<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437473" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Immediately They Took Offense</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What happened to the beautiful home, <br>That once elegantly stood here? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The occupants burned it down, <br>When a new maintenance worker hired...<br>Just a few years ago, <br>'Suggested' that getting a new furnace...<br>Would save them a bundle in their utility bills.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And...<br>They burned the house down? <br>Because of a suggestion? <br>That doesn't make sense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well...<br>Those very same words were spoken, <br>By the maintenance worker...<br>Who attempted to tell them, <br>They were blinded by their own stubbornness.<br>And immediately they took offense.<br>And, well...<br>That beautiful home no longer exists.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's go to be more to it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh...<br>There is.<br>The residents declared him, <br>An arrogant lowly nobody.<br>Who was in no position to tell them 'what' to do.<br>And the head of the tenants' association, <br>Got the rest of the occupants to agree...<br>They would end his job.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By burning down their own home? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You wanted to know...<br>What happened to the beautiful home, <br>That once elegantly stood here? <br>That's what happened.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You should have heard the occupants applauding...<br>An hour before anyone called the fire station.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437473" data-title="Immediately They Took Offense de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="What happened to the beautiful home, That once elegantly stood here? 'The occupants burned it down, When a new maintenance worker hired... Just a few years ago, 'Suggested' that getting a new furnace... Would save them a bundle in their utili..."></div> </div> </div>

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