Tell me what you really think.
Is this an Indiana thing, like cattywampus and kitty-cornered?
The urge to merge can cause complications, by the way.
I've seen something similar. There are cars and trucks that are painted with all manner of paragraphs similar to those. Odd as hell. I saw one out in front of the White House in DC once.
So, what does that mean?
i'll admit my ignorance- what is 3825-U?
Ah yes, Befferd's local crank.
Even my family has been subject to his...well, "droppings" seems too harsh, but if the shoe fits...
WF
And as for 3825-U - look at a phone that has the letters with the numbers. While there are 4! (that's 4x3x2x1 for the non-math types) possible combinations of the letters, there's only one combination that fits the spirit of the commentary.
WF
Hubby had signs similar to this about him posted somewhere before. While he had made a stupid mistake (causing damage to property) and deserved to get punished for it, I thought the sign was uncalled for. The sign was changed several times, as owners of businesses called lawyers and had the names of their businesses taken off the sign, but Hubby couldn't afford a lawyer, so his name remained.
I've always kind of admired the guts it takes, and I have no issue with the ugliness factor. It's his land, and if he wants to decorate with drywall, it's his right. I have no respect for neighborhood covenants where they tell you what you can and can't do on your own land. I can't do anything to anyone else's property, but if I want to commit the sin of visual pollution on my own land, I have the right. I know that a lot of what he says is hurtful and untrue, but part of me thinks that if you act in a way that draws the attention of others, you have two options: be proud of your actions and decisions and never make a decision or take an action you would not willingly reveal to the public voluntarily, or accept that if you are going to have skeletons in your closet, they will eventually be revealed. If I were mayor of Bedford and made an unpopular decision that was then lambasted in Shaw's Yard, I would need to have the strength of conviction that I did what I thought was right and refuse to feel shame for it. Let him spray paint the night away - if you don't do things you could potentially feel shame for, you have nothing to worry about.
Sounds like you have a local chapter of Kooks Museum onsite.
One of those things that makes everybody's day a little more surreal, that's all.
Of all the Indianaisms, I like cattywampus, kittycorner, and the like, but my favorite is "crotch garden."
It just creates a picture. It really does.
But this guy--- what a fruit. If he had a blog, we could all ignore him.
Sorry, but as a mom I think about the questions kids are asking their parents. What a sicko. Why do people like that feel the need to subject the general public to their trash talk? Yeah, I know. We have the freedom to speak in this country. But this crap's in writing on a public byway...where do we draw the line? When people speak, we don't HAVE to listen. But when it's in writing like that for all (including impressionable kids) to see...where do we draw the line? Nowhere?
Oh and...you are a SAINT for waiting until noon for that student. 20 minutes tops would have been a gift to them.
Can you teach him proper grammar?
I dunno.
On the one hand, I get ooged out by over-restrictive homeowner's associations. But I'm also picturing what I would feel if the person living next door to me started doing that - I'd be embarrassed, and mortified when people came over. And I'd be depressed by having to look at such ugliness (both aesthetic and topical) every morning as I left my home for work.
Not to mention, God forbid, if I ever wanted to sell my house.
I don't know. I realize the guy feels he's been wronged, but does making the world uglier for everyone else serve justice? Get him whatever it is he thinks he needs?
It's a difficult issue, innit? It's kind of like smoking...where should people be allowed to smoke? And where can I, as a non-smoker, tell them "do not smoke because you are polluting the air I breathe"?
Or, for that matter, what about the rights of people to drive pounding "boom cars" through residential neighborhoods - at night, during small children's naptimes, at 2 pm on a Sunday afternoon (which is about my one time of the week to relax in quiet)? Is the right of a person to be able to sit in their house and read in quiet greater than the right of someone to park a boom car with volume "that goes up to 11" in their driveway next door?
Like I said, difficult issues. And ones that will only increase as population densities increase.
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