Every day I hit a brick wall of stupid, and I am drained.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

Today it was the librarian who didn't believe in learning foreign languages, who hates Mexicans. That's posted in GD as "This woman is a librarian???"

yesterday I went to JP court to pay a fine for an expired registration sticker. The woman in the office said the judge wouldn't dismiss it or reduce the fine. I told her that most judges would be more flexible than that. She said they had "rules". I told her about "judicial discretion". As you all know, I have a Juris Doctor (standard law degree which is 90 semester hours of pure HELL) and worked in the legal system my entire working life and it drove me nuts.

We don't have any white friends because we are Democrats. They all hate Obama here. We have a few black friends.

Have a problem that will come up soon: We need to go to the city to see our friends and get our sanity back. I have asked three different people to come here and do yard work, and they all flaked out and are not reliable. We have a mama kitty in the yard and four kittens and they need to be fed twice a day.
So I don't know what to do since three people are too flaky to show up to do yard work.

I don't talk to the neighbors, because when the woman was in our house, I played the piano to show her, and she called me a "Showoff" so she hates people who study and accomplish things. I showed her my altar and she said "BUDDHISM IS VOOOOO DOOOO!!" and held up her forearms crossed like she was protecting herself. We put up a six foot tall privacy fence on her side. She even hates her magnolia tree.

:wtf: Hating on plants I don't get. They also killed a sago palm that they thought was dead.


Every day I feel like when I argue with these people I am hitting a brick wall. It just sets me on edge and makes me want to cry in total futility.

[Kookaburra]

1. It's a shame to have to call a service, but

you may have to do just that to get your grass cut and to your animals taken care of while you're gone.

The level of ignorance in some parts of this country is staggering. I'm willing to bet your neighbor is not only afraid of you, but also jealous because you're not bound by her prejudices and insane legalistic religious beliefs.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. I don't know if vets will board kittens.

They are still nursing some and also eat solid food.

If she's jealous, it's because I had enough money to put up a couple of hundred feet of board fence so I wouldn't have to look at her house. I don't think she's bright enough to be jealous of a non-conformist. I hear her having screaming arguments with her granddaughter sometimes.

Lots of very angry rednecks around here. Some of them are just mad at the world, and I think a lot of it is because they are always depressed from going to church and being told they are worthless piles of shit, and also we have a half-black President, and that runs their blood pressure up too.

This woman has a six foot tall cross in her yard. She puts white lights on it at xmas.

:wtf: Several people around here have big huge crosses in their yards.

I'm not into torture and murder devices, myself.

There was an elderly woman who worked at the post office and had a real bad attitude. The postmaster told me she retired. She probably blew a fuse because her boss, the postmaster, is a black lady, and she couldn't handle seeing Obama's picture on the wall either.

:banghead:

[kentauros]

3. Here's one thing we could do:

I need to get some equipment for my computer soon, and one of those items is a webcam (yeah, yeah, I know, everyone but me has one already :P) I use Skype fairly regularly, and we can do meet-ups by video-conferencing. Seems like I recently saw an ad on TV for a similar kind of setup like meetup.com only for video-conferencing. I'll see what I can find on it.

What you could also do, and having seen your property, is to replace the lawn with native grasses. Here's a great site for seed, if you want to try that out:

http://www.seedsource.com

Maybe you should learn metal sculpture and start building large-scale kinetic works in your yard for all to see :evilgrin:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. I've got native weeds, mostly.

Native weeds. Tons of dandelions and Va. Creeper (yuck). And some St. Augustine.

It's not the lawnmowing, it's cleaning out flower beds and such tedious stuff.

I would like to learn welding. I'm sure I could have lots of fun. I took a leisure learning one day course from a guy who had made a large jangly metal palm tree for a lady's front yard.
He said he was very proud that she got a nasty letter from her homeowner's association!!!

:evilgrin: I agree with you!!!

[Why Syzygy]

5. I'm sending you private message . nt

[NuttyFluffers]

6. just think, every moment you are happy burns them up with hate.

'cuz haters gotta hate.

so go spread sunshine and rainbows with a smile! :evilgrin: O8)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. I make the checkers at Wallyworld laugh.

I always say "Don't work too hard! Hard work'll kill ya!".

The other day in Lowe's I was singing "Bad Romance" to entertain a clerk.

"Woah a oh a oh a oh, a oh, a oh, I'm caught in a bad romance."

I figure my job is to make these people laugh. It's amazing how much sympathizing a bit with them helps. My dad taught me to talk to the clerks and sympathize over their sore feet. The other day we had a Hispanic lady checker and she had on hot pink watch, earrings and ring and I complimented her on it because I like pink too!!

Her name tag said Lulu or something, and DH asked her if that was a nickname and she said her name was Lourdes. I said, "Oh that's a place where they have a spring and they sell healing water." She was probably shocked that a White Anglo Saxon Protestant person like me would know anything about Catholicism.

I went to the only non-Catholic private college in San Antonio. I hung out at Incarnate Word College some, and they have a convent, c.c.v.i., Congregatio Caritas Verbum Incarnatum. The Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. There were some very kind nuns I got to know.

I figured I would be the last person to cry on a nun's shoulder but I did. And she helped me a lot.

Sorry I rambled.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. Thank you for reminding me, Nuttyfluffers!!!

They spend all their time hatin' on the Mexicans and on the President.

I got other things to worry about, like, pulling weeds, watering the flowers, eating, sleeping, posting on D.U., doing the laundry....

The woman that hated the Mexicans said the same stuff that a local guy did a long time ago. He said they don't wanna learn English, don't wanna pay taxes,etc.
He must be a real Carl Friedrich Gauss, Junior, if he surveyed ALL 11 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS, in SPANISH, and discovered that NOT ONE of them want to learn English.

What a statistician!! :sarcasm:

Gauss is the guy who discovered the Bell Curve, and is therefore the God of Statistics. They also named the magnetic field unit after him.

:evilgrin:

[OneGrassRoot]

9. I just love this subject line...

"Every day I hit a brick wall of stupid..."

:rofl:

That's a book waiting to happen.

:thumbsup:

:hi:

[get the red out]

10. Bless you

The woman next door is just RUDE, just consider her not raised right.

I wish the world would wake up. I am in a spot where I have much more sympathy for animals than people, in fact, I don't think I like people all that much right now. And I'm not even sure that a lot of DUers (present ASAH company excluded) aren't just Rush Limbaugh spelled backwards, so to speak. Just as demanding that everyone accept their opinions or be bludgeoned into it.

People are just ASSHOLES!!!!!! I don't know if it's something going on right now or what. I'm probably just as bad.

Thank you for taking care of Momma cat and babies. Little angels IMO. Plant angels too. I consider all in nature angelic except people, who are assholes until proven otherwise because we stomp out our own hearts.

[NJCher]

11. I used to live in an area almost that stupid

I had to get out; made it a conscious decision. It was more the way the media was slanted than anything.

I'm sorry you have to live around such people. It really does make a difference in the quality of one's life.

Even though I live in a blue area around well-educated people, a lot of people have nothing to do with their neighbors. Maybe you can keep that in mind and it will make you feel a little better. To be clear, what I'm saying is that even when a person lives in an area with educated, intelligent people who are mostly Democrats, they still might not have much to do with each other. (That's America!)

Personally, I'm on good terms with my neighbors, but I fully realize a lot of people don't care two whits about their neighbors.


Cher

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. The neighbors are probably baffled.

We don't go to church, don't have any kids in school. I don't go to the local doctor, he's incompetent. Nor do I use the local pharmacist. We went to the local book club once, and never went back because they kept talking about Christianity and how morally superior it was. If we wanted to hear that we would go to church.

I'm a dog person, and I like dogs better than I like most people. Gardening keeps me sane. I have two acres right in town. We have to go to the big city every few months to keep our sanity, see our friends, and shop. We are retired.

There's a lady who does yardwork for me. I offered to teach her youngest son piano if he is interested. He said he wanted to play the violin but I insisted that he learn piano first. I started piano lessons at age five and started violin lessons at ten. My piano teacher is also a violinist, so he taught me both for about ten years.

[OneGrassRoot]

13. Intentional Communities, the new version of "communes" (I think)...

are sounding better and better.

Gathering those of like mind and like heart -- albeit different interests, skills, etc. -- into one community.

:grouphug:

[NJCher]

14. Do tell

Where did you hear about these communities? What types of communities are there?

A few years ago another woman in this area and I wanted to start one that had at its basis an interest in environmentally sustainable landscaping.

A benefit would have been relief from the noise and fumes of landscapers, which are all too common around here.


Cher

[OneGrassRoot]

15. Here's one link:

http://www.ic.org/

Just Google "intentional communities" or "sustained communities" and you'll see interesting results.

:hi: