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Dave H (MI)

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I thought the people who sat texting at intersections after the light turned green were my number one pet peeve...and they probably are. Or it MIGHT have been the good natured yahoos who sit behind them until the light goes amber and don't honk their horns. Currently, I am musing over people who come out on the finest day in autumn and rake up a huge pile of leaves, set it afire but get bored when it turns into a smoking smudge...then disappear. Meanwhile every other person in the neighborhood is trying to work on a project in their own yard with clouds of smoke pouring across the property line. Sorry if you disagree, but it is just plain rude.
 
I'm with you. How rude and thoughtless for someone to let their smoke drift over the property line. They ought to put up a fence. TDF
 
No worse than folks that mow their lawn Sunday afternoon when I am trying to take a nap. But I'm an early riser. I can get back at them :)
 
I'm with you Dave. I don't care for the smell of burning leaves and grass and all that either. Been too wet lately for any of that, so the last 2 days everyone and their cousin is trying to catch up. I don't do anything with my leaves. I cut my lawn and what does get chopped up with that are about the only ones to get any treatment. I can see where some people have to take care of the leaves, but thankfully my yard isn't one of those yards.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I don't know why people don't go when the light turns green either. It seams like it takes five seconds for the information from the eyes to reach the brain. Even when they aren't doing anything except staring at the light. Maybe I am just always in a hurry? Or just a impatient old codger. I guess that is what horns are for. Stan
 
We have somebody that burns trash, leaves, brush, whatever and won't even start it til just after dark so the smoke column won't be noticed. Smell lays in the valley all night.
 
I covered about two acres black with old horse manure yesterday and today. Neighbors across the road came home from church and promptly drove out.
I bet they were wishing I was burning leaves. A neighbor the next place down must have liked what I was doing and donated two large loads of his horse manure on my field.
Dixie ask me if I had horse dung on my bibs a little bit ago. I said nope I left my coveralls out in the garage. With it on both sides of the house she'll get used to it. I disced the patch West of the house in just before dark. Might have regenerated the odor.
 
Forgot to say by double spreading I Probly destroyed my tractor tires. :)^D That tidbit was for long time readers.
 
I'm in the Houston area. IFFF you go immediately on green you run the risk of citidiots running the red lights and getting hit.
 
I actually sit at intersections with my hand on the horn waiting for the idjits to pull this stunt now. It is always someone texting and it happens on a daily basis. The one's I really like are those that jump half out of their skins when I lay on the horn. But one time, and one time only, I actually had a woman hold up one finger (as in "wait a minute" not the other thing, LOL) and then go on texting until she was finished.
 
Just crabby this evening! Installing a poly kit in the auger trough of my old IH corn head. It wasn't going well and the clouds of smoke weren't helping. Guy has been an otherwise good neighbor for most of 30 years so I can't give him a hard time. Soooo....I rant here. :)
 
An acquaintance was always a cheapskate. He didn't want to pay $25 to dispose of an old fiberglass boat, so he tried burning it. The thick black smoke blew straight into his neighbor's house that had the windows open. When the neighbor got home the house stunk of the smoke, so the neighbor called the fire department and the sheriff. The fire department put out the fire and fined him. The sheriff wrote a damage report. The neighbor sued for the cost to steam clean his house and his insurance company paid for the damages. That was just the way that guy did things.
 
In some places, if you wait 10 seconds, you will have to wait for the next green light. I know of a few intersections with lights like that.
 
Dave H. ME TOO! My wife sees me putting my hand on the horn when I see someone fiddling with their phone and starts "No, don't do it, don't do it!" I time it by looking at the light going the other way so the instant it changes, I'm on the horn. The idiot usually jumps but has no idea how long it's been green.
 
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