Weeding out the Neighbors

A funny thing happened last Monday. My roommate Alison & I were home enjoying a quiet night of TV watching when we heard a small knock on the door. We considered ignoring it because usually small knocks come from small neighbors and small neighbors usually mean trouble. I got up and answered it anyway, and boy was I glad I did. It turned out to be our favorite little next door neighbor and she came bearing surprisingly good and hilarious news. Our convo went like this: 

Adorable 4th Grade Neighbor Girl: “How many of you are home?” 

Me: “It’s just Alison and me right now.” 

Girl: “How many are going to come tonight?” 

Me (lighting up with anticipated excitement of them putting on a play or something): “What’s happening tonight?!” 

Girl (slightly awkward now): “Um, no. I mean how many people are going to be in your house tonight? Because my parents made pink chicken and wanted to give you guys plates of food.” 

Me (genuinely & rightfully excited this time): “Oh! Wendy’s coming home later so there will be three of us tonight. That’s so nice! Please tell them thanks for us!” 

Girl: “Ok, and, um, they also said that if you ever wanted to borrow our, um, lawnmower, or, uh, weed pulling tool thing you can.” 

I looked around and noticed her small frame nearly engulfed by the weeds overcoming our front porch area. Then I eyeballed their side of the yard, decorated with freshly planted rose bushes in almost pristine condition--minus the weeds from our side threatening to encroach upon their thorny bottoms. 

I found this to be a hilarious and well thought out way for the neighbors to nudge us into taking care of our yard work. Not only did they butter us up with food and offer their tools to us, but they did it all through the communication of cuteness. This little girl is seriously hard to resist. So that night we feasted on scrumptious homemade chicken (I still don’t know why it was pink), rice, and potato salad, and then we took care of the yard the next day. Well played neighbors, well played. 

The Pink Chicken Deliciousness

    

The Resulted Weeding