You ridiculous fucks! How dare you fucking decide to set up your shit in our parking lot, with no goddamn notice? I hate your “look at me, I am lean and delirious with sunstroke, so I can do whatever the fuck I want to in your pissant town” atitude.
Those bastard asses have since taken over our parking lot. there is no space for our customers to park, never mind the employees and Boss. They have plopped two tents and 3 porta-potties into our (very damn small, probably 10 car) parking lot. They did not ask for permission. They want us to move our cars and are being real shits about it.
I dislike the triathalon. I have since I was a little glarGH, when the turn-around point was right in front of my damn house and they blocked us in and crapped in our yard. Before you say, “how do you know it wasn’t a dog, glarGHlette?”, may I tell you that DOGS DON’T USE TOILET PAPER. I think Mama glarGH raised enough of a stink over it, that they moved the turn around point to our parking lot.
I must say, for living in such a mellow place, you seem a pretty angry person.
You do have police there, don’t you? If it’s a private parking lot and they haven’t permission to be there, they’re trespassing. Report them and have them booted out.
Hawai’i isn’t as mellow as people make it out to be. I have some “anger management” issues. This board helps, as I have a place to vent , instead of running out and drowning these assclowns in the porties.
No one is really willing to do anything because its a ‘big event for the town’ and crap. I think its a load of vile, drippy, donkey POO!
Boss Baldy told them that they should have asked him before they set shit up, and they just kinda shrugged and said, “its Ironman stuff.”
My Points:
point 1: They didn’t ask.
Point 2: They’re doing it during our business hours. We and our customers have no place to park.
point 3: These fuckers are slobs. They leave mounds of garbage and other debris a long the highway. I don’t want to come in Monday to find piles of junk littering the parking lot.
I mean, I don’t know, but the Ironman Triathlon has been going on for quite a while over there. Seems like they’d have all those little things ironed out by now.
And as someone who has RUN events that make residents’ lives miserable, I’m sorry. I’ve probably stopped people from coming & going by participating in things. But it’s ONE day. Let us just have it, please? Hell, since you’re captive, how 'bout cheering them on? They really are a hard core, hard working bunch.
Of course, YMMV.
As for crapping on your property - well, there just isn’t an excuse for that.
It was news to Herr Baldmann who owns the building and parking lot. Its entirely possible that someone was asked, but just not us… you know, the honest, regular working folks.
Triathalon’s been happening as long as I can remember. They seem to change the turn around point every couple of years. You know, I remember distinctly that we were notified months in advance and given some neat little trinkets and a few nifty perks, when it was in front of the glarGH family residence.
But, like I said… nada here.
Its weird, as many people as there are who welcome it, it seems liek there’s just as many people who totally resent their very presence in our town. Take that with a grain of salt, as we have an entire family named ‘Bob’ in our midst, but… yeah.
Bollocks. If your boss, who owns the building doesn’t like it, all he has to do is march down to the the folks in the tent and tell them to vacate the property NOW or he will 1) have the police out there and swear out a complaint for criminal trespass and 2) have the organizing committee in court for civil trespass. If you guys are losing customers because they can’t get into you parking lot, those damages would be substantial, apart from the rent you could extract from them using your lot.
Now maybe your boss isn’t really willing to do anything about it, but that’s a different story. The police really haven’t that much choice if he complains.
Re: butt’l to #1 - Maybe you were too busy being pissed to look like an approachable voice of reason. Could they conceivably find you in the city tax records or property manifest?
Re: butt’l to #2 - It’d be a real shame if customers drawn to the event came in during your business hours. They’re undoubtably going to get in the way of what… black ink on the ledger sheet?
Re: butt’l to #3 - They’d rather not cart unnecessary shit along a sucessive 2 mile swim, 100 mile bike ride and marathon trot. Feeble bastards! And I bet the crew volunteering to pick that trash up doesn’t do it until after the last poor son of a bitch crawls across the line.
Re: butt’l to you calling them “goddamn whores”. - I really need to stop now, lest I ram some carbon fiber down your nutritionally defunct pipe of reasoning.
Jeez dude, it’s not like they’re doing anything but extending our appreciation of the unbelivable extent of human resolve. Put a f*cking nail in a stick, follow these guys and gals with a trash can for a day and put their discards and your bullshit sentiment deep into it’s interior.
Growing up in Hawaii, employed at a frequented business and having to watch the best in individual athleticism for a weekend out of the year.
The media told me and my neighbors that the Iron Man Triathalon was in my town, Madison, WI, this year. In fact, just a few weeks ago. It was on the news and everything. They’ve been blathering about it for 2 years now.
So, what, is there one of these every few weeks? All over the country? Damn, and I thought we were special.
So? Since when does that excuse setting up camp on someone’s property without permission? Are you allowed to shoplift if the clerk doesn’t “look like an approachable voice of reason”.
Somehow, I think the OP, who is actually at the business in question and can see the parking lot in question is probably far better able than you to judge the impact that the triathlon is having on business. Or does being a triathlete give you the ability to see how many people are at the OP’s place of business better than he?
Well, if they’re going to insist on doing such activities, they ought to have some means of disposing things provided. Mainly he seemed concerned with the stuff that never gets picked up. Notice how he mentions specifically that he doesn’t want the parking lot to still be a mess on Monday morning.
But people generally aren’t allowed to do that on other people’s property without permission. There’s no “extending our appreciation of the unbelievable extent of human resolve” defense in court to tresspassing charges.
What? It’s the OP’s responsibilty to clean up after triathletes? What the fuck kind of übermensch bullshit is that? Iron Man triathletes are still bound by the same laws and ethical principles as the rest of us.
Mmmmm… Twinkies… just wish I was a triathlete so I could feel justified at looking down on people for not cleaning up the wrapper I just dropped on the ground.
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Wow! An object lesson in the dangers of attempting to think up creative and colourful epithets. I do not think “twinkie sex” necessarily means what I think you think it means.
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Like I’ve said numerous times, in a multitude of other posts: I am Female. FE-MALE. Albeit a fairly anti-social one, I am still female.
lieu, dear. Read the f*cking OP, and subsequent responses to me.
I don’t own the bizzy. I just work here. We have all the proper records, if you’d like to take a look.
we’re not open on race day. The point being, they were in our lot, pushing us and our customers around, the day before. Never mind that they were taking up 75% of the spaces. How the fuck are people supposed to get in and spend their $$ if they can’t even part within walking distance.
I think #3 has been sufficiently answered.
This particularly torked me off, though.
Guess what? Hawaii is one of the worst places to live, work or run a business. Between the shitty economics, downsliding environment, and beauracracy, it’s hardly the “island paradise” you read about in travel mags. I’ve seen this event every year, since I was a wee little glarGH. I’ve gotten over it. It’s not for us, the local peeps, but for all the tourists and other “new arrivals”.
For some reason I’m amused … glarGH, you do know what a twinkie is, right? The non-edible (at least, from a woman’s POV;)) yellowy thing that doesn’t have the shelf life of a brick?
unless there’s some new definition of “twinkie”…? I know those little cream (?) filled doom bars are so bad, yet wonderfully delicious. I’ve eaten lots of weirder things. I don’t eat them very often (diabetic), but I get this craving about ever five or 6 months…
You know, I spend a fair amount of time extending my human resolve – sometimes I do it in the shower, sometimes when watching late-night cable, and sometimes while surfing the net – but if I’m going to do it on glarGH’s front lawn for her to appreciate, I’m at least going to ask permission first.
glarGH, it’s difficult to tell if you’re upset with the triathaletes, the race staff or the overwhelming swell of tourists that’s likely to accompany such an event.
I’ve competed in a number of different cities and always felt that my respect for the property of locals was equally matched by their appreciation for the positive impact we we’re having on their economy.
Most of the sanctioned races have a very good support infractructure that looks after the needs of sanitation, hydration, parking, street safety, etc. Crews are in place to clean up afterwards as well.
Might it be onlookers and “groupies” that are causing your consternation? While they certainly provide a boon for many local shop owners, they’re really not stringently policed beyond the confines of their own character.
As you know, it’s a shame to get shit on. Are you certain your flingings have been properly directed?
