Trolls Among Us

We're more than a vampire neighborhood. We have a troll family living among us. Trolls make good neighbors once it's realized that trolls love what is theirs--especially their lawns. Our trolls keep their lawn insanely free of leaves. They rake a lot. They also use a leaf blower to blow the neighbor's stray leaves back across the invisible lawn divide. Some of their own leaves end up in the neighbor's yard, too. But that's ok, because the neighbor will ignore them. Eventually, the leaves will blow back into the troll's yard to be pummeled with the leaf blower once again. Leaf action is good for trolls because it gives them a break from thinking about children--other people's children--turning bicycles around in their driveway. I don't know if trolls worry about black tread marks, the potential for scraped knees or the vague possibility that stray kids on bikes will somehow move into their garage. Whatever the worry, kids don't use the troll driveway more than once. Trolls also chase after dog owners whose pets offend on their lawn. On that point, I'm firmly in the trolls' corner. On the other stuff, if I worried about all of that, my head would explode. That's one thing I don't have in my neighborhood, exploding troll heads. That would be quite a clean-up.