A couple of doors down the street from me lives one neighbor who has recently taken up that fruitful of hobbies - being an annoying pest. Every weekend for the past several months, he has diligently, and quite noisily, worked from predawn hours to late at night to put together a metal storage building.
You would think that he had been constructing a heavily fortified castle. But no. When you see that his tremendous effort has been spent on creating a 10 x 20 foot shed, you realize that "handy man" is not part of his modus operandi ...or his vocabulary.
A couple of mornings ago, he stepped out of his house in the early morning hours only to discover that heisters had stolen his incomplete structure. He was very upset that some one had taken the term, "steel garages", literally by turning it into a verb–noun arrangement.
I tried to console him. I told him to think of it, not as losing a building, but as gaining valuable free time on his weekends. As for the rest of the neighbors, they got together and built a little something on his property --- a shrine to the thieves.
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