I'm amazed

@cranky1950 Then I might actually have to leave the property on a regular basis, and as we have established, people are assholes. Maybe I can telecommute?? (Ain’t gonna happen)

@Pavlov The whole secret of this is you move away from the city to a place where there are less assholes per square foot and then it doesn’t bother you so much except on sat morning when every fuckin farmer for a hundred miles around goes shopping.

@cranky1950 No matter where I go, there’s at least one asshole there . . . .

@Pavlov You’re probably assigning too much weight to marginal assholitry and making it much worse than it is. Join the volunteer fire dept, then you can sit outside the station on Wed nites and bitch and everyone will think you’re profoundly wise except the women who’ll tell you to cut out old man.

@cranky1950 The last time I joined the fire department I drank way too much. All those old fuckers want to do is get drunk. For most of them it is an excuse to leave the house after 7:00PM and hang out at the station. Half of us were too drunk about half the time to even fight with a BBQ grill, let alone a real fire. If they smoked pot, well, it would be a different story . . Wasn’t that long ago you couldn’t buy booze on Sunday in Kansas and damn if everyone in town didn’t know to raid the fridge at the firehouse for beer if you didn’t get to the store on Saturday. I got tired of buying beer for everyone that “forgot” to get to the store.

@Pavlov

@cranky1950 @Pavlov damn ya’ll’s VFD is waaaaaay diff from mine. Mine meets every 1st and 3rd Monday for training and only get called out about 3 times a year. And most of the time it’s cuz someone’s burning trash got out of hand or they caught the kitchen on fire frying something.

Last thanksgiving, though, we got called to a house fire where an elderly woman and her daughter were trapped (and died) and the husband had to stand there watching us put out the fire. That was pretty awful.

@cranky1950 @ivannabc If you ain’t drunk, you’re doing it wrong.

@cranky1950 @ivannabc @Pavlov god damn that was harsh. Smoke a fucking joint. This guy pulled out two dead women from a burning house on Thanksgiving. Show some respect. Fuck. I mean you’re a dick, but I wasn’t going to say it until this redneck comment. Jesus.

@cranky1950 @marilyn80s @Pavlov im actually a chick and i didn’t take offense. I assumed the comment was aimed at the first half of my comment.

@cranky1950 @ivannabc @marilyn80s @Pavlov It looks like mods pulled a comment or two. Thanks, mods. It’s a spectacular day here and I didn’t want to see anything negative.

@cranky1950 @marilyn80s @OldCatLady @Pavlov I’m guessing something must have happened that i missed lol

@ivannabc @marilyn80s My comment was in response to your statement about the two departments being dissimilar and the severe lack of beer you experience. I edited my comment because it didn’t read “right”, coincidentally - and I appear to have truncated my comment in the editing. Mea culpa. (Meh culpa)

@RiotDemon as Cranky says:

You’re probably assigning too much weight to marginal assholitry and making it much worse than it is.

And I am, I’m sure

@RiotDemon me too!!!

@shahnm

/youtube baby I’m amazed

@ivannabc that’s a dream of mine as well. Every time we drive up north, I fantasize about my dream house in the middle of nowhere. No fucking neighbors to bitch about or make noise.

@ivannabc @marilyn80s Our house is in a really rural town, surrounded by fields and forest, on 8+ acres of a long-abandoned apple orchard, set as far back at the end of a 1000 foot winding driveway as possible, with our nearest neighbors’ house a lot further away than that, and it’s still nowhere near enough.
I’d put up concrete walls like the noise barriers they put along urban highways, if money were no object, and wildlife wouldn’t suffer.