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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.
Attachment 393924
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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You loved it.
VQ has a dumb HOA! VQ has a dumb HOA!
Neener Neener!
It attracts pests for one, it ugly for 2.
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It attracts pests for one, it ugly for 2.
It attracts pests for one, it ugly for 2.
I'm sure that sign wasn't put out there for the 1 or 2 people who pull the afternoon shift.
You have a lot of information.
Are you guys going to press charges against VQ?
By the way, I'll find it very interesting if they can figure out who changed the sign, but can't figure out who isn't putting out their trash at a reasonable hour to keep the neighborhood looking tidy. That would be a bit of irony.
You have a lot of information.
Are you guys going to press charges against VQ?
By the way, I'll find it very interesting if they can figure out who changed the sign, but can't figure out who isn't putting out their trash at a reasonable hour to keep the neighborhood looking tidy. That would be a bit of irony.
Ummm, OK.
Could it be that I'm a typical homeowner that agrees with the sign?>>>?????<<<<<
Naw, that's to easy!!!!!
Could it be that I'm a typical homeowner that agrees with the sign?>>>?????<<<<<
Naw, that's to easy!!!!!
You may agree with the sign (yay for you...I'm sure there's a percentage of people who do), but that doesn't necessarily make you typical.
I wouldn't always be home after 6 PM the night before pickup to put my trash out and I have a 9-5 job.
And...I'm very thrilled not to have an HOA.
But...if I did have an HOA, and it decided to clutter up the neighborhood with its sandwichboard sign, which I find far junkier than someone's trash can out at 5 PM instead of 6 PM, without asking the people of the neighborhood if that's how we wanted our dues spent...and how we wanted our neighborhood to look...I'd switch the letters, too.
Here's another one for you, VQ (lots of leftover letters...and you have tg use a 4 as an A, but...)
Sign gratis - you can take it home
Sign gratis - you can take it home
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