August 11, 2024 • 18 mins
The old Man tells the story about a Door Bell and what happens when people feed wild animals in the back yard!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's the Old Man rooting from the Kitchen Live podcast. Hey,
everybody's the Old Man and I'm back, and I'm back.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I've missed you guys. I've been gone.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Man, I've been so busy doing nothing that I've just
been busy, you know, being the old man ranting from
the kitchen. It's a lot of work. First of all,
you got to get from the refrigerator to the stove,
from the stove back to the microphone. And you know,
as I continue to see how much food I can
pack away, Dad isn't working out too well for me.
(00:36):
By the way, things have really changed. So today's show,
we're back. It's Sunday. It's great to have us back on.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's great to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We're going to be recording our show simply because of
the problems we're having with Facebook. It seems our technology
and their technology isn't quite the same. I got kind
of feeling that their technology is a little more advanced
than I'm you know, I'm just in a simple kitchen
and they've got this great, big studio with all these
technicians and wow all that stuff yhah, Yeah, that's pretty exciting.
(01:10):
All I wanted to do was turn on the microphone,
make a few statements, you know, get things rolling and
talk about wonderful things that are happening here at the
zoo and nothing. I'm telling you, it's really ridiculous. You
can't win them all, I guess. But first we got
to kind of pause for the cause. How do you
like that pause for the cause? I remember that from
(01:32):
the Corcoran Show many years ago on Channel thirteen. We
got a pause for the cause, for a word from
our sponsor.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Hi, I'm doctor Troy Munson on Revealing Wholeness. Please check
out my podcast on iHeartRadio or Spotify, where you'll find
all your latest health topics that you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yes, indeed, Dr Munson's been We are Disruptors Network since
the beginning of these shows. Keep Alive the Disruptors. The
old man that's me ranning from the kitchen and are
you ready for this? The news show he's coming out with,
which I'm really excited about. I mean because when I
(02:17):
talk to you about the next thing I'm going to
be talking to you about. By the way, it's very controversial.
I'm really excited about. Tips from doctor Munson behind the
scenes with doctor Troy catching on iHeartRadio, Spotify and your
favorite podcast platforms. Now, I got to get the business man.
Here's something that really irritates me and I need help with.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That is somebody knocking on the door, right, okay, I
mean I understand that the old man in the kitchen
understands that when you hear this sound, there's somebody outside.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The door that wants your attention.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, I thought to myself, you know here in the
wonderful complex that I'm operating here as a apartment manager
or misfit whichever you know title words. I thought for
sure that I could I could help everybody out by
installing a simple door bell so that I wouldn't have
(03:18):
to listen to every five seconds. And this way they
wouldn't have to hurt their little knuckles because this is a.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Metal door, you know, and I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I okay, So I got the mat that says welcome
facing to the outside of the door.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Okay. So I'm a little grumpy.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So maybe on a time or two people have come
to my door knocked on it like this, I've opened
the door, they made a speech and complained, and I've
closed the door too quickly. Not estimating the distance from
the door to their nose. I know it's been a
problem that I'm working on, so I pushed the mat
(03:59):
back further. Finally, after a year, I decide I'm going
to install a doorbell. I can't handle this anymore. I'm
going to put in a doorbell. Any normal human being
educated or not, knows what a doorbell is, right, It's
not this, It's a ding dong or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So I was very proud. I was very very pleased.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Called up my son and they said, we got to
find a doorbell that works, because this is getting on
my nerves, you know what I mean. So he came over,
we looked through Amazon what he had to offer.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Bought a doorbell.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Simple doorbell, simple, simple, simple, mounted it to the outside
of the door. It no wires, you know, you know,
none of this technical stuff. You know, even me in
the kitchen can figure out what's going on. Placed it
right at the level of most people's arm when they
extended out, so that we don't hurt their shoulder, ruin
(05:01):
their elbow, twist their wrists, or upset any of the
fingers that they may use to push the doorbell. There
would be no more that's what I assumed. So I
was I was excited.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I was static. You know.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well it only took a year of constantly even after
the doorbell was installed. Now I'm thinking to myself, basically,
how come some of these people with the higher education,
I mean we're talking about colleague and things of that nature,
cannot understand what the little black box with a button
(05:40):
in the middle of it does.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean, I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So I finally decide I'm going to ask somebody right
after they and I opened the door to see what
they wanted. Well, I said, have you ever seen a doorbell?
Or if in a doorbell offering onebillerd Bylsmuth Tom, I'll
pushing a lot of doorbells. And I pushed as I said, okay, well,
this is a strange point that I'd like to make.
(06:04):
Do you see this one right where it meant door
bail bail? There's a problem without their doorbell? What is
the problem? Well, you got it, brown, I said, Yes,
the doorbell is brown and bit screwed into the mal
trim here on the door out here the door cushing bail.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That'sched brown too.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh okay, yeah, so I didn't even know it was there.
So let me get this, Let me get.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
This straight in my mind.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
The thing that stands out on the door casing which
catches your eye immediately because as you're walking up to
the door you can't miss it. Now, then it's brown,
the door casing's brown. Therefore it's just easier to on
a brown door than push the doorbell.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Does that make sense to anybody?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Because I really got lost, I really seriously did. I.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I always thought, you know, if you saw.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
A door but pushed it first, and if it didn't ring,
then you go ahead and knock on the door. I mean,
that would be the simple thing for me to understand.
Oh no, no, no, we got to have we got
to have people. You know, I shall you know, I
shaw that derebar al bear, their dearbeiled bear, and I
(07:19):
don't know what the heck to do with that there?
Then god sare back home? You know where I come from?
And that's usually the statement I get, and it scares
me half to death because I really don't want to
know where some of these people have come from. U
Usually I want to know if they live here, and
I have to experience this every time they come to
the door or are they somebody from the planet uh
(07:44):
knock knock. Then they've landed, and they assume that they
have to continue to knock on the door because that's
what their culture says and the planet they came from,
I think, but it's amazing, So I just let it rest.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
The other day, I'm sitting there and I'm typing on
the computer and all of a sudden, I hear this,
and I'm thinking, once was enough. Twice is irritating, and
the third time is going to get me annoyed. So
I go to the door and open it up, and
(08:23):
I'm looking around and there's nobody there.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
No, no.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Then I look down and I have to look off
to this is this is very embarrassing off to the
right side. Now that that of the door, and I
look down and well, by golly, that's my groceries from Walmart.
I'll be dog gunned look at that. So this gentleman
obviously didn't see the doorbell, but knocks not just one, two, three,
(08:51):
to let me know you know something's going on, and
then send me a text message, please bring your groceries in.
They've been delivered. He has to continue to and then
when he gets done He's left the groceries underneath the
stairwell about seven eight ten feet away from the door.
(09:13):
So when I opened the door, if I didn't look
around and down, I would have never seen the groceries there. Now,
of course, I know this is a technical thing, and
I understand everybody has.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
To work with it.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'm sure he delivers to many different places that you know,
they put their groceries in different spots.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I understand all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I don't understand why they don't know what a doorbell
looks like, a door, a door mat, etc. I don't
understand that the instructions I left is leave it by
the front door, not leave it by the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know, I get confused.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I've even had times when they have rung my doorbell
and I thought, hey, this is exciting. I open up
the door. My groceries have been delivered. I look around
and I can't find them. And then all of a sudden,
the neighbors says, uh, mister Lee, Yes, why do you
leave your groceries under my kitchen window? And I did
(10:13):
you know?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
No, I don't know why I do that.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
You see, when they park next to the building, and
this is a building with four apartments in one building.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
They get out of the car.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Now it's very confusing. Remember I have a doorbell, very confusing,
big signs with the number and the address and everything
so big that a blind man can see them. And
then they look at it and he did gory. Mollie, Mollie,
what do you think we're sure to leave them their groceries, Mallly.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I think we just leave right here in the sidewalk,
right here in front of the front of the entrance.
They find them and they compete to tell them to come
out and pick them up. I thought, oh, that's yeah,
And that's where I found them, practically out in the
parking lot, very close to it. So you see, even
though you put in a doorbell, the best thing in
the world is is to understand that people don't know.
(11:07):
Electronics and high tech stuff like a cell phone is
easy to figure out, but a doorbell, it's much easier
if you just knock and knock and knock and knock
until somebody opens the door and punches you in the eye.
Oh h that's my story of the doorbell. I tell
(11:30):
you it's interesting. I also ran into something that makes
me very Oh not mad or anything like that. I mean,
there's no sense getting upset. But I love the fact
that people want to feed animals, you know, the wildlife,
because man is you know, out here at the zoo.
Oh excuse me, the compartment complex zoo. I'm so sorry
(11:51):
I slipped. You know, it's so much fun because most
of the cages or apartments you open the doors and
let the animals out and come home, you lock him
back in for the night. But we got grounds, you know,
beautiful nice lawns around, and it's always interesting when people
want to, as I mentioned before, feed the wildlife. Now,
(12:14):
since I've taken over's apartment manager, we've had wiley coyote
who showed up.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We have had boy.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I'll tell you this, this animal was a rough one there.
This was rambunctious, worst dog gun I'm telling you right now.
Raccoon that I've ever met. I mean, we call him Bobo.
Bobo was a male raccoon about thirty five pounds or more.
Never did get a chance to weigh him because usually
(12:44):
he would be across the yard area looking around. We'd
spot him, all of a sudden he disappear. And then,
of course, one of my great friends that work and
live here would leave the dumpster lid open and Boo
would go up the side of the dumpster and jump in,
and he would have lunch, breakfast, dinner, and a little snack,
(13:07):
you know, before somebody'd find him.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Well, one day, one.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Of my clever tenants decided to sneak up on the
garbage can, flick the lid closed, Bobo's down having lunch.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
All of a sudden, the lights go out.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now I don't know that there's a raccoon in the dumpster.
I have no Why would I know that there's a
raccoon in the dumpster. Should I go up to it
and beat on the lid and see if the raccoon answers? No,
I go out, I lift up the lid, grab my
garbage bag, turn around, and I see these two eyeballs.
(13:42):
Now I'm not kiddy the two eyeballs, because this is night,
it's dark, staring back at me, connected to a very ugly,
obnoxious raccoon who is sitting there, pissing and moving forward.
Of course, by this time I'm moving backwards and closing
(14:02):
the lid. Now we had to work at getting the
raccoon out of the dumpster. Because I guess the people
here that rent don't appreciate you know, Hi, how are
you Bobo and throwing your garbage in? For some reason,
Bobo has a nasty personality. Well, everything's great. I'm happy,
(14:22):
you know, I'm just great. I'm thinking to myself, this
is wonderful. As apartment manager. I've got to figure out
how to with no material get the raccoon out of
the dumpster without being eaten alive.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And it ain't.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Easy, folks, But I flipped the lid open with a stick,
backed up about thirty feet. Bobo comes back up, puts
both hands on the edge of the dumpster wall, looks up,
looks at the lid, looks straight at me, kind of
shakes his head like what idiot, put the lid down,
(14:57):
and jumps out of the dumpster and runs off. Now
I can't figure out why he keeps coming back besides
the dumpster right, well, free lunch?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
What the heck?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
All of a sudden, Bobo brings Bobo and the wife back,
And that's when the problem really started, because you see,
raccoons evidently have divorce issues and separation and problems. Evidently
because the two of them weren't getting along at all,
let me tell you. And she likes to throw the
(15:30):
garbage out of the box, out of the dumpster if possible,
and he's busy digging through the garbage in the dumpster.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It makes it very difficult.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Now. Of course, by this time, everybody's complaining to me
that there is animals in the dumpster. What are you
going to do about this? And I couldn't figure out
why they keep showing up. I mean, I'd chase them out,
risk my life, get them out of there, and then
all of a sudden they're back. Well, then I find
out that one of my tenants, bless Hers sold in Heart,
(16:01):
feeds the raccoons on a daily basis, and the squirrels
and naturally the rodents that followed the rest of them
to clean up, not talking about the crows who come
in and poke holes in the garbage bag at the
lid isn't closed, so Bobo can have better operation of food.
And you know, you get a smorgasboard. You want the
(16:23):
stuff to serve too you, of course, and Bobo got
quite conveniently used to that. I finally ended up having
to call Metro to come down there, an animal relief
group and they came down and put out traps and
took away Bobo and.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
A whole generation.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now I sent out an email, and you would think
that people would say, oh, we don't want that stuff
going on the garbage can. No. I got nasty emails
back saying, well, we're going to feed the animals anyway.
It's not fair poor little squirrels running around with no food,
and they were buying tons of bird seed and throwing
it all over the backyard. Birds see bread that's left over.
(17:02):
Of course, apples they love apples. Squirrels love apples and
all this good stuff. So we didn't end up with
a few squirrels. We ended up with a complete colony
of squirrels, which forced us to do some ugly things
like remove a tree and a few other odds and ends.
I can't believe that people with an education can't understand
(17:23):
that those little critters are cute. But they're cuter if
they're not in the house, backyard or.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
In your garbage can.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Apgaunia, it's tough to be an old fat guy sitting
in the kitchen. The old man in a kitchen chasing raccoons.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's ugly. Ugly folks terribly ugly.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Well, we'll be back next week with another story about
what's going on here at the zoo. Excuse me the
Cartet Complex, by the way, it's a beautiful complex. And
please don't let my satires upset the rest of the
natives that work here. I mean of the individuals that
are here. And by the way, never ever, here's a
(18:05):
tip that I learned. Take a banana and stuff it
into a gorilla's ear when it's chasing a baboon. That
is an ugly moment. Well, i'll define that for you
the next time we meet. Until then, just remember chill
Man rooting from the Kitchen Live podcast.
It's the Old Man rooting from the Kitchen Live podcast. Hey,
everybody's the Old Man and I'm back, and I'm back.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I've missed you guys. I've been gone.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Man, I've been so busy doing nothing that I've just
been busy, you know, being the old man ranting from
the kitchen. It's a lot of work. First of all,
you got to get from the refrigerator to the stove,
from the stove back to the microphone. And you know,
as I continue to see how much food I can
pack away, Dad isn't working out too well for me.
(00:36):
By the way, things have really changed. So today's show,
we're back. It's Sunday. It's great to have us back on.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's great to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We're going to be recording our show simply because of
the problems we're having with Facebook. It seems our technology
and their technology isn't quite the same. I got kind
of feeling that their technology is a little more advanced
than I'm you know, I'm just in a simple kitchen
and they've got this great, big studio with all these
technicians and wow all that stuff yhah, Yeah, that's pretty exciting.
(01:10):
All I wanted to do was turn on the microphone,
make a few statements, you know, get things rolling and
talk about wonderful things that are happening here at the
zoo and nothing. I'm telling you, it's really ridiculous. You
can't win them all, I guess. But first we got
to kind of pause for the cause. How do you
like that pause for the cause? I remember that from
(01:32):
the Corcoran Show many years ago on Channel thirteen. We
got a pause for the cause, for a word from
our sponsor.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Hi, I'm doctor Troy Munson on Revealing Wholeness. Please check
out my podcast on iHeartRadio or Spotify, where you'll find
all your latest health topics that you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yes, indeed, Dr Munson's been We are Disruptors Network since
the beginning of these shows. Keep Alive the Disruptors. The
old man that's me ranning from the kitchen and are
you ready for this? The news show he's coming out with,
which I'm really excited about. I mean because when I
(02:17):
talk to you about the next thing I'm going to
be talking to you about. By the way, it's very controversial.
I'm really excited about. Tips from doctor Munson behind the
scenes with doctor Troy catching on iHeartRadio, Spotify and your
favorite podcast platforms. Now, I got to get the business man.
Here's something that really irritates me and I need help with.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That is somebody knocking on the door, right, okay, I
mean I understand that the old man in the kitchen
understands that when you hear this sound, there's somebody outside.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The door that wants your attention.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, I thought to myself, you know here in the
wonderful complex that I'm operating here as a apartment manager
or misfit whichever you know title words. I thought for
sure that I could I could help everybody out by
installing a simple door bell so that I wouldn't have
(03:18):
to listen to every five seconds. And this way they
wouldn't have to hurt their little knuckles because this is a.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Metal door, you know, and I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I okay, So I got the mat that says welcome
facing to the outside of the door.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Okay. So I'm a little grumpy.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So maybe on a time or two people have come
to my door knocked on it like this, I've opened
the door, they made a speech and complained, and I've
closed the door too quickly. Not estimating the distance from
the door to their nose. I know it's been a
problem that I'm working on, so I pushed the mat
(03:59):
back further. Finally, after a year, I decide I'm going
to install a doorbell. I can't handle this anymore. I'm
going to put in a doorbell. Any normal human being
educated or not, knows what a doorbell is, right, It's
not this, It's a ding dong or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So I was very proud. I was very very pleased.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Called up my son and they said, we got to
find a doorbell that works, because this is getting on
my nerves, you know what I mean. So he came over,
we looked through Amazon what he had to offer.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Bought a doorbell.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Simple doorbell, simple, simple, simple, mounted it to the outside
of the door. It no wires, you know, you know,
none of this technical stuff. You know, even me in
the kitchen can figure out what's going on. Placed it
right at the level of most people's arm when they
extended out, so that we don't hurt their shoulder, ruin
(05:01):
their elbow, twist their wrists, or upset any of the
fingers that they may use to push the doorbell. There
would be no more that's what I assumed. So I
was I was excited.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I was static. You know.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well it only took a year of constantly even after
the doorbell was installed. Now I'm thinking to myself, basically,
how come some of these people with the higher education,
I mean we're talking about colleague and things of that nature,
cannot understand what the little black box with a button
(05:40):
in the middle of it does.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean, I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So I finally decide I'm going to ask somebody right
after they and I opened the door to see what
they wanted. Well, I said, have you ever seen a doorbell?
Or if in a doorbell offering onebillerd Bylsmuth Tom, I'll
pushing a lot of doorbells. And I pushed as I said, okay, well,
this is a strange point that I'd like to make.
(06:04):
Do you see this one right where it meant door
bail bail? There's a problem without their doorbell? What is
the problem? Well, you got it, brown, I said, Yes,
the doorbell is brown and bit screwed into the mal
trim here on the door out here the door cushing bail.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That'sched brown too.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh okay, yeah, so I didn't even know it was there.
So let me get this, Let me get.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
This straight in my mind.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
The thing that stands out on the door casing which
catches your eye immediately because as you're walking up to
the door you can't miss it. Now, then it's brown,
the door casing's brown. Therefore it's just easier to on
a brown door than push the doorbell.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Does that make sense to anybody?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Because I really got lost, I really seriously did. I.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I always thought, you know, if you saw.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
A door but pushed it first, and if it didn't ring,
then you go ahead and knock on the door. I mean,
that would be the simple thing for me to understand.
Oh no, no, no, we got to have we got
to have people. You know, I shall you know, I
shaw that derebar al bear, their dearbeiled bear, and I
(07:19):
don't know what the heck to do with that there?
Then god sare back home? You know where I come from?
And that's usually the statement I get, and it scares
me half to death because I really don't want to
know where some of these people have come from. U
Usually I want to know if they live here, and
I have to experience this every time they come to
the door or are they somebody from the planet uh
(07:44):
knock knock. Then they've landed, and they assume that they
have to continue to knock on the door because that's
what their culture says and the planet they came from,
I think, but it's amazing, So I just let it rest.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
The other day, I'm sitting there and I'm typing on
the computer and all of a sudden, I hear this,
and I'm thinking, once was enough. Twice is irritating, and
the third time is going to get me annoyed. So
I go to the door and open it up, and
(08:23):
I'm looking around and there's nobody there.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
No, no.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Then I look down and I have to look off
to this is this is very embarrassing off to the
right side. Now that that of the door, and I
look down and well, by golly, that's my groceries from Walmart.
I'll be dog gunned look at that. So this gentleman
obviously didn't see the doorbell, but knocks not just one, two, three,
(08:51):
to let me know you know something's going on, and
then send me a text message, please bring your groceries in.
They've been delivered. He has to continue to and then
when he gets done He's left the groceries underneath the
stairwell about seven eight ten feet away from the door.
(09:13):
So when I opened the door, if I didn't look
around and down, I would have never seen the groceries there. Now,
of course, I know this is a technical thing, and
I understand everybody has.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
To work with it.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'm sure he delivers to many different places that you know,
they put their groceries in different spots.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I understand all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I don't understand why they don't know what a doorbell
looks like, a door, a door mat, etc. I don't
understand that the instructions I left is leave it by
the front door, not leave it by the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know, I get confused.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I've even had times when they have rung my doorbell
and I thought, hey, this is exciting. I open up
the door. My groceries have been delivered. I look around
and I can't find them. And then all of a sudden,
the neighbors says, uh, mister Lee, Yes, why do you
leave your groceries under my kitchen window? And I did
(10:13):
you know?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
No, I don't know why I do that.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
You see, when they park next to the building, and
this is a building with four apartments in one building.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
They get out of the car.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Now it's very confusing. Remember I have a doorbell, very confusing,
big signs with the number and the address and everything
so big that a blind man can see them. And
then they look at it and he did gory. Mollie, Mollie,
what do you think we're sure to leave them their groceries, Mallly.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I think we just leave right here in the sidewalk,
right here in front of the front of the entrance.
They find them and they compete to tell them to come
out and pick them up. I thought, oh, that's yeah,
And that's where I found them, practically out in the
parking lot, very close to it. So you see, even
though you put in a doorbell, the best thing in
the world is is to understand that people don't know.
(11:07):
Electronics and high tech stuff like a cell phone is
easy to figure out, but a doorbell, it's much easier
if you just knock and knock and knock and knock
until somebody opens the door and punches you in the eye.
Oh h that's my story of the doorbell. I tell
(11:30):
you it's interesting. I also ran into something that makes
me very Oh not mad or anything like that. I mean,
there's no sense getting upset. But I love the fact
that people want to feed animals, you know, the wildlife,
because man is you know, out here at the zoo.
Oh excuse me, the compartment complex zoo. I'm so sorry
(11:51):
I slipped. You know, it's so much fun because most
of the cages or apartments you open the doors and
let the animals out and come home, you lock him
back in for the night. But we got grounds, you know,
beautiful nice lawns around, and it's always interesting when people
want to, as I mentioned before, feed the wildlife. Now,
(12:14):
since I've taken over's apartment manager, we've had wiley coyote
who showed up.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We have had boy.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I'll tell you this, this animal was a rough one there.
This was rambunctious, worst dog gun I'm telling you right now.
Raccoon that I've ever met. I mean, we call him Bobo.
Bobo was a male raccoon about thirty five pounds or more.
Never did get a chance to weigh him because usually
(12:44):
he would be across the yard area looking around. We'd
spot him, all of a sudden he disappear. And then,
of course, one of my great friends that work and
live here would leave the dumpster lid open and Boo
would go up the side of the dumpster and jump in,
and he would have lunch, breakfast, dinner, and a little snack,
(13:07):
you know, before somebody'd find him.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Well, one day, one.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Of my clever tenants decided to sneak up on the
garbage can, flick the lid closed, Bobo's down having lunch.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
All of a sudden, the lights go out.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now I don't know that there's a raccoon in the dumpster.
I have no Why would I know that there's a
raccoon in the dumpster. Should I go up to it
and beat on the lid and see if the raccoon answers? No,
I go out, I lift up the lid, grab my
garbage bag, turn around, and I see these two eyeballs.
(13:42):
Now I'm not kiddy the two eyeballs, because this is night,
it's dark, staring back at me, connected to a very ugly,
obnoxious raccoon who is sitting there, pissing and moving forward.
Of course, by this time I'm moving backwards and closing
(14:02):
the lid. Now we had to work at getting the
raccoon out of the dumpster. Because I guess the people
here that rent don't appreciate you know, Hi, how are
you Bobo and throwing your garbage in? For some reason,
Bobo has a nasty personality. Well, everything's great. I'm happy,
(14:22):
you know, I'm just great. I'm thinking to myself, this
is wonderful. As apartment manager. I've got to figure out
how to with no material get the raccoon out of
the dumpster without being eaten alive.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And it ain't.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Easy, folks, But I flipped the lid open with a stick,
backed up about thirty feet. Bobo comes back up, puts
both hands on the edge of the dumpster wall, looks up,
looks at the lid, looks straight at me, kind of
shakes his head like what idiot, put the lid down,
(14:57):
and jumps out of the dumpster and runs off. Now
I can't figure out why he keeps coming back besides
the dumpster right, well, free lunch?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
What the heck?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
All of a sudden, Bobo brings Bobo and the wife back,
And that's when the problem really started, because you see,
raccoons evidently have divorce issues and separation and problems. Evidently
because the two of them weren't getting along at all,
let me tell you. And she likes to throw the
(15:30):
garbage out of the box, out of the dumpster if possible,
and he's busy digging through the garbage in the dumpster.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It makes it very difficult.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Now. Of course, by this time, everybody's complaining to me
that there is animals in the dumpster. What are you
going to do about this? And I couldn't figure out
why they keep showing up. I mean, I'd chase them out,
risk my life, get them out of there, and then
all of a sudden they're back. Well, then I find
out that one of my tenants, bless Hers sold in Heart,
(16:01):
feeds the raccoons on a daily basis, and the squirrels
and naturally the rodents that followed the rest of them
to clean up, not talking about the crows who come
in and poke holes in the garbage bag at the
lid isn't closed, so Bobo can have better operation of food.
And you know, you get a smorgasboard. You want the
(16:23):
stuff to serve too you, of course, and Bobo got
quite conveniently used to that. I finally ended up having
to call Metro to come down there, an animal relief
group and they came down and put out traps and
took away Bobo and.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
A whole generation.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now I sent out an email, and you would think
that people would say, oh, we don't want that stuff
going on the garbage can. No. I got nasty emails
back saying, well, we're going to feed the animals anyway.
It's not fair poor little squirrels running around with no food,
and they were buying tons of bird seed and throwing
it all over the backyard. Birds see bread that's left over.
(17:02):
Of course, apples they love apples. Squirrels love apples and
all this good stuff. So we didn't end up with
a few squirrels. We ended up with a complete colony
of squirrels, which forced us to do some ugly things
like remove a tree and a few other odds and ends.
I can't believe that people with an education can't understand
(17:23):
that those little critters are cute. But they're cuter if
they're not in the house, backyard or.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
In your garbage can.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Apgaunia, it's tough to be an old fat guy sitting
in the kitchen. The old man in a kitchen chasing raccoons.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's ugly. Ugly folks terribly ugly.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Well, we'll be back next week with another story about
what's going on here at the zoo. Excuse me the
Cartet Complex, by the way, it's a beautiful complex. And
please don't let my satires upset the rest of the
natives that work here. I mean of the individuals that
are here. And by the way, never ever, here's a
(18:05):
tip that I learned. Take a banana and stuff it
into a gorilla's ear when it's chasing a baboon. That
is an ugly moment. Well, i'll define that for you
the next time we meet. Until then, just remember chill
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