I play computer games while thinking about how much I
dislike lazy people, specifically my neighbor, pushing aside thoughts of the
illustration I need to finish. I give
myself freedom to procrastinate while remembering more lazy people who don't do
their fair share. I try to whip myself
into writing a blog post and play more computer games.
The neighbor issue is simple. We had a storm. Her tree
came down in her yard. The electric
company cut up the tree (free!) so they could get their equipment in to free up
the line. Tree was piled on my
lawn. I glared at the pile for a week. The neighbor sat on the front porch for days
watching other people clean up after the storm.
The night before the city's last pick up of storm damage I
dragged the pile to her tree lawn. She
came out when I had the last limb in my hand to spew negativity. The neighbor 2 doors down (2DD) cuts her
back yard. I cut her side yard. She does nothing and the world accommodates
her. I could go on, but you get the
point. People like this make my blood
boil. I have to cut her grass and move
her tree or I'll have to look at it forever with elevated blood pressure. It's easier to mow and move the pile.
Lazy people depend on people like me and 2DD. Why should they do anything when they don't
have to? 2DD says our hypocritical
church lady has never said thank you or offered him $10 for gas for cutting her
grass for years. Come to think of it,
she's never thanked me either. She's
entitled. She doesn't care if other
people are put out or that her weeds migrate to our yards. I'm not even getting into the mess of her
far back yard that has wrecked the drainage for the rest of us and is a
breeding ground for mosquitoes.
This is all recreational bitching over what is a recurring
but insignificant inconvenience with occasional peaks of irritation which
provide bonding moments with 2DD. The
greater point is that I'd like to think of people as a hive of bees, each doing
what they're supposed to do for the benefit of the hive. What do bees do when they have a lazy
member? I bet they just get on with the
work that needs to be done. I wonder if
they get irritated about it too?
Sometimes I think I should keep bees, and then I discovered I'm
already keeping bees since a bumblebee is living under my front step. I suspect that if there's 1 there's probably
more. I don't know if I should be
bothered by this or not? (Please advise
if you know best actions.) The brick steps
are attached to the front of the house, not really part of it. Bumblebees pollinate the flowers and
garden. I feel only mild concern for
the mail man since bumble bees are pretty mild, but I'd hate to be responsible
if he got stung.
Are you lazy or a busy bee?
What do you do when you have to do the work of someone who won't do
their bit?
