The insanity I have to deal with is insane

I have to tell you about how I ended up yelling at some kids I'd never seen before Sunday evening.

At about 6:45 in the PM, I was sitting here at the computer. I heard a thud that sounded like something hit my house. My mother went outside to see what it was. Then when she didn't come back in right away I looked out the window and it looked like she was talking to someone. So she came back into the house and I asked what happened. She said to me "Two kids are burying a bird on the side of our house." This immediately makes no sense.

So I go outside. And I start interrogating these kids. The fact is I can't really do quotes because I was so confused while I'm trying to reason and gets answers out of these kids that my mind was swirling. Apparently their bird died and they thought the dirt on the side of my house which only goes a foot beyond my house looked like a good spot. I'm of course not understanding how kids determine to go onto someone else's property and just start digging but I guess it made sense to them. So as I'm standing there watching them to make sure they dig the corpse back up. I start to think 'what if this isn't their bird and it's just some diseased bird they saw dead near our house and just decided to bury' so I asked the kid why, if it was his bird, didn't he burying it in his own backyard..

"BECAUSE MY DOG WILL GET IT!"

God help me but what kind of rationale is that? Now I've never seen this kid before. There are many kids in the area but these two weren't familiar to me. So I asked them where they lived and they said to different directions but one wasn't really talking. I didn't really believe the other kid anyway which was really frustrating because you can't even trust kids anymore. So now nothing makes sense. Because whose bird is it?

"It's both our bird."

Again they make no sense. Two kids who don't look related who say they live in two separate directions own the same bird. I'm just getting more aggravated and aggravated with these kids. But I watched them dig the bird(s) up. (Apparently there were two somehow, one of which they claimed to have buried there two weeks ago?!?!) When I told them they can't just do stuff like that the one kid said that he didn't know it was my property he thought it was "theirs".

Now there is a double driveway for the business next door and a brown house on the other side of that. I'm not sure what he meant but I said "well even if it was then it would be their [the business'] property", meaning they're still wrong.

But he comes back with "Nobody lives there."

And I said "HEL-LO!!! It's a business! It goes all the way around to the other side."

And he said "Oh."

I mean my brain is trying to sort through all of this while trying to make some kind of sense. And they tried to get me to let them leave their bird there. So I had to scream so that the neighborhood could hear me "PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY ANYMORE!!!" I told my mother that if they didn't do it, I'd call the cops, so they could hear me.

So they dug it up and looked all pissed off as they went to walk off. And I said to them, "Look kids. You can't do stuff like this. One day someone is going to get really mad and get you into really bad trouble." And they just looked at me with blank faces and walked off. My mother went to watch them to make sure they were going in the direction they said.