Fayetteville
November afternoon, 2012
Cheerful Lady: Your dogs are so cute! What breed?
Me: Miniature Schnauzers—the gray one is Lucy and the white one is Annabelle.
Negative Nellie: I tell you one thing, dogs are alot more work than cats.
Me: Yes they love their walks…
Negative Nellie: Now, which house did you buy?
Negative Woman: So what do you do?
Me: I’m a writer.
Cheerful Woman: Oh that’s exciting. You’re in the right place for writing.
Negative Woman: Yeah, I write too. Got lots of rejection letters. (laughing hysterically)
walking…
Negative Nellie: That yard I was in—that’s my daughter’s house. Gave it to her. She found herself homeless, so I gave her my house. I moved to (blah blah blah). Still thinking about the flooding problem, I wasn’t paying attention.
Negative Nellie: Hmpf! I see you have that huge tree in your front yard—it’s gonna crash into your roof, I hope you realize.
She mumbled all the way to the corner…
talya
Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.
Musical Pairing:
“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Our basement would flood….
She wore me out just reading!
Staci
Fun read. I laughed out loud.
🙂
Wonderful read! Sour puss for sure. Barbara
People like that can just suck the life right out of everything and everybody … But it was a funny read!
she was clueless…
Another belly laugh! Some people just don’t know how to enjoy life. I love the way you killed her with kindness. Tom said she should stop having lemons for breakfast. I love your little GREEN house with the lovely big tree.
Ha! What a character! You met her for a reason you know… Won’t she liven up some future story you haven’t yet thought of?!? I can’t wait to read it! 🙂
I’m chuckling out loud at my cube at work. People are looking at me. (I imagine they are. I have walls and can’t see. But I can FEEL them looking at me.)
“For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”- Winston Churchilll
( Barbara)
haha…I don’t know why, but I kept picturing Negative Nellie as “Maxine”…haha…You definitely did kill her with your kindness…good for you!
Tim – She looked EXACTLY like Maxine.
haha!!!
Hilarious! I’ve run into a few of those people-actually several. Your house looks green to me.
Fun read. Good way to use your writing skills and your sense of humor. Let’s home in 20-30-40 years, WE don’t turn into Negative Nellie!
Oops! Let’s HOPE, HOPE, HOPE! not home. (I’ve got to hone my proofing skills!)
Looks green to me–cute–welcoming. I can see you now, trying to be polite. I agree that Nellie will make a good character some day and the thought that such folks suck the life out of you. Also, Pat’s right about seeing her a model of who we don’t want to become!
I was so laughing out loud at this and had Thom wondering what it was that I was reading.
You call that green? hahahaha
I’m sorry for whichever of my relatives wandered off the reservation dosed you with negativity! You really have the wildest conversations with random people!
Yes I seem to attract craziness.
It’s always so pleasant meeting people like that–reminds me to count my blessings. 😉
I feel the same way!