Wednesday, 24 January 2007 03:28 pm
Just to Ketch You Up
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deckardcanineThe other day, when there was still snow on the ground, I found two halves of a large tomato outside my door. They weren't splattered or evidently rotten; they just lay there, out of place.
This is particularly curious when you consider that a stranger would have a hard time approaching my door. There is a tall wooden gate that I always keep locked with a key. It would be a heck of a bother to climb over, and any tomato to be chucked that far would have to splatter, especially since my door is at the bottom of a set of stairs.
A more likely explanation is that the perpetrator came thru the main back door of the house. I suspect that one of my landlord's two young sons dropped the tomato halves. The boys do get noisily angry a lot, and I seem to recall their noise from outside the evening before, so perhaps one lost track of the produce in a physical fit of rage. It still seems unlikely, but I like the idea better than that they intended an unusual and lame shenanigan.
I decided not to tell my landlord about this unless it starts to recur frequently. Taking them to the trash can wasn't such an inconvenience. Mainly I'm just bemused.
This is particularly curious when you consider that a stranger would have a hard time approaching my door. There is a tall wooden gate that I always keep locked with a key. It would be a heck of a bother to climb over, and any tomato to be chucked that far would have to splatter, especially since my door is at the bottom of a set of stairs.
A more likely explanation is that the perpetrator came thru the main back door of the house. I suspect that one of my landlord's two young sons dropped the tomato halves. The boys do get noisily angry a lot, and I seem to recall their noise from outside the evening before, so perhaps one lost track of the produce in a physical fit of rage. It still seems unlikely, but I like the idea better than that they intended an unusual and lame shenanigan.
I decided not to tell my landlord about this unless it starts to recur frequently. Taking them to the trash can wasn't such an inconvenience. Mainly I'm just bemused.