The new manager invited us all to a 3 hour “social hour” so he could get to know us. Snacks and beverages provided.
Well, I take a lot of naps on the weekends, but I did manage to get up and stagger over there for the last half hour.
Haha. That poor man (new manager). Everybody that was still hanging out there was there to bitch and moan about their neighbors.
One woman said “so our neighbors had this pool party (aboveground blowup pool) and she said they had all kinds of fantasy lights strung all over and they made SO MUCH NOISE — they were out there for HOURS”. Her husband says “now honey, that was three years ago, and they haven’t done it since”. She’s like, WELL STILL, I just couldn’t sleep a wink my bedroom window is right next to all that”. OK. I guess being all pissed off because your neighbors had a noisy party three years ago is a legit reason to bitch haha. But then if you feel that way, don’t live in a trailer court. She also pointed at a Hispanic family being kind of shy and hanging back in the room, going “do they speak English? I’d go over and say hello, but I’m just SO AFRAID.” Jesus. I went over and said hello myself and we had a nice chat. Them in broken English and me in broken Spanish. haha.
The new manager seems like a very nice laid-back guy, he listened very patiently to all this bitching and I had to remind myself that he’s been here for three hours now — I’ve been here for 15 minutes and I already can’t stand these people.
So this crazy-lady type person says “what are you going to do about the STRAY ANIMAL PROBLEM” He says what stray animal problem. She says you know all those stray animals roaming around the court. My friend had a stray cat come up on her porch and ATTACK her. OMG. Well I turned my back on her and said very low “I call bullshit on that”. He kinda rolled his eyes, said yeah I do too. What probably happened was the old witch went out and tried to bash the kitty with her broom haha.
I DID ask the guy, because Dad wanted to know, are you going to allow dogs in the court now? He said no, the current owners were kind of glad it was a no-dogs park, because of the liability involved. I said you mean pooping or biting? He sez biting — it seems that on their other properties where dogs are allowed, people immediately get big man-eating dogs. haha. well of course they do. Their other properties are in FLORIDA. Redneck city. And I know because I lived there. That’s the place where they had race riots at my high school, instigated by local rednecks. So, once again, Trump supporters ruin it for everybody. They WILL allow service dogs, though.
So I said “so, the NO TOTO sign at the back entrance will stay up?” He laughed. I must explain. At the back entrance to the trailer court is a sign like a stop sign with a little cute toto-dog picture with a big circle and a slash through it. He thought that was pretty funny. He actually kinda glommed on to me as being the only person there who wasn’t there to bitch about everything.
It was — interesting.
Happy Sunday, everybody.