Misanthropy in 3...2...1

I've said before how I enjoy the idea of "freecycle" where people offer extra/unwanted items at no cost, and people can request items they need. I still enjoy the idea of it. But the fact that people are involved makes it quite the crapshoot.

Bear with me:
I recently pruned my massive lilac bush, and have an abundance of cuttings and branches that could easily be grown into lots of bushes by someone with a semi-green thumb. In fact, years ago, one of my younger brothers stuck a lilac stick into the ground, and it's still growing there.

I decided that since plants can be expensive, I could kill two birds with one stone by offering the cuttings on freecycle to 1. give someone a chance to have a nice lilacky (?) yard and 2. get the darn things out of my way. I made sure in my listing there could be no POSSIBLE way one could misinterpret what I was offering: three big bundles of lilac branches.

I cut my huge lilac bush back a lot this spring, and have three
big bundles of branches and cuttings to give away. Lilacs can be
rooted pretty easily, so in a couple years, you'd have a whole
backyard of lilacs if you wanted.

The branches are beginning to bud even on their own, but I can't
guarantee that every single branch is still alive. I checked several, and
those were still flexible and green inside, though.

Just trying to cover all the bases here. Simple, right?

1 moron + "Simple, right?" = Not simple. Not right.

I follow the "first come, first served" approach, so when I got an email from a woman who lives in the same city as I do, I gave her the address of my house at 39 Blankity blank street, which is off of Such-n-such, down from this main road in this city. My first clue something was amiss should have been when I got an email back that said (and I'm cutting and pasting straight, here people):

Hey Steph. What is the pusical address, I don't know pontiac very well.

Pus-ical address? Ewwww. As opposed to a scab-ical address? Or maybe it's pronounced like "musical?" Ah well. I emailed her back and let her know my pusical address (again) and becasue she seemed sort of unobservant, I let her know I had bundled up the branches and put them at the side of the house by the driveway for her.

No problem. Her husband will pick them up.

Today I got an email complaining that when her husband arrived, instead of lilac BUSHES, it was just branches! What the..? Can she even make a branch grow? Huff! She's going to check the WEB. ( the all caps was her thing.)

I'm such a misleading conniving bitch trying to trick other people into taking away my useless yard waste, dontcha know?

First of all, if they can't be rooted, why the heck would I be offering them?? And secondly, did I NOT specifically write about that in the posting? Was I confusing and unclear? So I checked back through every email from the posting on, and these are the word usage stats--

"branches": 4
"cuttings": 3
"bundles": 2
"bushes"or "plants": 0 ...as in not any.

RROOARR!
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In other news, the next door neighbors have cleaned up their trash heap of a yard, and now their daylilies are growing, and their house looks quite pretty.

NOT rroaarr! Something nice!!