# Try to remember...(the month of September?) (Sept. minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394 "2012-09-01T22:26:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/341 "2012-09-25T05:47:34Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > \ > > (I didn’t tell him that a bunch of strangers on the internet think he doesn’t have the right to expect to be able park in front of his own house…) Well, that’s one of those grey areas - legally any registered car can park in front of your house for a legally-defined length of time; in real life, parking in front of someone else’s house can be a douchebag move. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/342 "2012-09-25T05:47:39Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Wait - you wanted it to go on longer?? 😃 > > This weekend our next door neighbor came over and complained that the people across the street have been parking in front of his house. I looked - their 2 SUVs in their driveway, their pickup and Toyota in front of our house - so, what? Did they get another car? He didn’t know, they didn’t even know who owned the car when it first showed up until his daughter-in-law saw the driver go over to that house. I had wondered why one of the neighbors cars was parked on that little strip between our houses - that was all they had left to use. Makes it “interesting” getting out of our driveway. > > (I didn’t tell him that a bunch of strangers on the internet think he doesn’t have the right to expect to be able park in front of his own house…) 😕 where did that happen (about the internet strangers weighing in)? And why was he telling _you_ about the issue, instead of the HOA folks? You _are_ in an HOA, aren’t you? I could swear you’ve mentioned living in one of those places where those things are the norm. > [@flatlined](#): > > One of the humans who live in this house forgot to close the lid on the dishwashing bottle. While said human was at work, one of the cats who rule the home forgot the 2nd rule about playing on the kitchen cabinets. _Do not leave evidence lest our slave does such things as get distracted and leave double sided tape where our paws land. She is stupid that way._ > > A 24 ounce bottle of Dawn all over the counter and floor and on cat feets and just all over the place. > > Cats don’t like water baths to start with, rinsing soap off their feets was not a happy time. Well, they use Dawn to clean crude oil off of birds. Maybe you could talk Bill into sending you a little crude oil to clean the Dawn off the cats… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/343 "2012-09-25T18:29:14Z")
Thanks for the soft-food suggestions, everybody. My office is moving to a new building. I hate moving. I cleaned out my cube before I went on vacation, because I didn’t trust them to not to move while I was gone, so most of work is done already, but I still hate moving. Most of the people from my floor have been moved already, so the scavenging has begun. I need to put notes on my monitor and headset so nobody thinks it’s been left behind. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/344 "2012-09-25T19:55:42Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Well, that’s one of those grey areas - legally any registered car can park in front of your house for a legally-defined length of time; in real life, parking in front of someone else’s house can be a douchebag move. Especially daily, when the only reason is because they don’t want to park in front of their our house (why, I don’t know). > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 😕 where did that happen (about the internet strangers weighing in)? Here. Don’t remember the thread but the basic message was that I don’t have a right to expect to be able to use the curb in front of my house. > [@](#): > > And why was he telling _you_ about the issue, instead of the HOA folks? You _are_ in an HOA, aren’t you? I could swear you’ve mentioned living in one of those places where those things are the norm. Nope, no HOA here - if we had one about 99% of the problems would probably disappear or never happen in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/345 "2012-09-25T20:18:11Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Cats don’t like water baths to start with, rinsing soap off their feets was not a happy time. At least the scratches will blend in with your Rainbow Bright coloration? I am in a mood today. I have cried, yelled, laughed all within a half hour. I am tired of being Mom’s sounding board for her increasingly off the wall thoughts. TheKid got a tattoo - “It’s not on her face, is it?” Why in god’s green earth would she get a tattoo on her face? Niece is pregnant - “I think she wants to have the baby at home” Why the fuck would she do that? She didn’t with her first and had a freaking rainbows and unicorn delivery - that versus at home with her dumbass husband, toddler, and two dogs. Where the fuck are you getting these ideas? I know. Dementia. I’m exhausted. I need to mow the lawn. Only in a few spots is the grass actually green and long - the rest is brown due to lack of rain. I hate mowing, but my house is becoming “that” house. I called a few people to hire, asking what the charge would be to bag (mow up the leaves) and dump in my lawn bin: $100, as it’s considered “fall clean up”. No, it’s freaking mowing. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/346 "2012-09-25T21:53:48Z")
> [@FrancisCastle](#): > > I had run the dryer overnight so the next day my clothes were dry, but wrinkled. Usually, I run the dryer again for a short time just to de-wrinkle. I shut the dryer door and turned it on. Suddenly, there was a crazy loud banging noise and in my panic I couldn’t figure out how to turn the dryer off. My husband yelled at me to just open the door! (Duh) Out shot a very scared but otherwise ok cat. I was bawling…and he was pretty upset too. He wouldn’t come out from under the stairs. I had to go to the store and buy some delicious treats, but it was still a full day before he came near me again. And I seriously doubt he will be hanging out in the dryer again anytime soon. > I don’t think I should be allowed near animals for a while. Reminds me of a time in my early childhood, in the early 1970s, before answering machines were common household items. My mother was doing laundry one day when the phone rang. She took care of the call, then went back to the washer she’d been loading and started it. VERY loud yowl. She opened the lid, and out shot a wet, angry cat (said cat was fine and lived at least another 15 years with no troubles). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/347 "2012-09-25T21:55:52Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Especially daily, when the only reason is because they don’t want to park in front of their our house (why, I don’t know).\ Yeah, that’s less grey - that’s pretty fully into “douchebag” territory. Hey, dickweed healthcare professionals - when you know a test is commonly difficult for claustrophobes, does it occur to you to: A. inquire about potential difficulties with that, and B. suggest some medication to make the test go smoothly instead of just springing it on a patient? I did NOT have a good day thanks to these yabbos. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/348 "2012-09-25T22:19:38Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Here. Don’t remember the thread but the basic message was that I don’t have a right to expect to be able to use the curb in front of my house. As in, being entitled to have the curbside in front of your house kept clear 24/7? Then yeah, that “basic message” is correct: other people are allowed to park by the curb in front of your house, you don’t have any particular “right” to that curb. Doesn’t mean that neighbors **routinely** leaving their car parked in front of your house when the space in front of their own house is clear isn’t a jerkish thing to do, though. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/349 "2012-09-25T23:05:32Z")
I walked about 3/4 of a mile at lunch to have a Panera Fuji Apple Chicken Salad for lunch. (Yum!) I get about 1/2 a block away, walking past the book store when a woman coming from the other direction waves to this guy I was just in the process of slowly passing. He says “Oh, for a minute I thought that was a BOOK! HOW RETRO!” Fuck you, you illiterate piece of dog shit. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/350 "2012-09-25T23:27:34Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Especially daily, when the only reason is because they don’t want to park in front of their our house (why, I don’t know). Park your car in front of their house. Maybe they’ll get the message > [@curlcoat](#): > > Nope, no HOA here - if we had one about 99% of the problems would probably disappear or never happen in the first place. And yet a whole new raft of problems would appear. Sometimes, the only thing worse than not having an HOA, is having an HOA. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/351 "2012-09-26T02:09:00Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I walked about 3/4 of a mile at lunch to have a Panera Fuji Apple Chicken Salad for lunch. (Yum!) I get about 1/2 a block away, walking past the book store when a woman coming from the other direction waves to this guy I was just in the process of slowly passing. He says “Oh, for a minute I thought that was a BOOK! HOW RETRO!” > > Fuck you, you illiterate piece of dog shit. 😕 [Reread a dozen times] He thought _what_ was a book? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/352 "2012-09-26T02:24:57Z")
Books are retro? Is that cool? Am I cool for reading books? (I think I know that answer to that one. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/353 "2012-09-26T02:26:00Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Yeah, that’s less grey - that’s pretty fully into “douchebag” territory. Yeah. It’s bad enough they now have five cars, they could at least make a stab at not creating issues for their neighbors. > [@](#): > > Hey, dickweed healthcare professionals - when you know a test is commonly difficult for claustrophobes, does it occur to you to: A. inquire about potential difficulties with that, and B. suggest some medication to make the test go smoothly instead of just springing it on a patient? I did NOT have a good day thanks to these yabbos. :mad: MRI? > [@mhendo](#): > > Park your car in front of their house. Maybe they’ll get the message I doubt it - I actually had to put a note on our garbage cans so they wouldn’t move them into our driveway to make room for their cars. Pissed me right off when I hit the damn thing with my car… > [@](#): > > And yet a whole new raft of problems would appear. > > Sometimes, the only thing worse than not having an HOA, is having an HOA. Yeah, I’ve heard horror stories. When we actually need to use the space in front of our house, I deal with it somehow. > [@Kimstu](#): > > As in, being entitled to have the curbside in front of your house kept clear 24/7? Then yeah, that “basic message” is correct: other people are allowed to park by the curb in front of your house, you don’t have any particular “right” to that curb. > > Doesn’t mean that neighbors routinely leaving their car parked in front of your house when the space in front of their own house is clear isn’t a jerkish thing to do, though. Their cars are there almost 24/7 - different ones at different times of the day, or friends of theirs. It’s becoming quite the problem thruout the neighborhood, as more of these single family houses have multi-families in them, and of course each adult has at least one car. We are running out of room. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/354 "2012-09-26T02:58:07Z")
I’m sure this will come as no surprise to anyone, but cats that get soap on their feet will try to lick it off. The stench coming across my house from the litterbox room woke me up gagging. I didn’t even try to scoop the boxes, I just dumped them and filled clean ones. I left windows open and the swamp cooler running, but the reek still hit me when I got home tonight. Litterboxes dumped and fresh ones installed. The dish soap will live under the sink from now on. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/355 "2012-09-26T02:59:22Z")
Honey, when you go out to the garden to pick some greens for dinner, why would you pick the scabbiest, most disgustingly aphid-encrusted leaves you could find? Why on earth would you bring that mess into the kitchen? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/356 "2012-09-26T03:02:05Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > \ > MRI? > \ Similar to - a [nuclear stress imaging test.](http://www.cardiosmart.org/heartdisease/cttvideo.aspx?id=884) I was okay until they pinned me to the table with the imaging camera and told me not to move for eight minutes. I got through it all, but I did not enjoy myself. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/357 "2012-09-26T03:10:44Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 😕 where did that happen (about the internet strangers weighing in)? > [@curlcoat](#): > > Here. Don’t remember the thread but the basic message was that I don’t have a right to expect to be able to use the curb in front of my house. Huh. Must have missed that thread. Still, absent some case law establishing otherwise, it would appear that the internet strangers do have accuracy on their side. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/358 "2012-09-26T04:19:02Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Huh. Must have missed that thread. > > Still, absent some case law establishing otherwise, it would appear that the internet strangers do have accuracy on their side. I actually do remember that thread. I have a funny (maybe only to me) story about it. One Sunday, a lifted 4-wheel drive pick-up showed up in front of my house. It wasn’t in my way, so I didn’t care. On the following Wednesday, I had to take the day off to take Tony to a doctor’s appointment in Phx. Of course the doctor was a quack who was out to rip Tony off…so the drive home was not fun. When we finally got to our turnoff, all I could think about was beer in the fridge and cat on my lap therapy. Tony freaked out over the truck in front of my yard. Disrespectful, makes my house look bad, people aren’t allowed to park on the street, etc. All I wanted was for the day to be over and forgotten, so I called the Sheriff’s office and told them my sad story, Tony included, and asked that someone comes out to check the plate to be sure that the truck wasn’t stolen. I was very open about not caring about the truck, just that Tony would see the patrol car and see that “something was being done”. 20 minutes later, I got a knock on my door and told the nice cop that the only reason he was here was to make Tony shut up. He went out and made an obvious show of checking license and calling in. As it turned out, the truck belonged to a neighbor who lived a couple of houses down. They had bought it because it had a blown engine, and had parked it in front of my yard because it wouldn’t make anyone have a problem backing out in the morning. The neighbors moved it that day, and when I talked to them, they weren’t mad at me at all. The cop had left a note on their door saying something like “could you move your truck off the street, its upsetting Tony”. Moral of the story: If you want something done, invoke the name of the crazy guy on the street. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/359 "2012-09-26T05:47:44Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Reminds me of a time in my early childhood, in the early 1970s, before answering machines were common household items. My mother was doing laundry one day when the phone rang. She took care of the call, then went back to the washer she’d been loading and started it. VERY loud yowl. She opened the lid, and out shot a wet, angry cat (said cat was fine and lived at least another 15 years with no troubles). Cats can levitate. Especially if they have incentive. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/360 "2012-09-26T21:31:34Z")
So I had strep throat back in March. I got the rapid swab and the antibiotic Rx at my university’s health center. They just sent me the bill TODAY. I graduated in May. How the hell do you take 6 months to bill for that? It was only $15, so I’m assuming my insurance picked up some of it, but holy processing time Batman! Now I’m wondering what other random charges are going to start trickling through in the next year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394.md?page=19)