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Wrenching Dad
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- Sep 20, 2007
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I was feeding the cat and heard a loud bang on the roof of the house.
I walked outside and three boys with hockey sticks were on our Hillside hitting rocks down on the homes and cars and trucks below.
I didn't think much of it, didn't really realize the gravity of their actions, that is, what they were really doing,, but then realized they just took out a shingle like a clay pigeon at a skeet shooting range. In fact, several shingles had been hit.
They all vanished as soon as I looked up the hill,, and I figured,, oh hell, another neighborhood problem.
Then later in the day, I realized the wifes car windshield was demolished as was the windshield on the GMC,,,, obviously from the kids with the Hockey sticks.
So,,, WTF,,, I have to "have a go" with the neighborhood parents.
Well, the kids took out several other windsheilds and other shingles as well, and the paintjob on one neighbors new Dodge truck,,,, and when we all compaired stories,,,, word spread fast.
This was eating at me all Thanksgiving,,,,
So today,,,,
I just got outta the truck from picking up Maynard from school and a girl walked up to me and told me she had the boys that did the damage.
It was her two boys and they were shaking in their shoes in the back of her SUV.
She's a tiny little thing of a mom,, but she keeps her kids correct and was ready to pay for all damages.
Just the thought that this may not happen again will satisfy me.
I'll let it pass on the strength of her courage to come down and make it right.
Damn it pissed me off though.
I walked outside and three boys with hockey sticks were on our Hillside hitting rocks down on the homes and cars and trucks below.
I didn't think much of it, didn't really realize the gravity of their actions, that is, what they were really doing,, but then realized they just took out a shingle like a clay pigeon at a skeet shooting range. In fact, several shingles had been hit.
They all vanished as soon as I looked up the hill,, and I figured,, oh hell, another neighborhood problem.
Then later in the day, I realized the wifes car windshield was demolished as was the windshield on the GMC,,,, obviously from the kids with the Hockey sticks.
So,,, WTF,,, I have to "have a go" with the neighborhood parents.
Well, the kids took out several other windsheilds and other shingles as well, and the paintjob on one neighbors new Dodge truck,,,, and when we all compaired stories,,,, word spread fast.
This was eating at me all Thanksgiving,,,,
So today,,,,
I just got outta the truck from picking up Maynard from school and a girl walked up to me and told me she had the boys that did the damage.
It was her two boys and they were shaking in their shoes in the back of her SUV.
She's a tiny little thing of a mom,, but she keeps her kids correct and was ready to pay for all damages.
Just the thought that this may not happen again will satisfy me.
I'll let it pass on the strength of her courage to come down and make it right.
Damn it pissed me off though.