| | Mindless, rambling rant
I find that my mother and I have less and less in common (or maybe I'm just noticing more, and knowing my own preferences) as I get older. We get along so much better than we used to, too.
She honked as she drove past my house earlier. I -hate- when people honk at houses. It's annoying enough when people honk at people in other cars or standing in their yards, but at their HOUSES? You don't even know they're home or on the side of the house that they could look out and see you. (I happened to be at the kitchen window and was pretty sure it was her, but asked her when she called about 10 minutes later.)
This intense distaste for the practice has been building for years and years. Most recently, it's the product of living on a busy corner and having a lot of people just driving by honking, but who the heck knows who they're honking at?? Also of the across-the-street (in front of us) neighbors having a very lazy carpooler. She pulls up and blasts her horn repeatedly. She pulls away to get your hopes up, just to go around the block and do it again. She often parks illegally as she's doing this. This is very dangerous on my corner. Heck, parking on the proper side of the street in front of my or my neighbors' house is a bad idea. It's downright stupid on the wrong side of the street!
Before this house, my dislike was prompted by a shift-working neighbor's carpool. Hm. Sensing a pattern here. I got off work at 1 am. He left for work at 3 am. I would have just gotten cleaned up, wound down, and into bed when his carpool would come past and beep. It wasn't an obnoxious beep, except that it would wake me just as I was falling. It probably wouldn't have disturbed me had I been fully asleep.
Before that house, I lived on a decently quiet street ... across from a train track. You wanna talk about blowing horns! At first, I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Of course they have the required whistling at any public crossing. But 10 minutes straight of 'toot toot toot tootootoot toot toot toot'?? These damn engines were parked, and someone was just getting their jollies blasting noise into the night air. Did I mention that I usually noticed this after midnight? Yup. Whee. Some nights it would go on for over 30 minutes. Yeesh.
What? No takeout soup?
Why is it that the new restaurant in town doesn't do soup with takeout? I wanted soup. I was tempted to just order soup and no entree. But Nooo they don't do soup with takeout. So now I'm overly full. (I would have barely touched my food had I had soup.) I had something with chicken and broccoli and carrots. I ate all the veggies, a large amount of the noodles, and 5-6 chunks of chicken. I'm stuffed. |
| | Posted 11/22/2002 3:59 PM - 1 view - 4 comments
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