What I was planning on doing right now was to write a post about our trip to Nevada and Brandon’s Graduation. What I am doing is having to go outside and try and stop the kids from throwing rocks at my truck. I can not move the truck from the carport onto the street in front of our place because the adults that should be watching their kids or perhaps – hark – stop them from damaging others property have solved their problem by moving their vehicles in front of our place – nice.
These folks would be a great group for a sociological study on ghetto mentality. Find a tree? Pull all the branches off it. See a flower? Yank it off the plant and toss it. They are like vegetative eating ants – nothing green must be left behind.
See a shiny car? Make sure you bomb it with cherries yanked from the trees. Or better yet toss dirt clods all over it. No respect for anyone’s property. No respect period.
I think we are getting to the bite the bullet point here. Why pay the bills when we can just bail? LOL don’t worry we so do not have this mentality because we were raised with a moral code and taught to be responsible, respectful, and honest. Our new electric meter says we are using three times the juice we have for over 28 years, we invested in a new central heating and air system so I could be cool and warm now we can not afford to run it! The utility companies response? you should be happy that you got away with a slow meter all those years.
Must be nice to never have worked a day in you life and have your rent, food, and beer paid for by tax dollars. The cut off for food stamp and housing help is set just above what welfare recipients get so if you worked SSD (in most cases) pays too much so you do not qualify where as those receiving SSI most certainly always do. Go figure.
While politicians talk about cutting money from programs that folks paid into all their working days to balance the budget I have yet hear any talk of cutting payments to the lazy good for nothing leaches of society.
Now they have cut our police budget down so far we are loosing more police and they have let us know we are pretty much on our own. So they get to blast their music, damage our stuff, shoot of their bullets, rob us, party hearty and their truly is no one to stop them.
History repeats itself – the Fall Of Rome comes to mind.
Ok hopefully I am done B’ing for now.
I feel your pain, Jan. When we first moved into our house we had a family across the alley with a gang banger for a son. There were cars zooming by at all hours stopping long enough to get their drugs. Eventually they moved (went into foreclosure); Day before yesterday there was a knock at the door; it was one of the new kids (backed up by his Mom) asking permission to get his errant ball out of our laurel hedge. He couldn’t reach it from the alley side, so had to come into our yard, but Mom made him ask permission first. Yay to Mom for teaching him good manners!!
Interesting that we don’t have nearly the police presence that we used to enjoy, either. LOL Hmmm, wonder what that was about?
Yes it is gonna get worse now that our police force has been cut back. They said they are not gonna come out on recovered stolen cars, burglaries that suspect is gone, etc. . …
The folks doing what I wrote about are not even the bangers. Just your everyday low life ghetto folks. I suspect many people are gonna be glad they did not jump on the gun ban band wagon 🙂
Jan
i hate that you guys are living in the hood and subjected to continual crap from those folks… and that people who truly need help with things that are medically necessary can’t get it… and that you have to keep a near constant vigil to protect your property… truly sucks… i hope that you two can find a way out of there in the near future… i think about it often and wish there were an answer… hey! make a video and send it in to extreme home makeover or something… there has to be some show that would fork over millions to get you two a new home somewhere safe and healthy and cool/warm…. 🙂
Well now I hate it more! LOL if we can make it 3 and half more years we are good. Hope we live that long ha ha.
The extreme home things no way talk about intrusive. 3 and half years the mantra LOL
Jan
Could I entice on a small, but lovely condo for sale in the lush, green Pacific Northwest with good neighbors? 🙂
When I’ve lived around wacko neighbors, the vigilance really sucked the energy out of me. This has to be so wearing and probably amps up symptoms for you.
Sorry Jan.
It does add a tad of stress to our world. Two stories umm if I ever get out of here I so am not getting anything with stairs LOL
Catfish and Annie would not know what to do with their time if they did not have to stay alert and on guard!
Jan
Yeah, no kidding on the stairs.
I missed the three and a half years bit. Not sure what mark that is. But good luck hanging in there.