had to be owned by a 14 year old boy.

Upon further investigation, the address was “RIGHT FUCKING NEAR ME.”  So groceries in hand, I walk over and the guy is sitting on his stoop, high as a kite.  I said “I think you dropped your wallet” and handed it to him.  Stunned, he kept saying “you fucking found my fucking wallet over fucking there on the fucking sidewalk.”  Man of many words this one.

He motions to his friend to give me a couple of bucks.  I refuse and say if you ever find my wallet, please return it.  Then was offered pot, which makes me think that maybe they were trying to smoke me up to see if I’d also lose my wallet so they could return it and we could be even.

Say no to drugs, kids.

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Oct112011

Birthday Gift?

So I turned the dirty thirty last week, and low and behold the morning after I hit the big 3-0, I find myself waltzing past an empty container of “Authentic” Cognac.

Let me be clear (to quote Obama), I did not drink this.

So someone must have really wanted to join in on the celebration, but for whatever reason didn’t make the party (Likely didn’t invite them, I’m kind of a bitch like that), and then decided the next best thing was to sit next to my water meter and drown their sorrows with cognac (seriously, fucking cognac?  what is this, a rap video?)

The one thing that’s got me puzzled is why is it labeled “Authentic?” It actually causes me to wonder if it truly isn’t a knock-off.  Dear St. Remy, you’re clearly over compensating for something.  It’s not attractive and causes me to be skeptical of you.

 

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Sep192011

Bad Decisions and Clearly Messed Up Thought Processes

For this post, I have to divulge a little secret.  Half the reason, I’m assuming, so much shit lands in my yard is because I’m directly across the street from four dumpsters that basically serve everyone on my block.  So a good stiff breeze is often the culprit.

Yesterday I went to throw out my garbage (read McDonalds bag that I left in my car) and came across something too fucking amazing not to post.

It’s a weird elfin statue.  I mean, look at this fucking thing.  It’s not small either.  Probably a foot tall.  But what strikes me about this thing is a few details.  Look at the face… he looks shocked.  shocked to be a part of such an ugly, ridiculous knick knack.

Detail number 2. This thing was carefully placed on the edge of the dumpster.  So that means someone thought, “I no longer want this, but someone might.”

I cannot wrap my head around this.  Someone somewhere went into a store and thought “yes, perfect.  I’ve been needing an oversized gnome statue.”  Then, presumably years later, thought, “You know, I don’t need this anymore.” and walked out to the dumpster and thought, “You know, it’s a shame.  I’m sure someone would love this. Let me carefully place it on the edge of the dumpster so that one of my neighbors might pick it up.”

There are so many things that confuse me here.  Why would you buy this?  where would you buy this?  and if you’ve decided you don’t want it, what the fuck makes you think someone else might?  It’s a ridiculous gnome statue.

That I totally am going to take it and give it to someone for a housewarming gift.

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Sep122011

Progress/Mindfuck

Now we’ve more than established that I am a bad neighbor.  Likely a bad friend.  Definitely a bad homeowner, and probably a little bit racist and/or xenophobic (only for kicks, though). That said, I would like to think that amidst all the trash and tumbleweeds that seem to find their way into my little corner of the ghetto, I would notice when the city decides to bore a hole in my front lawn and put in a water meter.

Evidently not.

So I’m walking out to Ernie (my car) and look down (because who knows what I’ll find) and bam, a water meter. I’m a little dumbstruck by the fact that I honestly have no idea when/who/why all of this went down.  My house is 100 years old, so it really could have happened sometime since 1906, BUT, I don’t remember it ever being there, so I’m inclined to think it’s new.

BUT, i’m so terrible at maintaining my lawn that I truly have no idea.  They could have installed it yesterday.  It could have been there since I moved in.  No idea.  It’s like the hatch on the show Lost: a total fucking mystery.

PS.  I’m guessing all of you were expecting an inappropriate joke about there being an anonymous manhole in my front lawn… guess again, fuckers. HA

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Aug092011

Border Problems/A Welcome Wagon

I’m all about diversity.  I mean lets be serious,  I basically shit rainbows.  I even went through diversity training in College where we talked about how our differences could cause us to think differently.  Issue is Colorado is as white as a bar of ivory soap, so we were reduced to talking about how hair and eye color could affect our outlook on the world.  Which, unless you’re a ginger, is probably bullshit.

But the other day, I was getting out of my car in the ghetto to see an invitation to a “Cultural Diversity Block Party.”  What I found odd and scary was the only other language was… Vietnamese.  I guess while we were busy building a fence to keep Carlos out of my neighborhood, the Charlies dug a hole right under that shit.

But how kind of them to invite me to their fiesta, or however you pronounce party in Vietnamese.  Note: they didn’t put it in Spanish, so I’m guess those crazy Vietmanese are, um, how to put this delicately… mildly racist?

I wonder if they’ll have Bahn Mi?  God, I love Vietnamese food.

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Jul252011

Disco Fever/The Morning After

These days in Denver, when you see a small ziploc bag, sometimes it’s hard to tell what kind of drugs it contains.  I mean, pot is basically legal here.  I can throw a tennis ball and hit 4 “Wellness Centers” from my front porch, and evidently 80% of Denverites have glaucoma.  But the other day, I found this tiny little thing, no bigger than my toenail and knew, UH OH, someone’s jaw is hurting today.

Now, we must analyze.  Were people rolling in my yard?  I mean, I realize with all my amazing landscaping, people would be tempted to walk around, feel the lush vegetation or whatnot, but come on, there’s got to be better times than chilling next to the beige beauty (my home’s name).  And let’s be serious, my neighbor would have told them to “get the fuck outta there.”

So here’s what I think happened.  Some crazy kids had a case of the Disco Fever, glammed themselves up in vinyl pants and mesh shirts, covered themselves in glitter.  I mean more glitter than Ke$ha.  Walking disco balls.  Sashaying like Naomi Campbell down my street.  They pause, see that they can hide in my tall grass, take their pills, and toss the pill bag, where else, but in my yard.

Little do they know, whatever ecstasy those crazy glitter kids felt didn’t touch the high I got from finding their pill bag in my yard the next morning.  Thank you, glitterati.  Thank you.

Other hypothesis:  The tabs belonged to the Finger Muppet

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Jul042011

Naomi Cambell’s Night Gone Bad

Like most homos, I grew up being given Ninja Turtles, various Nerf Weapons and other butch toys for the standard occasions such as birthdays, christmases (how the hell do you pluralize christmas?), and other life events such as confirmation into the church and such. All of which was met with a solid “meh.” Like most mos, I knew where the sisters kept the barbies (and the barbie ferrari!!). I also knew how to make that bitch work it like naomi campbell.

So you can imagine my shock, awe and sheer glee and subsequent devastation when at neighbor friend’s house, we found her, minding her own damned business in the shrubbery, decapitated like an Al Qaeda hostage.

You first, and most importantly, have to ask yourself, who gnawed the head?  And why?  Did they give her a really bad haircut (sidenote, that shit doesn’t grow back.  learned the hard way) and go all Mommy Dearest on that shit?  And why’s she naked?  Had it been a Ken doll, it would have made sense, total walk of shame out of my buddy’s house, but a lady?  really?

So here’s what I think happened:  Late night, totally smacked out on some china white heroin, just like naomi campbell, Ms. B decides she needs another fix.  We live in the ghetto, so she heads over to our local dealers’ houses (god knows how many there are), tries to trade some action in the toilet cubicle for a hit, and then the shit hits the fan, or really, her head hits the fan.  Knocks it clear across the room, she runs out like a freshly butchered chicken, stumbles, lands and winds up spread eagle in my neighbor’s shrubbery.  Sad.

The moral here is perfectly clear.  Stop giving gay kids butch toys.

and say no to drugs, naomi campbell.

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