Overly dramatic sign-burning bouncy

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Star Member Savannahmann (3,200 posts)

My neighbor burned his yard signs this morning.


Around the corner from me lives a man enjoying his retirement with his wife. He's 74, and worked for nearly thirty years at a number of Hospitals. He retired as a Chief Administration Officer from a pretty large medical center.

This is what you read in the margins of a screenplay. Almost no one knows this level of detail about neighbors.

 Nice guy, his wife loves to cook egg rolls for the wife and me. I've helped them with yard work, and carried a couple loads of trash to the local collection point. We celebrated the Fourth of July with them. We've enjoyed beers together in the evening while we both walk our dogs. In other words, I have more than a passing acquaintance with the man and his wife.

I should say so - you know everything there is to know about him.


This morning, I walked my dog as usual, and I saw my neighbor burning his yard signs. Signs for Jason Carter, Michelle Nunn, and John Barrow. All three are Democrats by the way. I stopped and spoke with him.

And here begins the "hook," as it's called in Hollywood.

All the excuses don't matter to him. All the explanations don't matter. He is furious that the Government is acting stupidly. He's outraged that the Administration is refusing to take public health protective measure number one and risk lives. This man bought yard signs to support the candidates. He displayed them on a fairly busy road, a main road in this part of the county. Thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of cars drive by his house every day.

SOmehow this detail didn't make it in the first sentence. One does not live "around the corner" from someone who lives on a major road. Also, political signs are generally not sold.


Locals will see his yard signs down. Some may think they were stolen, but most will know what my neighbor did. Word will spread. So how do I handle this? Do I say my neighbor suddenly went Racist? Do I say that the signs were stolen and hope they don't check with the source when he goes to the local store?

Here's where someone reading this treatment will write "WC" in large letters: WHO CARES? It's what they write in notes to indicate that the point is not credible or worthless to the plot. Also, "local store?" This is called adding detail. It's what liars do to seem more plausible.


We just lost I don't know how many votes. Because our Government won't take the precautions taken by Belize, Mexico, the Ivory Coast, and who knows how many other nations.

Said no person to a neighbor, ever.

You can only come down on the unpopular side of so many issues. We live in a Representative Republic. Our elected leaders were chosen to represent the ideals, the will of the people. If we don't do that, we won't be selected by the people to represent them. Who's fault is that? Is it the fault of the people for losing faith? Is it the fault of the Representatives who failed to represent?

In other words, your 74-year-old retired blahblahblah is Ben Franklin. Anyone ever notice how every DUmmy seems to live next to a Ben Franklin?


My neighbor didn't mention if he was getting Republican signs, and I was afraid to ask. I am not going to ask him either. But I wouldn't be surprised if I see them, or if I don't. He's really disgusted and disappointed right now. I can tell you this, those candidates won't have signs in his yard again this year.

Again: WC? Who cares?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5686741


Shitty bouncy.


No less than KittyWampus agrees with me:

KittyWampus (47,366 posts)
 15. Cool Story, Bro.
 



Hehehehehe.

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