Could have just stopped there.
I just moved into a new house and there was a semi-dead tree in the front lawn. I cut all the branches down, but the trunk was still there. I tried explaining to it that it was dead. I tried kicking it. I even tried to mulch over it. Still there.
Then I realized I was yelling at a log. And I swear-to-god the bark on the branch started smiling and I knew…right then…the log had won.
Don’t let the logs win. Don’t reason with idiots.
