POOL CASUALTY

[stoney321]

Oh my god. It's not a person or an animal, IT IS FAR WORSE. They've ripped out my front flower bed - unbeknownst to me - to access the main water valve. IF I HAD KNOWN, I WOULD HAVE SAVED THEM. *cry*

I know it's lame, but I am SHAKING. Like, a huge Texas sundrop, several zebra mallows, all of my meadow sages, a MEMORIAL ROSE you know, to memorialize someone, my tiger lily bulbs, and that's all I can tell by peeking out the window. I can't bear to go out there and look. (It would have been nice to know about them digging there ahead of time so I could have dug up the plants myself and saved them. AUGH. I'll be letting my pool man know I'm frustrated by this. I'm sure other people don't care, so he didn't think to tell me but MY PLANTS ARE MY FRIENDS. *cry again* I know I'm a dork, I KNOW.)

Still. D: First person to make fun of me for crying gets a brown grasshopper in their nose.

Comments

[pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com]

Oh my god that's horrible. I don't even care about plants and I'd be fucking furious by that development. Poor flowers :(

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I sat down and covered my face with my hands. WELL IT LOOKS LIKE I'M REDOING THAT BED, HUH?

D:

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

Stoney!

I think other people WOULD care. I am SO SORRY. That's so awful. You poor darling. They should have TOLD YOU what they'd be doing, anyway. I'm so sorry.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Everyone here has those horrid corporate landscapes of stupid shrubs, and have landscapers that fix everything. BUT I AM THAT LADY WITH THE ROSES AND FLOWERS THAT COOS TO THEM. Waaaaaaaah! *leans*

[mosrael.livejournal.com]

Well they've destroyed a lot of hard work, and those plants were important to you. I think they should reimburse you for the damage they did, and couldn't be bothered to warn you about!

That just sucks so much. *hugs*

[sternbunny.livejournal.com]

Here here! Where's the blood..I mean, sap money? You're going to need _two_ memorial roses now, one for the first memory and another for the flower bed massacre...

[dampersnspoons.livejournal.com]

I'm sure other people don't care, so he didn't think to tell me but MY PLANTS ARE MY FRIENDS. NO. Just, NO.

That is your property and anyone who looked at your front yard would know that it's more than a few stupid ass store-bought pansies to fill up space. And even if it WAS just pansies? They should confirm with their client before they start digging things up. That's how business is done. It's not about what they thought was important, they just wanted to get the job done and neglected to alert their client of the changes. THAT IS BAD BUSINESS.

I would be so furious, and I don't blame you at all for crying. That is hard work and a joy of yours that they ruined. I'm sorry.

They need to know that they seriously erred here.

[withoutwords.livejournal.com]

I agree with this. *nods fiercely*

[lynnenne]

Me, too! I can't believe they didn't even ASK.

[dampersnspoons.livejournal.com]

If you've seen my sister's pictures of her garden, then you KNOW that this was an absolute travesty. There's no way they couldn't have thought to ask her about it. Who does that?!

And this is not the first time she's had trouble with people jackin' up her yard while doing something completely non-landscape-related. People can be very, very thoughtless, especially when they're on a timed schedule to get things done.

[lynnenne]

I have seen her garden in person. It was BEAUTIFUL.

[minim_calibre]

That's horrible! I am so sorry!

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Aaargh!

I have a black thumb which is why I appreciate the effort and skill that go into others' gardens so much. That's awful, especially the memorial rose.

*hugs*

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

OHNO

::hugshugshugs::

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

O noes *runs around uselessly waving arms*

There is nothing to be done? Ripped? A cutting? Can Sallyderg do an aggressive look?

*pets you*

[flaming-muse.livejournal.com]

Absolutely give them hell. They should warn you about that kind of destruction. No question.

I would be livid, and I am not even in any way a gardener.

You may actually be able to save some of them, depending on how they tore out the bed. Our guys here would have just dug them up relatively whole and not chopped them up or anything. The roots may be intact for some of them. Go take some deep breaths and go into triage mode.

[stephanierb.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised they did this without asking/informing you first. Whether you paid a landscaper to do this or you did it yourself - it's still your dime, your time. They absolutely should have discussed this with you before digging them up.

And I would cry if I were you. I've seen the photos you've posted of your gardens, they're works of art.

[ruric.livejournal.com]

Dude if anyone ripped out part of my garden WITHOUT CHECKING WITH ME FIRST I'd go medieval on their ass.

*hugs*

I am so sorry that in their blitz to finish the pool they neglected the good business practice of making sure you were OK with them seriously fucking with your landscape.

The minimum I'd expect them to offer is financial compensation to cover the loss of the plants and an offer of labour (or equal cost) to cover redigging and prepping the bed they just ruined.

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

They absolutely should have told you where they were digging! I'm so sorry.

[arcana-j.livejournal.com]

Frustrated? Frustrated my ass! It's time to go mom-postal! (That's like regular postal but with that extra soupçon of bat-shit crazy that only an angry mother can achieve.) Why did they have to destroy the entire flower bed? Why would they not warn you before wrecking your landscaping?

God, I am so angry and this isn't even my yard! Unprofessional ass-monkeys!

*puff*pant*wheeze*

[mumsisdaughter]

That's so unfair. They should have said something.

[gabzilla.livejournal.com]

Oh no!!! I'm in agreement with everyone else - they should have checked with you first! I hope you can salvage at least some of your hard work and beautiful plants. (esp. the memorial rose - that makes me so sad.) From all the pics of your garden that you post, there could be no mistaking that it is something that a lot of time and money and attention has been DEVOTED to it, and it shouldn't have just carelessly been ripped up.

[ladycyndra.livejournal.com]

AAAHHH!!!! JERKS!!!!! I'm sorry. =(

[beyondtherubicon]

I'm speechless and so sad for you. :(((( What they did was horrible and very poor customer service.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Oh that sucks!! What idiot doesn't look at flowers like that and think that maybe they should check before tearing them up?

[anniemare.livejournal.com]

Dood! That sucks so hard it is making it windy in Alaska. I would be BENT if something like that happened to my flower bed. GAH!

Do complain.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

How could they not have given you a heads up?!? I am angry and sad for your poor plants and all the hard work that went in to getting the bed together *shakes fist at contractor* What a shame.

[tabaqui]

But - can't they still be saved? The bulbs and the rose, at least? Or are they already....off the property?

*hugs*

So sorry.

[altyronsmaker.livejournal.com]

WHAT?? They dug up your beds without telling you first?!?!? I just...WHAT? That just...well, it SUCKS!

I'm outraged for you. You LOVED those plants and you worked so hard making those beds. A simple, *knock knock* "Um, we're gonna be diggin' in yer front yard here in a bit. You got some plants there. Just lettin' ya know." Three minutes, tops.

I'm angry for you. Buttheads.

And they yet live?

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

I've done GBH to people for less (granted, it was my uncle the crazy drunk, but still...)

[violethamster.livejournal.com]

Those fuckers. They should be glad I'm not there because I would kick them in an embarrassingly feeble and ineffectual manner for you. But it would be filled with fury.

[lycomingst.livejournal.com]

You should pin somebody's ears back. Really.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Awwww sweetie. MASSIVE HUGS.

Did they toss them all? Can you find cuttings??

In other news, ifyou're getting rain today, I'm going to yell at the rain gods. WE NEED IT IN COPPELL. I may be burning to a crisp here.

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

I still tear up when I remember the dogwood that used to grow outside my bedroom window. Right after we moved in, the neighbors came by with their chainsaw and offered to help my then-husband cut down some of those pesky trees that were littering up our property. Which, WTF? I knew nothing about this, of course, until I heard a chainsaw, looked out the window and saw them at the tree. I ran outside in time to see it fall. I think the sight of me lying on top of the tree weeping was what made those particular neighbors a bit leery of me.

Oh, yes, one more moment of shared pain...my then-husband didn't really like gardening. So, color me surprised when he came in one hot afternoon to tell me he'd been weeding. I went outside to take a look and found...my entire shade garden ripped out by the roots and left in a pile in the broiling sun.

So, no, I won't laugh at you. I'm surprised you didn't go after them with your own chainsaw.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear about this. I wonder why they didn't tell you?

[ruthless1.livejournal.com]

If anyone on your friends list EVER made fun of you for crying for this - just know know, please, that the rest of us would HUNT THEM DOWN. And do something REALLY horrible to them. Like make them listen to ALL of Dubya's state of the union speeches, or read listen to Kenny G - non-stop for 36 hours, or surround them with Thomas Kincaid paintings in a locked room for 36 hours. Or maybe just a 200 hour marathon of Teletubbys. In French.
I am so sorry this has happened to you. I am heart sick on your behalf and I am a terrible gardener!

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

You make me laugh. Your torture examples are golden.

[ruthless1.livejournal.com]

thank you Kassie - I thought long and hard about them! Mostly I just wanted to make Laura laugh a little bit through her tears. That is a terrible WEIRD loss she just went through. I mean - how DO you grieve the destruction of a flower bed?

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

That really sucks.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

ACK NO NO NO.

Why would they do that without even telling you? UGH. FUCK PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO COMMUNICATE WITH CITIZENS AND TREAT THEM LIKE HUMAN BEINGS.

:(

Edited because I was so projecting my issues for today.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's awful! I'm so sorry :-( The gas board did that to Mum's garden years back and then said it was overgrown (English cottage garden, not manicured beds) so who cared?

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

YES THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED. No, I'm sorry those weren't weeds, those were heirloom bulbs gathering up food for winter! BOOOOO.

[othercat.livejournal.com]

They just ripped it out? Didn't even tell you? (>_<)

That's horrible.

[zyrya]

Oh for fuck's sake! Bloody MORONS. In my last house we had renovations done, and I'd just planted a lovely to-be-hedge-edge of lavender, and the primulas had gotten to that gorgeous late spring prettiness, and pansies were just filling out .... and the bloody plasterers trampled it so badly that there was NO SIGN any plant had ever been there!

RAWR!

[firesprite1105.livejournal.com]

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

That's, like, my worst nightmare!

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[rainkatt.livejournal.com]

I would be shaking, too. GAH. And I just have plants in pots on my balcony. Which I kill on my own periodically, because I'm a ditz.