The Daily Peeve / Rant

[Teacher Terry]

The cars we have now are a Toyota Corolla and Honda which are 10 and 12 years old. No repairs on either other than brakes, tires and oil change. Our property taxes here are capped at 3% a year for increases. I once lived in a small town and hated it so no thanks to cheap living.

[Tybee]

I've lived in a couple of small towns and liked some a lot and hated others.
One of the worst was a very insular college town that went back to a strange religious sect with certain families going back to the 1600's in Rhode Island where they founded the sect. They were so standoffish and unfriendly, it was literally ten years before people started talking to us.
Lo and behold I started doing geneology and among my ancestors were these same people who founded the sect back in Rhode Island, and all these people were distant cousins, I was descended from the same town families and just did not know it.
Felt a little ironic.

Catherine's small town sounds a whole lot better than that small town. It was landlocked--give me any town on a big lake or ocean and I am happy.

[happystuff]

The cars we have now are a Toyota Corolla and Honda which are 10 and 12 years old. No repairs on either other than brakes, tires and oil change. Our property taxes here are capped at 3% a year for increases. I once lived in a small town and hated it so no thanks to cheap living.

We just got a Toyota and a Honda last year - used, both 2004. So far - so good! (Stinks when 2 cars die at the same time!) Best car we had in a long, long time was a little Plymouth Neon. Got it used and it lasted almost 20 years. Loved that car!

[Tybee]

Wow, happystuff, that is impressive.

[frugal-one]

IL, those little Mercury wagons were the bomb--weren't they the same as Escorts?

We drive our cars to up over 200,000 miles so maybe that is part of it.

Jane, I googled Seattle tax and saw the part about the catch up things and the senior tax exemption and was going to ask if you qualified for that as I think it is income based? That would be cool, if you could get an exemption.

I would also be looking at other places to live, like you said. I like the idea of a mobile home in a cool park like what you showed us. If I were not married to Paul Bunyan/Pa Wilder and did not have two giant dogs, I'd be in a little park somewhere with palm trees, a swimming pool, and potluck suppers for snowbirds.

We are now in such a park in the Rio Grande area of TX. I absolutely love it. People are friendly and there is much to do. I hope we are able to do again to get away from miserable northern winters!

[iris lilies]

Here is my rant: leaders of my organizations who cannot convey in a simple clear way their decision to cancel events.


My neighborhood has canceled our house tour scheduled for the first week in June. That is a very big deal.That needs to be communicated throughout our neighborhood in capital letters, bolded,and underlined. Instead we got a long rambling message from the president detailing all of the things that the neighborhood is doing to keep people safe from the virus. Guess what the neighborhood can’t do anything real, it is all busyness to make themselves feel good. I don’t really care what the neighborhood is doing, anyway, I care about the specific things over which it has control, and that is the house tour. Tell people there will be no house tour.


My plant society just sent out 10 paragraphs of rambling biography about how the leader is spending her days. OK whatever. Buried in that 10 paragraphs is the news that 1) Our May event is canceled but there is absolutely no mention of the April event being canceled. But of course it’s canceled, why can’t we say that? why can’t we just send out a very clear message saying hey folks no meeting in April, our show is canceled in May. Oh by the way our website which you can find here ( link) is being updated so check it out. Three sentences. Bang. Done.

my garden club president was rambling on via email about how our lives have changed and blah blah blah, but she never got to the pointed decision to cancel our May meeting. I had to ask her specifically – by this message do you mean that we will officially not meet in May? But then we got a notice from the venue that they’re closed anyway, so I didn’t have to wait for her to answer. As secretary of the group, I can send out this message which I do promptly.

[ApatheticNoMore]

Neighbors that practice music loudly while you are staying and working at home. Look whoever said take up or get better at a musical instrument in your quarantined boredom at home. DON'T. Take up maybe reading or meditation or knitting. They are evil evil people who suggest things like "take up a hobby like playing music", little Hitlers giving advice, PURE EVIL. Believe me after we get out of quarantine, they are going to be the first hanging from the lampposts.

[JaneV2.0]

Neighbors that practice music loudly while you are staying and working at home. Look whoever said take up or get better at a musical instrument in your quarantined boredom at home. DON'T. Take up maybe reading or meditation or knitting. They are evil evil people who suggest things like "take up a hobby like playing music", little Hitlers giving advice, PURE EVIL. Believe me after we get out of quarantine, they are going to be the first hanging from the lampposts.

Hear, hear! Use a keyboard and headphones, for the love of all that's holy!
I feel the same way about those "Check in on your elderly neighbors" PSAs. Stifle, already!

[catherine]

Hear, hear! Use a keyboard and headphones, for the love of all that's holy!
I feel the same way about those "Check in on your elderly neighbors" PSAs. Stifle, already!

That's a pet peeve of mine as well, ANM and Jane.

[Tradd]

I found a nice looking bicycle on FB Marketplace for $50 not far from me. Posted about a week ago. I messaged to see if it was available and the woman yelled at me for asking about buying a bike in our current situation!

I wanted to tell her, "You only posted it a week ago." But I was nice and didn't say anything. Blocked her. Sheesh.