Boudicca's Voice

Hey Flaps, What We Gonna Do?

Two weeks ago, I drove home with the boys to find our garbage had been strewn over the course of 4 acres.

Or more.

My husband had put a plastic garbage bag, as the can was full, out by the curb and something had torn into it, distributing garbage across our front yard, across the street to the neighbor's front yard, next door to their side and front yard, across the cul de sac street to the main road and into the front yards of all those folks as well.

Paper, shellfish shells, banana peels, apple cores, nasty meat trays... actually in looking at our garbage you could tell that we do eat rather healthy.

Healthy or not, it was still strewn all over and was screaming, 'They're white trash!'

I was aghast when I drove up.

My kids eyes bugged as they realized we all had a big job ahead of us. Armed with plastic grocery bags and rubber gloves, we made our way into the yard to pick up the carnage. My husband pulled in shortly thereafter and assisted... the entire job took about 30 minutes.

I sent Bones across the cul de sac to the main drag to pick up paper that had blown over and Ringo to the next acre over to watch over Bones as he picked up his share. T went to the neighbor's yard and I saved the nastiest and most intense mess, at the foot of the driveway with ground up grapes and egg shells... for me.

I was pissed. Who in the hell had let out their dog? Was it a pack of dogs? Why in the hell did this pack of dogs drag paper across the street... down the street? What the hell?

We picked up, I told my husband never again were plastic bags to go to the curb, and that was that.

We all forgot about it.

... until...

Flash forward to last week when my husband happened to see one of our neighbors at my husband's place of business. She started laughing hysterically and essentially said to him, "OH Bill and I were driving by and we saw your yard! We could not quit laughing! I'm so sorry... but you had to see it. No less than 20 vultures had come into your yard, your yard was black with vultures and they were swooping from the sky, picking up garbage, tossing it, dropping it all over and the horror of it all made us laugh."

For those of you not in the know, these vultures are the size of a medium sized dog. They are big and fat and look like they could carry away a small child. We have found out recently that farmers are paying folks to shoot them as a flock will kill cattle.

And she said she wished she'd had a camera, and honestly, I wish she had too. I picked up the mess, but I'd surely like to have seen the 30-40 50 pound vultures hopping all over my yard, dropping garbage over 4 acres.

Or maybe... not.

Side note: Can you name the movie quote in the title of this post?

Posted by Boudicca at March 8, 2010 10:25 PM