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Their dog got COVID from a dog watcher at the park and for three weeks they made it the whole neighborhood's problem at the quarterly HoA meeting. They were very kind and gentle then, however, unlike the other neighbor who got so red in the face from screaming at them during the meeting he had to be escorted out and then taken away in an ambulance. Saw him only one more time after that; he was out in the yard with his son while movers packed his house. Assisted "living" facility. Good idea unless your governor's father is named Mario Cuomo. Didn't deserve to go out like that.
 
Told him he could park the Silverado in my driveway. It's a big truck and doesn't fit in his garage anyway, but at least it'd look nice in my driveway. He looked at me like I was vomiting blood and asks me where do I get off. I tell him I drive to work but park my car in the garage. Moron looks at me like I'm speaking German so I explained how buses work.
I hope you sell your house soon!
 
I could understand it being a problem if they were parked in your driveway or blocking it or in the road in front of your house.

But why is it a problem if they are parked in her driveway ?
Buyers see it as low class. One look at her house and buyers are trying to negotiate me down twenty grand a car.
 
Buyers see it as low class. One look at her house and buyers are trying to negotiate me down twenty grand a car.
In Albuquerque there are city ordinances about residential parking:

Cars can't be parked off the driveway (ie on grass or dirt)
Cars parked in driveway must have current registration
Prolonged overnight street parking in many neighborhoods is prohibited

Maybe your town does too?
 
Not arguing about the use of “fake news” as an epithet, but the credibility of news sites is compromised when it’s full of “sponsored content” links.

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rudolf Hess no doubt .
 
oh well , back in the good old days that would have been challenged and ı would have gone most off topic with the recent discovery . That the 633 Squadron , of the film fame and whatnot , is followed by 633 Squadron Operation Rhine Maiden , a second book ! Due to a book review in some old magazine where it is claimed the thing couldn't have happened as described . Reading between the lines , ı speculate this involves the second crewman crewperson onboard accurately aiming the bombs through the perpex nosecone and then fighting off Ihlefeld's or Graf's 109s on the way out , with the nose guns that would precluded the perpex nosecone . Like the gears are whirring in the brain for making a new movie , that Rhine Maiden , to cook Hess in Germany in 1943 or something , and uh , the web search indicates 633 Squadron 6 , the last mission , deciding the fate of D-Day and the world by blowing up a bridge on the Loire River , apparently with Highball bombs of the Dambusters fame . Like not the Bloody Omaha Beach . Oh , actually there are TEN books in the series !

yeah , ı have don't have a single doubt that they are all there on a series of book shelves ı own but have never seen yet .

but like it is like 20 years or whatever . Could have read one every two years , right ?

no , ı will not have Mosquitos 60 feet off your house for your amusement .

edit: And like 3 spellings to fix !
 
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My neighbor has too many cars in her driveway. I asked her if she could sell one of them and she said no, her family needs the cars. I ask her why do they need the cars and she says for work. I said well, if you sell one of the cars, you will have some spending money and won't have to work as much. Her husband comes out of the house, all smiles but tense, and asks me how's my day. I tell him, well, I am trying to sell my house but you have too many cars and nobody wants to own a house across the street from a rampant motorist. The missus starts to get snitty with me and I told her to wait inside while I talk to her husband. She turns to walk inside but her husband then gets mad at me asking why am I ordering his wife around. I say, sir, you have too many cars in your driveway and I can't sell my house until you sell one, why are you changing the subject? We exchange some words and I go back to my 3000 square foot house. I live alone now that my kids are grown. They don't visit me.

OK I have to know. This is a piece of creative writing parodying a certain genre of reddit post, right?
 
I think the company I work for might just...flop.

Adopted a new system of organization, been disastrous. Higher ups are pretty culty about it, insisting it'll get better, but volume is much lesser, remedial action is proving kinda ineffective outside the department. Presumably the holding company that owns it will not tolerate that indefinitely.

Not that I really care. Worked alotta 60/hr weeks trying to make it work. Made a ton of money, but to be honest, it's been so many 60, 70 hour weeks now that I'm considering quitting anyway - I value my time too much to tolerate that indefinitely and I have an increasingly luxurious financial cushion. Enough to make playing Bannerlord my job for a while.

Weird feeling though. Never been on the floor as a company failed. Really strange; you presume institutions with that kinda scale simply cannot fail. But I suppose they do.

I guess in a sense that's commentary on our society; corporations as new feudal lords, disempowered workers awe-struck like peasants when some dynasty collapsed.
 
you presume institutions with that kinda scale simply cannot fail.
I'm always astounded when big companies fail. Close down a couple of your lesser-performing franchises, sure, but how could you once have been that big and now not be at all? Doesn't seem to me that need disappears that way. Sears. ToysRUs. Hell, Montgomery Ward. Woolworths. How can you be that central a thing to that many people, and then just not be needed as a thing at all any more? I get major technological revolutions that put a Blockbuster out of business, but the others--don't get it.
 
@Gori the Grey, you may be interested in a book that I read called Kmart’s Ten Deadly Sins, a book that answers a lot of those “where did they go wrong?” questions. Unfortunately, the last people I worked for thought it was an instruction manual.
 
I'll look into it. Yeah, KMart is a huge example of the phenomenon I can't fathom.
 
Woolco lasted 11 years longer in Canada than the US. The Canadian one was bought out by Walmart in 1994.
Also, K-Mart Canada was bought out by HBC who turned most of their stores into Zellers. Zellers died in 2013 and it's stores sold to Target who lasted until 2015
 
I'll look into it. Yeah, KMart is a huge example of the phenomenon I can't fathom.
Sam Walton used to go around touring the country looking at Kmart stores, and one time he quipped something like “I don’t know how we’ll ever compete with these guys.” You can tell this was a while ago, a long while ago!

You mentioned Sears, fun fact: Sears was the highest-revenue retailer in the USA in 1990. Second place? Kmart. By the time they merged in the 2000’s they weren’t even in the top ten combined.
 
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