“Would you please not blow your straw over on my side?”

“Well..” he hem hawed, “I only did it once.”

Disappointed again at his cowardice, “No,” Roberta firmly stated, “You have done it for years and I just never wanted to say anything.” She shook her head and walked on.

Harvey did not ejaculate anything on or over the road that morning. He even held a rake for a little while. Grateful, Roberta found a card writing “Thank you” across it and taped it to Harvey’s mailbox.

Above is part of a story shared in a writers’ group. I hesitated to use “ejaculate” because the obvious biological process first comes to mind. However, in this case, I thought it might be the correct word to use since it also means expel and with my character, Harvey, having some kind of preoccupation with continually using his leaf blower to spray Roberta’s yard without any kind of known conflict between them.

Actually I do read my own website before posting and use Chrome exclusively. So, are you being unintentionally rude or is that a deliberate style? My advice is change browsers if you’re having a hard time reading any web site, including mine.