Minor rant

[Cyberus]

It's a beautiful day here in England, as I'm sure it is in many other users' countries.

The sun makes me happy, I get that giddy feeling, "The summer is on its way" as I walk along the road with my dog. I live in the country - birds are perched on the top of hedgerows singing, the last of the daffodils are starting to look a little tired, but there are still primroses and dandelions coming up to replace them. The hedges and trees are starting to look less bare, with the first signs of bloom appearing.
As I walk with the dog, awash with happiness, I see three people coming the other way. I bid them 'Good Afternoon' (I live in the countryside remember, its not too uncommon for people to do this) and their reply?
- Nothing

Now it hasn't ruined my day or anything, but the ignorant {bleep}s could have at least have bade me a good afternoon, despite any circumstances that may exist that I don't know of.

Anyone else got a minor rant?

[that_punk_guy]

I hate that too, it's so rude and it makes you feel like such a tool as well. :-(

Although I suppose I don't look exactly "respectable," it really offends me when people don't smile back. Particularly older people for some reason. I hope to God I'm not that miserable when I'm older (although it seems like they're doing their best to make that happen.)

[Vincent]

Cyberus wrote:
Anyone else got a minor rant?

Kinda got one.

I was out gardening Wednesday and Thursday this week - our back garden has only been touched once since we moved in around September.

Even though we managed to get 90% of the weeds and stones (and some big-ass slabs and bricks too!) in Oct/Nov(which took 4 of us 3 solid days work to get done!), when we got started on Wednesday, we discovered the rain had brought a hell of a lot more stones to the surface.  Now, instead of giving the garden a quick going over before planting grass, we took the whole day (9am-4pm) to go over the whole thing, de-weeding and de-stoning it.

We had to plant the grass on Thursday morning instead.  My minor rant is that while it was strangely enjoyable, I now have a sore back, thighs, hips and neck due to all the hard work on Wednesday.  We stopped every two hours for a coffe so we could stand upright.

If the garden was "ready to be grassed" as Sanctuary said it was then it would've been no bother.  But it wasn't.  The weeds were basically waist high!

Thankfully muscle pain doesn't really bother me - I can work through it quite happily, the only thing is if I've been sitting down for about an hour I'm too stiff when I get up and I can only move slowly (and Siouxsie can finally get her own back about me being old :-P) until the stiffness wears off slightly.

Thankfully it rained last night, so I don't have to worry about going out to water the garden, otherwise I'd have been more annoyed than I am now :-)

I'll try and get round to submitting piccies of before, during and after sometime.

[whabang]

@Vincent
I feel your pain! I had a hell with our garden last year. Luckily, it's not very big... :-)

[Mike_Amiga]

No rant really but gardening seems to have crept into the thread so I'd just like to say how nice it felt for me to mow my widowed Grandpas lawn for him with his petrol driven lawnmower. It made me feel useful, which is a lot more fun than feeling useless and futile in ones general existance.

[Vincent]

whabang wrote:
@Vincent
I feel your pain! I had a hell with our garden last year. Luckily, it's not very big... :-)

Our back garden is about 100m2!  Way too big ;-)

Is there a superscript mode here?  I couldn't find one.

[that_punk_guy]

m² ? It might depend on your browser and fonts whether that shows up properly.

I wish I had a garden. I have about 4 m² of flagstones and the  old privvy to look out on. :-(

[T_Bone]

Vincent wrote:

whabang wrote:
@Vincent
I feel your pain! I had a hell with our garden last year. Luckily, it's not very big... :-)

Our back garden is about 100m2!  Way too big ;-)

I've got 12 Acres, mostly forest, I only mow 1 2/2 acres.  :-)
That's the closest I get to gardening :-P
(wish I had more cleared area)

[Karlos]

that_punk_guy wrote:
I hate that too, it's so rude and it makes you feel like such a tool as well. :-(

Although I suppose I don't look exactly "respectable," it really offends me when people don't smile back. Particularly older people for some reason. I hope to God I'm not that miserable when I'm older (although it seems like they're doing their best to make that happen.)

I once offered to help an old lady struggling with some heavy shopping. She immediately assumed I wanted to mug her. I politely explained that I had no interest in doing so, but she genuinely didn't want to trust me and so struggled on.

I was left feeling a bit stupid, but it annoyed me later when I thought over it.

Now I'm not saying anything bad about her, but it's a sorry state when that's the conclusion people jump to.

[T_Bone]

You should have mugged her  :lol:

[Karlos]

T_Bone wrote:
You should have mugged her  :lol:

:lol: Imagine it...

Old lady "Please! take my purse it's not much but please..."

Karlos "No, honeslty, I don't want it. I just thought you might want a hand with those heavy bags..."

"No! Please, take it! I have Grandchildren..."

"But.."

"Go on!"

A scene ensues ...

"Bloody hell, anything for a quiet life! I can send it back to you insured delivery if you like...what's your address?"

"No! Don't break into my house...."

etc...

[Vincent]

that_punk_guy wrote:
m² ? It might depend on your browser and fonts whether that shows up properly.

Ok smart ass :-P

I can see that fine as superscript, I just can't get it to work here :-( (using Opera)

I wish I had a garden. I have about 4 m² of flagstones and the  old privvy to look out on. :-(

You can have mine! :-D

It might just take a lot of effort to squeeze it down to size ;-)

@Karlos

:lol:

[that_punk_guy]

Vincent wrote:
Ok smart ass :-P

I can see that fine as superscript, I just can't get it to work here :-( (using Opera)

I just pasted it out of OpenOffice. ;-)

It's not actually "proper" superscript, just a special character.

:-)


@Karlos

:lol:

A funny, but ultimately rather sad story.

[Cyberus]

Karlos wrote:

that_punk_guy wrote:
I hate that too, it's so rude and it makes you feel like such a tool as well. :-(

Although I suppose I don't look exactly "respectable," it really offends me when people don't smile back. Particularly older people for some reason. I hope to God I'm not that miserable when I'm older (although it seems like they're doing their best to make that happen.)

I once offered to help an old lady struggling with some heavy shopping. She immediately assumed I wanted to mug her. I politely explained that I had no interest in doing so, but she genuinely didn't want to trust me and so struggled on.

I was left feeling a bit stupid, but it annoyed me later when I thought over it.

Now I'm not saying anything bad about her, but it's a sorry state when that's the conclusion people jump to.

:-o Almost exactly the same thing happened to me!
I was on the Underground, and I saw a lady with a great big holdall struggling up the stairs. I immediately went and offered to take the bag, she accepted my offer, if a little hesitantly, but then kept a hand on one of the straps. I could instantly sense the lack of trust she had, but it's awkward carrying a bag like that, so I pretty much had to pull the bag from her grasp; I carried it up the stairs, gave it back to her, and walked away wishing I hadn't bothered to be honest.
Though I understand, as you make the point Karlos, that its more symptomatic of society than it is her fault. It's just sad, that's all... :-(