Holidays Suck

[Broomjockey]

Oh, and as for the number that Broomjockey was thinking of, it was radish.

Close, you weren't off by much, it was Turnip!

I'm glad the thing isn't gonna fall down and wipe you out or anything. Besides, that place is haunted enough!

Also, feel free to send any rain my way. I love it, and I don't have a leaky roof!

[Tria]

I imagine that the damage to the pizza cook still remains.

And to his pants.... Wow, that's gotta suck.

[Jester]

And to his pants.... Wow, that's gotta suck.

Well, can't comment on his pants...but I did see his face. For that day, at least, he was the only Latin American employee who was white!

[XCashier]

As I write this, the Hendersonville part of Asheville-Hendersonville is celebrating the tourist industry with the Apple Festival...Which is okay, because hundreds of thousands of tourists pour in anually to enjoy the delights of funnel cakes, kindergarten-quality "art", and flashy brochures advertising Oceane Oake Harboure Villa Courte Townes at Mispelled Pointe (another fine gated community by Puketech Builders -- your hometown builders!).

I know what you mean; there are so many communities with ridiculous pretentious names out here, too. Never was the song "Little Boxes" more apt!

As far as the porte-cochere; ! That's scary! I'm glad nobody was hurt, and I sure hope it can be fixed quickly!

[Jester]

"All I care about is getting out of the Vista View apartments, because there ain't no 'vista', there ain't no "view", and there certainly ain't no vista of no view."

--Rhonda Deane, "White Men Can't Jump"

That should be tattooed on the forehead and/or ass of every developer marketing exec that names a condo/apartment complex/subdivision some ridiculous name that has nothing to do with the complex or the area.

While I have lived at several with appropriate names for various reasons, I once lived at Sycamore Creek in Scottsdale, Arizona. And while that complex was very nice (we nicknamed it Melrose Place), in and around it there were no damn sycamores and no damn creeks. The complex I used to live in in KW was far more accurate with its name of Ocean Walk...because from it, you had to WALK out of the complex, across the street, and then down the street a bit to get to the OCEAN! (Though it really was not that far. However, Ocean View would have been far more appropriate.)

[digilight]

My Aunt and cousin were moving across the country (from some part of New York back to California or Nevada I think) with a rental truck and they did the exact same thing. I just can't remember if it was my aunt driving or my cousin (he would of been around 16-19 at the time so I'm not sure. Some how they blamed it on my mom (hmmm 2000 miles away, sure its her fault her dum asses).

Any way glad no one was hurt, and good luck getting it fixed. And I could have sworn that the number was gonna be lettuce!!!

[XCashier]

"All I care about is getting out of the Vista View apartments, because there ain't no 'vista', there ain't no "view", and there certainly ain't no vista of no view."

--Rhonda Deane, "White Men Can't Jump"

That should be tattooed on the forehead and/or ass of every developer marketing exec that names a condo/apartment complex/subdivision some ridiculous name that has nothing to do with the complex or the area.

Truth in advertising! Come to think of it, that would make for some interestingly-named complexes around here:

Vacant Lot View
Crackhouse Corner
Awful Manors

[BusBus]

It's weird how many apartment buildings in my neighbourhood are called "Spanish Villa". There's nothing remotely spanish about them, either.

HHNC, Im glad that nobody got hurt! I hope that you don't have to deal with extra complaints about that

-BusBus

[Antisocial_Worker]

And now for the news...

Our first estimates are in on repairing the damage and it looks to be a $10,000 to $15,000 job. We were planning to put in an elevator at some point, and my boss is trying to talk the others involved in the decision to go ahead and put that in while we're working on this. It would add $15,000 to $20,000 onto the cost, but we wouldn't have to rip up the canopy again in a year or two when we're good and ready to put it in.

[Bliss]

but how many stories of SC's being asshats about things that are their fault do we see on these boards?

Well it was NOT a SC, but some years ago my BF was almost killed in a pretty bad traffic accident.

Basically we were out with friends, in a friend's car and the friend was driving. They dropped me home and went to leave the BF home, there was about 4 people in the car, a Fiat Uno.

So, they're doing 80Kph on the highway, the city's most important highway mind me, at about 1 am or close. and there was decent traffic. when nearing a curve all of a sudden in the fast lane there came a car going backwards.

Let me repeat that
in the highway
at 1 am
in the FAST LANE
there was a guy driving.... backwards.

Ok, now that it has seeped in, bf and other passengers where lucky (to survive) but unlucky. they had a guy behind, and a guy to the right. So the driver does the only thing left. tries to brake. The guy behind doesn't notices, hits them in the rear, they bump into the divider... they fly OVER the car going backwards, and land on the side in the highway and skid about 40 meters until comming to a stop.

Nobody was hurt.

The guy who hit them from behind? drunk as hell, he came out of his car and his first dizzy words where "noooo... my car... see my car.... I want my car..."

The teenager that was driving BACKWARDS in the fast lane of a highway at 1 am in the morning? all he did was whine "Butttt.... you have to understand me!!"

Understand... well anyhow it was not the idea to add assault to a rocky night so they let the guy live.

The kicker? drunkard and reverse guy both paid the police, which dissmissed the case as a common accident.

if that's not entitlement after beign an idiot, nothing is.

[XCashier]

The kicker? drunkard and reverse guy both paid the police, which dissmissed the case as a common accident.

Well, yeah, cars are driven backwards every day! By poor widdle misundertood drivers! [/sarcasm]

Sheesh! People like that need an extended stay at the Nerf Hotel, complete with the designer jacket with the extra-long sleeves! And those cops should be reported for taking bribes. Boy, I bet they'll have a ton of fun in the slammer!

[Barefootgirl]

The kicker? drunkard and reverse guy both paid the police, which dissmissed the case as a common accident.

if that's not entitlement after beign an idiot, nothing is.

Er no, that's police corruption and someone should have reported that to the police authority in your area or failing that to the local papers.