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Not just that. If you're not going to keep your pool up sometimes you have to go to the health department and let them know among other things. There are things that have to be done to keep it closed properly.
my roommates ask if their sex is too loud and I always tell them it isn't loud enough
First, they've been doing renovations and landscaping for about two years now. It has taken two years because they have no idea what the fuck they're doing. They tore up their back yard and brought in a shit load of dirt, which one of them moves around with a small front end loader. Again, he has no idea what he's doing, so he doesn't make any progress (and yes, it beeps every time he backs it up). It also rains a lot here, so most of the dirt is closer to being clay at this point. It looks like they're preparing for a WWI reenactment.
With that taking as long as it has, he decided it would be a good time to put in a stone tile driveway. Both of these projects are worked on sporadically, weekends, weekdays, early in the morning, late at night.
Also, fairly regularly, one of them goes out to their car and blasts music for a couple hours, usually somewhere between 11pm and 2am. It's loud enough that you can hear it in my house with all of the doors and windows closed.
The neighbors on the other side of my house constantly park on our half of the driveway (it's a shared driveway, but with a very obvious division point) while leaving their car port empty so they can sit in it, and are often up late, playing loud music outside and being obnoxious drunk assholes (often in the middle of the week, year round).
The rest of my neighbors are fine though.
Do we have to notify some local body (hell if I know who) that we're keeping it empty and unused? Maybe that's where we went 'wrong' with it I guess. O_o
Some localities do have statutes requiring this. There are also specific things you're supposed to do to the pool in places with those rules. Treatments to prevent mosquito breeding and other things I believe.
XBox LIVE: Bogestrom | Destiny
PSN: Bogestrom
mm hmm
Are you doing anything to keep rainwater from accumulating in it? Covering it with a tarp, for example?
If not, you're probably breeding mosquitoes.
EDIT: yes, an inch of water is probably more than enough to breed mosquitoes. The little bastards can breed in just about any amount of standing water. They're kind of dicks like that.
Things I didn't know about Bogey but do now.
if god in heaven can't hear you, you're doing it wrong
Just put your cover over it, and give him the finger.
I fucking hate the sound of marching bands, it is horrendous.
During rainy seasons for the last year and a half we've been mindful of draining it if it's actually building up (building up from empty status, that is). There are no tarps to prevent water from getting in though. If there were, the previous owner (who built the place) took 'em with him (as he took other fixtures / things out of the house).
i'm ok with this as long as its more than just the orgasm.
If i just wake up thats not cool. If i wake up in the middle of the night and can get a weird thrill out of it joining and yelling really loud.
Well hey
The police were trying to wake them up.
An ambulance came a bit later and took the person away.
I'm not sure if that counts as a neighbor though.
I'm within hearing range of the marching band practicing at the local high school. It isn't right behind my backyard but it's close enough to wake up to it every morning during the school year.
"Ka-thuck-aka-thuck-aka-thuck-aka-thuck-aka-thuck-aka-thuck-aka-thuck-aka-thuck-a"
Maybe you hate the sound of bad marching bands.
I live a block away from the football stadium and baseball fields for the local high school.
Game days and other events are not fun for me.
Did you riffle though their pockets and wallet at least?
Okay, this makes this whole thing of him being an ass easier to deflect then. Just gotta ask the guy who left the notice when he's in tomorrow for the proper contact info.
XBox LIVE: Bogestrom | Destiny
PSN: Bogestrom
one of them is apparently one of the best in the state.
it just all sounds very awful. Not like they play poorly, I just hate the sound a marching band achieves.
I'm pretty sure it was a homeless person anyway.
There was a homeless person lying across the sidewalk outside my office this morning too, actually.
XBox LIVE: Bogestrom | Destiny
PSN: Bogestrom
This reminds me of one of my summers working at a campground up in the Rockies. It was about 8-9 PM and this old guy comes to the kiosk to complain about these people next to him that are "Screaming and yelling and throwing stuff and terrorizing the whole campground!". I hop in the golf cart to go check it out, not sure what to expect and find 4 girls sitting at their picnic table playing Scrabble and talking/laughing a bit too loud.
If I was in my school's marching band, I'd berate you for not appreciating it. But I wasn't so I don't care.
XBox LIVE: Bogestrom | Destiny
PSN: Bogestrom
You can thank passive aggressive notes for me knowing this!
in my job (which I am leaving at the end of this week), I have to address complaints from people, most of which are they didn't get a paper or the paper was damaged so they want a new one.
Most of the time it's simple enough, I just drop a paper off, knock on their door, and leave
but the other day I dropped off a paper and a guy across the street standing on his lawn told me "that's the third time they've missed that paper!"
I dunno
it could've been the owner of the house, out for a walk
but really it just seemed like some creepy dude watching his neighbors
Some sort of joke about checking out a girl's rack... of tiles.
I know it takes skill, and I love listening to classical music and well played instruments, but man, marching bands sound like someone beating a cat while shaking a bucket of bolts and stomping their feet.
and they play until a little past 9pm. I can hear it when I am in the bath, all doors and windows closed.
ragin'
Three cheers for passive aggressivism!
XBox LIVE: Bogestrom | Destiny
PSN: Bogestrom
Oh, that's right. Thank you. Turns out my memory is pretty terrible.
No, they run away. Bel's life is a Looney Toons cartoon.
That's actually kind of a sad image there. Rubber duckies melting.