The Daily Peeve / Rant

Today's peeve:

Neighbors who act like they are the sole universe, and no one else matters.

One of the neighbors is marrying off their only child today, and have a number of out of town visitors staying with them, including some people who brought along their travel trailer. Before 9am, their next door neighbor (across from me) starts mowing the lawn, starting right next to where the travel trailer is parked (within 20 feet). You couldn't do the rest of the lawn, or start in the back? Did you maybe think that after a rehearsal dinner, people might want to sleep in?

Hey, I had to tell my husband that 8 or 9am on Sunday morning was too early to mow our urban yard. He had been up since 5 and could not understand why it was a problem.

Herbgeek, that seems to happen often out here in the western 'burbs of Chicago. At 7:00 or 8:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings, you can expect to hear the sounds of lawnmowers, and leaf blowers in season. Now I realize that sometimes they are lawn care companies starting early (though not usually at 7 am), but really, You can't wait until most people are into their day before you start up that loud and obnoxious noise? Really?! It isn't really the sleep I miss (though I do miss it when I have worked the night before and am therefore into my "night), but what I really hate is the lack of a peaceful start to the day and the noisy intrusion on what is a time of prayer and contemplation for me. But it was pretty quiet this a.m., so I will now shut up.

Sweetana3, I have to shamefacedly admit that in my younger and more mischevious days I enjoyed getting up early on Sat. morning to mow the lawn, because my neighbors kept me up until 3 or 4 a.m. with their music. Back then, I felt that a little payback was in order. I have mellowed, slightly.

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Originally posted by Domestic Goddess.
There are gremlins in our house! Every night before I go to bed, I make sure that the kitchen is tidy, that dirty dishes are either washed or placed in the dishwasher, that sinks are cleaned, counters wiped, etc. Same in the bathroom. Yet, when I get up in the morning, there are food containers, some with food in them on the counters, dirty dishes in the sink, cigarette ashes in sinks and on the stovetop and counters. Just the other morning I woke to find that the bathroom sink had sprouted a fur coat of beard trimmings! Ewwww!!

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There would be (you know what) to pay if I were dealing with such!

Well, normally I would just let them have it, but dd gets very defensive about dsil if I get a little upset. Then she chronicles every time in my life that I left anything sitting anywhere. It just really isn't worth it. So I am just going to quit cleaning up after them. If I can't cook because the dishes are dirty, so be it. If people come over and see the fur coat on the bathroom sink, I hope they are embarassed. That's just the way it is going to have to be.

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Originally Posted by domestic goddess

Herbgeek, that seems to happen often out here in the western 'burbs of Chicago. At 7:00 or 8:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings, you can expect to hear the sounds of lawnmowers, and leaf blowers in season. Now I realize that sometimes they are lawn care companies starting early (though not usually at 7 am), but really, You can't wait until most people are into their day before you start up that loud and obnoxious noise? Really?! It isn't really the sleep I miss (though I do miss it when I have worked the night before and am therefore into my "night), but what I really hate is the lack of a peaceful start to the day and the noisy intrusion on what is a time of prayer and contemplation for me. But it was pretty quiet this a.m., so I will now shut up.

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I had a moment of guilt this morning, mowing at 9.00 am because I feel the same, but then like Domestic Goddess, my neighbors are truly inconsiderate with their music and noise and late hours. Hmmmm. oops! But I don't make a habit of it.

By the sounds of it, my neighbor is coupling and uncoupling boxcars, or perhaps stacking sheet metal. I was hoping rain would keep things quiet around here today. But alas.

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Originally Posted by early morning

I'd be happy to send out that email for you, Kara! Of course the people on my email list would be very confused, but hey, I confuse them constantly anyway...
Congrats on your promotion!

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Just seeing this now, but thanks, early morning! I think I may be over this peeve by now...but I definitely appreciate the congratulations.

Today's peeve? The ongoing one of my who has been nothing but trouble since she was hired 3 months ago (attitude and skills issues), and now she suddenly has job-related repetitive stress injuries. *sigh*

Kara

Today's peeve: tradespeople who schedule to meet you days in advance and then show up early. Not at the beginning of the time they said they would be there; 20 minutes early. -1 point for this contractor....