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Wow, I almost never have problem people here, now 2 in one week.
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We have a tomato garden in our parking lot. One of my coworkers lovingly ammended, and prepared the soil in a corner of our parking lot, and planted 8 heirloom tomato plants at the beginning of summer. He put plastic over the soil to hold in the moisture, hes fed them with compost tea, moitored the soil moisture content and spent a lot of time looking after them. They have grown to over 6 feet high, and have kept all of us at work in lovely fresh tomatoes all summer.
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The boat from the island is coming in and some vaguely hippy-ish lady is waiting for it. She catches me outside and says very happily: "I just picked some of the ripe tomatoes, would you like some?"
I'm floored, who does this? On the other hand we have a lot of tomatoes. So I ask her how many she has picked?
"Oh I'm a gardener and just couldn't help myself, just about 10" Shes all happy and smiling.
My first thought was - we have a ton of tomatoes, let her have some. So I ask her to give me half of them. Then I realize the grower of the tomatoes is going to be PISSED, and I have no right to let her have any. So I go looking for her again and I tell her that I'm sorry, but she needs to give them all back, the person who planted them will want them.
While I'm outside doing something else, she brings in a shopping bag FULL of tomatoes. Like 10-15 POUNDS of tomatoes. She had picked EVERY tomato that was anywhere near ripe and some that weren't!! I come inside and see it and just loose it! WHO DOES THIS? There are some over-ripe ones that are dribbling everywhere (and we have this horrid ant problem right now), and its just a big old freaking PILE of tomatoes that really did not need to be picked just them - maybe half of them were were properly ripe - and we could have dealt with them this weekend.
My heart sinks and I go to tell the colleague who planted the tomato plants that his entire crop has been summarily collected. As expected he is PISSED. He wanted to pick SOME this weekend for a party, but he doesn't want to deal with all of them today.
As I'm making another loop outside I catch the tomato picker. She is pulling away with a car full of people in a mini-van and smiling at me. I come up to the window and just lay into her: "Next time you think of doing something like that, PLEASE ASK. Those were NOT yours to pick, and this is PRIVATE property!" Her face falls into a Cat-Butt face, and she drives off, with, I'm sure, another bag of tomatoes in her car.
I mean really, what kind of entitlement do you have to have to pick ALL of someones tomatoes and then offer SOME of them back?
<Background>
We have a tomato garden in our parking lot. One of my coworkers lovingly ammended, and prepared the soil in a corner of our parking lot, and planted 8 heirloom tomato plants at the beginning of summer. He put plastic over the soil to hold in the moisture, hes fed them with compost tea, moitored the soil moisture content and spent a lot of time looking after them. They have grown to over 6 feet high, and have kept all of us at work in lovely fresh tomatoes all summer.
</Background>
The boat from the island is coming in and some vaguely hippy-ish lady is waiting for it. She catches me outside and says very happily: "I just picked some of the ripe tomatoes, would you like some?"
I'm floored, who does this? On the other hand we have a lot of tomatoes. So I ask her how many she has picked?
"Oh I'm a gardener and just couldn't help myself, just about 10" Shes all happy and smiling.
My first thought was - we have a ton of tomatoes, let her have some. So I ask her to give me half of them. Then I realize the grower of the tomatoes is going to be PISSED, and I have no right to let her have any. So I go looking for her again and I tell her that I'm sorry, but she needs to give them all back, the person who planted them will want them.
While I'm outside doing something else, she brings in a shopping bag FULL of tomatoes. Like 10-15 POUNDS of tomatoes. She had picked EVERY tomato that was anywhere near ripe and some that weren't!! I come inside and see it and just loose it! WHO DOES THIS? There are some over-ripe ones that are dribbling everywhere (and we have this horrid ant problem right now), and its just a big old freaking PILE of tomatoes that really did not need to be picked just them - maybe half of them were were properly ripe - and we could have dealt with them this weekend.
My heart sinks and I go to tell the colleague who planted the tomato plants that his entire crop has been summarily collected. As expected he is PISSED. He wanted to pick SOME this weekend for a party, but he doesn't want to deal with all of them today.
As I'm making another loop outside I catch the tomato picker. She is pulling away with a car full of people in a mini-van and smiling at me. I come up to the window and just lay into her: "Next time you think of doing something like that, PLEASE ASK. Those were NOT yours to pick, and this is PRIVATE property!" Her face falls into a Cat-Butt face, and she drives off, with, I'm sure, another bag of tomatoes in her car.
I mean really, what kind of entitlement do you have to have to pick ALL of someones tomatoes and then offer SOME of them back?
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