Really, it’s the Canadian thing to do

#1 secondsout bang

If that’s the deal, I’d like to leave my lawn mower out during the summer, and my rake out during the fall. Maybe if someone could sweep and mop my house, too…

Mar 26, 2008 at 5:34 pm rating: 10 small thumbs up

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#2 secondsout bang

It’s such a peaceful, Currier & Ives type scene, minus the angry note. It kinda detracts from the decor.

Mar 26, 2008 at 5:39 pm rating: 2 small thumbs up

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#3 Canthz_B bang

This only works if it is really true that the thief will return to the scene of the crime.
They should put out some crack-head bait, like a new snow shovel.

Mar 26, 2008 at 5:53 pm rating: 1 small thumbs up

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#3.1 secondsout

Though if the problem is crack-heads, you should actually try to harness their power. They’re even better than illegal immigrants for cheap labor. Pay the guy $5 and get him to shovel the driveway. That $5 can go a long way towards getting some more crack.

Mar 26, 2008 at 5:57 pm rating: 3

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#4 Canthz_B bang

Why are tenants required to do grounds work in Portland, Maine?
Our property manager provides this type of service.
I’d suggest a nice slip-and-fall lawsuit after the next good snowfall.

Team take the slumlord to the bank!

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#4.1 Brian

I totally agree. I thought that was one of the points of living in an apartment – you don’t have to worry about this crap.

Mar 27, 2008 at 7:59 am rating: 1
#4.2 unholyghost2003

Exactly what I was thinking CB & Brian. While grounds keeping duties are not unusual around here for people who are renting an entire house, if you are renting a duplex or an apartment grounds keeping the the job of the landlord. Sure there are buildings where one or another renter does that stuff for a reduced rent rate, but NOT for free! It is the LANDLORD who will pay if someone breaks their neck or the city fines for the walk not being shoveled. I would demand that the landlord knock some money off my rent for doing grounds work, then mention the sweet deal to the young neighbors. Dollars to doughnuts the older folks wont be shoveling next winter!

Mar 27, 2008 at 9:04 am rating: 1
#4.3 Total Douche

Seriously, the builing owner is the one legally responsible for shovelling, mowing, etc… They shouldn’t be asking the landlord for help, but letting him know the problem so he/she can rectify it.

Mar 31, 2008 at 10:58 pm rating: 0
#4.4 wicked opinion

It is completely the responsibility of the landlord to maintain the property, in all ways. The landlord should be insisting on doing all yardwork before someone smartens up and suddenly pulls their finger muscle and sues. What a bunch of PA idiots. And I agree with Wade below…you can’t do the work and then complain after the fact. Make the landlord responsible.

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#5 Wade bang

Why should the other tenants shovel the steps, if the husband does it every year?

Why should the landlord step up and take care of it, if the husband does it every year?

I imagine that until the shoveler asks for help, not via note but personally, everyone else will just assume he likes to do it, and will gladly let him.

Oh, and the photo. I usually reserve that level of vehemence for the person that parks in the space I shoveled out.

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#6 amy d bang

Actually, this seems quite reasonable to me.

The risk of stealing is arrest.

This is an offer to barter. The pay for shoveling their walk is a snow shovel.

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#7 shirky

the other tenants keep trying to complain to the landlord who never shovels, but every time they call him, someone has shoveled the walk! “I do not see a problem,” he says, twirling his mustache.

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#8 Gwynn bang

It wouldn’t surprise me if the owners of the shovel conspired to hide it away and then wrote this letter, placing it out conspicuously for all of the other tenants to see in an attempt to enforce the responsibility of the yard up keep onto everyone now that the shovel has been “stolen”

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#9 pry

i’m betting these are the same “young people” who don’t ever shut the door. who raised these young folks?

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#9.1 secondsout

Old folks. These old people have nobody to blame but themselves.

Mar 26, 2008 at 7:46 pm rating: 1

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#10 tlyzer bang

If the wife was so concerned about her husband and his bad back, she should get off her polite ass and help out instead of writing letters to Miss Manners.

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#10.1 noah

furreal!

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#11 Gwynn bang

If these are the kind of manners and etiquette that Jerk has, I would say his mother named him appropriately.

Mar 26, 2008 at 6:56 pm rating: 3 small thumbs up

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#11.1 Canthz_B

A lazy only a mother could love! LOL

♥ Gwynn ♥

Mar 27, 2008 at 12:37 am rating: 1

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#12 Anono

That damn 5 headed, triflin, shovel stealin SOB!!!

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#13 Suhayla

What a shitty year for someone to steal the shovel. Maybe the guy stole it because he saw that they (like so many others in Toronto) weren’t actually using it, and figured he could put it to better use in his efforts to navegate this treacherous, unshovelled hinterland.

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#14 Gwynn bang

What happened to the window in the background ? Did something fall ? I certainly wouldn’t take a picture of my house if the window looked like that.

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#14.1 Suhayla

It’s a reflection. Of the house accross the street. And a small tree.

Mar 26, 2008 at 7:11 pm rating: 0

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#15 Gwynn bang

Oh, I see that now but at first it looked to me like the curtain and the rod fell down exposing the blinds behind it.

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#16 memememe

It’s also worth mentioning, that as healthy young tenants, they possibly don’t notice that the walk “needs shovelling” because it’s easy to manage. What I consider a clean walk when I’m healthy and what I consider a clean walk when I’m in pain are very very different.

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#16.1 TuesdayPillow

Quite, quite.

I am wont to trudge through the snow and put up with slushy parking lots. However, were I not so young and sprightly, perhaps I would think to clear the walk.

My suggestion for the lovely couple? Buy your own property.

Mar 27, 2008 at 1:16 am rating: 1

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#17 amazon bang

Team Move to a Warmer Climate! Shouldn’t all old people be in Florida, anyways?

Mar 26, 2008 at 7:45 pm rating: 3 small thumbs up

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#17.1 TuesdayPillow

All old people live in my basement.

Want to buy one?

Mar 27, 2008 at 1:17 am rating: 0

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#18 Rachel (your girlfriend, idiot)

This is a message for bamBAM, so please disregard this if you are not him, here goes:

Look, david, youre being real immature by not answering your phone or emails, so maybe you’ll read this at least. I’m sorry. I pressured you into something you didn’t want to do, and I’m sorry. I wasn’t trying to be a bitch, I just thought that cause of your reply to that question, you didn’t love me. I’m sorry, I just was feeling pretty awful, and I didn’t mean my words to hurt you or our relationship. I just really need some closure here, I understand if you never wanna talk to me again, but the David I know isn’t that stupid. I’m really really sorry.

Rachel

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#18.1 Wade

Rachel, dear.

I just want to make you aware of a few things.

You do have a few minutes to rethink your post and modify it, before it becomes a permanent part of cyberspace.

Your apology may come across a little mixed, considering the name you signed in with.

I’m not sure this particular post is going to get the response you are aiming for.

Why am I commenting? Because you have done the equivalent of posting a note on a community bulletin board.

Mar 26, 2008 at 8:05 pm rating: 3
#18.2 Rachel (your girlfriend, idiot)

Sorry about that, I just know this is a site he checks a lot and is constantly talking about the comments, so I am hoping he’ll at least read this this.

Mar 26, 2008 at 8:09 pm rating: 1
#18.3 Wade

That’s OK, sweetie.

Now make a snarky comment about people who steal snow shovels.

It will make you feel better.

Mar 26, 2008 at 8:11 pm rating: 0
#18.4 Suhayla

I’m sure he’ll be really glad that you’re posting that note here.

Don’t apologize to us… But I think it would have been more effective for you to write the note out physically, post it at his workplace, and then take a picture of it and the comments that it garners from his co-workers and then send it in here for us to comment on. But this works too.

Mar 26, 2008 at 8:16 pm rating: 8
#18.5 Rachel (your girlfriend, idiot)

Well, he hasn’t a workplace, and I don’t wanna embarrass him any more than I already have. I hate people who steal shovels. Good enough??

Mar 26, 2008 at 8:19 pm rating: 1
#18.6 Gwynn

Well if you dont wish to embarrass him anymore than you have Rachel, you might concider the name you signed in with Rachel (your girlfriend, idiot). I hope you two can work things out.

Mar 26, 2008 at 8:31 pm rating: 0
#18.7 Rachel (your girlfriend, idiot)

I mean that in the folllowing way:

David, youre an idiot if you don’t accept my apology, and I am an even bigger idiot for not listening to you. And I probably shouldn’t have shown your actual name on the Internet, but if anything happens, blame me.

Mar 26, 2008 at 8:40 pm rating: 1
#18.8 amy d

Hi bamBam

Too subtle? Ok, bamBam is masquerading as his girlfriend in these posts.

Better?

Mar 26, 2008 at 8:52 pm rating: 8
#18.9 Canthz_B

Oh, dear! This would be so distressing,
heart-wrenching even …if it had a germ of truth attached.
Begone, troll!!!

Mar 27, 2008 at 12:51 am rating: 4
#18.10 Mishee

Then why did you change your myspace status to “Single”, Rachel? That’s like, the definitive moment if Mr. Mishee (funny, he’s a David, too) did that to me, I would be a little confused and hurt myself…

But I guess when you have an invisible girlfriend, it’s harder to read her mind?

Mar 27, 2008 at 7:15 am rating: 1
#18.11 claw71

Don’t waste your time with him, Rachel…I’ll accept your apology and I’ve got an albino python.

Mar 27, 2008 at 7:23 am rating: 4
#18.12 Brian

He doesn’t have a job and he’s still ducking you. What’s wrong with you? Well, other than the unhealthy obsession and that you probably have a bit of a stalker streak in you.

Mar 27, 2008 at 8:09 am rating: 1
#18.13 unholyghost2003

Oh Rachel, you silly little thing! Go tie one on with your girlfriends and move on! If he wants you back (and assuming YOU want HIM back at that point) then it will work out. College romance is a pressure cooker, give yourself a little distance.

Funny how Rachel seems to be navigating the “reply to this thread” function whilst bB is struggling with that concept.

anywho,

Note 2 people, invest in a snowblower, those fuckers are so heavy that theft becomes less of an issue and your elderly neighbs will thank you!

Mar 27, 2008 at 9:20 am rating: 0

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#19 bamBAM!! bang

Doesanyone know why the above comments came up on My blog log??

Mar 26, 2008 at 9:04 pm rating: 1 small thumbs up

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#19.1 Crash

Ummm…ya’, I think you do too…could be a couple reasons though…

Mar 26, 2008 at 9:47 pm rating: 0
#19.2 Sue Do Nim

Hmmm..I wonder. Do comments about you show up on your blog log? Or replies to your posts?

Mar 27, 2008 at 2:39 pm rating: 0
#19.3 unholyghost2003

actually all comments made by people who are your friends on bloglog show up on your bloglog, as long as they are logged in. It doesn’t matter who or what they are responding to or what they are talking about.

Mar 27, 2008 at 2:43 pm rating: 0
#19.4 Sue Do Nim

ty, uhg. guess if i had any friends and/or a bloglog, i would’ve known that.

Mar 27, 2008 at 3:25 pm rating: 1

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#20 bamBAM!! bang

How long was I logged in?? I got some sort of email about folow up comments, but my laptop died, so I was kinda freakin out that someone posted something…

Mar 26, 2008 at 9:07 pm rating: 1 small thumbs up

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#20.1 Sue Do Nim

I give up? How long were you logged in?

Mar 27, 2008 at 2:47 pm rating: 0

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#21 known unknown

*scrolls through comments*

wha? oh LOL!!!

*dies laughing*

Mar 26, 2008 at 9:56 pm rating: 4 small thumbs up

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#21.1 anglophile

Now, that’s a shame. I was enjoying your sarcastic wit. RIP, known unknown.

Mar 26, 2008 at 9:58 pm rating: 4

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#22 known unknown bang

::known unknown’s ghost::

ha!

I’ve never seen a couple sort themselves out in the comment section of a blog before, my heart was just not prepared.

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#22.1 Canthz_B

Are we in for another round of “ghosts”?

Mar 27, 2008 at 12:55 am rating: 1
#22.2 known unknown

Oh dear, “another” round?

Do people often come into this section and air out their significant others?

I’ll have to notify some of the voices in my head so I can play too…

Mar 27, 2008 at 1:14 am rating: 3
#22.3 park rose

Well the ‘ghosts’ are in for another round, CB.

#33 and #34

Mar 27, 2008 at 8:58 am rating: 1

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#23 bamBAM!! bang

I apologize to all you innocent bystanders of this mess. Its all sorted out now, and hope everyone had a good hearty laugh. Well, I guess I’ll go sit in a closet and die of embarrassment, now. Thanx, all.

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#23.1 RALPHY

Hey bB–you can’t run off like that and leave us hanging like this and wondering what she talked you into and shouldn’t have! Give us a break and spill the the beans, will ya.

Mar 26, 2008 at 10:38 pm rating: 1

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#24 known unknown bang

Don’t let me embarrass you, Bam.

If it makes you feel any better, I spent all day yesterday with toothpaste in my hair. It was a big crusty beacon on the side of my face and no one told me.

You’ve got relationship issues, I’ve got a staff and four so-called friends that let me walk around looking like a busy hooker.

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#24.1 morpho aurora

Mar 26, 2008 at 10:42 pm rating: 3
#24.2 Canthz_B

ROTFLMAO!!!

Mar 27, 2008 at 10:54 am rating: 1

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#25 morpho aurora bang

buy another snow shovel, paint it a really obnoxious gaudy color and draw pink penises on it. this may not prevent theft, but at least you’ll know who stole it.

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#25.1 RALPHY

Brillant! Really! But shouldn’t the penises be baby blue?

Mar 26, 2008 at 10:43 pm rating: 1
#25.2 morpho aurora

well i guess if you really wanted to you could paint yours blue – but that might make your social life a little difficult

Mar 26, 2008 at 10:46 pm rating: 3
#25.3 park rose

because flashers are the obvious suspects when stealing snow shovels, or to put it in legal jargon – those who like to expose themselves in snowy climes?

Mar 26, 2008 at 10:47 pm rating: 3
#25.4 anglophile

Of course, if that’s the route you want to go, you’re going to need some of this.

Mar 26, 2008 at 10:57 pm rating: 5
#25.5 morpho aurora

what would a flasher need with a snow shovel,anyways? i mean really in that kinda cold he could probably get away with a little kid’s sand shovel if he suddenly changed his mind about sharing his assets with the public.

Mar 26, 2008 at 11:05 pm rating: 3
#25.6 park rose

overcompensation?

Mar 27, 2008 at 1:42 am rating: 1
#25.7 Heidi

hahahahaah sweet!! That could work for alpt of things!!! Good tip!

Mar 27, 2008 at 1:41 pm rating: 1

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#26 known unknown bang

“Dick Paint”

*shrieks*

But honestly, I intend to draw penises on everything I don’t want stolen. Does Dick Paint come in metallics? Or puffy paint?

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#26.1 bob wong

Oh yeah, puffy paint would definitely be the way to go! Then you could make the penises (penii?) stand out in bas relief.

Mar 27, 2008 at 5:36 am rating: 2
#26.2 RALPHY

Or you could go way beyond puffy and add a bit of viagra and have them really stand out.

Mar 27, 2008 at 6:00 am rating: 1

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#27 Dick Harden

Hey, why are you guys talkin’ about me?

Mar 27, 2008 at 6:26 am rating: 1 small thumbs up

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#28 Mishee bang

Wow, this note makes me miss Team Cass… whatever happened to her??

Mar 27, 2008 at 7:11 am rating: 3 small thumbs up

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#29 claw71 bang

Dear Jerk,

If you’re going to screw my wife you could at least buy her some jewelry!

Mar 27, 2008 at 7:19 am rating: 5 small thumbs up

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#29.1 amy d

Or wear a condom to avoid the disgusting sloppy seconds syndrome.

Mar 27, 2008 at 8:44 am rating: 1
#29.2 posty

reminds me of this:
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/oma/581897835.html

Mar 28, 2008 at 11:01 am rating: 0

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#30 treb

Where I come from, that’s the duty of the landlord/leasing agent. I would NEVER shovel the walk…but I’m young and agile, therefore the liklihood of falling on my ass is slimmer than that of the old folks, I guess.

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#31 GhostWriter bang

errata: Portland forgot to mention that her husband is, in fact, the landlord, the steps lead only to their apartment, and no tenants are allowed to park in the lot.

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#32 claw71 bang

I don’t know about the rest of you but where I come from things left out in the open tend to disappear pretty quickly. And if we’re being honest the builind in the picture looks like it’s probably in a marginal neighborhood.

In the future shake the snow shovel off and put it in the closet.

Team You Were Asking For It.

Mar 27, 2008 at 8:33 am rating: 1 small thumbs up

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#33 Shanikqua, your idiot wife

This is a message for GhostWriter, so please disregard this if you are not him, here goes:

Look, David, you’re being real immature by not doing anything- and I mean work, school, eating, sleeping, personal hygiene, or paying me any attention, except for your obsessing over the Passive-Aggressive Notes website, so maybe you’ll read this note at least. I’m sorry. I pressured you into a marriage you didn’t want, couldn’t handle, and I’m sorry. I was an idiot to think that there could be anything as important in your life as PAN. I’m sorry, I just was feeling pretty awful and neglected, and I didn’t mean for my punches, roundhouse kicks, eye gouges, full nelsons, and choke holds to hurt you or our relationship. I just really need some forgiveness here, I understand if you never wanna talk to me again, given that at the moment your jaw is pinned and wired shut, but the David I know isn’t that stupid. I’m sure you don’t want to risk another “incident” like last evening…

- Shanikqua

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#34 GhostWriter bang

If the previous shovel-owners had been watching close, they’d have noticed that I did do their walk.

It’s sort of a Irish version of the “electric slide”.

PS: Shanikqua, not in front of the kids…

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#35 Georgia native

What is the white stuff on the ground in the picture? And what does a shovel have to do with a walk?

Mar 27, 2008 at 9:25 am rating: 5 small thumbs up

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#35.1 Mishee

Georgia, I myself was wondering the same thing… I mean, I’ve heard stories of this thing called “Snow” but do have to admit it mystifies me just a little…

Mar 27, 2008 at 9:31 am rating: 1
#35.2 unholyghost2003

Oh! you ladies don’t know what you are missing! If you have a secure area, it is called a “walk OUT” freezer! Having a house party and don’t know where to put the keg? Try that snow bank! Just be sure the landlady doesn’t think your leftover Christmas turkey is garbage and send you a PA note!

Mar 27, 2008 at 9:34 am rating: 3
#35.3 Mishee

I’d rather go to the beach for my Christmas dinner… thank you very much, but you can keep your cold, wet, icy stuff where the hell it belongs – meaning NOT in the Bay Area!

Mar 27, 2008 at 9:43 am rating: 0
#35.4 unholyghost2003

hee hee, when I was living in CA that was the hardest thing to deal with. We threw a party and the question came up, where to put the ice and beer to keep it cold? It was November and my northern instincts took over w/o engaging my brain and I said “On the porch!” … ummm no. Not when it is 75º

Mar 27, 2008 at 9:48 am rating: 0

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#36 claw71 bang

Dear Stupid Old People:

Stop whining. You’re supposed to be the Greatest Generation. What’s so great about you if you can’t shovel your own damned drive way?

By the way, Depends are disposable diapers. Stop rinsing them off and hanging them outside to dry. Was that your plan all along? Fight a World War, crank out 30 years at the mill, retire and shit yourself all day?

And stop laughing you draft-dodging baby boomers… If you think Generation X has the work ethic to carry this economy through your golden years you’ve got another think coming. Better practice those burrito folding skills and learn a few words in Spanish so the manager at Chipotle can boss you around.

Soylent Green is made of people….old people. MMMMM.

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#36.1 Mishee

Mmmmm, I think I will have to find a Chipotle around here for lunch today, you just HAD to go and mention them, didn’t you claw???

Mar 27, 2008 at 10:03 am rating: 0

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#37 claw71 bang

And because the Rachel Drama was too hard to ignore:

To the tune of Joey by Concrete Blonde:

David, baby this sounds crazy
Email, instant message I have a question
Why won’t you even answer me
You act like you are three
So I watch you post notes right here with glee
I tried to apologize
But you’re hanging with the guys
with a user name I don’t even recognize
David you seem angry please say why.

David, honey I boiled your bunny
Be unforgiving I’ll find your log in
I’ll post a message on this site
and it will give you such a fright
and other posters will take such delight
maybe I’ll sleep with claw
and he’ll screw me until I’m raw
and that albino python will dislocate my jaw

David I don’t need you go get lost.

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#37.1 Lurker

“low” and behold?

Mar 28, 2008 at 10:41 am rating: 0

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#38 jenH

Hey that’s our house!!! For the full story check out my partner’s blog: http://prolificcynic.blogspot.com/2008/03/tale-with-happy-ending.html

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#38.1 amy d

Thanks for the backstory! And the conclusion…would that be the frontstory?

Mar 27, 2008 at 10:29 am rating: 0
#38.2 unholyghost2003

awww it was nice for them to shovel your walk (unless of course they were the shovel thieves and were trying to ease their guilt) I think the PA note gets half a pass since it wasn’t really a PA note directed at the thieves, but an attempt to head of PA neighb angst at the pass.

Mar 27, 2008 at 10:36 am rating: 0
#38.3 Sundance

I was thinking the same thing as I read the story. My first thought was that the note was pretty aggressive. Then I read that the reason for it was to let the neighbors know why he hadn’t shoveled, and I thought it was really P/A.

Mar 27, 2008 at 11:36 am rating: 1
#38.4 Balti

It was totally the thief. He was just following instructions.

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#39 GhostWriter bang

With regards to shoveling, why not sing about it with Alabama…

If you’re gonna steal our shovel, you oughtta clear the middle of our path.
To steal it from our lot is not fair use; be honest, man!
You stole from our alcove, in waist-high snow, and left us mad
If you’re gonna steal our shovel, you oughtta clear the middle of our path.

I remember up in London we were gettin’ lots of snow
When a prowler on the back stoop up and grabbed our galvanized trowel
Granted, we love where we’re livin’, thieves don’t hit us much
Now there’s somethin’ missin’ from our porch.

If you’re gonna steal our shovel, you oughtta clear the middle of our path.
To steal it from our lot is not fair use; be honest, man!
You stole from our alcove, in waist-high snow, and left us mad
If you’re gonna steal our shovel, you oughtta clear the middle of our path.

Sadly donning our snow boots, to go to Subway up the street
Then Lester spied the proof- we just hoped it was misplaced
Betchya you’d love our tool chest- since ya wanna poach our tools
Well, clear a little walk before you go.

If you’re gonna steal our shovel…

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#40 fantasy bang

…..But where do all the snow shovels go? Every

year there are so many people lined up at Wal

Mart to buy a new shovel?? I always wonder

what happens with all the shovels,rakes, garden

funiture all kinds of stuff where does it all go?

Mar 27, 2008 at 3:39 pm rating: 2 small thumbs up

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#40.1 unholyghost2003

at my house they are chewed by over exuberant dogs

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#41 Freelance Guru

Who in their right mind steals a shovel!

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#41.1 noizangel

It happened to me! And they left a crappy shovel behind!

It was an epidemic apparently.

Mar 28, 2008 at 11:47 pm rating: 0

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#42 Olivia bang

God forbid the lazy-ass wife gets off her duff and shovels the snow herself.

Mar 28, 2008 at 6:43 am rating: 0 small thumbs up

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#43 Don

I saw a sign over a snowbank at the head of the driveway at an elderly couples’ house this winter.
With an image of a shovel it said, “Free Snow, Shovel all you want.”
(I should’ve taken a picture).

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#44 sfbeyiamw nohzdug