Would you kill me if my dog pissed on your lawn?
When I was young I raised tomatoes in our garden. One day our neighbor's chickens escaped from their pen. They (at least in my mind) made a beeline to my garden. When we finally chased them away, they had damaged most of the ripe tomatoes.
I suppose an analyst would say that I was "obsessed". I don't believe that I was any more "obsessed" than the older teenagers who spent every Saturday afternoon washing, waxing and buffing their cars. If I, or a horde of rampaging chickens, had every scratched the finish of one of their cars, or Heaven forbid, pissed on a hubcap, I am sure that there would have been a violent reaction. The word pummel comes to mind. I would have been beaten to a pulp.
Dennis the Menace was a television series based on the Hank Ketcham comic strip of the same name. The show aired from 1959 to 1963 on CBS. Dennis the Menace and Mr. Wilson had a love/hate relationship. Dennis was always aggravating Mr. Wilson but usually did not realize it. In one episode Dennis mistakes Mr. Wilson's dahlia bulbs for sweet potatoes, and, after his bedtime, he switches the sweet potatoes for dahlia bulbs.
So, I'll ask you again: "Would you kill me if my dog pissed on your lawn?" Are you obsessed"?
Mr. Wilson would turn red, huff and puff and scream "Dennis". He'd be angry, but by the end of the show would admit to his wife that more flowers could always be grown. I certainly "over reacted" after the "chicken attack". I ran down the hill and threw rocks at the chicken coop. I was punished, but lived to plant another garden.
Charles J. Clements, a 69-year-old former Marine was known to threaten anyone who dared to set foot on his lawn. He is being held on $3 million bond, accused of shooting and killing his neighbor after the neighbor's dog urinated on his lawn.
So, I'll ask you again: "Would you kill me if my dog pissed on your lawn?" Are you obsessed"? Hopefully you don't live in my town. If so, I hope to god you don't own any chickens. I'm growing tomatoes again!
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