Nitwit Neighbors Nextdoor

My Mama Always Told Me: “If you don’t have anything smart to say, SHUT UP!”

I just got out of jail.  Nextdoor jail.

I was released on my own recognizance after five days because I agreed to be a good little boy and follow their stupid rules.

So, what crime did I commit?  I referred to some dumbass Nextdoor user as a ‘dumbass’ for some dumbass thing they wrote.  Apparently, that’s frowned upon in the nextdoor.com world.

Now I think I’m a nice guy.  Some of you may even agree.  But these people on Nextdoor really grind my agates.  In fact, that was the subject of my first post on this blog.

In this latest case the DA woman asked “What is going on at 54 and 20.”

Now this is the typical DA Nextdoor-type dumbass posting.  Actually, it’s not a question at all since there’s no ? at the end.  Well, maybe it’s a grammatically incorrect statement that is actually a question, but whatever.  The point is, there’s no frame of reference either to the type of activity in question or even a definition of what 54 and 20 are.  Maybe square-dancing suddenly broke out?

Now if you live in lower Sussex County Delaware you know that these are route numbers that intersect in Selbyville, near the Maryland border.  There’s a grocery store, a McDonald’s and a couple of large housing developments near there.  Not a hotbed of activity.

But, from the replies to her, it sounds like a Dunkin Donuts is being built.  Let me tell you, the word of a DD lit up Nextdoor like flames on a Baked Alaska!  Given the collective state of our health in the USA, we could all use a SaladWorks, but instead we get donuts.  Remember though, as Homer Simpson said, “Donuts, is there nothing they can’t do?”

Anyway, I said that the writer was a DA for what they wrote.

But I’m not so sure that this was the tipping point for my incarceration.  It might have been calling out the woman who bought some discounted travel coffee mugs at a local store.  These mugs had an inscription that she (somehow) didn’t see when she bought them.  Then she realized that they might have been on sale because the inscription was wrong.  AND THEN she complained to the world on Nextdoor about her stupidity.  I don’t think I called her a dumbass but I probably said something similar. She deserved it.

Sooooooo, I’m out of jail.  For now.

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I read recently that world leaders took over 400 private jets to the COP26 climate change meetings in Scotland last week.  It’s been estimated that these jets emitted as much CO2 as 1,600 Scottish people do a year.

I also saw that there was an 85 car motorcade to ferry our President to a meeting with Pope Francis to discuss several matters, one of which was climate change.

Now I’m not going to preach on any of this.  You’re smart; you can make up your own mind about the appropriateness of these activities.  But, it did remind me of a quote I rather like:

“I’ll believe there’s a crisis when the people who tell me there’s a crisis start acting like there’s a crisis.” — Glenn Reynolds

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Seen at my local grocery store…….

Yes, your eyes don’t deceive you. That’s an Oreck vacuum cleaner bag cut open and taped to this gentleman’s head. Note the clever way he cut out the eye slit! I guess he figured that the Oreck bag is HEPA-compliant so that MUST protect him from Covid.

And yes, those are heavy-duty gloves taped over his N95 golf jacket.

Covid bites again!

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