When we go pontooning, I drive to the marina with the cooler, boat bag, and a dog or two. Once I have everything set up, I text my gf and she drives down with whichever dog(s) I didn’t bring and we embark.
Sunday I had my daughter’s dog (dogsitting) and our old dog Ella. Ella is extraordinarily obedient, but doesn’t like strangers. I got everything situated and was ready to go to the boat, loaded down with two dogs, a wheeled cooler, and a boat bag.
A woman with three little kids was unloading her car, when the kids saw my dogs and got all excited, “doggies!!”. So the woman hollers over to me, “do your dogs like kids?” as she walked towards us. I answered, “No”. She gave me the nastiest glare! Would she rather I lied and her tykes became chew toys?!
I have to admit to being a bit disappointed here. I thought that having a rant and it’s anti-rant together in the same thread would lead to an Earth-shattering ka-boom. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
How does that work when there are multiple persons on the lease? My daughter just signed a lease that has her paying a fixed amount for a single bedroom in what I’ve been given to understand is a five bedroom apartment in Brooklyn (this was after the REALTOR coordinating the lease brought in renters for the other four rooms).
It sounds like she is leasing a room in the apartment (with rights to use the common areas), not the apartment as a whole. If she pays the amount that is shown on her lease, she should be OK.
But if one person rents the entire place, and sublets it out to the other tenants, then they are the one that’s responsible for sending in the check for the full amount, whether others have turned in their share yet or not.
Cite: every student and post-grad apartment I ever lived in. To give you a clue how long ago that was, four of us each paid Hippie Dave $55 a month, because he’d found a flat with three big bedrooms for $275/mo. If you didn’t get Dave his fiddy-five by the first, you didn’t get to eat the stir-fry he’d made that night.
You really need to find out the details. This happened to the daughter of a friend of mine, except the landlord coordinated it. And his way of coordinating it was to put all 5 random tenants together on one standard lease, with joint and several liability and all that entails.
It was a nightmare. It was a freaking disaster. The roommates were so horrible her daughter attempted suicide over the living conditions. They were total deadbeats as well and the landlord reacted by starting eviction procedures against everyone, including her daughter. She eventually got her daughter out of there but it cost her a fortune.
Well, I might have just lit the fuse on something. My mother and I are developing ulcers watching my son not pay his rent (for the fifth? month in a row? He pays it about two weeks late). I suggested to her that maybe my brother has a right to know. He’s apparently giving my son cash and trusting him to pay the rent. We have all learned over the years that my son is not to be trusted, but maybe Jim needs a refresher course.
Mom’s worried there will be a violent confrontation. Well, so am I…but Jim is an adult. This information concerns him and he can make the choice about how to handle it. Right?
I am all for minding one’s own business, but…
You know what, I have to call my mom right now and tell her to keep her mouth shut.
By the way, I didn’t tell Mom about the rent being late. The realty company sent her an email about it because she was once on the lease and they apparently still have her contact information.
You: Son, your landlord keeps contacting me and your grandma because you have not paid your rent.
Son: Ah, he’s mistaken. I have./That’s okay, Mom. I’ll pay it tonight.
You: Stop lying! We already told him that you are on your own and don’t bug us about it. You’re on the lease, not us. And you’re stealing money from your uncle. (That’s assuming uncle is paying your son.) You will be evicted and you absolutely are not moving in here. Nor are you getting one red cent from anyone else in the family, you deadbeat liar.
I don’t know how it’d would go over or even if you like it, but the conversation sure looks cathartic to me–maybe that would quell the ulcers. If he gets evicted, don’t think there won’t be an entry on his credit report. That’ll make it all that much harder for him to find another place to [del]squat in[/del] rent.
My dogs are not here for your children’s entertainment!
We have 3 dogs, 2 are adult greyhounds. They are well trained, have delightful manners and are wonderful around people and animals of all ages. If I have the time and am in the mood, I will allow children to pet them.
Ralph, OTOP, is a 6 month old puppy who is going to grow up to be a St Bernard (not really, but he’s 50 lbs now and still hasn’t gotten close to growing into his feet). Ralph goes to puppy training classes and we are really working on stopping him from jumping on people. He’s fairly good at doing the sit/stay thing until he gets excited. I don’t care how much he loves children, I will NOT allow kids near him because the clumsy pup is sure to knock them down and probably jump up and down on them while licking them to death.
So, today we were waiting for the light to change, everydog sitting nicely when a woman allowed her 3 children to “run over there and play with the doggies”. I was furious. I yelled at the kids and scared them into stopping so they could start to cry, and the mom started yelling at me because I didn’t want her precious children near my stupid mutts.
I was going to go off on a rant about people who misuse apostrophes (not apostrophe’s) but since we are dedicated to fighting ignorance, I am instead posting a link to a site which can teach everyone to use apostrophes correctly, and in a mildly amusing way.
A close cousin to people who use Quote Marks That People “Think” Will Add Emphasis.
I first saw it as a preschooler on a vending machine: *“Exact” Change ONLY! **
I knew about quotes to denote fakes from Superman comics. And I remember thinking “So NOT exact, but a so-called exact? How does that work? The adult world is confusing.”
*I clearly picture Superman saying: Excuse me, Mister “President”! As he ripped a latex mask off a fake JFK.
Wait, doesn’t our “President” use quotes wrongly in his tweets?
Why in the fuck is it so hard for retailers to grasp the concept of padding a box of breakable items??? The dumbshits in question this time can be found at Bed Bath & Beyond. I had a great coupon, so I decided to order some pretty Meadow Fiestaware – a four-piece dinner set, a ramekin, and a fruit bowl. The box was sitting on my front porch this morning, and made a disturbing clinking sound when I picked it up. The four-piece set had been placed in the bottom of the box with no protective wrapping of any kind; the plate had smashed to bits, and the resulting shards had chipped or scratched everything else except the fruit bowl. :mad:
