The Joys Of Subdivision Living…
SO, I (and everyone on the block) got this letter in my mailbox last week.
If you can’t read it, here’s a bigger version in a .pdf format. Anyway, the short of it is that we all suck. Our neighborhood is terrible and we’re all a bunch of hoosiers. (By the way, ‘hoosier’ here in the Saint Louis area has a completely different meaning than the rest of country. Also, Ladue is the part of Saint Louis where the filthy rich people live.)
Firstly, the letter is unsigned. If you’re going to have the BALLS to come out with this letter, have the BALLS to sign your names, you cowards. Secondly, check your spelling and grammar before you go sending out letters. When you criticize me and you can’t make a proper sentence, you sound like a moron. Lastly, you don’t know me, you don’t know my schedule. Stop telling me how to live my life. I do my best on our yard and we have a couple problem areas. We may even be one of the houses specifically mentioned. But go screw yourself. Let me come see your perfect house and lawn and we’ll see what you got.
Oh wait. You didn’t sign your names. Cowards.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Wow. I like that last bit about asking people to MOVE ON!!!!! with 5 !!!!!
Do you live in St. Charles? For some reason this strikes me as a St. Charles letter.
On a more serious note, that’s ridiculous. Does your subdivision hold monthly meetings or anything to go to?
February 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I think they should move on if they aren’t happy with the way other people are in the neighborhood. Maybe they should move out to the country where they don’t have to see anything offensive because they are back up in the woods. If I remember correctly, you don’t have a subdivision committee or anything like that, so they can complain and baulk all they want. I couldn’t agree with you more about sending out a letter of complaint with so many blatant typos…they have to know people are just laughing at them instead of taking their concerns to heart. You will never win out a point by being condescending and critical and judgmental. Instead they could have written a nice note about everyone chipping in a little extra effort to clean up yards and such in an effort to restore property values and taking pride in your homes that you all work so hard to maintain…or something like that. Other than that, it’s no one’s business if someone needs to park their boat off to the side of their own driveway. Seriously.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:36 am
I say you give them the big finger by investing in a couple dozen pink flamingos, chaining a few mangy dogs up in the front yard and for bonus points, park a small trailer home in the driveway and invite the nudist colony over for week-night barbecues!
February 9th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
First, do you live in a neighborhood with a homeowners association and covenants?
Second, unless they are trying to sell their house or getting ready to sell their house, then who pee’d in their wheatys?
February 11th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Good grief. See why I hate people. Get a 6 foot by 6 foot poster of your naked ass and display it prominently in your front yard. Perhaps with the note, “Thanks for your letter”.