Stuff in the fridge at work

So why are people putting their whole coolers in the refrigerator at work now?  I go in there and the thing is full of big items.  And if it’s not the coolers, it’s plastic grocery bags.

Come on people.  Unpackage your crap so others can get to their stuff!

Motorcycle license and registration

I got to work today and there was another motorcycle in the area that I park.  95% of the time I’m the only one there on 2 wheels.  This was a pretty beat up Yamaha, either an R6 or R1.  It had black-painted fairings with no stickers and I don’t know the Yamahas as well as Honda so I couldn’t tell at a glance.

What I DID notice was the lack of inspection sticker and out of date license place.  Now I THINK the inspection sticker just has to be with the motorcycle so I may have just missed it but the license was obvious.

What’s wrong with people?  In Texas, a motorcycle inspection costs just over $12, assuming the bike will pass.   There’s currently no emissions test so they pretty much just look for working lights, installed mirrors, and some tread on the tires.  The license tag is also only around $35-45 depending on where you live so that’s no big dealer either.

So it really pisses me off when people can’t follow some basic laws and pay their part.

Neighborhood Security

Why do people move into a neighborhood and then want to start changing things a few years later?  We live in a nice neighborhood with just over 300 houses.  It has been here a little over 10 years and from the beginning it has been an open community with a walking area, a couple of playgrounds, a basketball court, and an open green area with a gazebo.  It has been that way since the beginning.  We don’t have a community swimming pool, tennis courts, gated entrance, nor a guard.

Every few years it seems that mainly the newer residents who have been here 3 years or less start wanting to change things.  They start saying, “We need a pool” or “we need tennis courts”.  Now some of them are getting nervous and scared from reports of some thefts.  They are saying that it’s getting so bad that we need to do something.  Well I’ve been here over 10 years now, and realistically it’s the same that it has always been.  We have had a few random things happen lately but I can remember a time or 2 early in the neighborhood’s history of some really organized operations that were stealing from every neighborhood in the area.

Now they want to put up gates to make us a gated community.

I say, if you wanted that stuff, why did you move here?  There are plenty of communities around that already have that stuff.  There are at least 2 of them within a 2 mile radius of our place.

Where's the griping?

It figures... 2 years since I put anything up here.  I'll have to try to rectify that situation soon.

Taking drinking seriously

I think this county's population has a real problem with rationalizing stuff and coming up with excuses instead of realizing the problems we have. I mean, why else would we continue to allow people to use judgment-impairing drugs and drive their cars on the road and then when they kill somebody, they just get a slap on the wrist? Yeah I mean alcohol. I go out to restaurants and see couples, often with children, BOTH drinking alcoholic drinks and then all getting into the same car and driving home. How ignorant do you have to be to not have seen that even a single drink impairs judgment and reaction times by a measurable amount? I hear people laughing and joking about how hard it was to drive home and that they were lucky that they didn't get a ticket. It never crosses their minds that they're lucky they didn't kill themselves or somebody else.

Who's using all the drugs?

I saw today on the news where some semi submersible boat carrying around 5 TONS of cocaine was seized. Now that's a lot of dope! We hear all the time that drug trafficking prevention costs us X number of dollars each year. My question is, why are there so many ignorant, stupid, insane people that use this crap anyway? Are we a country of losers that just don't give a darn any more?

Watering the wet ground

What's up with people with automatic sprinkler systems in their yards who don't actually monitor what their systems are doing? If anybody has seen the weather or news, you'll know what we've gotten our fair share of rain down here in Houston. There was one 2 week period that it rained at least once every day at my house. Still, I'm leaving for work at 6:30am and what do I see? I see at least 2 neighbors sprinkler system squirting water on the grass. And one day it was freaking raining AT THE SAME TIME!!!

Is it ignorance? Have they forgotten that they even have their systems on a schedule? Do they just not give a damn that they're being wasteful? Are these the same people who get a pet and then forget to feed it?

Whatever it is people, come on! Let's use a little common sense. Normally this time of the year we're already seeing notices from the water company about drought conditions. It's not going to stay wet like this forever and the more water we leave in the ground now, the less the change of a shortage later.