I am hiding in my house peeking out the windows like a criminal. They just poured new curbs on our street today. My husband commented how we have to go carve something at the end of our driveway when they finish (we did this up the street when they did the sidewalk at the park a year ago and it's fun to stop and show it to our daughter every visit).
ANyways when they finished and left my husband was on conference calls (works from home). So he sent me out to carve "THE LASTNAMES" at the end of our driveway in the curb in big letters. So i did, expecting that being Friday afternoon they would come back Monday and it would be dry and all good. Well not long after i got back inside they returned!! They came back to remove all the boards they used to form the curb. I feel like a criminal now...it's kind of very obvious that it was us...carving our last name in the curb in front of our house.
Think they care that I ruined their very nicely poured and shaped curb?? We plan to live in this house until we are really, really, really old so my husband wanted it in the curb for all to see when they pull into our driveway!!
Re: Feeling Guilty!!
The workers left our name. They didn't seem to care. It seems when they poured the curb they used a greyish colour cement (?) then they painted the top white. So when I carved our name it removed the white where I carved, exposing the darker concrete. Well...we live in a cul-de-sac with our house being the middle most house and we can see our name clearly across the cul-de-sac and on the main road heehee. I did not expect that. It is incredibly noticable. I suspect in time it will wear down and be less noticable from far away (as the white gets dirty). But, it's very cool.
My husband joked that we should have gone and done the names of our 4 neighbors in the cul-de-sac so when the workers came back all the driveways had names heehee. But, I wasn't brave enough to tempt that.
Nearing 35...so well beyond 5. We also spend hours building sand castles at the beach (before having our daughter). I also admit to having fun using sidewalk chalk (without child), we even got my mother-in-law in on the action then and did quite the driveway mural.
We certainly do a lot of childish things...what's the point of living if we can't have a little fun?
We'll certainly never look back at the name carved in our driveway over the coming decades and regret it. If some neighbors happen to...sucks to be them.
Oh, but it does suck to be them...because if they really get that worked up about someone carving some letters in a curb in front of their own house then it seems they need to loosen up (and keep their eyes solely on their own property where they can control everything to avoid such negative feelings).
If the city has issues with it...they know where to find us (we are the house with our last name carved in the curb out front). They can let us know and we can go out and sand it down for them.
My post said I felt guilty because the workers came back and saw my carvings in THEIR work. I didn't expect them to come back as I expected the next set of workers for the next step of work to come on Monday.
I never said I felt any guilt that a person walking down the street would see our name carved in the curb of our driveway and be upset about it. One can certainly feel guilty for impacting one person over another. The workers that spent time out there pouring that concrete have a legitamite reason to be annoyed...I still don't feel that other random people do. So yes, I feel guilty...I just don't carry the guilt of the neighborhood on my shoulders.
They probably are used to it. More so by teenagers trying to act cool, not 'grown adults' but you know, whatevs.
Yep...that's us to a T. We park our trailer out back of our 5bed, 4bath, 3600 sq foot house...luckily our 6 car driveway allowed us to squeeze the trailer around back on our the 1/3 acre lot. The house is just a cover to hide our redneck selves...sadly the architechs about to design our soon to be pool say the trailer will haev to go :-( When my husband finally gets out of his work suits he goes for the 'dorky' look over the classy look though. Hard to want to be classy 24/7 when you need to be suited up to be senior director of your engineering company for your city.
I'll totally take immature though...we both have that going for us...that's what allows life to stay fun for us.
My favorite part of this is that you were stupid enough to put YOUR FULL LAST NAME ON IT. Pretty incriminating in case the city decides to fine someone for the vandalism. There's a reason why the gangbangers use code names, yo. L-)
this is proof that a McMansion and pool don't equal class. Like at all. You are about as trashy as they come. The fact that you felt the need to brag about all your crap alone makes you the opposite of classy. There are plenty of ladies here that live like or better than you none feel the need to broadcast it.You are a prime example of being middle class does not equal class.
So....bringing our kid for art at the park with cans of spray paint is a bad idea?? Good thing we only do that after dark. So much fun, though.
More whimsy than you all can handle. But hey...we live in the house with our name in the curb out front so feel free to come on over and check us out.
You are obnoxious and ridiculous. Perhaps you should stick to attachment parenting or breast feeding.
Oh...but it's much more fun over here. Sadly though, they are laying the foundations for new townhomes in the next neighborhood over so we'll be busy most the day ensuring our last name is carved in each and every new home...but no worries I'll catch up on here before we do art in the park this evening.
The sad thing is you think you are cute and funny, but no one here does, you are weird and this whole post is awkward. Like I am embarrassed for you and your cheaply built McMansion.
My kids and I have plenty of fun without resorting to vandalism. I might put something in the concrete of our patio, but not the public curb. Your neighbors, who I'm assuming also have the lovely type of house that you are bragging about, now have to stare at that. Couldn't you just buy a lawn sign to put up next to your plastic flamingoes?
And btw, I've known a few trailer park residents who are more classy and less redneck than you, sweetheart. It's not where you live, it's HOW you live.
Congrats, OP, on acting like an eighth grade boy....
Don't forget the fact that her DH wears a fancy suit to work... at home. It must suck to have to wear a fancy suit to walk down the hall and sit in your home office all day. I wonder if he wears the same suit a few days in a row. And if he wears shoes or goes to work in just socks. So many unanswered questions!