I created a monster

[susandennis]

I subscribe to TV Guide. I like to read the old fashioned paper version while I eat dinner.

My neighbor Ann, gets Rachel Ray's magazine which I used to enjoy now and then. So one day Ann suggested we trade when we are done. And we developed this system of leaving our magazines on each other's doors in little bags hanging from the door knob. Easy for her cause my unit is right by the elevator. Hers is at the very end of the long hallway on the way to nowhere but whatever.

Then she started dumping all of her magazines in my bag. And I ended up being her recycle bin. I do not like or want "Light Recipes" or "Consumer Reports" or any of the other bascillion tomes she dumps on me.

And now, she's getting pretty fucking pushy about the TV Guide. She just came in here and wanted to know where this week's issue was. As it turned out, I hadn't finished reading it yet. "Well, bring it as soon s you finish, ok cause it's the one for this week!"

I told her to take it and I'd read it on line. Seriously. LAST TIME. If she wants a free ride, she has to wait for the free bus! I also told her I would not be renewing so if she wants a copy, she should pay for her own subscription.

I will, of course, renew but she's never going to find out that I did! Now I need to figure out how to get out being her recycle bin.

And people wonder why I'm not a people person!

Comments

[fyremaven.livejournal.com]

How frustrating!

But....can't you just tell her "Hey, I noticed you keep putting "x,y,z" in my bag but I really don't read them. Please leave them out because you really should recycle them!" Or make something up about not being able to carry them all to the recycle bin yourself because they are too heavy or whatever. I found out a long time ago that you can pretty much say ANYTHING to anyone as long as your voice is sweet and you look them in the eye they won't hate it.

I really can't stand it when people take advantage of things like this. You guys could have kept it going a long time but she got a bit greedy, didn't she? Just like people do.

:/

[susandennis]

Yeah, I could but I'm pretty sure she would be offended as in 'your taste in magazines sucks'. I'll figure out a way to work it into the conversation somehow.

These are the same people who sponged off my Costco card for several years until Costco cut them off!

There's a pattern.

On the other hand, I should learn not to offer them free shit!

[dendren.livejournal.com]

hahaha... that would be very frustrating but I do like your idea to not tell her you are still getting TV Guide. I used to absolutely love reading TV Guide as a kid... I looked forward to it arriving in the mail every Thursday :)

I've been trying to move towards buying my magazines online more and more. It's hard though. reading cooking mags and such on an ipad is so much more environmentally friendly but it just isn't the same as having the hard copy of the issues in my hands and I can tear out my favorite recipes.

[susandennis]

And now TV Guide is a nice, big, size that is just fun to read and not that expensive at all.

I'm with you on tablet mags. I just can't get there yet. I tried and tried but the day I had to take a picture with my phone of the recipe I wanted to 'rip out' was the day I decided that we are just not there yet.