Forks

Aug. 27th, 2001 10:29 am
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Another thing that happened Saturday night: Kevin and Alaina forked our lawn.

One set of Lori's friends from high school has this tradition of sticking plastic dinner forks upright in people's lawns.

We had expected to have our lawn thus decorated ever since we bought the house and had a lawn of our own.

And Saturday night, it finally happened. We woke up on Sunday to find about 50 forks upright in our front lawn. Plus a purple dragon figurine and a laughing rabbit figurine.

Whee!

Date: 2001-08-27 08:08 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cellio
We used paper plates and plastic utensils for dinner, so on balance I'm glad you put the box of plastic-ware out. If we'd just seen a pile of forks, we would have been forced to speculate about where they'd been. :-)

So, how are relations with the neighbors?

Date: 2001-08-27 11:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ralphmelton.livejournal.com
To alleviate any ambiguity, I left all the forks in the lawn until today.

Relations with the neighbors seem okay. We keep meaning to invite our new neighbors over for dinner, but we'd like to get the house clean, first.

Date: 2001-08-27 11:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-phoenyx.livejournal.com
I think forking a lawn was always preferable to TP, eaiser to clean, funnier, and easier to taunt people by spelling things with the forks.

However, I've seen pranks get way out of hand. TP, Forks.. onion rings, and other ringed objects around the forks, rice or flower in the lawn/flowerbeds. *sigh* Funny to hear about when your in the High School Cafeteria, but now as I homeowner I shudder at the damage. And thats just the calm stuff.

However, I always love hearing stories of my firend, who attempt to do things like this but always ended up doing something stupid on the way there. Like trying to 'ditch' a cop that didnt even notice them.. until they sped off around a corner. Or turning cookies in a parking lot and crashing into a curb enough to pop the seal on the tire.

Then again, these are also the guys that set their own lawn on fire, so I dont know why I would be amazed.

Date: 2001-08-27 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ralphmelton.livejournal.com
Yeah, the forks aren't too much of a problem; I'll be able to pull them out pretty quickly with no lasting damage.

It's a reasonably good compromise between puckishness and avoiding damage.

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Date: 2001-08-27 11:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-phoenyx.livejournal.com
Plus, you can always wash them and set them aside next time they come over for dinner, no? :_)

Date: 2001-08-27 12:00 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cellio
I had a co-worker once who told me about her flamingo problem. She had some friends who had deposited some pink flamingos on her lawn, and then later they came in and painted some of the flamingos black, and then some other stuff happened to them, and so on. (There were maybe 6 flamingos involved; this was not a large infestation or a destructive operation, and she said she was amused rather than annoyed.) It was fall when she told me this, and she made some off-hand comment about expecting them to sprout little knit caps and scarves come winter.

I filed this thought away.

I did not produce little knit hats and scarves; that would have been too obvious. (Besides, I lack any relevant skills.) However, come spring, when the stores start carrying Easter stuff, I bought some of those two-part plastic eggs and agumented her lawn. I had been searching for *small* flamingos; my plan was for the eggs to hatch and for baby flamingos to grow up over the course of the summer. Sadly, I couldn't find small plastic flamingos, and the small cardboard ones I found (in only one size) didn't hold up very well. So the eggs did hatch, but the results were underwhelming.

However, after the eggs appeared she told me about this development and I pretended to be surprised, and she was speculating about what this group of (in this case blameless) friends would do to her next. It was pretty amusing to watch, and did no actual harm.

Of course, if Sharon ever finds LiveJournal, I'm dead. :-)

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Date: 2001-08-27 12:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-phoenyx.livejournal.com
I like this one. You just have to find someone that would be willing to leave them around for any length of time.. Or a way to let the neighbors know its a joke.. like a fork fence around it..

I'll have to go looking at lawn gnomes, I think I know someone that is going to have a sudden infestation.

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