Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

[NYCfixie]

Re-engaging with the neighbors over their parking situation. They're on our property and believe they have an easement to be there. We do not share this belief, living as we do in the reality-based community.

We sat down last night, and confirmed the disagreement. I'm afraid the next stop involves lawyers.

Been through that. Updated land surveys are your friend. And the deed "should" show any easements.

It's a risk but you can always offer "the loser pays both attorney's fees" and see if they back down.

My last neighbors chose to push forward until their lawyer apparently said to them in front of our lawyer, "You will lose. You do not have an easement on their property. Actually, the Utilities have an easement on your property. Stop fighting or they (meaning me and my wife) might litigate for harassment and trespassing.


If I ever purchase property again, I will never purchase a home that has a driveway that abuts the neighbors driveway. Too many people (mostly visitors and service people) and the neighbors think it is a shared driveway.

Good luck. Fight the good fight.

[mmoore]

went to physio for the leg pain I described earlier in the thread.

Still hurts, but now I know what it is and how to treat it. femoral nerve is the culprit.

[ron l edmiston]

Re-engaging with the neighbors over their parking situation. They're on our property and believe they have an easement to be there. We do not share this belief, living as we do in the reality-based community.

We sat down last night, and confirmed the disagreement. I'm afraid the next stop involves lawyers.

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--same situation back in winter haven fl..
asked them to "wendy," show me the beef..
told me it was approved by our/their builder --- he passed away just after building our home..

being on the police board/commission, i had their cars towed..

solved, even though they never talked to us ---- no love lost as he thought he was "ramar of the jungle" with game heads mounted all over his home..
told tammy his head would be a "boone & crockett" 10 pointer mounted on our garage wall, if he repeated..

just smile my brother and stand your ground,

ronnie

[sparky33]

that guy who creates pointless work for everyone else even though everyone else doesn't work for him.

sliding that nonsense directly to the bin.

[donevwil]

Wife works her A off with little to no recognition from her under qualified boss who evidently has two sides, take credit for her work or belittle her in front of others. Wife asked me politely not to accompany her to her company picnic knowing full well boss-man was in my sights. Wife is a caring, kind, giving person who always sees the best in people and gives everyone the benefit of the doubt. Me, not so much!

I thought posting this vent would calm me down. Nope, still fuming.

[bigbill]

I got a call from a material supplier about some material we rejected about 10 days ago. Adhesive wouldn't stick to the material so we couldn't use it. It took 4-5 hours to figure out what was wrong because we never suspected that this material was bad. A lot of troubleshooting of the adhesive system, replacing every material but the one that ended up being the problem, and finally figuring out the bad material. On the call today, the supplier started out with "it took you 5 hours to figure out what was wrong?" I didn't take that well. I asked if they had a question I could answer. Silence on the phone for what seemed an eternity. Finally a different person spoke up and said "I think we all need to step back and think about this". I told them to schedule a teleconference and include their boss and I'll bring mine. We all work for the same company. They probably thought they were calling some 20 something engineer, not a 51 year old retired naval officer who doesn't respond well to people who try to bully their way through life. I had some coffee and toffee chip cookies to re-center myself.

[Nierman]

Whoa. First time unemployed since I was maybe 12. Gonna go ride my bike right now and count blessings.

[doomridesout]

Going in for a cardiac MRI tomorrow morning to see about an outside chance of instant death while I'm out pushing hard on the bike due to a congenital heart defect I have. It's the longest MRI protocol they do, which means nearly three hours 100% motionless in the claustrophobic tube. Adding to the fun is the fact that I've been getting very itchy lately and suspect I'm getting a case of ringworm from the dog sleeping in our bed. I also will have a lot of time to think about nuclear annihilation at the hands of orange soda Mussolini while I'm in there.

[defspace]

Working with people who cannot communicate effectively

[lumpy]

Re-engaging with the neighbors over their parking situation. They're on our property and believe they have an easement to be there. We do not share this belief, living as we do in the reality-based community.

We sat down last night, and confirmed the disagreement. I'm afraid the next stop involves lawyers.

You just bought this house, right? If you got an owners' title policy pull it out and take a look at the Exceptions (that's on schedule B). Grump: Still a lawyer.

[davids]

You just bought this house, right? If you got an owners' title policy pull it out and take a look at the Exceptions (that's on schedule B). Grump: Still a lawyer.

We're so on top of it.

We've not only got that (and were sure to buy our own Title Insurance in addition to our mortgager's policy) but a copious paper trail laying our our attempts to validate their claim of an easement and our ultimate conclusion that no such easement exists, and a P&S that requires the sellers to deliver the property free of anyone without an easement recorded with the deed.

...Off to meet with our new lawyer now!

[false_aesthetic]

One of my best friends is black/Native.
One of my best friends is dark skinned and looks Middle Eastern.
My mother is Hispanic.
My step father is Mexican.
My niece is 1/2 Iraqi, 1/4 Bolivian, 1/4 White.
My girlfriend is a woman.

They were already worried.
I was already worried.

No one should have to worry more.

[false_aesthetic]

ALSO HOLY FUCKING FUCK
Now Leonard Cohen is dead?

[murphy]

Late to the party, but my phone bricked itself last night (Thursday) so it counts. Have to send my phone in to LG to be repaired/replaced which would force me to be without a phone for about 2 weeks so I ended up having to buy another phone.

[j44ke]

We haven't had trash pick up all week, so now there are very large piles of garbage in front of every building. No one seems to know if there is a garbage strike or what. A garbage truck appeared on Wednesday evening and picked up garbage only at two buildings, so a management company may have hired a private contractor to take away the garbage. Not sure what's going on.

Election day was a holiday, and today is a holiday, but we still missed two pickups? And it is a holiday so no one is answer the phone at the city.

Also it has been non-stop sirens since the election. Cop cars don't just drive around any more it seems. And fire trucks every 30 minutes or so. WTF? Doesn't really allow the city to settle down much.

[defspace]

I'm at work on a Sunday. The stupid software keeps telling me I'm doing something wrong.

"Object reference not set to an instance of an object"

Whatever that means.

[Gummee]

Why is it that every time someone pulls out in front of you from a side street, they don't bother to actually get up to speed?

Is it incompetence?
Sheer ignorance?
Stupidity?
Not being able to judge speed?

Splain to me, Lucy.

...and this on little, country roads going from nowhere to nowhere!

M

[Britishbane]

Its been a while since I've had a legitimate grump:

Some asshole(s) got my SSN and have opened up some 10 credit cards in my name in the last week. No idea how they got my information, I'm pretty careful about that stuff in general. The whole process has been a total time suck and couldn't have happened at a worse time with a 3 week old at home, a 2 year old who is attempting to cope with the new addition, and school exams looming next week. I will be well pleased when this whole thing is in the past.

A hearty fuck you to thieves of all types.

[NYCfixie]

Why is it that every time someone pulls out in front of you from a side street, they don't bother to actually get up to speed?

Is it incompetence?
Sheer ignorance?
Stupidity?
Not being able to judge speed?

Splain to me, Lucy.

...and this on little, country roads going from nowhere to nowhere!

M

I can't. I can only add that it is as annoying when they do it in an urban area, go 2 blocks, and then pull off onto another side street.

[Tom]

Amateurs. The ones that do that, poke along until they come to a traffic light and then accelerate through to beat the red leaving you there through the light cycles are the ones that raise it to a better level.