Connor Safehouse, Virginia, Anemone Weekend Visit

[apocalypsesoon]

A whole weekend with AnnieMony. And shopping, swimsuits, HOA wrongness, and just....foooood!

[This is the stuff that's worksafe, yo.]
[ Friday, Saturday morning, Saturday HOA wrongness, Saturday Night Goth Club dancing, Sunday morning brunch and eventual goodbyes.]

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Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[apocalypsesoon]

Game plan? Quickly tally up all the violations and then go shopping until the meeting.

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[death_of_hope]

Anemone sat at the table, legs swinging as looked at her notebook. She'd done a quick recon of the backyards in a three-block radius of the house, and was trying to find any HOA violations. "John? Can I see the section about pets pleas?"

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[apocalypsesoon]

John handed her the agreement. Phonebooks were smaller. "Here. Got it tabbed. Guess what? Somebody doesn't know how to surveeey," he said in a sing-song voice. "The developer has driveways overlapping people. Mine's good. I took care of it. Plus? This house was here first, so it's got a bigger lot and a wider driveway, so it's in the clear no matter what. And I put the privacy fence on the inside of anything, so that's good. Not so much for the neighbors." Evil grin.

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[death_of_hope]

"If you count Koi as pets, the person three houses down has ten animals too many." Anemone shook her head as she circled something in her notebook. "And the lady across the street has two too many cats, and an extra dog. Is there anything about lizards in here? Because someone's kid has a big icky snake."

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[apocalypsesoon]

"Oooh, is it a legal snake or illegal snake?" he asked. "What's the depth of the koi pond? If it's too deep, it's gotta be classified as a pool, and that's additional fees and fencing and all that," he said. "Aside from the violation of the decibel early morning thing, Loud Neighbor has a deck that's not up to code."

He snickered. "Best part? Five of the Board are in violations. Some are serious violations. I mean, it's six people. You'd think they'd be able to figure out that people'd check on 'em. Especially since they're the ones nitpicking."

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[death_of_hope]

"Pond is at least 3.5 deep, I couldn't touch the bottom. I stuck my hand in to stir up the fishies so I could count them." Anemone chewed on the end of her pen absently. "And the snake looked like a boa. Ew. Oh! Did you know there's a pet weight limit? That means the person with the two saint bernard/sheppard mix dogs is in violation too. The dogs are too big for the neighborhood."

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[apocalypsesoon]

"Can't wait to see the Board prez when I tell her that her prized show dog is a violator. Great Danes are even bigger than that husky thing. She'll shit!" He grinned. It wasn't exactly pleasant and inviting. "I think it's what, 18 inches for a pond? That's deep enough to overwinter the fish and all. Violator!" He brought his hand down on the table. A small pepper-pot dingbot started running in circles holding a sign that said "vi-o-lait".

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[death_of_hope]

She giggled and patted the pepper-pot. "That's right, aren't you a clever 'bot? Do you want to help?" she slid a second notebook and a pen over to the dingbot. "Can you circle every time I wrote BAD? It will help me compile my list of bad people."

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[apocalypsesoon]

The pepper-pot extended a single arm with a tiny suction cup on it and grabbed the pen, circling and circling and circling.

There were a lot of BAD people.

"Seriously? If they enforce their stupid laws like they claim to in the bylaws? Half the people'd be kicked out in a month if they don't fix 'em. And I know that people just won't up and leave their pets. Or tear down that new attached 3 car garage, y'know?"

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[death_of_hope]

"That's all the rule-breakers I found." Anemone shoved her notebook at him and leaned back in her chair. "But I only focused on what I saw in the backyard area, and through a few windows. I'm sure you found oodles more. Enough to arrest the whole neighborhood." Her grin might have looked a bit sharkish. "Such a shame, if all those houses had to sit empty."

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[apocalypsesoon]

"True. My property values would plummet," he said. "The neighborhood'd go to shit, and I'd have to step up patrols with the bots. I don't want that. I just want the HOA to back off, realize they have no power over this, and that they better mind their own problems before nit-picking everyone else's. THink a vote of No Confidence would wake 'em up?" His grin? Makes sharks swim backwards.

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[death_of_hope]

"Hopefully." She stood up and poked her head in the fridge to steal a soda. "I'll leave the speech-writing to you. I do my best PR work when I can stand there and smile, and just keep my mouth shut."

She meandered back over to give him a quick kiss. "I'm going to go get ready for shopping, okay? Let me know when you're ready to go."

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[apocalypsesoon]

He leered a bit as she rummaged the fridge. "You can be the figurehead. Sweet and innocent and all 'have you seen these infractions?' and that'll just drive 'em crazy." He kissed her back. "I'll be up in a sec to change. ...unless you need help?" he asked questioningly.

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[death_of_hope]

"So I get to be the sweet reasonable one, and you play the big dumb brute? We can do that."

She rolled her eyes at him and lightly thwapped his butt. "I don't need help changing. If you try to help me, we're just going to end up back in bed all day."

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[apocalypsesoon]

"Which is such a bad thing, right," he grinned at her. "You change, then I'll change, then we'll get stuff done, yes? Wear something innocent. Rifle my clothes if you want."

He paused.

"No actual rifles, though."

Re: Saturday Afternoon: Shopping Pre-HOA

[death_of_hope]

"Jeans and shirt innocent enough? I didn't pack anything girly or innocent. I didn't think I'd need it. I didn't realize that was one of your turn-ons." The giggle probably ruined the effect of the leer. "I promise, I won't borrow one of your guns without asking."