The old man next door stopped tending his garden after 20 years

For two decades, Mr. Gable kept the neatest vegetable patch on our street. He'd be out there every morning at 6 AM, hoeing and watering. Then around three years ago, he just stopped. The tomatoes rotted on the vine, and weeds took over the whole plot. I finally asked him about it last week, and he said he saw something in the garden shed one night that made him never want to go back in there. Has anyone else had a neighbor suddenly give up a hobby like that?

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stella_foster11h ago

Twenty years of tending that garden every single day and then he just stops cold because of something he saw in the shed. Makes you wonder what kind of critter or shadow he caught in there that spooked him that bad. People don't give up a lifelong habit like that over nothing.

vera_sanchez10h ago

Figure it could be something totally mundane like finding a dead rat or a bad spider web that just really got to him, you know? I mean, sometimes the smallest thing just breaks a routine for no real reason.