Peace and quiet

[susandennis]

I am in my living room with the door to the terrace open and it is lovely and quiet. Well, city quiet. Not nature quiet. One of my pet peeves (of which there are, decidedly, many) is people who buy a home in the middle of the city and then bitch about noise. It's very surprising to me how many of these fools there are.

The latest go-round are garbage trucks. The big ones that empty the dumpsters. Because we live in the middle of town, they, smartly, do their jobs when there is less chance of their holding up traffic. It is not possible or practical to empty a giant dumpster quietly.

Ohhhh the outrage. Really. It's ridiculous. Petitions to the city. Threats to sue the garbage collectors. Whining and moaning and bitching loudly and stupidly. We are surrounded by nice, quiet suburbs where garbage trucks are smaller and more quiet and come in the middle of the day. Right now, these condos are selling like hot cakes. Connect the dots, you idiots, and go find your quiet elsewhere.

Ok, so there's my little rant du jour.

The pool was quite populated this morning with people I've not seen before. It was nice to have the company. I remembered to to go the ATM which is a half block from the gym to get my cash for the month. Since my ATM got disappeared, it takes more of an effort. But the ATM by the pool is one of those fancy ones that lets you chose $100 bills. I like choice.

Then on to the 24 hour self serve postal kiosk. I need some of their flat rate packages and I wanted to weigh a mailing. Well, turns out, last March they ended the 24 hour-ness of the self serve. They forgot to tell the website. Grrrrrr Oh well. No biggie.

No plans today outside of the baseball game and just regular stuff. And enjoying the city quiet.

Comments

[underwear-slave.livejournal.com]

I hate when people bitch about living next to things that were there before they moved in. Like people who live next to a bar and complain about drunk people, or next to an amusement park and complain about the noise. It’s a pet peeve of mine as well (I have many also)

[susandennis]

idiots. all idiots. they should be made to swear to zip it about the following: xxx before they are allowed to move in.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

I'm always amazed by people who buy houses in developments that were opposed, because they are under the flight paths of the planes taking off from the airport, and then complaining that planes are taking off overhead.

[susandennis]

Especially those who moved there to so a trip to the airport would be easy!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Or, possibly, didn't think about why the house was so cheap.

[roasted-beets.livejournal.com]

. . . or move next to farmland and complain about the smell!

[howeird]

Of course those fools would move to the suburbs of SeaTac...

[meowmensteen]

Haha.

[meowmensteen]

Haha, we get that all the time because there are two bus lines on my street. I always ask them, to their face, "Then why did you buy a house on a bus line? You knew it was there before you signed the papers."