This. Now.
It’s still water being wasted… precious, valuable city water. The city office should respond. We have a friend at our City Water Utility. He said any waste would be “investigated promptly and effectively”.
I got the impression that they protect the city’s water supply very aggressively.
So you’re not on a flip phone, I take it…
:~}
When I WAS on a flip phone, the display was square, IIRC.
Which brings me to my rant, where the fucking city is trying to steal my 92 year old father-in-law’s house out from under him so that some developer can build on the land. Too long of a story to go into detail here, but fuck all the dishonest lawyers and appraisers who are trying to screw him. He’s got terminal cancer, he doesn’t need this shit.
I’ve been getting orders shipped from Target since the beginning of the pandemic. I get all my snacks, paper products and cat food from them. I haven’t had any issues with this until now. Last week I put in an order that included a bag of Tostitos. The items were just thrown into a box without any packing material so I ended up with a bag of crushed Tostitos pieces. Target issued a replacement with no problem. Today I got it. Shipped in a plastic bag. So now I have two bags of crushed Tostitos pieces. Grrr.
Can confirm. Many, many years ago, during a water leakage dispute with a neighbor, I realized that my water meter was behaving erratically. I promptly contacted the City of Raleigh, and was basically told they would look into it, but that as long as it wasn’t causing a problem on the city’s side, they weren’t going to worry about it right away. Sure enough, the same meter was in place when I moved out several years later.
I’ve gotten the same.
I reported it to Verizon as a spam text, not that they’ll do anything about it.
Bigger than mini but I feel terrible for my friend whose dot org website/message board that was hacked today by black hat hacker may they fester for eternity in a cursed galaxy inhabited by giant rats and cockroaches.
And cranky scorpions.
and pissy centipedes too.
I killed a mouse today. It died a Horrible death.
I didn’t mean to; the grass on my lawn was high and it was time to get out the lawn mower.
I didn’t see it beforehand. I just heard the sickening crunching thud… and then I saw the part of the grey fur body that was left.
TL;DR - I’m a Murderer… and now I feel Awful…
Murder requires intentionally inflicting death, or at least engaging in behavior that you know is likely to cause it. Mowing the lawn isn’t an activity that a person expects to kill animals.
I’ve never killed an animal with a lawn mower and I even used to do that professionally for a while (as a groundskeeper for a military base). It’s a freak occurrence.
Plus it’s not like the mouse didn’t have warning, lawn mowers are noisy.
Your compassion shows you are a good person but don’t think you bear any blame at all. It was just the mouse’s time.
Mice are pretty fast. Lawnmowers move much slower. I wonder if the mouse was already dead when you encountered it because I think a live mouse would have run away.
Thank you! You’re right… it would have run off. Something must have killed it prior.
( I feel a Lot better… )
Back in the days when I lived in a guest house out on the Ranch, my landlord once killed a mother deer with a fawn while mowing the lawn.
I once clicked on a link here at the Dope and heard the creepiest song ever. It managed to insert itself into my music stream and came up tonight. The only way to get rid of a mind worm is to share it. Enjoy!
The Teddy Bear’s Picnic. Totally work safe, infect your friends.
I grabbed groceries tonight and when I went to check out they only had 2 registers open with checkers, and big lines behind them. Meanwhile they had set up extra self scan units since I’d last been there.
That included a couple that had conveyer belts so you could self-scan a good amount of groceries then bag them, rather than putting a small number in a tiny bagging area. I had a large-ish amount of groceries (not a lot but not a few) and that seemed perfect. So I went to one where the lady using it was done scanning and paying, but was just bagging.
She took her time but no big deal, she was doing it all herself and I’m patient. Once she was done I started scanning my groceries and putting them on the belt, where they get deposited at the end. I was careful to do the heavy stuff first and light stuff later so I don’t crush my more delicate groceries. And I was pretty quick, I was a cashier once upon a time and I still have those skills.
I paid quickly and was bagging, and some stupid asshole started scanning her shit just as I had started bagging. She was buying cases of soda which went zipping down the belt to crush my delicate items like bags of chips. I had to stop bagging and hold them off, fighting the belt. I felt like Lucille Ball dealing with the chocolate factory.
I managed to get my stuff safe, hastily bagged my things, then I had to shove her fucking cart away because she’d blocked me in as she tried to put her soda in her cart before I was done. No apology, no awareness at all of what a selfish shithead she was. All she knew is she wanted to get out of there and didn’t want to wait her turn, and was willing to ruin another customer’s items in the process.
Some people just shouldn’t be allowed out in public.
I like to buy things with cash; to me ‘Cash is King’. So the cashier will ring up my items, I’ll enter some club-code if there is one, and pay in cash. Then I’ll pay the change due from my pocket: exact change. If there are any bills coming back, I put them in my money-fold, check my receipt, and off I go. Sounds simple right? Well then, why the hell is the cashier ringing up the next person before I’ve put my money away? I’m still ending my transaction and gathering my things.
Metrics, mostly. Their pay, and even their job security, is dependent on how fast they can get each customer checked out.
Well, most of the time…