# It's May! It's May! The merry month of mini-rants!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-its-may-the-merry-month-of-mini-rants/580336>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 1, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-its-may-the-merry-month-of-mini-rants/580336 "2011-05-01T00:48:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-its-may-the-merry-month-of-mini-rants/580336/441 "2011-05-31T14:04:45Z")

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**Filbert** , I’d post a sign in the shared stairwell reading “Dear Burglars: Please rob top-floor flat first. She’s the one who invited you in.”

Since polite asking failed to get your point across, maybe some passive-aggressive snark will work. 🙂

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-its-may-the-merry-month-of-mini-rants/580336/442 "2011-05-31T17:16:46Z")

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> [@Filbert](#):
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> Dear new moron in the top flat; yes, I know you’re ‘only going to the shop’, this does not change the fact that there are 3 flats in this house, not just yours, and you need to lock the shared front door when you go out.

Is it expensive to get a type of knob that stays locked, and must use a key from outside to open it, while it opens from inside without a key or the need to unlock it? That type has always seemed necessary in the building’s I’ve lived in, or there’s always one knucklehead who leaves it undone all the time, and possibly propped open. An automatic closer is good, too.

Even if people are good about remembering, no one is 100%. I think you guys have been lucky until now. That woman needs to be whacked upside the head, regardless!

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**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-its-may-the-merry-month-of-mini-rants/580336/443 "2011-06-01T02:11:10Z")

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> [@whiterabbit](#):
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> The snow seems to have left me, **Alpine** , so I hope it will leave you as well. It’s up to all of 40F already today! This year’s spring has been really cold. Wet is okay, but cold and wet makes for a miserable me.

Today is the first time this spring I haven’t seen “snow showers” anywhere in the forecast for the next 5 days. Yay! Highs in the 60s and partly cloudy I can deal with. I promise I won’t bitch about hot sunny dry days if we get any this summer.

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