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Neighborliness gives way to trash talk as competitive raking season opens in the Midwestern suburbs
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Where do all those suburban Chicago leaves go? Please tell me they go to leaf heaven but come back someday as nice compost.
Posted by: Sue | November 12, 2010 at 08:31 AM
I read somewhere that 30 percent of fall leaves end up in your house.
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | November 12, 2010 at 09:09 AM
Neighbor trash talk is okay. It's the family trash talk you have to worry about. The family can rake in a lot of baggage.
Posted by: Audubon Ron | November 12, 2010 at 11:54 AM
Lots of trash talk in our house. Very little raking. We are hoping for a storm that will blow them all into the neighbor's yard.
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | November 12, 2010 at 05:38 PM
They go to the farm, out in the country, where all those pets who go the farm, out in the country, can romp and play in them.
They do not go into the fiery, fiery furnace and you cannot hear their leafy screams rising into the suburban night.
So it's fine.
Posted by: Robert Kuntz | November 13, 2010 at 07:46 AM
You say competitive, but I don't see any ribbons. You can't have a Midwestern competition without ribbons, waffle cake, chicken fried bacon and hot beef sundaes! What you have there is a curb full of just-don't-care...
Posted by: nthnglsts | November 13, 2010 at 09:39 AM
Leafy Screams and a Curb Full of Just-Don't-Care will be the title of my forthcoming Midwestern memoir. I am haunted by leaves...
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | November 13, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Oh no you don't SK. You have to work Appalling Regional Delicacies into the title, I'm pretty sure you promised. I don't care if it's not a cookbook. It can be on of those entendre things.
Posted by: Sue | November 15, 2010 at 07:57 AM
I always thought the ARD was a stand-alone project, but maybe you're right.
Leafy Screams, Appalling Regional Delicacies and a Curb Full of Just-Don't-Care: The Suburban Kamikaze Midwestern Survival Guide.
It doesn't leave a lot of room for the hamball photo, but I like the way it rolls out...
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | November 15, 2010 at 04:33 PM
There's no trash talk in our leafy neighborhood. Just one lady who BITCHES to everyone behind our back about how our leaves are always blowing into her yard.
We're all...umm...isn't that the point? Like she expects us to rake them or something.
Posted by: Nancy R | November 19, 2010 at 03:13 PM
Raking leaves is like making the bed. Totally useless.
Posted by: Executive Suburbanite | November 21, 2010 at 09:47 AM