- submitted by . on 09/01/2009
Ultimate Neighbor Lawn Chair War Ends -- With Final Moral Dilemma?
The epic lawn chair war -- nut job Paul vs. victim John -- may finally have reached the end. Or not. Amazingly, after great pressure, Paul appears primed to move away from the neighborhood -- giving John and his neighbors the relief from Paul's ongoing freakazoid behavior they've been aiming for.
And yet...there's a twist. Comically, Paul's moving away may now depend on John's doing the right thing...whatever that is.
As the new email exchange below indicates -- from a day or 2 ago -- John unexpectedbly is faced with a moral dilemma. If he acts one way, he may assure he and his tormented neighbors will be rid of Paul forever. If he acts another way -- the "right" way? -- he'll almost certainly be stuck with Paul for the foreseeble future. But what is the right way?
For those who haven't been following all along, here's the quick backstory which has played out over the past few week.(You can follow the story in detail through each of the nutty earlier emails linked in the summaries below.) The Cliff Notes:
- Freak neighbor [Paul] complained about his normal neighbor [John] keeping a couple lawn chairs on John's own lawn. John replied with what you'd expect: STFU and, by the way, worry about your own yard which is basically a sh*t-hole.
[EARLIER EMAILS 1 & 2]
- Unsatisfied & coming undone, Paul continued -- with a barrage of messages that included a comical "settlement offer" allowing John to keep only 1 lawn chair on his own lawn. John's response: "No"...and then to erect lawn chair towers in his backyard, in addition to discovering for Paul (& town authorities) a leaking underground oil tank on Paul's yard. Not good for Paul.
[EARLIER EMAILS 1 & 2]
- Paul seemed to cave -- except, unable to really let go, he demanded that John stop leaving a single garbage can outside John's house and repeated his ask that John only use 1 lawn chair. John responded...by taunting Paul with threats of returning to his [John's] love of outdoor welding and demolition and refusing to accomodate Paul until essentially Paul acted like a normal human being.
[EARLIER EMAIL 3]
- A brief pause. John then rallied the neighbors and presented Paul with a petition urging/pressuring Paul to move from the neighborhood -- and offering Paul a "friendship incentive" (of 1000s of dollars) to do so.
[EARLIER EMAIL 4]
For a couple weeks there has been nothing -- or nothing we've been aware of -- until now. John just received an email from an old friend or acquaintance -- Jack -- which contained both good news and potentially bad news...The moral dilemma. The email exchange below starts with Paul's forwarding message of this new email to a friend -- it references and contains Jack's email and John's stunned, WTF reaction to it...
The Latest Email -- John's Moral Dilemma
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