un shoveled walks and drive ways. No house numbers or placed so cannot see them
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It works for you, at the moment. If it worked for everyone, there would be no first time offenders . . .
Muss Muggins;14098 2889 said:
Actually, four of them. All under control and behaving themselves. All were taught to behave themselves in public.
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The people who let their kids misbehave in public, especially in restaurants, are probably the people who believe in this "It takes a village.." nonsense. And probably living on the village's dime. A good example of what my mother called "People who can't spend more than ten seconds a day thinking about anybody but themselves."
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My number one peeve is screaming kids in restaurants. Their parents have 3 choices.
1. Shut the damn kid up.
2. Take the kid outside until he shuts up.
3. Just sit there and do nothing.
Guess which option is usually chosen.
A few years ago we took a couple of out-of-state friends to a nice restaurant where a kid began to scream uncontrollably. We could not talk to each other or even hear ourselves think. We asked the owner of the restaurant to speak to the parents. He did, and guess what happened. The parents chose option 3 and it was the worst time at a restaurant we've ever had. Some people have no class and that characteristic seems to pass right on to their kids. I swore from that time on I'd bring a roll of duct tape and tear off a length of it and give it to whoever dragged the kid to the restaurant instead of hiring a baby sitter...
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That and people on cell phones, especially when they use speaker phone.
Mentioned this before. People who walk beside their cart in the store, effectively blocking the whole aisle. Then they stop, begin playing with their phone. Ask to get by, regardless how polite, they look at you like you owe them money. There are others, but this one tops the list just now.
Being retired the snow removal thing is like this, god put it there and he'll take it away. I don't worry about the snow anymore and certainly don't have the need to remove it, here in Missouri it doesn't last more then a day or two anyway.
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We have snow removal in Arkansas, it's called the Sun.
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My pet peeve is that some people sound like morons when they type on internet forums the grammer and spilling is just atrocioes I mean some of them sound like they failed the 2nd grade and whats up with spill check don't they use it?
Irregardless, the root of the cause is our poor school educational system kids cant even tell time or rite there name and watch some kids they dont even no what side of the stereet to walk on a kid was killed rite near me...
(Did y'all figure out my examples?)
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Yes, peepul who kant spel and youse bad grammer shudd goe bak too skool. Eye often wunder y peepul doant write noe gud no more.
One thing I will say about the apartments I live in, the lower parking lot I use is on a gentle slope, if it does snow everybody cleans off and shovels out their cars and then dumps their snow in a pile on the grass at the foot of the lot. Which makes for a play area for the kiddies.
One thing I will say about the apartments I live in, the lower parking lot I use is on a gentle slope, if it does snow everybody cleans off and shovels out their cars and then dumps their snow in a pile on the grass at the foot of the lot. Which makes for a play area for the kiddies.
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What exampels? Loks fine to me!
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what's this thing called SNOW?
Down here, riding around in your truck, all covered with MUD, gives you more "Street Cred" as the youngsters call it.
Likewise with 4 Wheelers.
Down here, riding around in your truck, all covered with MUD, gives you more "Street Cred" as the youngsters call it.
Likewise with 4 Wheelers.
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My Pet Peeve are the folks who don’t return their shopping carts to the appropriate location.
Usually at Walmart and other large stores.
If you have a physical problem which limits your mobility, I will gladly push your cart to the cart parking.
Usually at Walmart and other large stores.
If you have a physical problem which limits your mobility, I will gladly push your cart to the cart parking.
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Are you talking about the way that you spelled grammar, spelling, atrocious, spell, write, don't, know, street and right?
As far as punctuation:
First paragraph: forums. Capitalize the. atrocious. check,
Second Paragraph
on't really need Irregardless. Capitalize the, system. Capitalize kids, kids, swap what for which, on. Capitalize a, drop a couple of periods at the end.
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Are you talking about the way that you spelled grammar, spelling, atrocious, spell, write, don't, know, street and right?
As far as punctuation:
First paragraph: forums. Capitalize the. atrocious. check,
Second Paragraph
Yes, that's what I'm talkin bout Willis...
Exactly correct.
Some good folks have done that for me when they see me pushing a cart with one hand and holding my cane with the other.
I remember my old professor in Commercial Transactions who was a stickler for proper draftsmanship in documents. When I was drafting title insurance requirements and exceptions to coverage his lessons came to the forefront. The courts are not very fond of insurance companies and will interpret any ambiguity in a policy against the insurance company as the maker of the policy, so good draftsmanship was extremely important in what I did. Twenty years after I graduated this professor's words still rang in my ears.
My mother taught me a good lesson in clarity in communication. I was coming home from the chemical plant I was working at for the summer and I happened to see a groundhog by the road. When I got home I said to my mother, "I saw a groundhog coming home from work."
Mom asked, "Where did the groundhog work?"
Mom asked, "Where did the groundhog work?"
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