Story #0486 |
Seattle, Washington, United States
Last Updated: 11/28/2004 11:25:20 PM |
| My grandmother lived in the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle from 1962-1975, and two doors down was a miserable old hag named Mrs. Edwards. One of the neighbor kids told us we should call her Mrs. Scrooge, but the way she talked it sounded like "Sclooge". So for years after that we called her the Sclooge. We never walked by her house if she was outside or in the window because she always shrieked at us and threatened to call the police, which she often did. One time my dad and my uncle showed up with a new stove for Grandma, and they parked the truck in front of the fire hydrant while they were moving it. The Sclooge came out and started nagging them, and my dad was in no mood for it. He unleashed a torrent of obscenities at her while a bunch of us kids peeked around the corner of the house and giggled and snickered. Grandma was so embarr***ed, and she had to deal with the police when they showed up later. Another time some friends of ours moved into the house across the alley from the Sclooge's place. There was a rockery next to the steps from the alley up to her yard, and she ripped out all the plants and flowers when she saw the kids playing there. After that somebody painted the word "SCLOOGE" in big yellow letters on one of the rocks. The paint they used soaked right into that rock, and even though she tried to clean it up it was readable for about a year until she had it chipped out. Later on my cousin came up with a diabolical prank. We would watch her house and wait for her to leave, then gather up dog crap and throw it into her yard from the alley. This got picked up by the other neighborhood kids as well, and some of the bigger boys could even hit the back of the house. We did this every month or two for several years, and we included dead rodents when we could find them. One kid even found a seagull and threw it over. The police were there many times, but nobody ever got caught. |
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