Random Sucky Neighbor Thoughts

[Pixelated]

Lawn Guy is nearly done putting up the new fence, and a very nice fence it is, too.

Bitch Behind Me apparently came over and gave him some grief about attaching the new fence onto "her" back yard fence. I'm not sure what he did and don't really care.

This same neighbour complained to my mother about the security light in the back yard (it's now non-functional and, to be honest, I don't mind). She also bitched about the wind chimes Mom had hanging near the kitchen window. (I took them down a few years ago when we had a storm warning and did not put them back where I got them ... because I wasn't interested in getting up on a stepladder again. They're now hanging on the front of the house.)

I've not had any complaints from her in the time I've been here. If ever she bothers to come to my door, to complain about anything, she'll get a few choice words and then she'll be yapping at a closed door.

[Dreamstalker]

WHO keeps breaking the back door? ...Some genius long ago tied a string to a pipe on the inside wall on the hinge side of the door, said string has a loop on the free end which goes around the doorknob to prop the door open.

Problem is, the string isn't quite long enough (you need to pull the door an half-inch or so past the hinge's normal range of motion to get the string around it) and I think when it's in use it puts enough stress on the doorknob to somehow pop the lock cylinder out eventually. I'm surprised the hinges haven't given up.

Once this is fixed, I'm very tempted to dispose of the string entirely and see what happens...

[wolfie]

You've been Zappa'd: "Let's Make The Water Turn Black"!

And if they were to get Stoned, would they "Paint it black"?

[Food Lady]

It's 11:15 so SHUT UP! You can't sit outside an be so loud the whole neighborhood can hear your hyena howling. Some people work on weekends. I know you don't get that because your man probably pays all the bills. I'm not saying that's bad, but it's bad that you don't see how privileged you are compared to other women.

[Blue Ginger]

Any time we had notice about water works on a given day, mum would fill the bath with water and have a bucket in the toilet. We would have to fill the bucket, flush the loo, then fill up the cistern. The amount of water in the bath depended on how long it was expected to be shut off and how many people were going to be home. If it was during school/work hours, it wouldn't be a full as if it was during school holidays.

She also used to fill the kettle and one of the big catering sized saucepans for any water needed in the kitchen. We had a rain water filtering system for drinking water, so we were fine there. (I still hate the taste of tap water.)

Doesn't help when you have run out of clean clothes, but otherwise it works well.

[dalesys]

... makes the toilets look like they haven't been flushed.

You've been Zappa'd: "Let's Make The Water Turn Black"!

[Ironclad Alibi]

My city has been recently doing this. They will send notices out that a certain neighborhood's water will be off for a period of say an hour. This is to perform a water line flush via the fire hydrants. They open the several hydrants in the area full blast for say 15 minutes for flush larger particles out of the pipes. This flushing causes all the houses to not have water for a short period.

My county has been servicing the water lines causing occasional outages. Only problem I have with that is the water is dirty for a while after the turn the water back on. It makes the toilets look like they haven't been flushed.

[Aria]

Yeah, it's because the city did it, not the condo board or landlord... I bet a landlord turning off water really is a no-no.

I saw water trucks and blocked roads in a nearby community as well, the same day they started this in my building. So I suspect something was really wrong with the city's pipes. Still, over 24 hours without proper water is rough. :P They gave us these little emergency water trucks for drinking water but that doesn't help for washing or flushing, haha... thank goodness it's over.

[Racket_Man]

Wow, I thought turning off an essential service was kind of a no-no?

They can do it for maintenance or flushing or servicing.

My city has been recently doing this. They will send notices out that a certain neighborhood's water will be off for a period of say an hour. This is to perform a water line flush via the fire hydrants. They open the several hydrants in the area full blast for say 15 minutes for flush larger particles out of the pipes. This flushing causes all the houses to not have water for a short period.

They can also turn off the water IF say something BIG breaks or they have to say set up a temp water pipe system while they dig up a couple of blocks to work on water and gas and whatever other pipes are underground in those blocks

[notalwaysright]

Wow, I thought turning off an essential service was kind of a no-no? One time the hot water heater* in my current building died in the middle of the night, and even though it was fixed by early morning, there was an official (looking) note on all our doors about it.


*all six units share a water heater, it's included in rent

[Aria]

YAY WATER! *does the happy dance and washes her clothes*

[Aria]

My neighbors aren't they cause of this - we are all suffering - but I think I'll put it here anyway.

Yesterday, the city said they would be turning off our water from 9-5. It is now officially 24 hours later and we have only a tiny trickle of water. When I reported this, the lady was like, "Oh, you have water pressure? How much has it been reduced by? 20 percent, 30 percent?" Me: "90 percent." We can't properly flush the toilets let alone do the laundry and the dishes. My kitchen is more of a disaster than usual and I went to Wal-Mart for... uh... morning things. (sorry Wal-Mart) And I was putting off laundry so I'm almost out of underwear!

They better fix this soon. (I might just go buy more underwear though)

[Food Lady]

It's 10:30. Why are you outside yelling?? And why are kids under 10 outside yelling?!? I don't care if there's no school tomorrow. People have to work tomorrow morning! I'm actually glad it's the solstice because it's going to start getting dark earlier now.

[Food Lady]

Is there any laundromat close by that you can go to, just to eliminate the headaches? There is one close to my job and I think of loading my laundry in the car the night before and just zipping on over right after work. I haven't done it yet but I should. On weeknights a wash is only 75 cents.

[notalwaysright]

Arg, we have one washer and one dryer for six units. It used to be totally fine, but this group of renters consistently leaves their laundry in not only the drier, but also the washer. Which is gross. But whatever, I just take it out and dump it on the top of the machine.

I never ever leave my detergent in the basement, but other do... There is a little army of empty containers that nobody bothers to throw away. I might add that a person has to walk directly past the garbage cans to get in or out of the basement laundry room. But it doesn't really affect me, so I don't care. I really don't like touching other people's clothes, but I have compunction about doing it if I have to. There's one guy, I don't know what he looks like other than he's male, that never leaves his clothes. If I see his clothes basket (which is just a big storage tub) I know it will be gone within a few minutes of the machine finishing. If I see the small wicker basket, I will be prepared to move clothes. Though, whoever is attached to that basket doesn't even do a full load of laundry, it's like one towel and a shirt. Bizarre, I'm not going to pay to wash that few of items.