Two years later Rune won the Great Tree Conflict,
when he gained permission at the annual meeting to saw down a tree blocking his and Anita’s evening sun on one side.
The same tree on the other side screened off Ove and Sonja’s bedroom from blinding morning sunlight.
Further, he managed to block Ove’s furious motion that the association would then have to pay for Ove’s new awning.
However, Ove got his revenge during the Snow Clearance Skirmish of the following winter,
in which Rune wanted to anoint himself “Chief of Snow Shoveling”
and at the same time lumber the Residents’ Association with the purchase of a gigantic snowblower.
Ove had no intention of letting Rune walk around with some bloody contraption at the expense of the association
and spray snow over Ove’s windows, which he made crystal clear at the steering group meeting.
Rune was still chosen to be responsible for snow clearance,
but to his great annoyance he had to spend all winter shoveling the snow by hand between the houses.
The outcome of this, of course, was that he consistently shoveled outside all the houses in their row except Ove and Sonja’s.
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