When The Wide Wyldewood's Get's Angry

everyone was in favor of the more radical, but permanent solution to what now appeared to be an extremely significant problem ... and growing worse by the moment. Carrie had indee

guided ex was holding out on details to hopefully cash in

, and thank heave

tarting to become rather impatient. We'd paid off a few other disgruntled ex's in the past, mostly with successful end results, but Carrie was just too unstable to the family to seriously consider this opt

opinion (voiced loudly but distinctly) to validate her ravings and invite a much closer and unfri

I laid forth my proposed battle plan of action, which was very much in the August Wilde philosophy of crisis management. "Think twice

t, according to most accounts. These were character flaws that could be easily exploited for maximum result with v

lan of action

crap. Another bug inside their hilltop cabin would also be good as well to hear what if any additional plans they were making amongst themselves in private. Carrie's current fellow housegu

e spying on her and don't even be subtle about it. Make them think every three letter agency in the book suddenly now has an interest in their activities. Odds are that she wouldn't like this at all and become jumpier than a spring hare or an Iraq desert camel spider. The worse worst case scenario would be an unfortunate but genuine self-inflicted accident t

cries of "Wolf" and consign her ravings to the loony bin paperwork cabinet, assuming that anyone would even then continue to take her crank phone calls. Also, if possible, find another local lady with a voice similar to Carrie's to make numerou

drugs, and send them off driving out of the County ready to be caught by some other law enforcement agency with a trunk of weapons and enough WildeWeed to ensure a lengthy stay in a state criminal facility for the extremely naughty. Wor

id themselves of a very troublesome in-law. Guys would be asking me for advice for dealing with their mother-in-law's next. The older gray haired heads were especially nodding in agreement and our discussions pretty

urphy's Law was sure to screw something up, but the odds of this turning into an complete and utter

d out as

digitally recorded and stored on a high security local server and would be immediately available for listening via an internet connection on a clean laptop that he would bring to me tomorr

's semi-permanent houseguests right away and I would inform them of any pertinent information that was disclosed from

g local distributer of narcotics in the area. He thought it highly likely that Walt would have something 'suitable' for additional chemical additives but if not they would

re emotionally unstable. There is nothing meaner than a drunk on uppers, ask any outlaw biker. Her jugs were most likely

for Carrie three days a week. I didn't know her, but several other folks did and vouched for her. She was 'good family' who could be trusted well enough to help provide any 'misinfo

self a good job working the professional comedy circuit, as she could perform virtually perfect (and hysterically funny) impersonations of actresses in movies and on TV. With a few drinks in her, she supposedly got even wilder. Sounds like just the so

broke up the meeting for the night and left Joe's via separate doors and alone or in groups of two, as much as possible. For the moment I was everyone's best friend and probably wouldn't have needed to buy a pint for mys

at you will fail." You learn very first thing in the Army that no plan of battle ever survives contact with the en

ad a slic

rly large

t fall upon

on the bu

d with Murphy's Law of Combat #39 - "There is no such thing as a perfect plan", I tried to make th

e loop on this one. Just as well, the trouble with making

nger on it. Oh well ... they teach you a lot about management by crisis in the armed services, and just like Murphy's Law of Combat #51 says - "An

nything remotely resembling any other practical alternative solutions, so it was no surprise

, start right away and go ahead and order any parts you thi

y didn't approve many of these, but on the other hand I couldn't think of much in the way of expenses that we were likely to entail. This was going to be mostly a pretty low-tech operation. The March

Joe's. That would be the least of my worries. That's ok, I had a plan - and that's at least half of the battle right there. Now everything depended upon

lde ... this was going