More Crazy Old People

There are lots of old people where I live. I guess it just goes with the territory --- old houses, old people. Some of them, like this guy I see outside his once palacial house on a very toney East Dallas street, likely bought and paid for his home decades earlier when is was cheap and nobody wanted it.

Anyway, some old people can't maintain their houses. That's completely understandable. They're infirm. It'll happen to me too. But some of the old people, like the guy on toney street, is likely just a bit crazy. His house is painted a couple of different colors --- not as a contrast, but likely because he still can't decide what color to paint the house he's lived in for 40 years. Last year he hired contractors to put in a new front walkway and front steps. But the steps went unfinished for that entire year. For months, he posted a sign near the steps as a sort of an apology to passers by. But the sign also blamed the Dallas City Council for shutting down his project. Likely, old guy didn't pull a permit from the city which shut everything down. Dude, you have to play by the rules. You ought to know that by now. But maybe crazy excuses that as well.

This morning, I saw him watering some new grass that he had planted near his finally completed walkway and front steps. He was hand watering the grass strips --- all of which were completely brown --- with a garden hose. The rest of his yard is also the same and is completely dead and dried up.

Again, Mr. Crazy Old Man, you have to play by the rules when it comes to nature, or you'll lose every time. Half assed watering once a month won't cut it.

Then I thought, that dude is me in about 30 years --- half assed and completely crazy.