![]() ![]() But did you wear gloves when you yanked them up? Their color is rich because of the acidic bacteria in the petals that rot your flesh upon exposure. Those flowers stay vibrant almost all year. I still don’t remember the name of the purple flower, which you stole, along with the wire and stakes I used to support it. (Always read the fine print at plant nurseries.)īut, hey, who believes in witches and curses? Well, who other than me and the several practitioners of the mystical arts I’ve consulted with about whether a second curse is recommended or just a plain-old hex on whoever took the fuchsia until it’s returned? But there was a warning, something about the hand that “disturb-eth its restful soil once planted shall wither, perish and fall off” - apparently, as do the thief’s genitals. The curse wasn’t a big deal to us since we bought the fuchsia legally. Then I remembered the curse the witch cast on it, which, in hindsight, must be why a plant that beautiful was on clearance. When I saw its buds scattered on the path like blood droplets leading from a crime season, I gasped. The fuchsia was one of our pride and joys. You really did us a favor by stealing them - inflation has been murder on our butcher and medical bills. They consume six pounds of raw ox meat a week, or an equal amount of human flesh bitten directly from your body. The Shasta daisies you tore from the ground will spread if you’re not careful, so give them a good trim once a year. I just wouldn’t sleep with your windows open, since the flowers emit a rotting corpse smell at night, like all haunted plants do. (I’m talking “Poltergeist” meets “The Conjuring” level chaos.)īut, overall, the ghost is pretty low maintenance. There’s a spirit bound to the bush we discovered when we used overly acidic soil in the bed. It was a heritage flower from the garden of a beloved local artist. That shocking pink geranium you took wasn’t just any geranium. I forgive you because I deserve not to be angry.Īnd because I forgive you, I wanted to warn you about a few things. And not in the Italian American way of my ancestors where I’m saying the words but also thinking 20 steps ahead to when you will be at your most vulnerable. In the meantime, I’d like to address the thief. My husband dissuaded me on the bear traps and razor wire. (Well, no one other than my poor plants, who, wherever they were, might not be getting the proper water, sun and soil conditions.) So I resolved to let go and move on, waiting to replant when it felt safe again - and of course, to wire a camera into the beds with a direct stream to my phone. The doom loop can’t be that bad, can it?Īfter alerting my neighborhood association, I thought about the big picture. I eventually calmed down, but I had some questions: Who steals plants? This is one of the creepier violations I’ve ever felt living in San Francisco. I was ready to Eastwood them until they made my day, then go full Liam Neeson in “Taken” with my very special set of skills, and end by Vin Dieseling fast and furiously until the plants were back in the ground. Whoever stomped and stole from our garden did all three.įor a moment, I imagined myself as some vengeance-minded Clint Eastwood character like Dirty Harry, ready to hunt down the monsters who stole my plants. So your whole script could be very short as.I have a specific form of anger I direct at people who disturb nature, beauty and helpless things. I added $sleepTime just to make it more flexible. Then in your while loop, it would be while ($currentTime < $time). It should be $time = time()+1800 or $time = $currentTime+1800 instead. ![]() What you need is the correct the $time to be fixed and NOT use it in the while loop. Your first instinct is correct to use while loop. When you iterate through a loop, the dynamic keeps changing but the fixed must stay the same. The idea of how to iterate through a time is very simple, you need 2 varaibles - one is dynamic and the other is fixed. You seem to be a self-taught person that does not learn from a good source. You are making it more complicated and gain nothing but make it worse. In your original script, you DO NOT NEED another for loop inside the while loop at all. ![]() When you try to loop through something, you should make it as simple as it could. ![]() If you really want to use for loop, simply replace $loops with $iteration and get rid of your $iteration inside the loop.Īnyway, your original script is already wrong. Your for loop has NOTHING to do with $loops value because you simply want your $iteration to be at most 10. Your solution is NOT a solution but a badly patch job that is bloated and makes the script worse. ![]()
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