~* October '06 Roll Call *~- Pushy?? Me??

[Guest guest]

Ha! I've had the same problem. I mention I'm a vegetarian and I get a nice taste

of the Spanish Inquisition. " Whaddaya eat, then?? " - Response- " Lettuce, and

that's about it. " " Well I just *hate* salad! " - response- " You'd make one sh***y

rabbit. " " I could never be a vegetarian! " - response- " Happy chemo. " " Doesn't

this meat look goooooood? " - response- " Not as good as this tasty piece of

tinfoil. " Drives me nuts. Comments like that, coming from a meat-eater, will

make a room full of people chuckle. Similar comments, coming from a vegetarian,

will make a room full of normally good-tempered people rack their brains trying

to remember where they put their pitchforks and lynching equipment. My shriveled

4-foot-nothing grandmother will cook up a big meatloaf even after I've told her

she can help her osteoporosis by cutting meat out of her diet. My dad will tear

into a steak with great joy immediately after swallowing his blood pressure

medicine. I've got an uncle who's got mental

illness out the wazoo and won't switch to a vegetarian diet even though it's an

easy way to lessen the effects of depression. Why in the heck are we criticized

for being " pushy? " We're not the ones killing ourselves!

 

Kadee Sedtal, who is on her fourth *very* strong rum and Coke and has chosen to

go into " angry drunk " mode tonight... reason unknown, though it could have

something to do with the neighbor offering to weed my flower bed.

 

zainypagan wrote:

In a message dated 10/6/2006 5:31:18 PM Central Standard Time,

glpveg4life writes:

 

HI PT

 

That is funny that you say people tell you vegetarians come of as pushy and

preachy. I have had people come at me that way because I am vegetarian.

A long time ago I was wearing a shirt that said vegetarians are earths best

friends and some guy tried to start an argument with me about it.

 

i agree, I think just saying we are vegetarian offends some of them. I have

had more meat eaters try to get me to eat what they do and then anything in

reverse. I think the one's that call us pushy are really just making most of

it up.

 

[Guest guest]

I used to tell one person to stop as I am not insisting they eat my food and

I don't care what they eat. If they want to try what I am eating I am more

then happy to share but don't force your food on me.

 

I also kind of embarrassed the person once.

He said what are you having for dinner

I said sausage

He said what kind sweet, hot,

I said big.

 

He didn't bug me about what I ate for a while.

 

gayle

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Maybe he was being generouse with his time and trying to be caring. It also

may be because the weedy look on one person's flower beds in a neighborhood

really stands out and affects the beauty of the whole neighborhood for everyone

out walking by enjoying nature or driving thru. In our last neighborhood, we

had a neighbor right near the entrance that eveyone drove in that had realy

weedy over grown " flower bed " and it just made you cringe and resent that

person and others who didn't try to keep the neighborhood look neat and nice.

It affects everyones home prices and being able to sell their home in the future

to know they aren't buying into a neighborhood that is going downhill. I'm just

trying to get you to see it from other perspective. Some folks don't realize

how not keeping up their lawn scaping affects others. The weather is really

nice for doing some outdoor yard work, which is what we are planning today.

 

-

Kadee M

 

Kadee Sedtal, who is on her fourth *very* strong rum and Coke and has chosen

to go into " angry drunk " mode tonight... reason unknown, though it could have

something to do with the neighbor offering to weed my flower bed.

 

 

.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Maybe he was being generouse with his time and trying to be caring. It also

may be because the weedy look on one person's flower beds in a neighborhood

really stands out and affects the beauty of the whole neighborhood for everyone

out walking by enjoying nature or driving thru.

 

Maybe the neighborhood can find something real to worry about. A few weeds

isnt going to hurt anyone and really some of those cloned, Stepford lawns are

boring and excessive water eaters.

And weeds are a necessary part of nature.

 

 

I'm just trying to get you to see it from other perspective.

 

I hardly think you have enough information from her one comment to be

telling her what you think she needs to hear.

 

 

Some folks don't realize how not keeping up their lawn scaping affects

others.

 

 

Some people have nothing better to do than to elect themselves the

neigbhorhood monitor/bully and nitpick what others do with their own property.

 

The weather is really nice for doing some outdoor yard work, which is what

we are planning today.

 

Enjoy it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 10/8/2006 10:43:59 AM Central Standard Time,

abbey_road3012 writes:

 

just a few weeds, while theirs is something out of a Martha Stewart show. I

certainly shouldn't be required to keep my yard absolutely perfect just to

please an overly picky neighbor.

 

Kadee Sedtal

 

 

 

No shouldnt, i have always wondered about these Yard Nazi's, some of them

need to find something else to do with their time.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

It's military housing, so property values aren't an issue... it's not like the

whole yard is overgrown, just a few weeds, and with two young children, dogs,

rodents, a husband, and a house to take care of I just don't have time to pull

weeds every time they come up. This neighbor of ours really doesn't like us, and

in addition to " offering " to weed she wanted us to move our kids' swing out of

the yard (definitely no eyesore) as well as my daughter's tricycle, which she

rides often. She's just snotty, that was the only reason, and it's not like our

house looks bad or anything, just a few weeds, while theirs is something out of

a Martha Stewart show. I certainly shouldn't be required to keep my yard

absolutely perfect just to please an overly picky neighbor.

 

Kadee Sedtal

 

wwjd <jtwigg wrote: Maybe he

was being generouse with his time and trying to be caring. It also may be

because the weedy look on one person's flower beds in a neighborhood really

stands out and affects the beauty of the whole neighborhood for everyone out

walking by enjoying nature or driving thru. In our last neighborhood, we had a

neighbor right near the entrance that eveyone drove in that had realy weedy

over grown " flower bed " and it just made you cringe and resent that person and

others who didn't try to keep the neighborhood look neat and nice. It affects

everyones home prices and being able to sell their home in the future to know

they aren't buying into a neighborhood that is going downhill. I'm just trying

to get you to see it from other perspective. Some folks don't realize how not

keeping up their lawn scaping affects others. The weather is really nice for

doing some outdoor yard work, which is what we

are planning today.

 

-

Kadee M

 

Kadee Sedtal, who is on her fourth *very* strong rum and Coke and has chosen to

go into " angry drunk " mode tonight... reason unknown, though it could have

something to do with the neighbor offering to weed my flower bed.

 

.

 

 

[Guest guest]

Well, honestly, another reason I don't want my weeds gone is because they have

these pretty purple flowers... I don't have the heart to hurt them! My daughter

loves picking them sometimes. They're nice weeds, really. And there aren't but a

few of them, and they're all in the flower bed. Maybe God knew I didn't have a

" green thumb " and planted something I couldn't kill.

 

Kadee Sedtal

 

zainypagan wrote: Maybe he was being

generouse with his time and trying to be caring. It also

may be because the weedy look on one person's flower beds in a neighborhood

really stands out and affects the beauty of the whole neighborhood for everyone

out walking by enjoying nature or driving thru.

 

Maybe the neighborhood can find something real to worry about. A few weeds

isnt going to hurt anyone and really some of those cloned, Stepford lawns are

boring and excessive water eaters.

And weeds are a necessary part of nature.

 

 

I'm just trying to get you to see it from other perspective.

 

I hardly think you have enough information from her one comment to be

telling her what you think she needs to hear.

 

 

Some folks don't realize how not keeping up their lawn scaping affects

others.

 

 

Some people have nothing better to do than to elect themselves the

neigbhorhood monitor/bully and nitpick what others do with their own property.

 

The weather is really nice for doing some outdoor yard work, which is what

we are planning today.

 

Enjoy it.

 

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 10/8/2006 1:24:06 PM Central Standard Time,

abbey_road3012 writes:

 

 

 

 

Well, honestly, another reason I don't want my weeds gone is because they

have these pretty purple flowers... I don't have the heart to hurt them! My

daughter loves picking them sometimes. They're nice weeds, really. And there

aren't but a few of them, and they're all in the flower bed. Maybe God knew I

didn't have a " green thumb " and planted something I couldn't kill.

 

Kadee Sedtal

 

 

 

 

 

Weeds carry medicinal properties and really shouldn't be considered bad

plants.

Those plain green lawns without trees are just so boring and ugly.