The Invisible Woman Chronicles

I think I needed more of these days like 30 years ago.  I did flunk in the no buying department but it was a necessity. I forgot Precious was low on dry cat food and the stuff she had sucked.  It didn't make sense to have her wait a day to prove a point I wasn't really sure will work?  I'm still not sure if I understand it.  As long as it doesn't involve me getting arrested, I can do this type of resistance.  Other than that, I was good.   Buying a kid's book at an independent book seller is ok as being part of the resistance. I never thought of Boswell books to buy a book for Charlotte.  I asked a book seller for help in picking out a book.  It's a book about Clarence the Bear and he's an accidental activist who saves the Earth.  I'm not trying to get Charlotte to become a junior RBG, I explained to the woman that she loves to read.  She loves kitty cats.  She loves science stuff and the planets like learning more about the ea...

I took my first trip by myself in August 1995.  Other than a trip to somewhere in Illinois for Montgomery Ward, I had never gone out of state.  I had never gone anywhere and I wanted to do something. Everyone was getting married and all I did was go to work and go home.  My friends from college had moved on with their lives and I just felt left behind.  I shopped everyday during my lunch at my first job which did not help me with my credit card problems.  That's how I coped.  Buy a new outfit.  Nobody would see me except for the office job I hated at the time. I had switched jobs to a nicer place in 1994 and I was able to take a full week off. I didn't even have dental insurance at my first job so I wanted to go on vacation.  San Diego looked beautiful.  I had gotten a second job to help me with my debt - it didn't help.  It helped me save some money to go on vacation.  I went to a travel agent at Boston Store when they still had tr...

That sounds like a horror movie.  It has been a horror movie.  He and his girlfriend were gone for most of the day again and it was lovely.  I am hoping that tomorrow is moving day.  The garbage people were probably hoping he was moving after he dumped all of his gross trash in the garbage cans this week.   There has been some weirdness with us not getting mail.  I had one lonely eBay package I had to drop off on Tuesday and well, that didn't happen.  I saw a sign that they closed at 4:30 and it was a little bit before 5 pm.  I thought I'd walk it over after I signed off for the day but got a surprise.  It said something about staffing changes.  We hadn't been getting magazines and my mom normally gets a paper bill for her life insurance.  I realized that after the due date but I paid it online last night.  We went for a week without anything so we don't.  It wouldn't shock me if that location closed.  It's just ...

The monster and his girlfriend spent most of the day gone.  After seeing the monster load up her car with storage boxes, it looks like they have secured a place.  I hope they did get their own home.  They don't deserve it.  Nobody deserves to live with either of them.  I feel bad for her but I kind of think you should know right from wrong and not use someone washer's and dryer.  Or you should also know it's not a good thing to leave dog poop all over the yard.  My condolences to their neighbors when they pass the new Shithole Gardens.  Stay out of our neighborhood.  Our landlord joked he would have his four kids pick it up after the monster left.  He's going to need about 8 buses of kids to pick all of that up.  That bad. I was feeling very Jasmine Crockett last night about Trump supporters.  My mom was upset about the budget the house passed that could affect her medicare.  It appears that the Republican Senators underst...

 I guess it's really 3 more days, but hoping they do move this Friday.  I am ok if it's on Saturday.  At least I'm seeing signs.  Yesterday, the monster put out a really nice stand by the garbage.  My mom wanted to know what it looked like so I took a picture.  It's sitting in the trunk of my car.  Yeah.  I'm bad.  She wouldn't shut up about it so when I went out to get the 24 pack of water that was sitting in my car, it was light enough to throw in the trunk.  He used our washer and dryer so we're just paying it back.  I can't fit anything else in there.  Sorry, mom.  The garbage people pick up tomorrow so if he put anything else out after that, then maybe.  If he's going. I walked to the post office after work and found out that it was close.  This may explain why we are not getting our mail.  It wouldn't shock me if this location closed.  Honestly, it sucks.  I'll have to take my lonely little e...

 Sounds like I heard the monster this morning when I was cleaning up this morning.  I'm guessing he took his girlfriend to work and he's keeping her car for the day.  Lucky her.  As soon as she started seeing him, he was driving her car.  He didn't have a car at the time.  Still doesn't.  He had the truck and it went away.  Maybe because it sat here all day. I see that Megyn Kelly had something to say about Joy Reid.  I am with Don Lemon.  GFY  I have had a lot of Megyn Kelly's in my lifetime.  They are the bullies, the ones who have stepped on me over the years.  I will take a Joy Reid any day of the week.  I am sorry that Katie Phang lost her show and Alex Wagner as well.  I know it's business.  I know that Joy's show will be replaced by people of color with Michael Steele, Symone Sanders and Alicia Menendez, but still sad.  I thought well, I will be getting extra money this week with my bonus and wha...

All it takes is one person to ruin the mood.  I found that around late in the day. I found the task and it wasn't set in my name but I have a feeling it will come back to me.  When this person originally started, I thought we got along fine.  Then it seemed like as time went on, there was something that made me feel like they thought I was slow or stupid.  Or incompetent.  I also think that someone helped with that perception.  The lurker.  I didn't miss dealing with this person and I did try to handle what they were asking for but if I can't get a hold of someone specifically, how can I complete it?  I had spent part of my Wednesday with another person hunting and trying to figure out something the lurker was supposed to do.  I tried to say nicely that they just probably forgot.  It does happen. The lurker has these super powers that made this person not believe that it was possible.  Meanwhile the things that I'm assigned to are g...

 Hopefully a week from now the monster will be gone.  If he's not, my mom might load up a shovel full of dog poop and throw it at him.   I realize that they may not magically disappear come March 1st.  Hoping there's a moving truck.  I will gladly stay out of their way if there is one.  I realized I have an appointment that morning but I'm hoping my mom calls me to tell me there's a truck here when I'm out that morning.  Yesterday, she called me if I noticed anything new in the trash.  Good grief.  Trash, ma.  Just trash. I get it.  He had dumped several boxes in the garbage can a few days ago and could it mean something?  Possibly.  Saturday will be the day of revelations apparently. I was in such a foul mood about being on anti-depressants.  I guess it's better than being depressed, I suppose.  We suspect the monster downstairs is bipolar.  Our landlord hinted at it and I told my mom, he probably thin...

 I don't know why I was on a rant earlier.  I was feeling my feels I guess.  I've been watching the Screen Actors Guild with my mom tonight and scanning my receipts with my phone apps.  Working my side hustle. Life is hard.  I wish we wouldn't judge each other.  Until you sit and talk to that person?  You don't know their story.  You just don't know what they've been through.  Don't do that to people.  It's not fair.  

When I get my monthly anti-depressant at the pharmacy, I am relieved it's not the lady with the purple hair.  Her hair is streaked.  That seems to be a theme at this Wal-Mart.  When she refilled the anti-anxiety med, she was a little rude to me and seems to act like funny when I get the anti-depressant. I am so tired of that from people.  Does anyone want to be depressed?  Why do people make me feel bad or anyone else who has openly admitted that?  Are people's lives that perfect?  Am I missing something? It seems like the tone changes if I say yeah, I take something.  It's like step away from the crazy person.  Or make sure you talk softly.  Or say I'll be there for you and it's really just bullshit talk.   I avoided the thought of an anti-depressant for a long time. The truth was, I was depressed as a kid.  I was bullied and sad and just didn't want to go to school.  I just struggled.  When something bad happen...

 Hopefully the two jerks downstairs leaves our lives forever.  I hope.  I thought they were gone for the afternoon when I came home and I thought, great. I can downstairs and change the battery on the Ring camera.  They came back. It's the little things that seem impossible with them downstairs.  Once you come home?  You don't want to go back outside, knowing he's downstairs.  It's like you're not allowed and I won't miss that.  I'm tired of it. I got my walk in today, but no walking the hill today.  Looked pretty messed up but I got my steps and that's the important thing.  It's been a bad week for walking and eating.  Yeah.  Weighed myself.  Booo!!  This week is a new week and I should be able to get out and walk, maybe even in the evening.  The food part went to hell in a hand basket not because of the monster. I let the lurker get the best of me and my emotions.  I just wanted candy.  Therefore, I f...

I know technically people move on the 1st.  I guess it's a possible five days of them still living here and the sixth will be GET OUT.  My mom had other choice words but it's Sunday so maybe I should refrain from saying that word. Amazing that I thought something was wrong with Precious as she sits on my laptop as I type this.  Yeah, I'll move her.  She played me with her dramatic on Wednesday by laying on the floor, depressed.  If there was an academy award for cat acting, she'd be in the running.  I just got stabbed in the arm with her claw for taking her off my work area.  My arm looks like I get beat up by her sometimes.  I wish she would let me trim those nails. I have so many snagged sweaters from her getting stuck to me.  She's happy so eh, I got a snagged sweater collection.  How many people can say that? I got a call from the pharmacy that my only prescription has no more refills.  Well, good.  I'm not a fan of that pi...

It's been insightful listening to Viola Davis' autobiography.  I can relate all too well with the feelings of not being good enough. I am enough.  I know that.  When you spend your days alone for the most part, you think long and hard about life and what has happened. I'd never say cancer was a blessing but it was a lesson and what did I learn?  People are cowards.  I didn't need an illness for people to want to be there for me.  People should have been there for me when something good happened as well as the bad.  I learned I didn't get the support I deserved and it was sad, but it was a lesson.   I accepted a lot.  I waited on people a lot and I chased a lot in order for people to respond to me.  Or like me.  Or even think they loved me.  That wasn't ok that I felt the need to do that.  If someone wants to be around me?  They'll show up.  Corinne is the best example.  I didn't expect anything when we ...

I have been expecting to see some activity in the basement at night.  Maybe moving stuff out of their storage locker and into a box that will go on a moving truck either Friday or Saturday.  I am getting the feeling that there will be some stall tactics.  Will it prompt us to start looking?  Maybe not right away, but if it's anything that gets dragged out, we will look.  I don't want to spend another summer in Dog Poop Manor.  It's embarrassing. I woke up and dozed off for a little bit.  I could see the sun coming through the curtains and I thought, did I sleep until 7?  I hated to look at the time but it was only 6:30.  Nice to see the sun that early and that I didn't oversleep.  I have things to do and some walking to get in this morning. I called Senior Care and there is like a 3 week delay in processing.  We are around the time frame where her application would have been processed but the woman on the phone said that they have a...

Or maybe eight days and we might know if it's going to be a standoff or a move out.  We all know what I'm wishing for and I'm not going to hound my landlord for any answers because I don't think he has any.  We shall see. I guess I got to make a phone call this morning.  I feel like I get my momentum and then bam!  A new snag.  That is life, I guess.  I kept apologizing to my mom that I should have paid her Senior care earlier in the month but she's fine.  I'm not. I hate when things like that happens. I only have one more doctor to make an appointment for this year.  I do not like phone calls but it'll be my last or hopefully my last for the year.  I don't have to see this one until maybe summer so next week would be a good time.  Oh yeah.  The blood work too.  That'll be a fun one.  Not.  Easy enough. I can get it the week before my appointment on April 1st.  I don't think I'll get a gold star for that one....

 My mom had someone try to argue with her at the food pantry today about Trump and how much better things are.  She kept telling the man she didn't want to talk about politics and he said aren't things better with Trump in office?  She said no.  He makes her cry and asked him to quit talking.  He wouldn't.  He said Fox News is the only reliable news.  She said they lie.  She got away from him. I said he's at a food pantry too.  How is his life so great now? Tonight, I had the pharmacist on speaker phone when I called about my mom's prescription.  My mom assumed it was a Trump thing that got her denial and let's just say she called Trump a bad word.  Started with the letter F.  At least she didn't put the word "mother" in front of it.  Progress. Really hope that pharmacist voted for Kamala.  Oh man.  

It wouldn't shock me if I found out that I had ADHD.  I definitely think I'm on the spectrum.  It seemed like my day seemed frenzied and frantic and I could feel my heart racing from panic.  It's just been too much lately. I got my federal income tax refund which was a shock. I figured maybe by next week but I got an alert and felt a little bit relieved.  Next week I'll get my bonus and that will make me feel more relieved. This morning, I felt panicked about Precious.  I caught her lying on the floor in random places like she was passed out and tired.  The second time was by the litter box.  I saw what was in the litter box and thought I'd want to pass out after doing that, but still.  This didn't seem right.  I brought her over to the footstool near where I worked and brushed her.  She took a nap but she seemed kind of off to me. When I went to Target at lunch, I got a bag of different treats for her while I did a few stock up items. M...

 It's not really a countdown.  It's more like What's going to happen? countdown.  Now that we know that the monster hasn't let the landlord know when he's going, we wonder will he go?  Will he fight this?  I am hoping not. I am hoping that his girlfriend has some sense to find a place.  We'll see. I am disgusted that Elon Musk is involving himself in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.  This upsets me a lot.  This just doesn't make me feel good at all.  I am so tired of that reptile.  Stay away.  He is exhausting. He makes Trump look a tiny bit sane.  Not a lot.  Last night, I didn't want to write my letters to voters when I read more about it.  I will finish what I started and mail my postcards as well.  I don't have hope.   I am hoping that my day will be a day where I can focus on the things that I am assigned to and not for someone else.  I had the lurker's friend call me for help.  I guess ...

Seem to be running through my day.  I'm having a the worst people are happy right now moment.  And we're not. I only had the news on for a few minutes because I like Jim Sciutto and I thought I'd hear an update about Ukraine.  None of it was good and I got distracted by a call.  My mom had turned it off.  She was ready to cry.  I said it's ok.  I wasn't that interested. I was going to find something distracting.  Definitely not that. No, I'm not ok about Ukraine.  It's getting bullied and Zelensky is being called a dictator?  This guy could have taken a ride of out of town and he's been walking the walk.  He's a freaking hero.  I just . . . am tired. The lurker seems to be wrecking havoc on my days without being here because I have to adjust what I'm working on and figure out problems I have no clue on because the lurker really doesn't want anyone touching anything they do.  No communication.  No anything about how lo...

My mom ordered Stevia from Wal-Mart I believe? And it came around 6 last night and was convinced that the monster probably stole it.  No, he'd probably throw it in a snowbank but I get it.  And I got it out of our mailbox.  I knew if I didn't go down there this morning she'd worry so I got today's spiffy sweats on and went downstairs.  It was small enough that it fit in our mailbox.  I'm the great Stevia hunter.  I just got her some.  Good grief. I have my tiny tiger sitting next to me on the footstool.  She's been such a snuggly little tiger with this cold snap.  She goes through spells where she'll come up on my bed and fall asleep.  There are times when I go to make up my bed and I can't because I got Precious-locks fast asleep in it.  Lately, she hasn't so damn it, I've had to make up my bed.  I'm not quick on that since Covid hit five years ago.  I thought the other night she just wanted her treats filled up and I put...

It was a better day today.  Not completely but I'll take my wins. I finally got my hair colored.  First time in 6 months.  If I manage my money better, hopefully I can go every 3 months.  Or four.  Don't know if I can do the 6 again.  Mixed feelings on the grey, but it was coming in more like streaks and spurts like I did it on purpose.  Now it's a dark brown with a touch of copper.  It feels good and I needed it. I was glad to get away from my daily life.  I'm just frustrated.  I really don't want to talk to anyone in my daily life this week.  When I admit I'm in a bad mood?  That's pretty big.  I ignore it and say it's ok.  No, lately things aren't ok.  I'm managing but frustrated.  Moment of my eyes leaking when I discovered something else so stupid but it passed.  I thought I have enough time and I need to work on taking that time   Just when I think I get momentum, I come across something...

Well I've lived in this state long enough to go out and stay warm to get my hair colored.  I waited six months for this so yeah, I'm going.  I can deal with walking a block or two.  I got my bag of change to part close to the school.  I'll be ok.  No more Lilly Munster vibe for me.  I get a kick out of showing pictures of me as a blonde when I was younger to people and see their reaction.  You mean you're not a brunette?  Nope.  I was a fair haired little tyke.  My hair got darker and I would have it frosted or highlighted to make it blonder.  By the time I hit 30, I wanted a change.  For the most part, my hair has been darker.  Sometimes it's been a little strawberry blondish but the last few years it's been more of a raven color.  Not really brunette but not really a red head either.  I like changing it up.  I didn't even mind the grey coming in.  It's been coming in weird streaks or spurts but yeah, ...

My mom is annoyed that my landlord hasn't texted me back regarding the monster.  In a way, I don't know if there's anything negative about it.  Sometimes people just don't respond to me. I'm kind of used to being ignored.  Does that sound bad?  Like when you ask a question and someone changes the subject so you drop it?   I'll send a card or a present to someone and I wouldn't hear from that person. Then you feel like you're this jerk for sending a gift and expecting people to ooh and ahh.  No, I don't expect that.  I guess I don't even expect a thank you.   It sucks when you have those moments and think you'll hear from someone and you don't. I have had years of that and it would upset me.  Now?  I accept it. People who say I'll call you?  No.  You won't.  If you do?  That's great.  I'm so tired of the talk.  Blah blah blah.  Whatever.  Just do it.  Just like Nike says.   ...

I was surprised I stayed up longer than I did. I didn't get the sleep I should have but I'm ok.  I think watching the Saturday Night Live special put me in a better mood. I really only like Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live.  A lot of the skits kind of suck.  Not always.  I loved seeing the special last night.  Especially Eddie Murphy.  Oh, how I loved Mr. Robinson's neighborhood.  I can't remember when Beverly Hills Cop came out, but I remember my mom taking me to see it after I had an orthodontist appointment.  I was out of school for the afternoon and we saw it at Skyway theatres by the airport.  It was nice to be out of school for the afternoon.   My mom had asked if I thought it was bad if she kept us kids home for a day if we were stressed out about something and felt sick.  I had a few moments like that where she did keep me home.  I said not necessarily.  It was like a mental health day when you think abou...

I have the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live.  Yeah, we watched it as kids.  We were edgy kids.  No, we didn't understand it.  We laughed at stuff we probably shouldn't have.  It was an alternative to watching the Saturday night movie that we didn't understand like Raquel Welch in Kansas City . . . I can't remember the name.  She was on roller blades.  It was cool.  That's all that I remember. I thought about skipping my weigh in because I held out no hope this morning, but I got surprised when I did.  I was down and then I remembered I was up a tiny bit so it was better.  Good weeks.  Bad weeks.  Take it with a grain of salt.  Not too much salt though. I finally get my hair colored on Tuesday afternoon.  It'll be nice to take a break from the madness.  I even found my bag of change I couldn't find for the parking meter. I saw RFK Jr already going in on anti-depressants.  I'm not sure what category min...

I never heard back from the landlord.  It is very possible that my overactive imagination is going to the worst case scenario.  It is possible.  Seems like when my hopes get a little bit up?  I got someone there to pop that balloon.  My landlord doesn't do very well in his communications in texting which can lead you to wonder, What was meant by that?  For all we know, he may be unsure when the monster is leaving.  Less than 2 weeks and we'll know.   I am tired from the lurker and the things that I found working on files.  I'm finding comments and things that explain why the new person has some apprehension about working with the lurker.  I was disgusted when I came across it and I know if I bring it up?  It'll get ignored.  I know there was a point where the lurker was being talked to but I think there's a manipulation that's going on that's fooling people.  Leave me alone is all I say.  My patience is at the sn...

Our old washer sits in the basement.  I can't remember when we got it but I know when it finally stopped working.  It was 2021.  It was relatively new.  We had to replace our old one and it wasn't that old because the people in the four family unit we lived in for a year was using our washer and dryer and another person's appliances during that time. The old man who got our apartment stripped the handle on it.   The kids that were on drugs were using it in the middle of the night.  We wondered during Covid about how their laundry was getting done.  My mom started having trouble with it in the summer of 2020 and she had called for me to come downstairs.  I came down in the basement to see what was wrong.  She did it so the kids in the apartment would hear us talking about the washer being broken.  She was having trouble with it getting started but she wanted them to hear it so maybe they would stop using it. Guess what happened an ho...

It was too much last night and I crashed emotionally.  I know maybe I am thinking the worst, but expecting the best hasn't always worked out so well for someone like me.  It was just at one point my mom said something to the effect that nothing good ever happens for us and I went in the other room and cried.  It wasn't even the tears trickle cry.  Just heaving sobs that I couldn't hide.  She felt bad when she realized the statement she made might have had this effect on me.  It was just building and the dam burst.  The monster has been given chance after chance and I'm afraid he might be trying to redeem himself.  It never lasts but for my landlord, he keeps giving him chances.  He never responded to my message where I inquired about his move date so we could stay out of his way.  It wasn't a demand.  It was a "we just want to keep the peace" and make this awkward situation less awkward.  When I texted him about Friday night, h...

 Why should anything surprise me anymore?  The bad guys win. I don't think the monster is going anywhere.  He shoveled tonight.  I think he has suckered our landlord because my landlord didn't answer about his moving date. So yeah.  We'll have to move. Yesterday, I spent time working on the lurker's assigned area.  There's no explanation.  No anything why this person is missing or that this person will be missing. Trump won.  The bullies win.  The bad guys win. I am so sad right now.  I can't stop crying.  I thought it was too good for something good to happen. Why do I expect anything anymore?  

Oh, how I long for that night of Pizza Hut while I brooded listening to college boyfriend lament about his future after promising me a nice steak dinner.  That seemed like a more simplistic Valentine's Day.  No, didn't get a gift.  I got the gift of non stop talking from him. Anyway, last night, the monster popped up on the Ring alerts . He was done by the washer  - our washer for a long time.  It looked like he was disconnecting something.  I sent a video to my landlord and told him.  I hated to do it at 9:30 at night when he was four young kids to put to sleep.  We went downstairs after he went up which made us both shaky.  We wondered what was he doing?  It looked he zip tied the hoses to our washer and cut off the water supply.  Why? What else did he do?  My mom did a few loads of wash yesterday and he was doing as well. I heard from the landlord last night and he said that the monster sent a video that a faucet was leaking...

Bye bye monster.  Take your lying ass out of here.  I notice they blast their TV louder beneath me.  Joke's on them.  I'm old and tired and can sleep through that.  Temper tantrums and fire crackers?  No.  Loud TVs are what helps me sleep.  Duh. I suspect it's a shoe string crew and I'm ok with that.  Our new person had a very nice trip planned when she got hired and I hope she's having a good time.  She said she would send me a postcard which I think is very kind.  If I'm ever in Cudahy I'll send her one. No, I'm not bemoaning I don't have a special someone on Valentine's Day.  I'm hoping to get rid of the menace that's been our toxic relationship downstairs. Despite my bad Valentines at a Pizza Hut many years ago, I don't hate the day.  I think it's a day that seems kind of forced.  It's like shouldn't you be nice to your significant other every day?  Does it have to be one day?  I don't know what I would ...

Speaking of annoyances, it seems the lurker has been a little more vocal and annoying today.  The lurker has been missing a lot and has been evasive about it.  It's been exasperating.  Can't get mad at any of us if you don't communicate with us.  I'm tired of that.  Between that and the monster?  Short month, long on exhaustion. I almost did something I didn't think I was capable of. I almost passed on voting for what is this?  A primary for superintendent?  I know that sounds terrible but I felt like after the general election, I struggle with thinking what's the point?  Yeah.  I'm so thrilled RFK Jr is making malaria great again.  Sigh.  It's like the worst people are happy and the rest of us well . . . here.  Existing.  I saw an article about how much money was given by the Republican party and I thought I have to fill out my ballot.  I don't hold out hope that the best person will win, but I have to vote....

I wanted to make sure that it wasn't the monster that shoveled.  So many times we thought he was going and he wound up staying.  I thought maybe if I found the video of him and my landlord on my Ring app, I'd recognize who the mystery shoveler was.  It does appear that it was my landlord.  Thank god. I went through my history and ironically, it happened on January 6th.  This January 6th was a good day.  The monster came down to the basement with the landlord and we couldn't make out what they were saying but it appeared that the monster was complaining about the water usage.   I heard words like "I'm paying" and "she" and "tied up hoses". Then he moved over to his storage locker, probably accusing us of something we didn't do.  Then he pointed out the garbage can next to our dryer and mentioned that was a problem and pointed to the locks on our circuit breakers.  He said I'm sure that's a fire hazard.  The landlord said they had...

I missed the monster cleaning off his girlfriend's car last night.  Damn.  Last year, after I spent like 2 hours trying to clean up the snow behind the garage so I could get the car out, I had trouble getting the garage door closed.  My neighbor helped me but when I sent the video to my landlord, he told me that I missed some snow.  I was so mad.  I think he meant it as being helpful but I thought why am I doing this?  Why isn't his downstairs person who's 25 years younger than me out there?  This is insane.  I thought I need a break.  I would go back out later. Then my mom noticed the monster was outside with a shovel.  He was trying to clean off his car that he had and his girlfriend's car.  We suspected maybe the landlord had called and asked why wasn't he shoveling?  He acted helpless with his shovel and was kicking snow in the street.  It's so bizarre to us that this guy was so out there the first time we had snow aft...