A sign of arrested development?

In 2015

A few years ago, when the house to our north was for sale, we happened to be spending a good deal of time in Portland at various hospitals.  Nyel was having some serious health problems and so, for several months we weren’t home very regularly.  Our wonderful neighbors watched out for our chickens, picked up our mail, and generally kept an eye on things.  Including keeping our property free from the “For Sale” signs that kept migrating  over to our front gate.  Someone thought it was pretty funny to move the realtor’s signs from the property next door to our house.

We were busy struggling with Nyel’s health and absolutely oblivious to that particular bit of TLC being provided by our good friends and neighbors — as in, removing said signs and returning them to the property next door.  By the time we finally returned home, we were so relieved that Nyel was improving that we didn’t pay much attention to the “homecoming reports.”  The sign switching stopped and life went on.

It’s A Sign!

Now the sign  fetisher is apparently at it again.  Only this time, the culprit has taken to disappearing our signs — actually just one sign.  The Driscoll sign.  Of the many here in the village, ours is one of only two that vanished Friday night.  The others, at least on the properties near us, are still in place.

Perhaps it’s one of the non-Driscoll supporters here in town, most of whom, incidentally, are not full-time residents of Pacific County and cannot vote in the upcoming election.  So… what message are they trying to send?  And to whom?  Is it a message to the steady stream of tourists who visit the Historic District all summer?  Or is the message to the candidates, themselves, (who, I needn’t point out, are well aware of who can and cannot vote in our little village).  If the message is meant for us in particular, we can’t quite figure out the logic.

It’s a sad, sad situation when the biggest excitement for someone is thievery.  Of political signs!  Worst of all, they are stealing money out of our neighbor Dan’s pocket.  To what purpose?  I seriously doubt that they’ve given it that much thought.  It’s a teenager’s trick and since we have no teenagers in town, it’s obviously a matter of arrested development.  Sad.  Very, very sad.

 

5 Responses to “A sign of arrested development?”

  1. Virginia Ann Driscoll says:

    It makes me sad to see this animosity, illegal activity, and dirty politics in Oysterville. I like to remember the kindly and friendly neighborhood of Oysterville. When my father was in the hospital with a ruptured appendix our neighbor Louise Wachsmuth stayed with us so my mother could be with him. There were so many great families and friends. Ann Driscoll

  2. Bill says:

    In my experience with political signs (and it goes back decades) it is rarely supporters of any candidate that are responsible for such tricks. The candidates realize the negative effect that it has on politics in general, and their own campaigns in particular. Rather it is usually due to troublemakers and malcontents (of any age) that just want to disrupt the system.

  3. sydney says:

    I wish you were correct in this instance but, sadly, that is not the case.

  4. sydney says:

    You haven’t lived in Oysterville over the past forty years, Bill. We KNOW who our sign-wreckers are. And not just political signs, either.

  5. sydney says:

    There still are, Ann, among the “old guard.” Interestinly, it’s the Wachsmuth family who has been so helpful to us during Nyel’s many hospital stays. We try to focus on the many positive things that happen here, but sometimes the negative folks seem to cry out for attention. As Bill Grennan said in his comment — “troublemakers and malcontents.”

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