Weâre hanging at an AirBnb in Pittsburgh ATM. We had to listen to the quiet chirp of a low battery smoke detector for 4 days until the owner gave me the garage code so I could find it. She didnât even know it was there. It was so old it didnât have replaceable batteries. Couldnât get it to stop, so I ripped the speaker out of it. Whew. Finally some quiet.
Then, last night we went out to dinner for about an hour and come home to find a pickup in the driveway and a car parked in front. Hmm. I circle the block and as we return they take off like bats out of hell. In the driveway adjacent to the garage door is a huge pile of stuff. Not thrown there, but set. But there are trash bags, bedding, and pictures/mirrors (not damaged). Itâs purposeful. And I can hear the chirp of a low battery smoke detector in the pile.
So I contact the landlady and she phones. Has no idea whatâs up. Now Iâm worried about our safety. Then she remembers her daughterâs going through a divorce⦠She calls me back later and says that the soon-to-be-ex-husband has dumped her stuff off.
And, today, it looks like rain in the next few hoursâ¦
GEEZ. how much longer are you there? i agree with coaxial. you need a discount after all you've put up with (the non-clean space originally, the smoke detector noise for days, now this...) i'd not feel safe, either.
We’re hanging at an AirBnb in Pittsburgh ATM. We had to listen to the quiet chirp of a low battery smoke detector for 4 days until the owner gave me the garage code so I could find it. She didn’t even know it was there. It was so old it didn’t have replaceable batteries. Couldn’t get it to stop, so I ripped the speaker out of it. Whew. Finally some quiet. Then, last night we went out to dinner for about an hour and come home to find a pickup in the driveway and a car parked in front. Hmm. I circle the block and as we return they take off like bats out of hell. In the driveway adjacent to the garage door is a huge pile of stuff. Not thrown there, but set. But there are trash bags, bedding, and pictures/mirrors (not damaged). It’s purposeful. And I can hear the chirp of a low battery smoke detector in the pile. So I contact the landlady and she phones. Has no idea what’s up. Now I’m worried about our safety. Then she remembers her daughter’s going through a divorce… She calls me back later and says that the soon-to-be-ex-husband has dumped her stuff off. And, today, it looks like rain in the next few hours…
Just the kind of drama your vacation needs...Maybe talk to her seriously about a rent reduction for all the crap y'all put up with.
Weâre hanging at an AirBnb in Pittsburgh ATM. We had to listen to the quiet chirp of a low battery smoke detector for 4 days until the owner gave me the garage code so I could find it. She didnât even know it was there. It was so old it didnât have replaceable batteries. Couldnât get it to stop, so I ripped the speaker out of it. Whew. Finally some quiet.
Then, last night we went out to dinner for about an hour and come home to find a pickup in the driveway and a car parked in front. Hmm. I circle the block and as we return they take off like bats out of hell. In the driveway adjacent to the garage door is a huge pile of stuff. Not thrown there, but set. But there are trash bags, bedding, and pictures/mirrors (not damaged). Itâs purposeful. And I can hear the chirp of a low battery smoke detector in the pile.
So I contact the landlady and she phones. Has no idea whatâs up. Now Iâm worried about our safety. Then she remembers her daughterâs going through a divorce⦠She calls me back later and says that the soon-to-be-ex-husband has dumped her stuff off.
And, today, it looks like rain in the next few hoursâ¦
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Jul 31, 2023 - 1:29pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I mean the girl in blue, she probably threw a Sprite on the red shirt so she had to change and then the girl in blue said "oh I'm sorry, it wasn't even Diet Sprite, here, I have another shirt in my suitcase." And then things got weird.
I mean the girl in blue, she probably threw a Sprite on the red shirt so she had to change and then the girl in blue said "oh I'm sorry, it wasn't even Diet Sprite, here, I have another shirt in my suitcase." And then things got weird.
and so she's saying to the girl in white "ok, so here's a picture of me buying the sprite..."
hmmm.
well, guy and one girl are wearing same shirt in both pics. so...maybe girl in red and girl in white are twins, and the guy and girl blue (same shirts in both pics) both only get along with the twin in white?
I mean the girl in blue, she probably threw a Sprite on the red shirt so she had to change and then the girl in blue said "oh I'm sorry, it wasn't even Diet Sprite, here, I have another shirt in my suitcase." And then things got weird.
hmmm.
well, guy and one girl are wearing same shirt in both pics. so...maybe girl in red and girl in white are twins, and the guy and girl blue (same shirts in both pics) both only get along with the twin in white?
The recent study, which looked at four common brewing techniques, found that instant coffee appears to produce the least amount of emissions when the recommended amounts of water and coffee are used. This is in part because there is typically a small amount of instant coffee used per cup and...
boiling water in a kettle tends to use less electricity compared to a traditional coffee maker...
Held in thousands of locations across the length and breadth of the Japanese archipelago, traditional festivals, known as matsuri, perhaps best exemplify a more paradoxical side of Japan: known for their reserve and shyness, the Japanese take on a quite different demeanour when they participate in a matsuri. With shouting, showing off and often quite inebriated participants, matsuri are joyous events that shatter the stereotype of âtypical Japaneseâ behaviour.
In Japan, the largest festivals involve the participation of thousands of people, with tens of thousands more watching from the sidelines. These festivals often require entire sections of the city to be closed down and are broadcast on national television to an audience of millions. By contrast, smaller festivals are held primarily for the benefit of local populations, with perhaps 150 to 200 people in attendance, and are barely publicised. Outside of their immediate region, these festivals may be virtually unknown.
Every festival, whether large or small, well-known or obscure, has its own characteristics. One particularly noteworthy kind of festival is the hadaka matsuri, or ânaked festivalâ, a type of Shinto event in which participants typically wear just a Japanese loincloth called a fundoshi. The hadaka matsuri is a purification ritual designed to drive away bad luck, evil spirits and calamities. Because nakedness is considered the purest form â the closest state a person can be to birth â it is necessary for a ritual purification ceremony.
Art Bell used to speak of a "quickening". I always considered those that threaten to move chicken little narcissist. I mean I know we are going down, just did not think in my lifetime. I see it as an Officer and A Gentleman type of thing though.
Work now has a new type of leave in the system, "Pressing necessity (Act of Nature)" and I think it must be for things like the nature breaks the cyclists take on the Tour de France, but do we really need to document them?
That is very worrying. An overwhelming & forceful response should be developed and deployed. Every nuclear power plant already has protected air space.
Unions can be a force for good but they can also suffer from precisely the same kind of entrenched power they originally tried to combat. Without having to "bust the unions" maybe the best way out of this is a sea change in public opinion. When you get a majority of cops down on one knee showing respect and solidarity, it won't take long to vote out a Kroll (says me with absolutely zilch local knowledge, but hell, one can hope).
when discussing unions, you need to make the distinction between public (cops, teachers), and private unions (grocery store, factory workers). a union organizes workers as one counterparty to negotiate with the other side -gov for public, owners/managers for private. the problem with public unions is the the union usually has the gov in their back pocket...they help them get elected, whether it's a major, county supervisor, legislator, governor...so when the union asks for a raise, there usually isnt much push back, like an owner/manager will do against private unions...ultimately the people, who the gov represent, have little say
p.s., private unions helped build the middle class of this country
I guess with teachers' unions it depends which state or municipality they are in that determines the amount of push-back. There are teachers all over the country who have only seen minimal, if any, raises in years, even if they are in a union, and issues such as smaller class sizes go largely ignored.
Unions can be a force for good but they can also suffer from precisely the same kind of entrenched power they originally tried to combat. Without having to "bust the unions" maybe the best way out of this is a sea change in public opinion. When you get a majority of cops down on one knee showing respect and solidarity, it won't take long to vote out a Kroll (says me with absolutely zilch local knowledge, but hell, one can hope).
when discussing unions, you need to make the distinction between public (cops, teachers), and private unions (grocery store, factory workers). a union organizes workers as one counterparty to negotiate with the other side -gov for public, owners/managers for private. the problem with public unions is the the union usually has the gov in their back pocket...they help them get elected, whether it's a major, county supervisor, legislator, governor...so when the union asks for a raise, there usually isnt much push back, like an owner/manager will do against private unions...ultimately the people, who the gov represent, have little say
p.s., private unions helped build the middle class of this country
I guess with teachers' unions it depends which state or municipality they are in that determines the amount of push-back. There are teachers all over the country who have only seen minimal, if any, raises in years, even if they are in a union, and issues such as smaller class sizes go largely ignored.