Buh Bye

"Well, bye," C. Bill Brocious.

Puerto Rico would like to stop being a US territory and return to being a Spanish territory.

I am fine with this, with one proviso:

Every Puerto Rican on the mainland is deported.

They've long irritated me with their blatant nationalism and refusal to even visit there; having been born here and somehow not learning to be an American or speak English.

The worst neighbor we've ever had was some kind of Puerto Rican nationalist and they were loud, obnoxious and the yard was covered in trash.  The empty lot is a far better neighbor.  New Jersey plates on all the cars too, so that might have been the real problem.

But aren't ALL the Puerto Ricans on the mainland from New Jersey if you check their license plates? 

They're the pricks whose kids took a bb gun to our windows one evening.

It still amuses me that the deputy who responded to our call couldn't do anything because Mom denied the kids were outside at the time and there were no bb guns in her house.

Bitter amusement.

But, with us glaring from the front porch, said, loud enough for us to hear, "You're in Florida now, not New Jersey.  Shooting a gun at dwelling is a forcible felony, and the homeowner can shoot back.  Any kind of gun.  BB gun, paint gun, squirt gun, staple gun, are you following me here, Mom?"

They moved very shortly afterwards because they'd seen us with rifle cases coming and going from the range.