Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Open Salon, May 2009, Apartment Humor

MAY 22, 2009 2:51PM

Common Sense for Dummies

Rate: 8
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The pramulator by John Knott
 Kudos to the woman in flip flops, literally dragging a stroller, running to beat me to the door of  the apartment complex gym this morning.   Nothing like showing up at a crowded gym with a stroller the size of an SUV, a screaming toddler and hogging two pieces of equipment - one for you and your flip flops and the other to anchor the giant SUV stroller.  
Unless you have special hearing issues, I also have news for you.  Everyone wearing headsets watching their TV monitors could hear the kid screaming.  And how cute was that when you took the kid out of the stroller so that he could sit in your lap on the only recumbent bike in the room just to barf all over it as you peddled.  Did I mention flip flops?   Sorry about the barf inbetween your toes.  I do you hope you were able to clean it all up, but since I made a hasty exit, I guess I won't ever know.   And don't worry.  I won't be back for a while.  You don't have to race me to the door!  It is all yours.


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Paw Paw the Chow, from Martha Stewart.Com
 
And to the woman, the teeny tiny 80 pound soaking wet woman, with the 85 pound Chow:  WTF?   Walking the dog back and forth in front of the gym window, all 15 feet of it is not walking the dog.  And it doesn't help that you use a flexi -lead whcih lets the dog walk you.   Oh wait.  Perhaps you were getting your running laps in catching up to the dog who thought it would be funny to watch you chase him back and forth?  Guess what?  You can reel in the lead and even lock it down!  

And why does that dog like to chase people?  You did see him when the door closed in his face as he was trying to reach my derriere the other day?  Yes?  No.  Perhaps not, because when I turned around safe on the other side of the glass to see why a dog wanted a piece of my rear, I couldn't see you because you were still on the other end of the flex-lead half way to San Francisco.   Did you ever catch up to him?

And, again, walking from the gym to the outside of our building which is another 15 feet does not mean you walked him.  And neither does standing in the doorway with the dog on the flexi-lead walking himself down the block terrorizing the other dogs.  But since you were about 26 feet behind him, I don't think you noticed.   Someone has been watching a little too much Martha Stewart if you think a Chow is a good dog to have without training it, especially in an apartment complex full of other smaller dogs and children.

Next time, don't be surprised if when I walk by you while you are attached to that damn flexi lead that I don't whip out my scissors and cut the thing down to a 6 foot lead so that the dog at least walks you properly.   And I don't know if you noticed, but all the apartments come with facilities.  You don't need to get walked at all.   That dog is another story.

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 To the person who takes their small pocket dog out near Lulu and Phoebe's favorite spot, I am happy to lend you, heck, even gift you, however many poopy bags you want.  If you would only pick up your dog's poop, it sure would help.   It doesn't matter that your dog is 2 pounds and the poop looks like mini-mini tootsie rolls.  It is still dog poop in a public area, and smells just the same on the bottom of my shoe.  Perhaps reading glasses might help?


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And to you, the person with the 400 pound gorilla dog.  Really?  Do you think no one notices that dog when it poops?  The cars driving by at 40MPH notice!   You can see that poop from the 10th floor!  You could build houses with it, fuel a jet plane, and warm a house for the entire winter with one pile!   I am happy to go over to Safeway and buy you the heavy weight 30 gallon trash bags if you would only use them to pick up the poop! 



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perfect endings cupcakes looking perfect
 
There is no good segue for this, but to the people who make Perfect Endings Cupcakes:  Cover the damn cupcakes with something other than a cardboard box when you ship them with dry ice!   Did you think the dry ice evaporates into thin air?   Well, yes it does.  Eventually.  But before that happens it usually gets smashed into tiny pea sized pieces from the rigor of shipping and guess where those little pieces go?   Yes, indeed.  Right into the cupcake box which is not sealed.  I love me some dry ice remains with my cupcakes that cost $59 for 9 freaking cupcakes, never mind the $25 shipping!   
This is our third order from you.  The first was sublime including packaging.   The second was also pretty good, although I gave most of them away.  And this one?  I could have walked over to  Safeway and purchased an almost equally good cupcake for a fraction of the cost.  What happened?   And why didn't you mention on your website that you became extraordinary?  I wouldn't have wasted my money on so much dry ice because, you know, it just evaporates after it turns into little pea pellets.  

Perhaps I should bring some cupcakes to the gym? But I might save one for the Chow. site stats


Comments

lulu, i think you need a vacation, or a tenants meeting, or both.

and we need some more luluandphoebe pics.

as for the 85 dollar cupcakes.... that might be a message from the universe, that no cupcake is worth ten dollars a pop.
You paid almost $10 for a freaking CUPCAKE?!?!?!?
So many oblivious people who are unaware/uncaring that they share the world with others!
yes, indeed I paid that much for a cupcake. not that I am crazy or anything, but if I am going to develop recipes that are good, and better than some of the good stuff out there, I gotta taste them once in a while. but these kind of went downhill which is too bad. but I could have done without the dry ice.

Yep, Jane - a vacation would be splendid. I suspect some of these people are new to the place. They will learn. I hope.

Leeandra - you should see what I pay for chocolate sometimes.....(head hanging down). : )
I didn't know you'd moved into our complex! We certainly have more than our fair share of whackadoos and horrible pet owners here as well.

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