Yes, it was a man’s name. The items inside were also for a man. So we just have a rude dude. 
Well, of course (thank you for not assuming that I’m evil).
I was indeed mocking a certain type of uptight NextDoor user. I shake my head at the number of “suspicious teen” posts there, and some of them have dog-whistle-y references to the allegèd miscreants’ ethnicity/class.
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Your husband is one of my heroes. Well played.
I’m continually amazed by the number of people who appear to be afraid of their own shadow. When did this happen to so many of us?
How is it that we have the Earth mapped down to freakin’ millimeter precision with GPS, yet Uber and Lyft can’t figure out how to get a driver to a specific address???
I’m at a business situated at an airport. I try to book an Uber and I put in the street address.
Uber: “Oh, you must be at the main terminal. I’ll just override what you typed.”
Me: “No, I’m at Bob’s Lawnmower and Iguana Emporium, it’s just on the same street as the airport. Here’s the address.”
Uber: “Yeah, but you’re at the airport, so I’ll just make that the main terminal. You’re welcome!”
Driver had no way of getting there. I finally got him pointed nearby and had to physically flag him down. Do these fucking people at Uber seriously think it’s a good idea to override an actual road address inputted by the user??? It’s not like I was trying to send a car into a cornfield in the middle of nowhere.
But your mock had dog-whistle-y references for the elderly too.
Still, ‘NextDoor’ does have a huge aggressive and straight up racist crowd, calling for mobbing town meetings and harassing local politicians at their homes who aren’t right wing enough. If you wanted to lump me in with them just because I thought I heard gunshots outside my house, by all means, Get Fucked.
@digs is a good guy. This was just a whoosh, I’m sure.
Wow, I did not expect that. I’m so sorry, I was making fun of NextDoor racists, and I don’t think of you, or anyone here, as one of those.
Just before I posted, I’d gone on ND for the first time in months (to look for a car part), and the first post I saw was a panicky one about “swarthy teens in hooded sweatshirts, driving an older van”. I should’ve taken my frustration with our suprematists to an appropriate Pit thread. I apologize.
I see how you read it like that. He didn’t mean it like that. One of those unfortunate times when a post can be taken two opposite ways.
He’s on your side. You both are some of the good guys.
Besides, everyone here is older than dirt anyway. Now get off my lawn!
Can I complain about leaf blowers yet? /s
To be fair, NextDoor is a problem. It has almost no moderation and what moderation it does have has to sit on their hands. All those aggressive Trumpy Racists? They exist… and they bulldoze over everyone else. Its a MAGA recruiting ground for the elderly, the scared, and the at risk. The people who are empty nesters and spend their days on META and peering in fear at their security cam footage.
The MAGAs seem to offer them security or protection, something the elderly don’t feel they have from the police. Day after day, seeing anti-vax posts, lies about Rump’s ‘greatness’ ( although he has grown more rotund ) , and lies about Biden’s accomplishments… the elderly slowly get indoctrinated… sucked into the hateful stupidity. They keep each other company, ping-ponging the lies back and forth with no one there to tell them the truth ( or ban the liars ).
Its places like that where MAGA recruits voters and donors.
Also, the same can be said for the chat rooms of video games and their Discord rooms ( how they target Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Y ).
You’re not wrong in that NextDoor is a Big problem, Digs.
I’d like to see it shut down…
It’s March. Where I live the trees don’t even have leaves yet.
I remember one time during the pandemic I kept hearing loud music coming from far away, but still loud, and i asked on Next Door if anybody could hear the loud “Mexican” music and where was it coming from. I got jumped on! I live in Houston, Tx. I was NOT being racist, it was supposed to be a generic description. I should have said Hispanic.
Turns out it was coming from an actual Mexican restaurant blaring music from its open doors.
In the span of 10 mins I watched four cars turn left…from the right lane.
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This afternoon’s workout was Misery; literally hill repeats on the trails of Mt. Misery (that’s really it’s name) since I was going to be in the general area anyway. If you know anything about hiking/trail running, trails are frequently marked, typically with paint on trees. I was on the trail with the red vertical rectangles. I came to a fork & saw red to the left so I went that way; nope, that was the trail with the red circles. Stupid, stoopid, stoopit to do intersecting trails in the same color. I also forgot to take a water bottle when I left at stupid-dark:30 this morning
Directly in front of you? Cutting you off…?
Luckily, I was either far enough back &/or stationary at a red light to only watch & observe. The first one was millimeters from crunch; luckily, the ‘going straight’ guy was paying attention.
A tiniest of rants: I am doing my spring shed (yes, people can shed just like animals). It’s extra noticeable this year because I’ve been letting my hair grow, it’s now silver/white, and I’m retired so I’m doing the vast majority of my shedding at home.
I spent most of my day in the kitchen today and after the third time I found a hair on my cutting board in about an hour, I figured it was time to tie it up.
There’s hair on the floor, hair clogging the shower, hair clinging to the rugs and carpet. Guh.
My long hair has been breaking off and thinning in the past month. I hope it stops.
I wanna thank you for the chuckle. I keep picturing the sign for it.
Went out to get a few groceries today, which included potatoes (because I can now make absolutely the best french fries in the air frier) and a red onion (an ingredient for homemade tuna salad). There was only one lane open in the whole damn store so I had to use self-checkout. I duly scanned all the items that had barcodes, because I’m an honest pup, but when it came to the produce, I invoked the old “fuck it” principle*. If the store is saving money by not employing cashiers, I’ll save money by just bagging the non-scannable produce and going home.
* I believe @kayaker was the first to publicize the “fuck it” principle on this board; to wit, that if the item cannot be scanned at self-checkout, then obviously it’s free.