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Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Thursday, April 01, 2010 - 9:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
It's not one of my favorite tasks either, esp. because the TP holder is some wooden Rube Goldberg contraption and the parts go flying most of the time. It's on my to-do list of things to replace, and has been for about 3 years now.

But I had to replace the roll this morning, and did do it, by god.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Thursday, April 01, 2010 - 9:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
if I do not change the tp my roomate will ask me if I have a problem doing it and I will laugh at her and walk out of the room.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Thursday, April 01, 2010 - 2:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
Mapl, me too! It is a house rule here that you must replenish the roll and the supply in each bathroom. A couple of weeks ago, I asked my 3 girls "do you know why I have pkgs. of tp stacked in the middle of the hall?"... after finding no tp in one of the bathrooms. I was hoping whoever the culprit was, that they would take it upon themself to replenish once they saw my stack on the hall floor...but NOOOOOO, they all just kept walking past that til they got a little lecture from mom....arghhh!

Southern_grits
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10-08-2009

Thursday, April 01, 2010 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Southern_grits a private message Print Post    
Wow Escapee, great minds, or maybe just stubborn ones, think alike. I did the same thing with my dh. He won though, sigh. In the end I couldn't squash the cleaning bug in me that tells me if I don't do it no one else will. Which is apparently the case.

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Thursday, April 01, 2010 - 6:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
I always get a new roll out & snap it into the tp holder if I use the last on the current roll. I keep my tp stock in a cabinet right above the "crapper" - it's just Frank & me here -I can't tell you the # of times that I've found myself ready to finish my business and the tp roller is empty - or has so little left that it's not even enough to swipe a female pee-pee. I'm telling you, it is one of those things that just seem to be the "female" responsibility. Why? I've no idea.

There's been no tp in the front restroom at my office all wk. Tee-Hee....I know this - I take tissues w/me everytime I go

I'm just waiting for one of the many men I work with to get caught with their pants down (so to speak) with no way to clean up the ! I'm bad

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 4:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Texasdeb, yes might be "bad". But seriously, don't you wish you could play "Survivor"? Hand them a bunch of poison ivy leaves and say "Now, this might do the trick for you since you don't believe in replacing the Charmin".

Jeez, I love that. I would be taking tissues to cover my own 'needs' too.

Northstar
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09-29-2008

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 7:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Northstar a private message Print Post    
Speaking of...

Just because I have a dog and there is dog poo in your yard, does not directly indicate it is my dog's poo or that it is okay for you to scold me over your inconvenience. See this leash? See this poop bag? Enough said.

Southern_grits
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10-08-2009

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 8:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Southern_grits a private message Print Post    
And the flip side of the coin, Northstar. (Rant against my neighbor, not you). Just because I have 2 dogs and you have only one do not presume to think I do not notice you bypassing your own back yard (which btw is much closer to your front door than MY back yard) to let your dog crap in mine. See the nice pooper scooper? It sits right here by the shed, 24/7. It's very easy to use, just pull the handle, place over poop, let go, and Voila! poop is now scooped and ready to be disposed of properly. Help yourself, just like you help yourself to my driveway and my internet access. Just because my dh invites you to use and abuse him, (he did mow your yard twice a week for 2 years and now that he can't mow even his own, would it kill you to mow our yard just once while you mow yours?) do not make the mistake of thinking I will let you use and abuse me.

Wow, guess that was about a lot more than poop.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
LOL! I bet that felt good though, huh? :-)

ETA: I have a personal peeve against neighbors who take advantage. A neighbor in my condo building used to just assume I'd cat sit for them. They'd stop by with the keys and say "we'll be back in a week." No "can you take care of Sasha while we are gone, we'll be a week?" No asking at all. Just assuming. Grr...

Southern_grits
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10-08-2009

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 12:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Southern_grits a private message Print Post    
Costa, I guess that's why these people get under my skin so badly. The 'homeowner's nephew helped us with our computer and general internet illiteracy when we had Charter put in back in October and we both told him we didn't mind if the two of them used our connection since we are paying for 5 lines and using 2 or 3. (I live in a trailer park and the trailers are about 15 feet apart so easy enough with the passwords). Yet every time I check there are no fewer than 5 of them using our connection and it just makes me feel taken advantage of. Not to mention that in the last 6 months they haven't offered to pay anything toward it at all (and I am assuming with 5 adults living there they could afford something even if it's just $5.oo).

Likewise the dog poop. Why on earth would you walk your dog past your own yard and let it poop in mine unless you really really hate to clean up after it, in which case GET RID OF THE DOG! But even that doesn't make sense, when you can choose to leave it there, in the back yard where you don't have children playing, UNLIKE MY HOUSE! Or you just don't care who you inconvienence as long as it is not yourself. Which again, makes me feel used. And to add insult to injury, I have 3 major disabilities in addition to a slew of less physically taxing ones, which they are all well aware of. Yeah, this healthy adult is bringing her dog over to poop in the yard of the lady who has Cerebral Palsy, severe arthritis (my back is pure trash with bone spurs and stenosis), and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Lovely.

Don't even get me started on the driveway, or more precisely, my carport which in essense IS my driveway since that's all there is, road... boom, carport. Before we bought another car hubby has the idea of generously offering to let one of them park in our driveway since they have 5 cars and 3 slots and there is no street parking allowed. Yeah, they managed to make me feel used with it too since I had to fight to get my car in and out when I should have had plenty of room and of all 5 cars they choose to park the fat reared Jeep in my carport and I couldn't see around it until I was already in the street with possible traffic coming at me. Grr

Seeming really nice people but not people who will give you an ounce of consideration after you generously offer them something out of kindness. I could never do that to someone and I guess I have no tolerance for it in someone else.

Oh, thanks for letting me moan and complain anyway.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 2:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Do you have the word "doormat" tattooed on your forehead or something? Yikes woman, don't let these people take a yard when you only offered an inch!

I don't understand the internet use you're talking about (what do you mean you pay for 5 lines but only use 2?). If it's wireless access, don't make it public.

Southern_grits
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10-08-2009

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Southern_grits a private message Print Post    
Lines is probably the wrong word, we can hook up 5 devices to the internet with our plan. Aside from telling 2 of them they could use it I didn't make it public and have even had the password changed twice. DH keeps giving it to them again, which makes him the doormat. I have offered over and over to remedy the situation myself since I really don't care if I tick them off. He does care, for some reason. I'm the only person he doesn't mind ticking off, generally. Depends on the situation. I think he is confusing their friendliness for being good people. Ummm, no. S'ok, one day they will make me so mad I won't care if it bothers him or not.

I unintentionally got my point across about the dog poop today though. At least I think I did. I took the dogs out, by happenstance, at the same time she was out there (in her yard for once, and it is the sister of the homeowner with the dog). She asked how I was doing and I said "Oh pretty good, just going to let these two out then get out here and clean up poop". I honestly didn't say that as a zinger, it was just what I was going to do. Heh, she got very quiet, picked up a few cigarette butts out of the yard, and went back in the house. So maybe it will make her think. Maybe she didn't realize anyone at all picked up the yard, much less me.

I have an independent streak a mile wide, for the last 30 years my attitude has been- they are my dogs, I will clean up after them. Could be that's unusual given that there are 2 men here that could do it much easier than I can. Still doesn't excuse their rudeness though.

Oh well, 2 down, one to go.

Alwayzmovin
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11-06-2003

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 4:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alwayzmovin a private message Print Post    
Oh let me get in on the POOP conversation, please! I work at the Post Office and there is a guy here in town that has a HUGE Great Dane. He feels it necessary to bring him into the post office, when there's a sign right there stating...NO DOGS ALLOWED with the exception of Seeing Eye Dogs. This dog drags in enough mud to choke a horse, but the owner just overlooks this small detail, because after all.....his doggie is the cutest and the most special doggie in the world! THEN he lets the dog drop a huge load all over the sidewalk from the post office to the bank. It's like walking around a mine field, I tell ya....GRRRRR
I do not and I repeat, DO NOT think his doggie is cute or special.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 4:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
You should change the password and NOT tell doormat hubby!! <evil grin>

I'm amazed at how many people think their dog poop is suddenly public property. And that it's OK to leave it. Heck, we've even got poop bags and disposal bins all over the 'hood, and people will let their dogs poop RIGHT UNDER the bin and LEAVE IT.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 02, 2010 - 5:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Maybe you could clean up the dog poop and put the bag right up next to their house. If they mention it, tell them that you would pick it up out of YOUR yard, but didn't want that stinky bag of crap in your garbage can. You know, however one can talk like that without being mean, lol.

I had a neighbor who was renting the house next door and he had one of those giant great danes, too. His dog would leave piles the size of a bowling ball, ewwww. He started letting the dog out into his driveway instead of putting him out in the fenced in back yard, and so the piles would be on the grassy area between my house and his driveway (MY property). I started out flicking the piles into his driveway, knowing he would likely step on it once in a while. Didn't faze him. O.k., so he got me riled up with his nonchalant attitude. It stopped once I started taking my snow shovel and heaving the piles up onto his front porch. What was he going to do, call the cops? I didn't care, I was just furious. He got evicted not long after that anyways, but the other neighbors got a kick out of my poop flinging. Nobody liked him.

I am sending a big old slap to the upside of your DH's head, so pass it along, ok?

Sia
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03-10-2002

Saturday, April 03, 2010 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
George Carlin had a comedy routine about feeding his dog a bag of rubber bands so that the doggy-poo would have handy loops to make it easy to sling-shot the turds into the neighbor's yard! Maybe you could feed rubber bands to the neighbor's dogs?

Sia
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03-10-2002

Saturday, April 03, 2010 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
Naja, I've been thinking about the issue of your mother's extra-long address. Have you looked up her address on the official government Post Office web-site to find the standardized format that they use there? The Post Office uses standardized abbreviations and the shortest possible version of an address. Just a suggestion.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Saturday, April 03, 2010 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
And then there's Canada geese poop. (Please keep them north of the border. ) If a flock has decided to take a walk around the neighborhood . . . . Ugh!

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Sunday, April 04, 2010 - 9:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Ok, I'm really evil. I saw my neighbors dog poop in my yard, she saw me, I saw her and I saw what her dog did. I walked into my garage, grabbed the shovel, scooped it up, and tossed it into her yard.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, April 05, 2010 - 8:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
You aren't evil. You're right! :-)

Taysmomcj
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03-24-2008

Monday, April 05, 2010 - 11:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Taysmomcj a private message Print Post    
Little gripe...It really bothers me when people show up to a party or gathering with sick little ones. All the coughing and sneezing, and touching the food. It really gives me the willies. But what I find is even worse, is the guilt from said family members or friends when we stay home because DS has a cough or a fever. They take it personally, as though we're avoiding them. We feel it would be rude to go somewhere and possibly get everyone else sick. I guess if that makes me a snob, then so be it.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Monday, April 05, 2010 - 11:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
I would rather have people stay at home if they are sick or their kids are sick. I do not need to get sick

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Monday, April 05, 2010 - 12:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
If we are sick we stay home. It's just not that important a thing that it is worth making everyone sick. It seems more considerate to stay home and we feel the same about visitors.

Southern_grits
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10-08-2009

Monday, April 05, 2010 - 12:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Southern_grits a private message Print Post    
Grr lost post.

Huk' you mean someone has given me permission to whack him upside the head? Bliss... can I use my Mama's cast iron skillet? He has a tendency to draw people users to him and he just can't see it, these aren't the only 'friends' who only initiate contact when they want something. But that's a whole new gripe.

Escapee, not evil- right, gutsy... I like!

I noticed yesterday the sister was keeping the dog in her yard so maybe that battle is won anyway.

Maplsyrp
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02-10-2009

Monday, April 05, 2010 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maplsyrp a private message Print Post    
When my kids were little if they were sick we stayed home. Not SIL, she always brings the kidlets no matter what they have. My gripe today. We had a hugh Easter get together at MIL's where she did the majority of the cooking but some people brought dishes. After dinner not one person offered to help clean up, except me, as usual. I ran mil and mom out of the kitchen as they are in their70's and I took care of all the clean up. I don't mind doing it but it would be nice for once if someone else offered to help.