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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: utee94 on May 20, 2025, 08:43:22 AM
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This is the place to talk about your arthritis, your corns, your nighttime bathroom requirements, and how kids show no respect for their elders and will be the downfall of society.
Oh also, social media are terrible and will also be the downfall of society.
Now get off my lawn!
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I thought we already had a whole thread dedicated to how selfish kids were ruining college football
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I'll get it started off.
I am super-annoyed when driving on a two-lane road with a left turn lane (chicken lane for those in certain parts of the country), and a car in front of me in the left lane slows down a lot, in preparation to move into the left turn lane and make a left turn. If that lane is clear, then move on over, before slowing down.
And also, unless you're pulling a long trailer, there is seldom any need to swing left in order to make a right turn. And there is never any need to swing right in order to make a left turn.
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Quit judging ELA, go get your Labs drawn!
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Speaking of driving, a thing I often see is a person on a freeway slowing down well before an exit. There generally is a bit of a deceleration lane anyway, but the driver slows down without needing to make any kind of real turn.
A fairly common thing here is driver's trying to beat a left turn signal, it goes red, or they rush to turn right on red, and pedestrians are lawfully about to walk into the crosswalk. I have to really watch for that one.
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As someone who currently drives about two hours daily on the interstate, semis are my biggest driving pet peeve. One semi is going roughly 2mph faster than another, so they decide to pass each other and slow down all traffic behind them for the better part of the two miles it takes them to pass. When you throw the impatient car driver who wants to whip his vehicle in and out of the smallest of spaces into this equation, it can make for quite the frustrating drive.
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the equivalent to the "You Know What I Hate....?" thread on the Big 12 board
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the equivalent to the "You Know What I Hate....?" thread on the Big 12 board
Sadly most of these B1G folks are too afraid to venture down there.
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Met a microbiologist once.
They’re a lot bigger than I imagined.
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So on vacation with the daughter, son in law, 2 grandkids…..
I paid for the entirety of the accommodations, a pretty penny obviously, and have, and intend to pick up most of the dinner bills, and already in for 350 for condo groceries.
The wife continues to remind me the kids are on a tight budget, as if I don’t know already, so I am only looking for a few good will gestures as the week goes along. Just a few…. Hey pops, let us get this (little) thing……
We are beginning day 3 of a 7 day free for all, and I’ve seen….2 Build a Bears bought, 2 souvenir cups, several souvenir T shirts, some liquor purchased, and the cherry on top….a brand new pair of On Cloud sneakers for the SIL.
Tight budget you say? Hmmm….🤔. I think agree , tight on needs, loose on wants.
Rant over.
Edit: daughter and wife just got back from buying daughter a new bathing suit, because the 8 she brought are unacceptable.
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So on vacation with the daughter, son in law, 2 grandkids…..
I paid for the entirety of the accommodations, a pretty penny obviously, and have, and intend to pick up most of the dinner bills, and already in for 350 for condo groceries.
The wife continues to remind me the kids are on a tight budget, as if I don’t know already, so I am only looking for a few good will gestures as the week goes along. Just a few…. Hey pops, let us get this (little) thing……
We are beginning day 3 of a 7 day free for all, and I’ve seen….2 Build a Bears bought, 2 souvenir cups, several souvenir T shirts, some liquor purchased, and the cherry on top….a brand new pair of On Cloud sneakers for the SIL.
Tight budget you say? Hmmm….🤔. I think agree , tight on needs, loose on wants.
Rant over.
Edit: daughter and wife just got back from buying daughter a new bathing suit, because the 8 she brought are unacceptable.
Seems to me that you should develop a sudden "illness" and book a flight home.
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Seems to me that you should develop a sudden "illness" and book a flight home.
I drove down.
I’ll use it as another teachable moment.
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I drove down.
I’ll use it as another teachable moment.
You can fly home and let them drive back. I have a lot of good ideas, you know.
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good luck
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You can fly home and let them drive back. I have a lot of good ideas, you know.
I’ll run your plan by the wife. I’ll report back. 😂
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Speaking of driving, a thing I often see is a person on a freeway slowing down well before an exit. There generally is a bit of a deceleration lane anyway, but the driver slows down without needing to make any kind of real turn.
A fairly common thing here is driver's trying to beat a left turn signal, it goes red, or they rush to turn right on red, and pedestrians are lawfully about to walk into the crosswalk. I have to really watch for that one.
Don't get me started on tunnels
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Young people constantly on their cell phones annoy me. Seems a lot of age demographics are afflicted with this, but young people are hit the hardest. When I walk around campus the college students are all walking around, isolated, face buried in their phones. I've seen more than one of them trip as they either approach or step off of a curb. Does it phase them? No, they just recover, and go right back to walking with their screen in front of them. I wonder if I robbed them, would they even notice?
Life is short. You should have friends, especially at school. I usually made a friend or two in whatever class I was in and after a while you know other people are going where you're going at the same time, and we walked the campus having conversations. I hate all the social isolation I see with phones.
Doesn't even seem safe to me. Besides running into things, women are safer to walk in groups rather than alone, and looking around being aware of your surroundings is a deterrent to bad things happening to you.
It seems a lot of these girls mitigate their risk of being attractive to predators by being in their pajamas 100% of the time. We used to at least put on jeans and a t-shirt to go out in public, especially to class. But I guess that's another rant.
/old fart rant
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You wrote that on your phone?
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Cell phones are great for antisocial introverted misanthropes like me.
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Had my eyes dilated, can barely see. Grump.
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Had my eyes dilated, can barely see. Grump.
How many fingers am I holding up?
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7. They dilate your pupils of course and then the doc scans your eyes with a bright as heck Jewish laser ...
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never noticed that from my eye exams - of course I can't see well to begin with
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I had worse than 20-200 vision, couldn't see the big E, even if it was an aircraft carrier. It's now 20-20, but I can't see up close now, even if it's an aircraft carrier.
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7. They dilate your pupils of course and then the doc scans your eyes with a bright as heck Jewish laser ...
Ugh, that's really annoying, especially if you have to leave out in the bright sunlight. Nothing to do but shield your eyes, have somebody else guide you along and drive you home, and try not to trip on anything while walking with your eyes covered.
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Young people constantly on their cell phones annoy me. Seems a lot of age demographics are afflicted with this, but young people are hit the hardest. When I walk around campus the college students are all walking around, isolated, face buried in their phones. I've seen more than one of them trip as they either approach or step off of a curb. Does it phase them? No, they just recover, and go right back to walking with their screen in front of them. I wonder if I robbed them, would they even notice?
Life is short. You should have friends, especially at school. I usually made a friend or two in whatever class I was in and after a while you know other people are going where you're going at the same time, and we walked the campus having conversations. I hate all the social isolation I see with phones.
Doesn't even seem safe to me. Besides running into things, women are safer to walk in groups rather than alone, and looking around being aware of your surroundings is a deterrent to bad things happening to you.
It seems a lot of these girls mitigate their risk of being attractive to predators by being in their pajamas 100% of the time. We used to at least put on jeans and a t-shirt to go out in public, especially to class. But I guess that's another rant.
/old fart rant
First of all, thank you Utee for starting this thread. I have been looking around more than normal lately and thinking to not let myself turn into a grumpy old man lol. And it starts with this thread just above me that MDT POSTED.
everywhere you go all you see is people, and especially children, with their face buried in their phones. To me this is where it’s killing us as a society. Children should be active or playing, and people no longer have the ability to actually talk to each other. This is where the polarization begins and ends
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One thing about phones I notice is folks in the park, it's a nice park, nose buried in cell. They CAME to the park to see the park, trees, people, girls, etc., and all they do is watch their phone and bump into me. Humans can't seem to live more than a minute without checking their phones.
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I never take my phone into public space.
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I had to pick up homebrew ingredients for Monday. So the plan was for my wife and I to take the dog to the brewery right by the homebrew store.
One of the big things I always wanted when getting a dog was that he would be a "brewery dog", and to take him places like that. Of course, that got off to a rough start since we brought him home about 2 months before COVID hit :96:
Nope. Place was an utter madhouse. Granted, it's in an area frequented by young/hip people (i.e. nothing like us), so I get it. But there was no way we were going to try to brave that insanity.
So we got the homebrew ingredients, and then decided to try a much more "chill" brewery on the way home.
Nope. That place was crazy too.
So we came home. The world is just too damn people-y today.
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My phone tells me I average about 1 hour of screen time per week. I assume this is extremely low on average.
Any place I specifically go to be at that place, don't have my phone on me. If I'm going to meet someone to interact and fellowship with them, don't have my phone on me.
The masses are married to their phones and it's gross.
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The brew pub concept is a good one, I think, perhaps "too good" in the sense it attracts "people".
I stumbled into one in Seattle circa 1988 or so, I was there for a conference, and went to lunch. The place had a fantastic salmon sandwich and some kind of beer that came out of a thing they called a "tap". It was really good.
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One thing about phones I notice is folks in the park, it's a nice park, nose buried in cell. They CAME to the park to see the park, trees, people, girls, etc., and all they do is watch their phone and bump into me. Humans can't seem to live more than a minute without checking their phones.
Not really I simply got in the habit of leaving it away from me at work and checking it when practical.But I dont use it every day just a flip phone but i can get maps but don't use that either. I always look at one before I leave,I'm good. Just got my 1st cell last year for "basic hello need/this or that ,good bye". Would not have if payphones were still a viable option.
I was surprised at how many people still don't have or want one. I thought I was the last hold out. We were a cluster of outcasts that never went on Social media be it facespace,Instagram,linkedin,twatter or what ever. This place was it - I have been on next door but that was just to find/give local info. Now people at work walking around with cells like it's a colostomy bag just pisses me off
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I checked mine after the turn, on #11
nothing to report as usual
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Only reason I have a cell phone right now is because it is required for my job of taking care of my sister --I log in and out on my cell phone - if I don't do that, I wouldn't get paid. I use my computer to set up the visits on a similar app but I can't do that on my cell, so I just recently bought a tablet that I can take with me to some scheduling while waiting at the doctor or the library waiting on my sister, etc. I haven't quite got the hang of it yet, but at least I think I finally figured out how to get my detachable keyboard to work, lol. Bluetooth, Wi-fi, hot spot, tethering ----I get confused, ha ha. The things we do for family.
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My phone has a nice trail app, but you don't get any reception on any of the good hikes, due to steep cliffs and canyon walls.
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Mine never rings unless someone calls who is already recognized, and that is very rare.
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mine doesn't ring often enuff for my liking but,............. I'm in sales
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The phone is just an app on my phone... That I rarely use.
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the one app on my phone that I really don't enjoy using is the email app, but I'm in sales
a good reason to retire
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I hate it when my friends/family text me long, ongoing stuff that takes forever to type out. Stuff that could've been solved with a 30 second phone call. But no, they insist on texting, and then asking followup questions on more texts, and needing clarification because they didn't understand a text......
If I call them, or ask to call them to get it over with more quickly, they say no, they're too busy.
If you're too busy to pick up the phone, you're too busy to text. Use texts for quick, unimportant things. Call people for actual conversations. I swear, I get texts like "Grandma is in the hospital again, here's 8 pages of text that doesn't explain nearly as much as I think it does while I type it over 30 minutes. I could call you and tell you much more clearly and quickly what's going on, but I'm a slave to my habits and refuse to change."
Or at least that's how I read those kind of texts.
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Don't ever dare add this grumpy old man to a group text.
I have enough knuckleheads at work that insist on copying me on every e-mail chain that doesn't necessarily pertain to me.
And I'll place a voodoo curse on the idiot in either, that replies to all --- "ok", or, "thanks".
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One thing about phones I notice is folks in the park, it's a nice park, nose buried in cell. They CAME to the park to see the park, trees, people, girls, etc., and all they do is watch their phone and bump into me. Humans can't seem to live more than a minute without checking their phones.
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Need to post that sign in airports everywhere.
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I've been known to walk straight at them to see if they actually look up and move
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My neighbor is a good enough guy, no major problems with that family. He's much younger than me, I'd say mid-late-20's. But they leave one trash can out at the road. Due to the way our lots are located on a curve, both our driveways hit the road right next to each other, and he puts their trash cans on the side of their driveway that also puts it on the side of my driveway. The old neighbors put their trash cans on the other side of their driveway so it wasn't as in our face. He also took them in.
This kid puts out two trash cans every week.....and inexplicably takes one of them in after the truck comes. The other one lives out there, and it's an eyesore, I'm tired of looking at it, and I don't understand why?!?? Just take your other damn trash can in! So I guess it's more accurate to say he puts out one trash can each week, because he never actually has to put out the second one, because it stays out.
I at least wouldn't have to look at it quite as much, and my family wouldn't have to be careful to avoid it while backing out if he'd put it on the other side of their driveway. It's not the kind of thing I'm willing to go talk to him about, but it's enough of a thing that it irks the hell out of me.
I want my old neighbors back. But no, that idiot had to have an affair, split up their marriage, and sell the house.
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My neighbor is a good enough guy, no major problems with that family. He's much younger than me, I'd say mid-late-20's. But they leave one trash can out at the road. Due to the way our lots are located on a curve, both our driveways hit the road right next to each other, and he puts their trash cans on the side of their driveway that also puts it on the side of my driveway. The old neighbors put their trash cans on the other side of their driveway so it wasn't as in our face. He also took them in.
This kid puts out two trash cans every week.....and inexplicably takes one of them in after the truck comes. The other one lives out there, and it's an eyesore, I'm tired of looking at it, and I don't understand why?!?? Just take your other damn trash can in! So I guess it's more accurate to say he puts out one trash can each week, because he never actually has to put out the second one, because it stays out.
I at least wouldn't have to look at it quite as much, and my family wouldn't have to be careful to avoid it while backing out if he'd put it on the other side of their driveway. It's not the kind of thing I'm willing to go talk to him about, but it's enough of a thing that it irks the hell out of me.
I want my old neighbors back. But no, that idiot had to have an affair, split up their marriage, and sell the house.
This kind of thing annoys me, too.
But since moving to a neighborhood with an HOA, I never have to deal with it. Anyone doing this would get fined into oblivion.
Lots of folks complain about HOAs but I'm delighted that ours enforces the things that should be considered common sense and good manners, since neither of those seem to exist anymore.
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This kind of thing annoys me, too.
But since moving to a neighborhood with an HOA, I never have to deal with it. Anyone doing this would get fined into oblivion.
Lots of folks complain about HOAs but I'm delighted that ours enforces the things that should be considered common sense and good manners, since neither of those seem to exist anymore.
The State of Florida eliminated this to a point. you can leave it out for 24 hours without getting fined now. HOA Nazi's here were fining people after their allotted times, which were as little as 2 hours after pickup.
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I've been known to walk straight at them to see if they actually look up and move
There were 3 that did note move in my two jaunts through O'Hare in the past week. They each got a shoulder shiver. Oops.
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Need to post that sign in airports everywhere.
The real old guy catch-22. on one hand, there’s a strong dislike of phones. On the other, you might have to make eye contact or interact with someone in the goddamn airport.
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My neighbor is a good enough guy, no major problems with that family. He's much younger than me, I'd say mid-late-20's. But they leave one trash can out at the road. Due to the way our lots are located on a curve, both our driveways hit the road right next to each other, and he puts their trash cans on the side of their driveway that also puts it on the side of my driveway. The old neighbors put their trash cans on the other side of their driveway so it wasn't as in our face. He also took them in.
This kid puts out two trash cans every week.....and inexplicably takes one of them in after the truck comes. The other one lives out there, and it's an eyesore, I'm tired of looking at it, and I don't understand why?!?? Just take your other damn trash can in! So I guess it's more accurate to say he puts out one trash can each week, because he never actually has to put out the second one, because it stays out.
I at least wouldn't have to look at it quite as much, and my family wouldn't have to be careful to avoid it while backing out if he'd put it on the other side of their driveway. It's not the kind of thing I'm willing to go talk to him about, but it's enough of a thing that it irks the hell out of me.
I want my old neighbors back. But no, that idiot had to have an affair, split up their marriage, and sell the house.
It'd be a real shame if that can that lives at the end of the driveway came up missing.
Or mysteriously turned up on the other side of his driveway.
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Need to post that sign in airports everywhere.
FIFY
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I'd decorate a flowery cross and stick it in the ground on that edge of his driveway, like someone died there.
The cans will stay on the other side, even the permanent one.
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The State of Florida eliminated this to a point. you can leave it out for 24 hours without getting fined now. HOA Nazi's here were fining people after their allotted times, which were as little as 2 hours after pickup.
MDT's neighbor is leaving it out permanently. Ain't no Florida law gonna save somebody doing that. Daily fines with escalators.
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Our mobile home park at least gives everyone one full day to get their cans back by the trailers - trash is picked up separately from the recycle, so you never know for sure when they will be by. At least we know what day to put them out. Lawn stuff is picked up on a separate day and large branches etc. are also picked up separately. We share a driveway with someone but they put their cans out on the west side of the driveway and we put ours out on the right side. Never had a problem with them, thank goodness. We are warned of fines if the cans are not back to the house by the following morning for sure.
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My neighbor is a good enough guy, no major problems with that family. He's much younger than me, I'd say mid-late-20's. But they leave one trash can out at the road. Due to the way our lots are located on a curve, both our driveways hit the road right next to each other, and he puts their trash cans on the side of their driveway that also puts it on the side of my driveway. The old neighbors put their trash cans on the other side of their driveway so it wasn't as in our face. He also took them in.
This kid puts out two trash cans every week.....and inexplicably takes one of them in after the truck comes. The other one lives out there, and it's an eyesore, I'm tired of looking at it, and I don't understand why?!?? Just take your other damn trash can in! So I guess it's more accurate to say he puts out one trash can each week, because he never actually has to put out the second one, because it stays out.
I at least wouldn't have to look at it quite as much, and my family wouldn't have to be careful to avoid it while backing out if he'd put it on the other side of their driveway. It's not the kind of thing I'm willing to go talk to him about, but it's enough of a thing that it irks the hell out of me.
I want my old neighbors back. But no, that idiot had to have an affair, split up their marriage, and sell the house.
if it irks the hell out of you, go talk to him
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This kid puts out two trash cans every week.....and inexplicably takes one of them in after the truck comes. The other one lives out there, and it's an eyesore, I'm tired of looking at it, and I don't understand why?!?? Just take your other damn trash can in! So I guess it's more accurate to say he puts out one trash can each week, because he never actually has to put out the second one, because it stays out.
My Mom had a backhanded way of dealing with ssimilar neighbor when us brothers were adolescents. In one of the small Midwest towns that our childhood took us through, there were known poachers next door. After quartering their offseason deer in their back shed and storing its meat in their deep freezer, the remains would get tossed into the trash can that would sit at the end of their driveway. Us brothers knew this without having to take a peek inside their garbage cans because we were classmates with the neighbor's kids, who bragged at school about (offseason) hunting trips with their Dad.
The weekly trash truck refused to take their garbage can full of mostly animal remains. They left flyers with directions to the county's Wildlife Carcass Disposal pit. So their trash can continued to stink up the end of their driveway and that's what bothered my Mom. She had a sensitive nose prone to triggering headaches, which is why us brothers were prompted to keep our fish aquariums, lizard terrarium, and the cat's litter box so clean. She wondered aloud why our neighbors didn't bury the deer remains in the vast forest behind our shared property line. (Answer: they were lazy bumpkins.)
Didn't leaving animal remains out make it their poaching more known? Which is what happened. Deputies showed up one afternoon while us brothers were shooting hoops in our driveway, and paid our neighbor's trash cans a visit. Confronted by our neighbors, the sheriff's deputies said they didn't need a warrant since the trash cans were left out in the street. By then they'd seen enough to summon the county game warden. Our neighbors were eventually investigated for poaching. Fines and misdemeanors were weighed, but our neighbors (who already had mild criminal records), hired a lawyer and easily beat potential charges by raising enough doubt, such as claiming the deer was roadkill they'd cleaned up. But the point was made: 1) Don't leave your trash cans on the street, and 2) don't let your trash cans stink over night.
A decade later, when us brothers were in our twenties, she revealed how her invisible hand contributed to this lesson on the day before deputies showed up. During one of her visits to Walmart in the next town over, she used the payphone to call the county sheriff's office to report a suspicious smell, and playing her hand as the unsuspecting housewife, she innocently worried whether the smell could be a body. Needless to say, our neighbors never again left their garbage cans out overnight.
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At my old house, our neighbors had several cars and they always parked a car in front of my house-- even though they had the space to park in front of their own. Now I completely understand that the streets are public property and there's no legal right to the space in front of your own house, but since they were clearly parking in front of my house, to keep the street clear in front of their own, I found it to be very annoying. I mentioned it a couple of times and they just sort of said, "oh yeah, sorry." But they continued to do it anyway.
So, I started parking in front of their house every time they were parked in front of mine. Eventually, they stopped doing it.
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I'd actually forgotten about that. The HOA prevents that sort of thing from ever becoming an issue in our new neighborhood.
God Bless the HOA!
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At my old house, our neighbors had several cars and they always parked a car in front of my house-- even though they had the space to park in front of their own. Now I completely understand that the streets are public property and there's no legal right to the space in front of your own house, but since they were clearly parking in front of my house, to keep the street clear in front of their own, I found it to be very annoying. I mentioned it a couple of times and they just sort of said, "oh yeah, sorry." But they continued to do it anyway.
So, I started parking in front of their house every time they were parked in front of mine. Eventually, they stopped doing it.
Parking on our street has been a nightmare for most of the past 18 months as our next door neighbors were doing a full down-to-the-studs renovation and putting in a pool. There's been workmen coming and going that entire time. It's a neighborhood without a ton of room anyway, and between my Jeep in the garage, my wife's RX in the driveway, my Flex on the street, and my son's Highlander on the street--sometimes it gets a little difficult to find a place to park with all the extra vehicles there during the day working on the house.
Well, the sonofabitch about four houses up the street (same guy whose pitbull attacked a golden retriever without provocation and I intervened a few years ago) got pissy one day when my son had been looking for parking and ended up in front of his house. Wrote a nasty note on a piece of paper saying my son should park down by the corner instead. And yet I believe it was literally the first time my son ever parked there; we'd all rather be closer to our own house. Now the bastard puts cones on the street in front of his house to save parking for himself and his giant truck.
Great job, asshole. Oh, and from the looks of you... Taking a few extra steps each day might do you some good.
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HOA?
Is this a curmudgeon thread, or male Karen?
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HOA?
Is this a curmudgeon thread, or male Karen?
Darren
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The HOA is awesome. No Karens needed, the fines take care of it all.
Everyone signs up for it, if you don't like it, plenty of places to live that don't have it, for those who enjoy seeing cars on blocks in the neighborhood frontyards.
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Parking on our street has been a nightmare for most of the past 18 months as our next door neighbors were doing a full down-to-the-studs renovation and putting in a pool. There's been workmen coming and going that entire time. It's a neighborhood without a ton of room anyway, and between my Jeep in the garage, my wife's RX in the driveway, my Flex on the street, and my son's Highlander on the street--sometimes it gets a little difficult to find a place to park with all the extra vehicles there during the day working on the house.
Well, the sonofabitch about four houses up the street (same guy whose pitbull attacked a golden retriever without provocation and I intervened a few years ago) got pissy one day when my son had been looking for parking and ended up in front of his house. Wrote a nasty note on a piece of paper saying my son should park down by the corner instead. And yet I believe it was literally the first time my son ever parked there; we'd all rather be closer to our own house. Now the bastard puts cones on the street in front of his house to save parking for himself and his giant truck.
Great job, asshole. Oh, and from the looks of you... Taking a few extra steps each day might do you some good.
Like jgvol said....
It would be a shame if something were to.....happen.....to those cones.
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Like jgvol said....
It would be a shame if something were to.....happen.....to those cones.
Everyone has ring cameras now.