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Mum's the word

By Alan May

Real Estate Agent with Jameson Sotheby's International Realty

September 30, 2010 04:16 AM

It was a little disheartening walking into the office this morning.

I walk directly past our local bank, which is right next door to our office. Recently they planted a beautiful array of autumn flowers... pot after beautiful pot of colourful mums. They dug some holes, and dropped the pots directly into the holes, probably figuring when the weather gets too cold, and the first frosts threaten, they'd be able to take them inside before they freeze.

Well, this moring, all of the plants are gone. They weren't taken inside to prevent freezing, since they were still in their original pots, apparently they presented just too tempting a target for someone, and they've been stolen.

Happy, happy autumn, folks.

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Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home is where the hearth is.

Edward & Celia - so true.

Glenn - well, at least it's somewhat enterprising, even though it still sucks.

Team Honeycutt - I'll just bet she was appreciative.

Rebecca - I'd agree.

Steve - unbelievable!! (kinda funny, but unbelievable)

Kim - lookit you commenting and everything! ... at least he knew who to yell at.

Sep 30, 2010 06:08 AM

Liz and Bill Spear

Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH

Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

It's enough to reinforce some people's negative perceptions of the human race...if we let it!

Just a bad apple at work!

Sep 30, 2010 07:12 AM

'The Diamond Group' 'A Cut Above The Rest'

The Diamond Group @ Keller Williams - Lubbock, TX

Lubbock Texas Real Estate

They must have needed flowers in their life pretty badly.........but think of it this way you were able to give someone some sunshine in their drab little lives.

Sep 30, 2010 07:31 AM

Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home is where the hearth is.

Liz & Bill - no question... could also just be some mischeveous teen-prank

Elizabeth - they weren't my flowers, so I can't take the credit

David - it truly is.

Sep 30, 2010 09:10 AM

Chris Ann Cleland

Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA

Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

Stealing flower seems like more of a juvenile prank to me. Can't imagine anyone else taking them.

Sep 30, 2010 09:11 AM

Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home is where the hearth is.

Chris - although, if it was a teenaged prank, I would have expected to find smashed pots of flowers in the road.... no?

Sep 30, 2010 09:13 AM

Jack Mossman - The Nines Team at Keller Williams in Stockton

The Nines Team At Keller Williams - Stockton, CA

The Nines Team at Keller Williams in Stockton

Alan: Wow - what luck, I'm writing just after Chris .... and if I remember lately she was compared to a Mum ... Chris Ann the Mum (?) ... oh, never mind .... sorry to see the loss of beauty and sad also to see the degrade in human spirit ...

Sep 30, 2010 09:14 AM

Tammy Pearce

Haute Realty 214-994-6474 - Dallas, TX

Tammy Pearce

That's beyond tacky. That's just plain rude. Well, I hope the theives are ready for the "what comes around, goes around"...because it WILL come back around!

Sep 30, 2010 12:39 PM

Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home is where the hearth is.

Jack - Chris Ann the Mum?

Tammy - just plain rude.

Sep 30, 2010 01:17 PM

Judy Greenberg

Compass - Long Grove, IL

Compass- Long Grove -Buffalo Grove

Alan, creative minds think alike.. I also have a recent blog post called mums the word. Hope you are having a great day.

Sep 30, 2010 02:00 PM

Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home is where the hearth is.

Judy - an excellent title, and saying.

Sep 30, 2010 02:27 PM

Leslie Ebersole

Swanepoel T3 Group - Saint Charles, IL

I help brokers build businesses they love.

When we lived in the city, the year I was invited to be on the community garden tour was such an honor. I was devestated on the Thursday before the walk to see that my yard, along with many others, had been stripped of flowering plants and expensive bushes. What kind of a creep steals plants? Put in some new mums Alan, and stay up with your camera. What a sad little criminal, but he or she should be caught.

Sep 30, 2010 03:17 PM

Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home is where the hearth is.

Leslie - it wasn't my yard, nor even my company's flowers... it was the bank next door to us. I'm not going to replace the flowers, nor am I gonna sit, bleary-eyed at 3 in the morning, waiting to catch the thief. On the scale of 1 to 10, as far as crimes go, this one doesn't even rate a 1... but it's creepy, nonetheless.

Sep 30, 2010 03:22 PM

Elizabeth Cooper-Golden

Huntsville Alabama Real Estate, (@ Homes Realty Group) - Huntsville, AL

Huntsville AL MLS

Well that's just sad. Maybe they'll replace them?

Sep 30, 2010 04:04 PM

Stephen Sainte-Martin

Realty Direct Boston - Boston, MA

Alan:

I once did volunteer work for a non-profit organization, and a church group wanted to give back to the community, so they planted beautiful pine bushes all over the periphery of the front yard, and guess what?, they disappeared overnight. The Nerve. I share you pain. By the way, the rest of the article was good as well. thanks for sharing.

Stephen

Sep 30, 2010 04:24 PM

Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home is where the hearth is.

Elizabeth - winter's rapidly approaching here, I doubt they'll replace them now.

Stephen - the "rest" of the article...? What "rest" of the article... the whole article is about the loss of the mums. But thanks.

Oct 01, 2010 01:38 AM

Endre Barath, Jr.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties - Beverly Hills, CA

Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

Alan, how sad one "low life" can get so many people upset and mad. Why not take up a collection fro your office and say here you go "best wishes from your neighborhoor Realtors" make it different colors though:))

Oct 03, 2010 08:28 PM

Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home is where the hearth is.

Endre - what're you thinkin'... CB Blue and White?

Oct 04, 2010 01:47 AM

Endre Barath, Jr.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties - Beverly Hills, CA

Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

I was just thinking not the same colors that were stolen:))

Oct 04, 2010 09:52 AM

Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home is where the hearth is.

Endre - good news... the bank has already replaced them... there were fresh new mums this a.m. looking just as glorious as the first bunches, except this time they're fully "planted".

Oct 04, 2010 09:56 AM