Post by German guy on Nov 3, 2004 18:24:47 GMT -5
This is my life... the hurricane knocked down my neighbore's privacy fence, and a 12 - 14 foot tree that was growing halfway into the fence... well it also messed up OUR chainlink AND left a big gaping hole for our dogs to get out into the world through. yesterday at 10 PM my mom says to me
"Tommy i got a chainsaw today, tomorrow i want you to cut up that tree because on thursday morning people are coming to put a new fence in and it's in the way" i think...
"ok that won't take to long, just a few minutes"
i get home from school and start trying to teach myself how to use a chainsaw when all of a sudden i realize that we have no bar and chain oil (keeps the chain from overheating and melting due to friction) so i go on a quest to find some bar and chain oil... i search for a half an hour before i decide that God hates me and give up.
So now i have a chainsaw that can't run and a tree keeping a fence from being put up... the solution: dig the tree up by the roots. I begin digging only to find that the roots ALL intertwine with the roots of another tree that is 10 feet away... so i have to CUT the roots out of the ground so i can pick the tree up and carry it out of the way. Simple enough.. i'll just go into our workroom and get our hatchet... wait... we don't have a hatchet... or any other sharp cutting object.... all i have is a dull, rusty, old shovel.... so i go to work trying to cut 6 inch roots with an old, rusty, dull shovel.... an hour later i've cut about 3 of them and decide that maybe if i pick the tree up and push it the other way it can break the roots.....
FINALLY some success on this God forsaken job. So i go to pick up the tree and move it only to realize that there is ANOTHER root (the biggest of them all by the way) that's still in the ground AND being held down by the pipes to our sprinkler system. So i grab my rusty, old, dull, and by now beat up shovel and begin hacking away at the roots praying that i don't break the pipes and have to spend another few hours work fixing them this weekend.... needless to say that they're now broken into a million pieces... but after another 20 minutes of pushing and pulling and begging and pleading, the tree finally toppled along with the last of the roots.... all so i could move it five feet to the right so the fence people won't have to remove it themselves and my mom can save 20 dollars on having the fence installed.... what do i get from this?
"thank you Tom, that wasn't as hard as you thought it would be now was it?" no money, no nothing, just a smart ass remark about it not being hard....
now i'm going to go memorise lines from a stupid play that i have to know perfectly by tomorrow otherwise i get a 50% on a performance i have to do friday in my drama class.. then i have to do questions (i can only get 50% now because they're late) from a book that i havn't had a chance ot read because i have to do crap like what i just described every day of my damn life... shoot me now
Aya: When people don't space paragraphs...I'm annoyed
Tommy: When people change my rants to make them more organized instead of how my actual thoughts are...I'm annoyed >.<
"Tommy i got a chainsaw today, tomorrow i want you to cut up that tree because on thursday morning people are coming to put a new fence in and it's in the way" i think...
"ok that won't take to long, just a few minutes"
i get home from school and start trying to teach myself how to use a chainsaw when all of a sudden i realize that we have no bar and chain oil (keeps the chain from overheating and melting due to friction) so i go on a quest to find some bar and chain oil... i search for a half an hour before i decide that God hates me and give up.
So now i have a chainsaw that can't run and a tree keeping a fence from being put up... the solution: dig the tree up by the roots. I begin digging only to find that the roots ALL intertwine with the roots of another tree that is 10 feet away... so i have to CUT the roots out of the ground so i can pick the tree up and carry it out of the way. Simple enough.. i'll just go into our workroom and get our hatchet... wait... we don't have a hatchet... or any other sharp cutting object.... all i have is a dull, rusty, old shovel.... so i go to work trying to cut 6 inch roots with an old, rusty, dull shovel.... an hour later i've cut about 3 of them and decide that maybe if i pick the tree up and push it the other way it can break the roots.....
FINALLY some success on this God forsaken job. So i go to pick up the tree and move it only to realize that there is ANOTHER root (the biggest of them all by the way) that's still in the ground AND being held down by the pipes to our sprinkler system. So i grab my rusty, old, dull, and by now beat up shovel and begin hacking away at the roots praying that i don't break the pipes and have to spend another few hours work fixing them this weekend.... needless to say that they're now broken into a million pieces... but after another 20 minutes of pushing and pulling and begging and pleading, the tree finally toppled along with the last of the roots.... all so i could move it five feet to the right so the fence people won't have to remove it themselves and my mom can save 20 dollars on having the fence installed.... what do i get from this?
"thank you Tom, that wasn't as hard as you thought it would be now was it?" no money, no nothing, just a smart ass remark about it not being hard....
now i'm going to go memorise lines from a stupid play that i have to know perfectly by tomorrow otherwise i get a 50% on a performance i have to do friday in my drama class.. then i have to do questions (i can only get 50% now because they're late) from a book that i havn't had a chance ot read because i have to do crap like what i just described every day of my damn life... shoot me now
Aya: When people don't space paragraphs...I'm annoyed
Tommy: When people change my rants to make them more organized instead of how my actual thoughts are...I'm annoyed >.<
The idea was, just say it out loud and then everyone politely claps...I got about 3 people half clapping and everyone else just stared...a fun time.