PLANT RAAAAAAAAAAAGE

[nonelvis]

The tree pruners finally left, so I went out to the backyard to check on the damage and discovered that not only is our yard now full of impact craters, my beloved giant rudbeckia is GONE. One hundred percent, totally, completely gone, cut down to a few inches of stalk. It was in full bloom and one of my favorite plants to look at.

I have to think that something large fell on it, and the guys had no choice to cut it back. But I am very, very, very angry that no one checked with me first.

If this plant doesn't come back next year, the neighbor is buying me a new one.

Comments

[fonticulus.livejournal.com]

W. T. F? Sorry to hear it.

[nonelvis]

Thanks. How hard could it have been to knock on my door? They knew I was there.

GAH.

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

No fucking way.

[nonelvis]

The chain-link fence behind the plant is dented, so clearly something large and heavy fell on it. But even so, it would have taken them five minutes to knock on my door and apologize. Fuck, I'm angry about this.

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

Damn straight. That's ridiculous.

[platypus]

Fuckers.

[nonelvis]

I am trying to reassure myself that the plant will be okay, because I always cut it back nearly that far at the end of the summer, but by then it's done growing! It was in its prime right now, so I have no idea how this will affect future growth.

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a note to the neighbor? In the I-thought-you'd-want-to-know-that-the-tree-thugs-did-this kind of thing. That way, later, when it doesn't come back, they'll remember the incident and what caused it. Just wondrin.

[nonelvis]

The pruners will be back later this week to finish the job -- currently the tree resembles the world's largest truffula tree, because only its uppermost branches are left -- so I'll have it out with them in person then.

[xeney.livejournal.com]

I would still let the neighbors know. We paid our tree guys a small fortune -- if they had damaged something in the neighbor's yard and failed to apologize I would have wanted to know about it, especially if there was a damaged fence that I was going to be on the hook for.

Our tree guys were fabulous and I can't imagine them doing that, but if they had, we'd have gone elsewhere the next time.

[nonelvis]

Next time I see the neighbor, I'll definitely mention it. He's a reasonable guy, and will probably not be happy that the tree guys didn't bother to tell me about the damage.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

THAT SUCKS.

[nonelvis]

Yes, the angry duck icon matches my mood perfectly.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Argh!!!!

[nonelvis]

I KNOW D:

[dietcokebreak.livejournal.com]

That looks like a yellow version of the Echinacea in my parents' garden. Those tree guys suck.

[nonelvis]

Echinacea and rudbeckia are related, so I'm not surprised they look alike!

Those tree guys are definitely getting a piece of my mind when they come back later this week. Bastards.

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

Not basterds?

[nonelvis]

Don't get me started. I already had to snipe at my mother this weekend for suggesting that the title of that movie was going to teach a generation of teenagers that bad spelling was okay.

[ms-hooligan.livejournal.com]

There is a running joke among the film writers I know, that we are all looking forward to the day when we can spell "bastards" correctly again. Seriously, my fingers have stopped autocorrecting when I type "Basterds" now. Damn you, Quentin Tarantino.

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

You mean that you don't think that it will further loosen spelling habits, or that you resented being reminded that it certainly will?

[nonelvis]

There are lots of things that may be responsible for a decline in literacy -- text messaging and IM being the most obvious candidates -- but Quentin Tarantino deciding to misspell two words in a movie title is so far down on that list you'd need an electron microscope to see it.

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

WTF is with that, anyway? What obscure artistic point is it meant to make?

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

That blows. I'm sorry. And woe betide the tree-trimmers.

[nonelvis]

They still haven't come back to finish the job, but when they do, they're in for it.