Mr C showed up at my door this morning holding a strange looking fruit, ostensibly wanting to show me what it looked like because he’d planted one of the trees right outside my kitchen window.
Oh, and there are suddenly, miraculously, two new pineapple plants in the ‘garden’ area. Must be dirt elves.
Of course, something this strange shouldn’t go unrecorded. And after snapping a picture of the thingamajig fruit, I raised the camera, meaning to get a picture of him… and he bolted and I went into the house.
But I have this big dog snot encrusted picture window… so as he strolled down the walk and started snarfing down the thingamajig fruit…
But I got started laughing… and the jig was up. His head snapped around and I was found out!
…so he hoofed it.
But… you’d be proud of me. Yesterday when he said something about money for the plants and mulch he put alongside the house I latched onto the opportunity to give the man a taste. It was difficult getting started, but once I did, everything pretty much came out.
I told him that he was very manipulative and would make a great used car salesman. That by doing work I didn’t ask for then wanting money for it was putting me on the spot, big time, and not fair.
None of it made an impact. LOL! Have mercy! But has he gotten any additional money? No.
August 26th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
That fruit thing looks like something from the movie aliens. It’s to creepy to eat.
August 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I totally agree about the aliens thing, that was what I was thinking. GROSS.
Are we sure it was a fruit and not some sort of creature? LOOK AT IT!
August 26th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
It’s SCARY! Just like Kim’s Wordless Wednesday!!
August 26th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I wanna say it’s something like ackee, but I don’t think it is, unless it’s before it turns red. If that’s what it is, it’s good.
Go ask him what it was. I gotta know.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
oooh! Oooh! It’s sweetsop!
Damn, I’m good.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
THAT’S what he said it was! Is it good?
August 26th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Hey girl, cut the dude a break! Sugar cane, pineapple, ugly fruit – the man is planting you a survival garden!
August 26th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Oh, dang, Patti! You’re right!
August 26th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
It looks way too ugly and creepy to eat.
Hmm…dirt elves. Me forsees a Sims adventure on this one.
August 26th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Good idea, Lee Ann!
August 26th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I prefer fruit that looks like fruit and not like a picture of something festering in Congressman Barney Frank’s colon.
August 26th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
OMG!
August 26th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
looks a lot like Anon to me. That’s what us Cubans call the sweetsop!
August 26th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
…and Jamaicans call it Sweetsop?! Is it good? He didn’t offer me any… LOL!
August 26th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
If he didn’t offer you any…take it as a hint. Unless you’re from a southern tropical climate, you may not find it so tasty.
He’s growing his own survival garden in your yard! Surprise, you’re on candid camera! LOL
August 26th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
He’s got the same thing right down the street! I hope he won’t try to plant all the different things he has in *my* yard, though… no room!
August 26th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Maybe he is wanted by the FBI or in the witness protection program…. you never know.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Why would you think that, Lukie?
August 27th, 2009 at 3:43 am
There are all kind of strage things around the world to eat. Most of then gives an ordinary american the runs.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Well, there’s an image!
I might try it anyway.
August 27th, 2009 at 6:21 am
There’s no reason NOT to have a survival garden. In fact, I’d probably pay him a little extra for more plants. He’s taking care of you and Artie and the pups. The man must know something. Listen to the man with the funny fruit.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:59 am
I don’t know why, but that sentence was some kind of cue for me to laugh like a freaking hyena! Hilarious!
August 27th, 2009 at 7:26 am
cause he tries to avoid having his picture taken……….
August 27th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Oh, DUH! Sorry; I wasn’t even thinking about the pictures! Geez, can’t take me anywhere.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
He may know things you can only imagine. Don’t laugh. I went to Jamaica, met a rastafarian palm reader who knew things there was no way he could have known and he even told me about my future pregnancy, problems I was going to have (which I promptly forgot), gave me a piece of paper with “cures” (which I tucked into my suitcase and found after I was pregnant, having a very difficult pregnancy, and then took the paper to the doc who said, “good idea”). You just never know.
And with that, I’m going to bed. Probably to dream about men with funny fruit.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Wow… okay, I’ll stop bitching about the fruit field… but Mr C’s not a rastafarian fortune teller!
August 27th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I’m still laughing at “listen to the man with the funny fruit’. holy crap.
Chances are he is getting this stuff from someone else’s yard that he works on and is trying to sell it to you.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Believe it or not, most of it came from his yard… it’s like Parrot Jungle over there!
August 28th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Yay! You told him how you felt.
That fruit looks grody. Like it’s a big bug larvae or something. Seriously.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Larvae. Ew….