Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Puzzled

I should probably just leave this for Kelli but I am going to tackle it. I am puzzled by the news. More specifically when there is a heinous crime, some interviewer always goes and talks to the neighbors. They say the same thing. Every.Time. "He was a good kid. He seemed like a nice guy. I can't believe she did it. She seemed like a nice person." Are they really that clueless? I am patiently waiting for someone to say, "Yeah, he was a total whack job and I am really glad they locked him up. He was a ticking time bomb."

18 comments:

-V- said...
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-V- said...

How well DO we know our neighbors? Whether they're the Cleavers (as in Beaver) themselves or total whack jobs, it's a great question to consider...

LadyD said...

I think we all might be "whack jobs" at one time or another, people usually don't share their dark side- Until they burst-L.

Kelli said...

I don't get it. What do I have to do with this?? Or is it just that I, in Erin's words, am opinionated?

Am I getting a reputation here?? Should I be offended? Are we in a fight?

Carla said...

Hey, Mrs. Puzzle. Mrs. Kellispuzzles.
Total fight.

LadyD said...

Break it up! Break it up! No more fights. Reconciliation is the answer! JK. Get it yet Kelli? The post is called "Puzzled", Carla says she is "puzzled" by the news? Hint: Your blog is called Life's Little PUZZLES- L.

kristi noser said...

So I guess I should be concerned that my neighbor is building a rocket in his back yard, then? Or that his children are out at all hours playing with uzis?

Carla said...

Be very concerned. Unless he seems like a pretty nice guy. And the children seem nice.

Kelli said...

L, it was a joke. All of it. I get it.

theswamphare said...

Carla,

that was, word-for-word, what I expect my friends would say if I ever went sideways...

LadyD said...

K- I know. I was joking too-L.

kristi noser said...

Swampy, I'd say that you seemed like you were a nice guy--even when you were using the uzi.

erin said...

We're the whack jobs on our block and I know it. I embrace it.
We keep strange hours, have been seen bickering (ok, fighting) in our driveway, our dog runs away all the time, and my husband is scary looking and owns thousands of dollars of tools. What would YOU think of us? I wouldn't make friends with us...

Carla said...

When Richard is arrested after going off the deep end, we'll know what to say won't we?

kristi noser said...

Yeah, he always seemed like a whack job to me.

erin said...

LOL!
I'll tell him you said so.

Butrfly Garden said...

I usually think the same thing, but I did - only once, I think - hear something to the effect of "We all expected it to happen someday." Don't remember exactly what it was about, but it was a teenage boy they were talking about.

I'm listening to your boy sing right now. :D Angelic.

Carla said...

butrfly-let me know if you need a translation. :)