The Neighbor

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
Joe looked around his tool shed and spied the drill, and all those lovely bits…he didn’t usually choose an act of revenge but he was at his wits’ end! The neighbor’s dog Sparky barked at everyone who passed his yard, whether in or out of the house. Joe was tired of it. He had talked to the neighbor about the dog’s constant barking and others did too and nothing changed. Joe couldn’t sleep thinking of what he could do to stop it.
Well of course he could harness the dog and drill it to death, but that would cause a bloody mess, and against his good nature, or he could build a cage with these tools and secret the dog away to another county. Yes, that would work.
Joe got busy building a cage and made sure he drilled a few air holes. He didn’t want to kill the dog, just get rid of him. After he finished the box, he went to the grocery and bought beef jerky, the really smelly kind and lined the cage to lure the dog. He dug a hole under the fence in the back, not visible to anyone, under a bush and set the cage. It didn’t take long before ol’ Sparky was inside the box and the trap door edge shut down immediately. Joe gathered it up quickly and put it in his trunk. He was off on a long road trip to leave the dog.
It was blissfully quiet for two weeks and all the neighbors sighed with relief. Of course Sparky’s owner was curious as to what happened to his dog but didn’t say a thing to his neighbors. Secretly, he was tired of the dog too.

Sparky was found by a farmer and trained him to guard his sheep, and lived a happy life.
“All’s well that ends well…”

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