Last night I had the experience
Of others not being lenient
They were using their power
At an ungodly hour
It was three in the morning
And without warning
Sounds of a motor pervaded
My room below, it invaded.
Now I’m all for cleaning
But at that hour? Demeaning!
I tried pillows and headphones
No luck to stop those tones
Rumbling and then an occasional drop
As the plugins were changed, so it stopped
Temporarily while furniture slid
‘Cross the floor. How could I rid
Myself of this onslaught
Of noise? Then I thought
I could make them cower
Disconnecting their power.
#JusJoJan Daily Prompt โ Jan. 9th/17
You really need to fight fire with fire. There is no way that what they are doing is reasonable, if they can’t be spoken to give them a taste of their own medicine.
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I thought of that but I have two other close neighbors and wouldn’t want to offend them.
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Are they not effected the same way as you? Would they not be willing to accept your payback if the end game is that those making the noise finally stop.
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I don’t know them personally. But they’re quiet.
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Join forces and make it a combined attack. Seriously there is no way anyone should have to put up with that.
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Btw, couldn’t reply there, but here I’ll say, the train was an original plot, and you can’t get better than that! More please.
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Thanks ๐
Good stories don’t come along every day ๐
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You asked what to do with the time? Write!! You know, sometimes you can be a real stupidhead. But I like you anyway.
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I aspire to be a stupidhead some days.
And believe it or not I do spend my time writing, saved time should probably be spent with the kids.
I haven’t written as much today, but I have done some writing and I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with my book.
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Finish the editing and get it on the shelves! Interested parties are waiting!
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It’s not that simple. I may have to pay for multiple edits. I need to design a cover, or pay for one. Then I have to decide whether to self publish or hit publishers.
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Well it’s not going to happen washing dishes! Was that too harsh? Remember, no sleep last night….
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I haven’t washed the dishes yet today, but they will need doing soon. I did do some washing though.
And would it matter if it was too harsh, I could be drying here and you would still pick on me ๐ฆ
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Aww, you missed your nap….
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I rarely nap unless it’s parked out the front of the school waiting for miss 8 to finish.
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So far, also quiet on the western front, except the wind.
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I hate windy nights
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Wasn’t that a song? I guess it was, I love the rainy nights๐๐
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That’s the one
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In my old house in CO, a windy night meant going to the basement to relight the pilot on the water heater.
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A windy night here means listening to the wind smash the front of the house all night
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And my Windows and coming through the door lock.This might give you a laugh as it did me:When they installed the new door it had a peephole in it. They asked me to come try it to see if I could open and close it myself. I looked at the door and had a laughing fit. The guys soon started chuckling but didn’t know why. I said, it has the peephole, and then they realized, it was for a standing person. Even if I could pull myself up with nothing to hold onto, I still wouldn’t be tall enough. Sometimes you have to laugh instead of getting frustrated you can’t do something.
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I’m worried what you might see from a peep hole at your height ๐
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Yes we laughed about that too.
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You wont ever have to ask to see the delivery guys package to prove he works for UPS.
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A pun! Cheeky
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Would only be cheeky if he had his back to you ๐
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You’re getting more clever every day๐
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I’ve been getting cleverer every day since the day I was born.
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Good to know
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Took your time replying ๐
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I haven’t been to your site but read your new poems.
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I only did one poem. Wrote a story over breakfast though.
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Well then my email delivered two.
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Shine On I wrote yesterday morning (about 30 hours ago) An uneven fight was about 14 hours ago when the prompt changed, they are both poems and Forever Unforgiven is a story published a few hours ago.
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On your site I see two new things. I responded. Another sleepless night with the wind. Actually moved some mobile homes and threw other things around. Creepy!
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It’s weird but as much as I hate the wind I do go out the morning after and look for things that have moved. It used to be worse on the farm, the farm was 45ks from home so we could have calm weather at home and go out to the farm to find trees down over fences and all sorts of things.
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All read and commented sir(salute)
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Thank you ๐
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Ok, but in my defense they were written in the form of poems. Idk much about form. I admire some who put their poems in picture form.
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I didn’t think the last one was in form of a poem, but ok ๐
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I don’t know…..I’m not the author or an author in any form.
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Bah, don’t sell yourself short, you do a pretty darn good job even if it is in the short form.
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Thank you, I appreciate your reviews.
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I think.๐
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You welcome, you deserve the kudos.
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I thought you told me you thought I should end stories.
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Do as I say not as I do ๐
One or two of yours I would have liked to see where you went, and while I accept people want to see the same from me from time to time there are stories I like to end early, and for different reasons.
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I agree. Sometimes it gets too personal and you “have to quit while you’re ahead”
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Sometimes for me its a case of the ending may be too long, it might be a case of too much same same, it might be I can’t figure out the end. But there is always the idea that leaving something open does two things, one allows the reader to use their own mind and two allows an opening if I wanted to go back one day.
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I like the way you think, except for….nah, never mind
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Ooohhh open to interpretation, it’s like a choose your own adventure book ๐
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And yes, it was dark, painful, and there is no happy ending to the (lay down…..) poem, story, whatever
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That one I really didn’t want to end. I wanted to leave it hanging because there wouldn’t be a short path to a happy ending there. Someone in that much darkness doesn’t come out quickly.
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If ever
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yeah if ever
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My answer to this was if ever. Looking at the list, it’s hard to keep in synch
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it is “_
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You lost me, lost
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I’m probably lost too.
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Easy isn’t it?
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Oh I get lost all the time, most of the time it’s a case of fake it until I make it
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So
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You’re one of those men who hate asking for directions?
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No but I give up easy.
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Hmmm, thought you were a pirate
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No I am a real person, pirates live in big boats, sail the seas, rape and steal and drink rum. I only drink rum…and steal ladies hearts ๐
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I believe it!๐
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I’m glad you believe I am real ๐
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Well I can believe you can steal hearts, and drink rum.
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I’m good at one of those things ๐
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I believe that too๐
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I haven’t had a taste for rum since I was 16 and got horribly drunk on the shit we export out of this country with a big white bear on it, but I don’t mind it these days.
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I haven’t had any alcohol since I was on pain meds. Now I could but I don’t have easy access to it.
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I’m not a big drinker, I drink cider and beer occasionally and rum or bourbon sometimes but rarely more than a few a night when I do. I haven’t been drunk in20 odd years.
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We used to make our low cider, regular and hard.
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A friend of ours once made cider, I used to fix her computer for cider but it became dangerous fixing her computer at 9am ๐
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Um, why?
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Drinking at 9am is not great idea when you know the alcohol content, we had no idea what the alcohol content of her stuff was.
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Sure, I believe you…..uh huh, sure
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I used to drink at 10pm when I got home from night shift, but drinking for breakfast only happens on fishing weekends.
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I used to have one glass of plum wine on my birthday. Wouldn’t mind some of that. Living alone is not conducive to drinking. I might like it too much!๐
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Living alone was what drove me to drink ๐ Living with my wife made me a social drinker.
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I can see the appeal, that’s why I don’t.
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To be fair I was a fairly heavy drinker before I lived by myself, living by myself didn’t change that much. Driving trucks and needing to be zero alcohol made me cut my drinking.
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Good.
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My favorite mixed drink is a gin and tonic with a lot of lime, or a salty dog.
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I don’t often change drinks.
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Now if you were a Viking, there’d be no question to any of it!
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Could be worse I could be a brainless girl who can’t rescue her husband.
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.??
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Brainless girl who can’t save her husband Jamie without help….pfft so much for the brains of the show!
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You on that again?๐
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I was just letting you know we have seen Jamie rescued and she did bugger all to help.
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The combination of the last two meant a lot to me because of my friend.
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Oh man that would suck!
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It does. Can’t wait to see what tonight has in store!๐
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