The Vent - Part 2

[The_Dude 1,142]

OMG I just found my first white hair.... it was really obvious too in the sunlight.... I just plucked it, I hope 7 don't come to it's funeral I'm too young for this!!

I got my first ones a few years ago, right around when I turned 30. Good thing I'm a guy, they are "distinguished" on us I'm just happy I'm not going to go bald.

My grandmother got her first gray hair....... at age 94, she has two of them at age 96 now

[thetreble 19]

We always pick up our dog poop. It would be silly and gross not to. However, I can't always see it in the dark so I sometimes pick it up the next morning.

The guy next door to us, though, smokes and flicks his cigarette butts on our lawn. It's really starting to annoy me. I'm thinking about picking them up, putting them in a container and leaving them on his front step. He only rents there.

The thing that bothers me most is that my neighbourhood is made up of renters AND home owners. The renters don't seem to really care as much as the home owners, obviously. But it's really not that big of a deal I guess.

[DeadPoolX 9]

We always pick up our dog poop. It would be silly and gross not to. However, I can't always see it in the dark so I sometimes pick it up the next morning.

The guy next door to us, though, smokes and flicks his cigarette butts on our lawn. It's really starting to annoy me. I'm thinking about picking them up, putting them in a container and leaving them on his front step. He only rents there.

The thing that bothers me most is that my neighbourhood is made up of renters AND home owners. The renters don't seem to really care as much as the home owners, obviously. But it's really not that big of a deal I guess.

For some incredibly odd reason, when I first read that, I finished it with "... at the store."

[thetreble 19]

now THAT would be gross.

[DeadPoolX 9]

now THAT would be gross.

Well, at least it'd be in the organic section.

[The_Dude 1,142]

And it's locally grown, so a double positive for the environment

[thetreble 19]

buncha funny guys around here.

[Flames9_RN 358]

One can get cheap bags to from Ebay!! I normally buy around 1000 of them for around $25!! at petsmart,they want $11 per 100!!

[BermyCat 1]

The first time I ever even heard of HOAs was in a news story from Florida where the HOA in question were fighting a veteran in the neighborhood because he wanted to have a small pole with an American flag on his house. My first thought in reading the article was "I though the US was supposed to be the land of the free."

~ Catherine

[DeadPoolX 9]

The first time I ever even heard of HOAs was in a news story from Florida where the HOA in question were fighting a veteran in the neighborhood because he wanted to have a small pole with an American flag on his house. My first thought in reading the article was "I though the US was supposed to be the land of the free."

~ Catherine

That seems a little much. The HOA I grew up with didn't have a problem with that at all. I think some HOAs have become more difficult since then.

[trailmix 77]

The first time I ever even heard of HOAs was in a news story from Florida where the HOA in question were fighting a veteran in the neighborhood because he wanted to have a small pole with an American flag on his house. My first thought in reading the article was "I though the US was supposed to be the land of the free."

~ Catherine

That seems a little much. The HOA I grew up with didn't have a problem with that at all. I think some HOAs have become more difficult since then.

Avoiding a HOA, from what I can see, makes a lot of sense.

The scenario is:

Oh, a bunch of people are putting neon flamingos on their lawns and must be stopped so as not to offend our sensibilities and to keep our house prices stable!

Ok, well how about a bunch of us get together and make some rules - oh and we should be paid for this too...in fact we will be paid so much (in some cases) that it will actually have an adverse effect on anyone wanting to sell their house.

I think we should have a pool and tennis courts, yeah me too. Oh and dogs are so noisy - let's limit them or get rid of them altogether. Umm yeah, you know what, I don't care much for red doors, let's ban those too.

It's a ridiculous idea - on the one hand you have a bunch of people scared that green flamingo guy will pop up in their street - on the other hand, how do you know that Mr. Flamingo guy isn't going to end up on the board.

You cannot protect yourself from people doing stuff you don't like in your neighbourhood, with a HOA.

[DeadPoolX 9]

That's true. Once again, I think HOAs have become more militant since I belonged to one. The HOA there also had the homeowners vote on community issues, so it wasn't a small group of people deciding for everyone else.

[SonoranSongbird 3]

We always pick up our dog poop. It would be silly and gross not to. However, I can't always see it in the dark so I sometimes pick it up the next morning.

For some incredibly odd reason, when I first read that, I finished it with "... at the store."

I'm not making this up: in a gardening store in Oregon, I saw POOPITS for sale. What, you ask, is a poopit? It is a rabbit, sculpted from an organic compound which includes some animal's poop (don't recall which animal), that you are to put in your garden. It looks purty, but will decompose over time to provide a sort of compost. It was mixed in enough that it did not smell or look like animal poop, however.

[Flames9_RN 358]

There are some good HOA's not all are evil. One just has to do research! Prior to anytime that I have bought,i have always gone knocking on doors to find out about the neighborhood. Some of the areas we are looking to buy are HOA's and the areas are kept up extremely well, they are more into keeping the area kept up,and not so much into policing neighbors. I'm a big neat freak, so I like my yard kept up,lol

Another thing when it does come to associations, very few people show up to meetings!! So when the association is trying to set up an agenda,they get very little feedback, then these people what to bytch about it,lol We had our annual condo association meeting in January,and guess what, besides the 3 "executive" members, only 2 of us owners showed up,lol Luckily our association is very well run.

Edited April 1, 2009 by flames9

[Frazell Thomas 0]

We always pick up our dog poop. It would be silly and gross not to. However, I can't always see it in the dark so I sometimes pick it up the next morning.

The guy next door to us, though, smokes and flicks his cigarette butts on our lawn. It's really starting to annoy me. I'm thinking about picking them up, putting them in a container and leaving them on his front step. He only rents there.

Reading this reminded me of a time when I was younger and our neighbours cat kept doing its doodoo on our lawn. My mother, bless her soul, picked up all the doodoo, put it in a ziploc bag, rang the doorbell of the neighbour and said "I believe this belongs to you".

Lol good memories

--Kerri