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Every single thing about this sign offends me--now it can offend other people! Pic #80!
July 26, 2010 at
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My HOA put up this little gem over the weekend near the entrance to our development (facing in, so you see it as you drive out).
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1. This is a brand-new sign. They have never used a sign of this type in the 7 years I've lived in this house, so I feel safe in the assumption that my HOA has spent some portion of my fees on this idiocy.
2. Text-speak. "B4" may be a space-saving, cute attempt at abbreviation, but it has no place on a sign you expect me to take seriously, ever, period.
3. What the farking fark? Seriously, what the fark? What if I work evenings and have to put out my trash at, oh, 2pm instead of waiting until after 6pm? Why is that a problem? Why can't we go after the people who put their trash out in bags instead of cans/bins so that the crows & squirrels have a chance to rip them apart overnight and leave a huge mess the garbage collectors refuse to pick up? "REMINDER: TRASH GOES IN BINS NOT IN BAGS" would fit on that sign just fine and you wouldn't even have to use "B4" either!
4. Who decided on 6pm? It's not dark at 6pm (somewhere in our HOA docs, apparently, there is some kind of language advising homeowners not to put their trash out before dark). Open houses end at 4pm. If you want to argue that it makes the neighborhood less attractive to potential buyers why not say we have to wait until the morning of the collection?
Next they'll be foreclosing on a serviceman's house [npr.org] while he's in Afghanistan because he missed a couple of months' dues.
GodDAMN I hate HOAs.
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1. This is a brand-new sign. They have never used a sign of this type in the 7 years I've lived in this house, so I feel safe in the assumption that my HOA has spent some portion of my fees on this idiocy.
2. Text-speak. "B4" may be a space-saving, cute attempt at abbreviation, but it has no place on a sign you expect me to take seriously, ever, period.
3. What the farking fark? Seriously, what the fark? What if I work evenings and have to put out my trash at, oh, 2pm instead of waiting until after 6pm? Why is that a problem? Why can't we go after the people who put their trash out in bags instead of cans/bins so that the crows & squirrels have a chance to rip them apart overnight and leave a huge mess the garbage collectors refuse to pick up? "REMINDER: TRASH GOES IN BINS NOT IN BAGS" would fit on that sign just fine and you wouldn't even have to use "B4" either!
4. Who decided on 6pm? It's not dark at 6pm (somewhere in our HOA docs, apparently, there is some kind of language advising homeowners not to put their trash out before dark). Open houses end at 4pm. If you want to argue that it makes the neighborhood less attractive to potential buyers why not say we have to wait until the morning of the collection?
Next they'll be foreclosing on a serviceman's house [npr.org] while he's in Afghanistan because he missed a couple of months' dues.
GodDAMN I hate HOAs.
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It's been years since I engaged in petty vandalism!
It's been years since I engaged in petty vandalism!
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It's been years since I engaged in petty vandalism!
That's great! Is it okay to rep people for doing this sort of thing? You know - saying you're going to do something like this, and following through with it? Yay!
(darn it, you stole my idea!!)
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YEAH...he's already got one!
(Already got one, are you sure? Oh yes, it's ah...very nice. I told him we already got one...)
Sorry...had to be done.
Moving right along...
If you want to create mass confusion, I'll come by over the weekend and video tape at least 5 other people changing the sign, and maybe a dog peeing on it.
Confusion always works.
Also...anyone who puts a sign out is asking for it. You were just the first person to give it to them. I say you're a real Abbie Hoffman.
(And now that I've put Abbie Hoffman's name in this thread, you're sure to be caught and hauled away forever.
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That's great! Is it okay to rep people for doing this sort of thing? You know - saying you're going to do something like this, and following through with it? Yay!
That depends...how do you feel about being an Accessory After the Fact?
(Darn the broken merge!!!!!)
Well then, I guess I'll edit and say this:
I have this fantastic image of you, all crouched in the woods, heart thumping in your throat...trying to rearrange letters as fast as possible, cursing yourself for not having had a better plan for letter-arrangement...swearing a blue streak as you drop letters out of your gloved hands, pissing your pants as someone's headlights hit you...maybe even wearing a ski mask...sweat dripping down your neck.
I can see you with the newly arranged sign, tiptoeing out of the woods like the Pink Panther on crack, resetting the sign, and then running like your hair is on fire, maybe even trying to divert the authorities by pretending to duck into the wrong house first...you know...just in case you've been caught on camera. Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if you wore a blonde wig and a corset.
Or maybe that's just how I prefer to imagine it. Sorry...it's good for me that way.