Neighbor Bob just came over with a pair of empty Jack Daniels bottles

and about a gallon of iced tea.

I looked up and asked him if it was time to slap Sally-down-the-street around a bit and he nodded. She's been stirring up trouble lately because she doesn't have a life.

Service rifle season is coming up and that means that the gear will come out of the footlocker and be gone over. The shooting mat will be scrubbed, the scope stand gone over and slicked up, the sight smoker will have the orifice cleaned and new carbide loaded and the water bottle filled.

Then the service rifles will be gone over.They will be detail stripped and cleaned well and lubricated properly.

The whole kit and kaboodle will come out and be placed on the porch along with the pair of whisky bottles half fillled with iced tea, which we will be seen drinking out of.

Of course, the other neighbors will see us there cleaning rifles and drinking iced tea and they will wonder why we are drinking our iced tea out of Jack Daniels bottles but will say nothing.

Except Sally, who will be driving by for her Saturday shopping and will instantly call the police and tell them that there are two guys on the Piccolo porch drinking whisky and pointing guns at people.

Needless to say, as soon as Sally drives by we will replace the whisky bottles with a couple of jugs of iced tea and when the police arrive they will find two guys drinking iced tea with a pair of torn down service rifles that they are working laboriously on.

The officer will be annoyed with being called out for nothing and Sally will wind up with another pain in the ass mark on her record.

Something like this seems to happen about every other year.

It's been a while since Sally got her cage rattled and was reminded that she ought to stop creating trouble where there is none and simply go somewhere and get herself a life instead of bringing problems into everyone else's.

Then again, I really ought to simply throw the bottles in the trash and clean the rifles in the basemant because by doing the aforementioned we will simply waste our time.

If any good were to come out of making a fool out of Sally, I suppose I would, but no good will come out of it.

That's because you can't fix stupid.



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