Countrymouse Posted November 2018
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Yeah. I am pretty bummed. My oldest daughter has been assaulted on the street. She was hurt, he pushed her down pretty hard onto the pavement and the guy took her purse. She didn’t have a lot of money it it but she was scared to death. The guy towered over her threatening to kill her. Thank God that she wasn’t hurt.
I am just so sick of all of this. My husband’s job is here. So, we can’t really move to another state right now.
It breaks my heart because there are so many things that I love about New Orleans but our police department and our politicians don’t seem to be able to control the violence in our neighborhoods.
My youngest daughter is already talking about moving back to Denver because it’s really disturbing to feel like a carjacking or being victim of a crime is going to happen.
Yes, it’s a pain to have to deal with cancellations of cards, getting a new license and all that stuff.
Not to mention that a lunatic now knows where you live. She had her keys in her pocket so he didn’t get her keys.
My grandfather was an artist for the print ads in the newspaper in NYC before they had computers to do that stuff. He always worked evening shift so he rode the subway 2 am to Penn station , then he took the next train back to Long Island to get home . Back in the 1970’s NYC was having bad crime , My grandfather was near retirement when he kept getting mugged . He retired at 70 years old . He got mugged a bunch of times waiting for the train in the subway platform . He always carried at least $100 in cash because if the mugger looked in the wallet and it was less they would punch him. If there was at least $100. They left with the cash and didn’t hit him .
Isn’t it sad? I wish that your grandfather would have been able to feel safe when traveling home from his job. It’s so stressful to live in a city where there is a high volume of crime.
It’s so bad here now, if a woman is attacked the police have said that it won’t be a priority. My Lord, I can’t make sense of this situation anymore.
You and me both! It is truly sickening. Our politicians have always been colorful! Hahaha, that is a polite way to put it. I’m sure that you can read between the lines and know what I mean.
Look up our mayor and you will see that she is not popular or well respected in our city. There were tons of signatures to get her removed but nothing happened. Not enough signatures were collected for the recall.
PeggySue - you mean set up a backup account? I just made my avatar the same for both accounts to be more recognizable. Really glitches get fixed pretty quickly so I don't see that I will need the backup much.
Honestly, it is getting so bad that I don’t think anything is a top priority for the police. Their morale is in the toilet at this point. There are neighborhoods that they won’t even show up at all!
Here’s the thing though, crime is happening in areas where it never happened before on a regular basis.
So, we have really beautiful neighborhoods like our garden district (uptown) but just a couple of blocks away are some really sketchy neighborhoods.
Other areas like Lakeview, another nice area of the city that didn’t normally deal with high crime levels is now seeing a lot of carjackings and robberies.
I am waiting for something to happen at our jazz festival. I have been going to the festival since the very first year. Nothing bad has ever happened but security doesn’t do a great job of searching bags. I know because I have told them before that they didn’t search my bag very well. The woman looked at me and said, “You don’t look like the type to have a weapon.”
Security does a great job at the dome for our Saints games! Now, people go to their cars after the game and see that their cars have been vandalized! It’s crazy.
Mardi Gras can get crazy. It’s sad because I have always loved going to the parades. Lots of locals go out of town for Mardi Gras. They go skiing, Disney or somewhere else.
It’s funny, one time we took a trip to the mountains when my oldest daughter was young during Mardi Gras. She had a whole week off of school. She saw kids in their school uniforms and said, “Mommy, why are they in school? It’s Mardi Gras time!” LOL 😆 She was only 6 and thought everyone had a vacation from school for Mardi Gras.
That reminds me of another story from the 1970’s in NYC. Now I was just a kid then , but my husband was friends with a gentleman at work that was older than my husband. This gentleman was head of security where my husband works. The man is now retired but previously this man was a policeman in NYC when it was bad and morale was low . He told us about the blackout of 1977. He was assigned to a particularly bad area when the blackout of 1977 happened . It was crazy, no electricity , couldn’t see anything , people just breaking all the store windows and looting , starting fires . This policeman and his partner just decided to hide until daylight . They were so outnumbered , they figured they would have been killed . He did his 20 years for a pension and got out . I don’t know what crime is like there now , I moved to Pennsylvania 18 years ago when my husbands job transferred him .
Very sad time then for NY. It’s horrible because NY is so fabulous.
Actually, that situation sounds like New Orleans after Katrina hit. Geeeeeez, the looting was insane. I get people taking diapers, formula and baby food for their children. Even the police let that slide. But the insane looting of other stuff was just plain crazy!
My neighbor who was in the national guard and assigned to the super dome said that it was absolutely horrific inside the dome. The drug addicts were withdrawing and things got really bad In the dome.
It’s a very sad reality that so many people are suffering with being alone.
It’s not just emotional suffering, it also has a physical impact on people who have absolutely no one else in their lives.
People are being locked out either 1) as part of a multiuser tech glitch or 2) because they are suspended or banned.
If someone’s in Group 1, there’s no reason they should not just set up a transparent backup account to continue talking after they’ve submitted a support ticket.
If someone’s on discipline, however, that doesn’t apply. The whole point of a suspension is so those suspended don’t communicate with the board, so I would imagine a backup account or getting friends to post for them or whatever would infuriate the admins who initiated the restriction even more.
"The whole point of a suspension is so those suspended don’t communicate with the board, so I would imagine a backup account or getting friends to post for them or whatever would infuriate the admins who initiated the restriction even more."
No kidding!
I imagine the same and that admins would also not appreciate people posting to say how a suspended person was so innocent, never did anything wrong and supposedly suffered from other people who did them wrong. How would anyone be able to say that without the suspended person telling people they were wronged. What if it wasn't true? Do we think Admin's would suspend without researching? I'm just talking in general here and not about any conflict. I'm new here and don't know or want to know abut conflicts!
Aging Care posted about needing time to research reports, look into things and decide a course of action. So if anyone is suspended I think we have to trust there was a reason for it.
What does bother me is calling young women girls, something I thought we got rid of back in the 70's. (my sis does this, it's not just men)
Yeah I don't mean when one is referring to one's children. "How are your kids doing?"...That means, how are your children doing...
No problem with me.
I mean, "calling some random young person a kid"
"is about pointing out their inexperience and lack of consideration for yours"
I know it's about that.
And it bothers me a lot. They're not kids. They're adults. Maybe terrible adults, but they're adults. "Kid" in that context, is often used as a free pass..."Oh, they're just kids"...
It's just something that really bothers me: calling a random young person a kid.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do.
Story of my life.
Multiple people have had problems logging in. If I were one, I’d start a backup account immediately like PeggySue2 and send a support ticket to admin to restore my access to the original.
I would imagine that admin would get right back to me saying I was suspended if there were any confusion about that.
In particular, this thought:
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do.
I've come to the conclusion today, that I need to buy a tiger. Keep the tiger in my house. That would certainly get me moving. I think I'd start getting a lot of things done, F-A-S-T. Enjoy it. And reach success quickly. There couldn't be a better plan.
What could possibly go wrong?
In the UK, they crown kings.
In the U.S. they crown horses.
Dear Mom, I miss you so.
I bet sometimes it feels like you were with your mom only yesterday and other times it feels like she died so long ago. That’s how it feels for me.
With my dad it seems like it was forever ago because he died in 2002. Mom was 2021.