My neighbors 70-something mother in law tore my LAMPSON sign

[elehhhhna]

off its posts, in my own personal front yard, Friday night, and threw it on the ground.

Reeps are just soooo funny! Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

My Hubs & our gloating other reep neighbor(why gloating? got me. THEY LOST) told me last night ( I've been busy & gone volunteering for CONGRESSMAN LAMPSON, D., Sugar Land.

The 70-something MIL had a stroke a few hours later. Luckily it was a small one, caught fast, and she is recovering w. no damage.

What do y'all make of this?

Karma?

I find it all quite disturbing but I'm not sure why.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. We all think of the elderly as being wise...

...your neighbor's m-in-law defies that logic.

She is a sad human being. Fortunately, she's old, and will die soon.:evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

6. LOL!

:rofl:

[Dorian Gray]

49. Wow.... I'm sure the OP's spouse

would be pleased to see his/her mother's death gleefully discussed online at DU.

[Cooley Hurd]

51. It was the OP's NEIGHBOR'S mother-in-law, not the OP's...

Might want to re-read the OP again...;)

[elehhhhna]

52. It's my neighbor's MIL. My MIL is a SAINT...and a Dem.

[aquart]

2. She did evil and god punished her?

It is extremely unnerving to believe that justice may actually be functioning on a cosmic plane.

[AIJ Alom]

3. Good grief woman, no point in dying over an election.

Displaced anger on display. She should direct it at Delay. And you as her neighbor should provide her with his contact info.

[Generic Other]

4. Oh my goodness. I'm covering my mouth to keep from LOL

Shame on that old lady. She'll end up in a nursing home acting like that.

[elehhhhna]

17. I'm thinking the stormtrooper act in my yard was an early warning of

oncoming brain injury. Trying hard to give the benefit of the doubt, here.

[hvn_nbr_2]

54. That's possible. Another possibility:

If a 70-year-old woman is so upset about somebody's candidate sign that she goes onto someone else's property to destroy it, there must be a lot of rage boiling in there. It's quite possible that she kept thinking about it and kept her blood pressure up enough for long enough that a blood vessel broke in her brain. That would, in a sense, be karma.

[Kittycat]

20. Is it rude to laugh with your mouth open? LOL, I'm rolling.

Glad she's recovering, but the irony of it all.

[YDogg]

5. Not your fault. I wish her well, but maybe she shouldn't be ripping up signs.

[havocmom]

7. She seems to have anger issues and that may well have triggered stroke

She is a bomb just looking for an excuse to blow.

Those bad chemicals running amok in her bloodstream need to be dealt with. One more argument for better mental health care in this country. People with continuing rage get sick or hurt other people.

Where's the link to the story about the 60-something woman who hit A COP with a sign she had put on a corner? Seems utility workers had to set the sign aside (public property) to do some work. The woman flipped out, picked the sign up and hit a cop doing traffic directing with it.

THEN she railed (while handcuffed in the po-lice station) that they couldn't treat her like that and she was gonna sue.

There are a lot of very big two year olds running around un-parented and unsupervised. It's sad.

[judaspriestess]

8. thank god she didn't throw herself onto the post

and drove it through her heart. sheesh, relax lady

[blm]

9. That's one creepy person. My vote is for ....karma.

.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

10. Wonder what in the world she thinks DeLay and his party ever did, or would do, that would help her?

You just can't account for some people.

As for God and retribution, I suggest she did it to herself.

[elehhhhna]

24. The group email I got yesterday on her condition opens with this:

"November 8. Yuk, our country just bought a ticket to SOCIALISM. Have we lost our collective heads? Anyway, I stray from my intended message."

I was tempted to respond "Go Yuk, yourself, Alan. Ya LOST! GET OVER IT! Isn't all that Socialistic Medicare coverage is coming in handy today? God Bless FDR." but did not.

Does that make me a chicken or a dove?

[LonelyLRLiberal]

29. Just makes you polite in my book.

Besides, what is that saying about pigs and mud and such?

[elehhhhna]

32. Thanks but truth is I'm really getting ready to just SNAP OFF on these

"people".

They've flung their crap around this town for 6 years and enough is enough.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

36. Can't say I blame you for that! eom

[Ikonoklast]

59. Ask him if he intends to cash those Social(ist) Security

checks someday.


They all turn into hypocrites on that one, unless they answer "NO".

[Blackthorn]

11. Luckily?

It would have been poetic justice to scream at the ambulance as it pulled away "You lost the election and you had a stroke. Can't you do anything right?"

[elehhhhna]

18. Nah. Her Grandchildren really need her right now, such as she is.

That should clue you in to the overall family dynamic: :thumbsdown:

[Sydnie]

12. Perhaps she was already experiencing some blood flow issues

when she did it. Lack of blood to the brain can cause people to do some strange things, can't they? Perhaps she was already winding up to the stroke she eventually had and was not fully in control of her actions when she did it?

Just giving her the benefit of the doubt.

[SmokingJacket]

45. This is the answer, I think.

Even the most rabid old republican ladies rarely go around ripping up lawn signs.

[MADem]

13. Well, you can tape the thing back together and give it to her as a get-well present

...but that would be...mean... :evilgrin:

[txindy]

16. Now, now. She should send the woman a get-well card.

With a pop-up figure of Lampson in the middle waving in victory. :evilgrin:

[elehhhhna]

22. Thinking about just sending an email w/ the pic of me & my gals w/ Lampson

Saying We and YOUR CONGRESSMAN hope you get well soon.

Is that so wrong?

[txindy]

26. I'm sure she'll appreciate the gesture. She'll probably gesture in return.

Providing she can still extend her fingers individually.

:rofl:

[elehhhhna]

21. SHUT UP! I DO have a Delay sign hubby copped off the parkway during the primaries, though.

Used it Monday night:

[gkhouston]

56. couldn't you replace the blacked-out area on the Delay sign with the name of

a correctional facility? Every time I see MSNBC run their "Doc-Block" commercial I find myself thinking that a year or two from now they'll have a batch of "exciting new Doc-Block episodes" on Doc-Block: Erstwhile Politician.

[elehhhhna]

60. I plan to. "Prison Trustee" fits nicely.

[txindy]

14. That's Karma all right. Wow, talk about rage.

Did she worship BugBoy or something?

[TheBaldyMan]

15. It's a FReeper stress avoidance technique ... most people call it denial

FReepers get all het up until a blood vessel blows. Really dumb.

I hope the lady will be OK but in all honesty she brought it on herself.

[pooja]

19. that's just toooo funny

[noahmijo]

23. Well we're all glad that Livia Soprano is now okay

Just tell Uncle Jun to bring her some macaroons (NOT the sweet kind!!!)

[elehhhhna]

25. More like Livia, Mother of Tiberius, G'mother of Caligula.

[Catherine Vincent]

27. Have her arrested for tresspassing when she gets out.

:evilgrin:

[elehhhhna]

28. oh no you didn't

naught kitty!

:yourock:

[upi402]

30. Freeps I know tout conservative local measures winning

and pretend they're satisfied with the election.

They can't handle it. They are bullies, brats, and babies.

[Raine]

31. Haha,,,just a sore-loserman

we get the last laugh...on them. :evilgrin: It makes me feel good to hear they are taking it so hard. :rofl:

[Metta]

33. Perhaps her acting out was a safety valve that saved her from a greater stroke.

Or saved her life. Or not. It could have just upped her blood pressure so she stroked herself. We'll never know. It appears she's the opposite of "patience protects" though.

[elehhhhna]

34. So her new Congressman, Nick Lampson, may have saved her life?

LOL. I'll go with that.

[Metta]

35. Truth is stranger than fiction.

As you know. :hi:

[cassiepriam]

37. I think it is always hard to tell what is happening on a karmic level

to a person.

People who hurt us may reflect a soul group decision
to provide a learning or debt repayment environment.
So we should try not to judge what is happening, we
may have placed ourselves in the situaton for soul growth.

In this case, her behavior leading up to the stroke indicates
that she was highly emotional and irrational, normal adults
do not openly destroy property in a neighbor's yard.

I am thinking that she may have been having some small strokes all along, hence the odd behavior and then she finally had a more obvious one.

And all of her anger is not helping her blood pressure and stroke situation.

[elehhhhna]

39. You're a wise one, cassiepriam.

The poor woman already has incredible family pressures on her right now.

A lifelong Repub, a Limbaugh saluting, FauxPas News loving Grandma who, like so many others, is going through the stages of mourning for her Grand Old Party. It's gotta be hard to confront Bush's betrayal. Hopefully she'll survive the anger part and get on through to acceptance.

[cassiepriam]

44. People who have been in strong denial can melt down

when faced with indisputable reality.

Many GOPers may start melting down
as the criminal activity of BushCo is
revealed more and more. And it may take
a toll on their health.

Their refusal to face the truth
may result in physical and emotional
problems for them. But hopefully they will
adapt and be better for it, after having
learned some hard lessons.

[StraightDope]

38. I find it quite amusing...

Karma for sure. Maybe, if she's lucky, she'll hang on until she's raptured!

:sarcasm:

[Toots]

40. What is a Reep?

Oh I get it Republican....duhhh.

[hootinholler]

41. I've been looking for bumper sticker with

Stroke inducing capabilities. I would love to look in the rear view and actually see a head explode.

-Hoot

[Hubert Flottz]

42. I'd press charges for trespassing and vandalism.

I REALLY would. She might decide to attack you next! They are the deciders ya know!

Some quality time in zee cooler, might calm her down and save her miserable life!

[elehhhhna]

50. Look, she HATES my politics. She thinks I'm a hippie or something.

But regardless, she loves me, too, despite herself.

Her unhappy, hateful daughter talked a lot of ugly about me (and everyone else) to anyone who'd listen. This daughter died in Jul 04 after a horrible struggle with cancer. She left two bereft children and an idiot child of a husband. Her son has been like a bro to my oldest daughter. He slept at our house for the last few weeks before his Mother died. I took him to the orthodintist, talked to the school Principal & Counselor about his situation (they hadn't been informed). I held him while she died. I showed him the signs that she was at peace. I prepared him to go in and see her body--and held his shaking hands through it all. I made her daughters favorite dessert EVERY day when she could eat nothing else. I found some pot for her--the big pro-booze/anti-herb lady--when the Oxycontin didn'twork anymore and she sheepishly begged me for help (scrounging it up was not easy, either. I had no contacts and couldn't ask the highschoolers, obviously). Half an hour after the delivery & some coaching/instructions, she called me -- giggling (!) and finally felt well enough to take a bath. I promised her I'd watch out for her kids, and I do. The daughter who'd once irrationally hated me told her family and her nurses in the last week of her life that I was her "good, good friend".

The Grandma knows in her heart that this hippie-freak liberal was there for her daughter and grandchildren more than she was. Had she planted a DeLay sign in my yard I'd have laughed. Throwing my sign down, when she knew I was working on Lampsons campaign...that hurt.

Rambling, yes. Glad to finally get it off my chest.

[KharmaTrain]

43. Put Up A Thank-You Sign...

Wanna really frost their asses? Put up a sign that says something like "Thank you for not "DeLaying" our Goverment...Good Luck Congressman Lampson" :rofl:

Then spray the sign with something very smelly/sticky so the next time your neighbor decides to play censor, they'll have an unpleasant reminder of that experience.

[MorningGlow]

46. Thanks for the warning!

DH is, sadly, a repub. Alas. He's a good guy, just misguided in this regard--I think it's a lifelong family influence. Anyway, last night I came home to find two "HILLARY" signs on our neighbors' garage door. Our VERY wealthy, martini-drinking, golf-playing, life-of-leisure, up-there-in-years neighbors. The kind you assume would be repubs. I'm not sure if DH has seen those signs yet. He's not the type to tear down election signs, but you have made me realize that stroke is a very real possibility when he sees them.

:rofl:

[elehhhhna]

53. I don't think it was the seeing that was a problem. The touching? Maybe.

[Bridget Burke]

47. Your response should be loving kindness!

Using that sweetness so many of us Texas ladies can offer--no matter what we think.

Offer to help out, bring over snacks. Turn the conversation to pleasant subjects--like your new Congressman. And poor Shelly Sekula Gibbs, elected to serve DeLay's unexpired term--since Lampson was not running for that temporary gig. She will probably be in DC for only a few days, for which she must resign from the Houston City Council. (Bless her heart!)

Perhaps you can find some cheerful material at Juanita's: www.brazosriver.com/

Christmas is coming! Does your neighbor needs a subscription: www.texasobserver.org

[Dorian Gray]

48. I'm sure it was fate

punishing her for destroying your sign.

[lpbk2713]

55. Proof that listening to Limbaugh is bad for one's health.

Obviously the poor lady had unrealistic expectations from living in a parallel universe created by the RW propagandists.

[Kerrytravelers]

57. Can you imagine the righteous indignation if you'd done that to her sign?

I'm glad she's ok, but how foolish she must have looked.

Question: How hard did you laugh?

[elehhhhna]

58. Not one bit. It was creepy. I found out about the sign-toss after I was notified she

was in the NICU.

btw, she's getting better but has no memory of that day.

[Kerrytravelers]

61. Oh, I misread. I thought you saw her with the sign and then later she had the medical issue.

On Edit: And by laughing, I meant laughing at the silliness of taking the sign, not about having a heart issue.