Cabbies

In the evening, not a lot of vehicles parked on the sides of mainstreet, yet a cab feels the need to stop in the driving lane to pick someone up and spend probably 5 minutes holding up traffic. Really? All they had to do was pull up 2 car lengths so they could pull over and let other drivers through, but no. When I drove by, there was 4 vehicles waiting on them. SMH!

Respect Others' Property

kids these days... seriously! or maybe i should say parents?

the other night, i was upstairs getting ready for bed and looked out the window at the park across the street to see how many screaming teenagers were playing at 10:00pm and happened to catch a girl jumping off rear bumper of my husbands truck  o.O

i immediately yelled downstairs what happened and he rushed out the door with his keys and looked for them. they didn't make it far, but were scared shitless when they heard him pull onto the road and have him pull up right next to them just a block away. as if he wasn't paranoid before about kids either vandalizing, scratching, denting his truck before, its worse now, lol.

it was kind of funny because its the same thing he did as a kid and now he's cursing today's youth for the same shinanagans  :)  i asked him if he ever thought he would be "that" guy who yells at teenagers, of course he said no, but then again he also didn't think he'd have a wife and a house.

this was his actual FB status on the matter:
Im that crazy old bastard that chases young folk down and lectures them on respecting other peoples property after they jump all over in the box of my truck outside my house....I hate that bastard

hehe.

Kids These Days...

I swear parents either don't care about teaching their kids common sense or kids are rebelling much sooner in life...

I was heading home after work last thursday (coincidently it was also my bday) and 2 kids who couldn't have been more than say 10-12 years old were playing in traffic. Seriously.

A car would be coming about a block and a half to 2 blocks away and one of them would walk off the sidewalk into the middle of the lane the car was in and taunt the driver by doing a stupid dance. Then when the car was about half a block to a block away, they would walk back to the sidewalk and then stare at the driver with a stupid "haha, I'm so funny" sarcastic look on their faces like its cool to play in traffic.

*FACEPALM*

Speaks for itself...

and this is exactly why i hate big cities when emergencies happen! you're supposed to move for the big red truck!!!

Didn't Your Mother Teach You NOT to Stand in the Middle of the Road???

yep, seriously.

driving back from the local tim horton's after lunch a car was stuck in the very deep snow that accumulated over the weekend (ie 1 foot +) and the ppl watching the person trying to rock it out of the spot were standing on the street on the edge of the driving lane. that's right. everyone in that lane had to drive around while oncoming traffic was also coming.

i thought we all got taught not to stand in the middle of the street ever by our parents, especially one with cars driving on it...

???

odd, just odd... lol. not sure if the guy was purposely trying to pull as far into the parking spot as possible so his back end wasn't sticking out, or if he was even aware his front passenger tire was on the curb?

either way, i thought it was hilarious so i felt a need to take a picture of it and blog about it  :D

Would you hire a secretary to do a plumber's job?

this is almost exactly what my boss did/has been doing....

he's been getting his son to do some work for him on the side. he has NO training or schooling in architecture or construction, let alone AutoCAD. i can't even begin to explain how frustrating it is to work on something that someone who isn't trained properly in the feild, but its even more frustrating when they don't know how things work in AutoCAD! i have to spend so much extra time first fixing things on the actual drawings, but then i practically have to do all the finishing work again.

seriously, if you're going to get someone to do some extra work for you, at least take the time to train them!!!