Wildly Crafty

A couple of days ago the doorbell rang, and when I answered the door two of my neighbors were outside.  One of them was holding a piece of paper and when I asked what I could do for them (secretly dreading the religious chat or request to purchase something) one of them said they were circulating a petition.  

I asked them what the petition was all about and she said "something about drug users moving into the neighborhood".  So I asked for clarification, since I really didn't know what that meant - was it a treatment facility?  or were they opening up a crack house?  She mumbled something else and thrust the "petition" at me.  From what I could see of the petition it consisted of a blank piece of paper with room for signatures.

I said I wasn't signing their petition, and she wanted to know why.  I said that I wasn't signing a blank piece of paper, especially if I didn't have any idea what I was signing.  She immediately got all offended, and said "but I have kids and I don't want them near drugs".  I told her that was fine, but she never explained to me what she was protesting about, I still didn't know who or what the drug users were that she was talking about.

She started screaming at me (remember, we're standing on my front porch) about her kids this, and her kids that.  So I told her to get off my property because now she and her friend were trespassing.  I'm not about to have someone scream at me on my own front porch, when all I want to know is what the heck I'm supposed to be protesting.

She continued to yell at me as she walked across the lawn to the neighbor's house that I was an evil person, and that she hopes I don't have any children, and how I must hate children and so on, and so on.

 I still have absolutely no idea what the petition was about.  Most petitions that I've seen have a portion at the top which explains what the petition is for.  This one didn't, it was just a blank page with signature lines and possibly a signature or two, I didn't get a really close look at it.  They never explained to me coherently what the problem was, and started yelling at me the second they didn't get what they wanted.  I wonder how successful they were with the rest of my neighbors.