Off My Lawn!

Laziness or lack of ambition is not specific to any age group.

I am constantly surrounded by young adults as the kids keep dragging them home, thankfully. I am fortunate in that mine are not lazy and have ambitions and they have surrounded themselves with like minded friends. That does make a difference as peer pressure does have influence.

While feeling that I am fortunate I also know that they have been raised to contribute and the expectation has always been that when something needs to be done, it is.

I grow weary of old farts, like me, who are negative about the youth of today. If not supported, encouraged and praised for the good that they do, there is not much to aspire to. There is a time to mentor which is more productive than to find fault.

 

I was hoping this thread would really be about young folks walking through your lawn because I've had a real problem with that lately. I live on a corner lot and people will use my yard as a cut through from one road to the other. I dont really care if they cut through the outside perimeter but I've caught a few people walking from one end of the driveway to the other - my driveway goes all the way from one road to the other with a carport right in the front of the house and ill look out the window sometimes to see some little shit walking through the carport, right in front of my living room window. It really pisses me off, its so disrespectful. Like, wtf? Why would anyone think its ok to do this?

 

Come on scratcho, I to hoping this thread was about you chasing kids off your property with an A5 Stalker shotgun


Hotwater

 

I grew up with communist parents. My dad said he did not believe in the Protestant work ethic and my mum thought that procrastination was virtuous.I had to make painful changes since leaving home to survive and sound is difficult to have them living with me.

 

There are studs and duds in every age group.

But lets be honest - roofing is a young man's game. I've yet to meet the roofer over 40 who's back wasn't a tirefire.

 

a big pile of turd showed up on the lawn yesterday

im not sure if its bear turd...really big dog turd...or human turd (its pretty black though so im leaning towards bear)

i need another camera for that area

 

all kinds of turd show up here.

 

Yeah, I busted a spinal disc on the roof. (laugh a minute,that.) Fell 4 times. Beautiful swan dive about 15 feet down. Ok though--landed on my face. NEEDLE and stitches under my nose.. (OUCH!)Another one, I was carrying a bundle of comp up a two piece wooden ladder off a deck-OVER a hole that went beneath the house. Ladder collapsed---I and the comp hit the ground below the deck. Then-----ahhh that's enough. Probably scaring anyone off that wants a job in the roofing trade.

They say prostitution is the oldest trade--------nope. Roofing is. No one ever grabs a prostitute, raises them overhead to shield themselves from the weather.

This falls under --old man talking old stuff. Oh well.

 

Thought I'd add this in order for others to gauge the size of my plums when confronted with a job no one else would do.

Imagine a house that goes up two stories. Imagine that the roof is huge and continues on up in a 12 and 12 pitch above the eave line. Has wood shakes . Now imagine a 40 foot ladder --FULLY extended to the top rung of the bottom half. With me? Now imagine a man on TOP of the very last rung on the top section. In addition, imagine that man power washing the shake roof standing on the aforementioned rung. Got it? OK, you can stop imagining all that now-----because that dum---I mean, man was me. I got 'er done and made the local paper with the headline----LOCAL MAN GETS HIGH ON THE JOB. I got me some plums 'er what?

 

You're onto something there. Survival enthusiasts say shelter is the first thing on the list. You die quicker from exposure and hypothermia than thirst or hunger. And anyway, you'd want a nice dry place to take the girl to......nobody wants a leaky roof raining on their moment of orgasm. Esp.if they're paying.

 

The moral to this story is make sure your ladder doesn't collapse when you're on it. :sunny: