Serving up Crow...

My latest dish of Old Crow was served up earlier today, but its been stewing since yesterday evening.

I was driving in after two hours in the dentist's chair. I had a tooth filled and a frenectomy. Although two hours of Nitrous Oxide was glorious, I had a bit of a headache from the gas. Also, the lidocaine was wearing off and I was starting to feel pain. Now, the table is set.

I opened the garage door to see that OC had the backdoor to the garage open. Because it was Tuesday, I figured OC was putting out the garbage for Thursday. Yes, she puts the garbage out two days early. But that's another story. Here's a silly little illustration.


So... Simple enough, the door was open. No problem. I didn't pull in quite as far as I usually do. Grabbed the stuff from the car and went inside. Later, Mrs. E2 parked behind me, and came in.

Fastforward to this afternoon. I'm loading the car with a bunch of electronic stuff to recycle (fifty bucks worth of recycling). Of course, OC waits until I pull out of the garage and start fiddling with my cell phone to stand by my window.

When I notice her, I roll the window down:

OC: "I had to close your door last night."
[in the three years we've lived here, she's had to close it twice. She leaves her door open constantly.]
E2: "Oh"?
OC: "You'll need to pull in further, the door hit your car last night."
E2: "When I came in yesterday, the [other] door was open."
[silly of me to think I can reason with her.]
OC: "There was plenty of room..."
E2: [cutting her off] "Ok, my bad. See ya later."

My point in this whole thing you ask? To me its evident that she feels the need to bring to my attention EVERY LITTLE THING that we do that falls outside of her small world management plan. Nevermind the time she needed to change something with the electricity and just turned the jumper off FOR THE ENTIRE HOUSE! No warning, no up-yours, no nothing. Mrs. E2 was working on a paper at the time. Luckily, I have installed a universal power supply with a battery backup.

Look at that... its a two-fer Old Crow post... and a bargain at twice the price.