Not that I condone, but you do have to admire someone who pulls off a major heist, but wonder: If you have that much talent, skill and organization, wouldn’t it be easier to work legitimately and know you will earn a steady check? Plus the perks of benefits? Oh, and a great reputation for your ingenuity, with quality friends?
Years ago, I stopped to wash and vacuum out my car. While vacuuming between the front seats, I placed my very cheap, but full, plastic coffee cup on the curb: just for a moment. I forgot about it, then drove over to the gas pumps. Only ONE car used the vacuum after me, and he took my mug with coffee still in it! Yes, I searched the trash. Drat, that was the mug that actually kept the coffee warm.
They walk out of every empty unit: Not even full rolls. We know who it is, he is just that damn sneaky, and if I confront him, he becomes belligerent and a bit scary. If I anyone is working in the unit, he will slip in real friendly, check all the cabinets for supplies and help himself.
I filled up trigger bottles and should have two bottles of everything: but I don’t. A popular dish detergent brand was selling jumbo bottles shrink wrapped with a smaller bottle. Great for me to just have a little bottle in my bucket when washing out the fridge shelves: have only one left out of four.
We have a storage closet of paint supplies, shelves of drop clothes, paint trays and NO #$@#$ brushes! The Purdy brushes are kept in my apartment, but those very handy and cheap 1” and 2” brushes keep walking.
This past Spring and Summer I wrote about my garden, it gave me such pleasure watching all those flowers come up, plus eating veggies and herbs from the garden. So many people complimented me and admired the results. I bought supplies, and one thing was that new and lightweight expanding garden hose. It was funny watching 15 feet of hose actually shrink small enough to stow in a small flowerpot. Beats the heck out of the old traditional rubber, hard-to-manage standard hose.
But some bastard, thought they had the right to rummage through the shelves in the furnace room and shop for themselves. Hoses, planters, trash bags, just whatever the Entitled People of this world justify stealing! Kiss my Irish a**!
Yeah, it’s a bad habit, but just because my back is turned while I am working, doesn’t entitle anyone to clip a few from my pack. Or worse yet, you come into my apartment to pay rent and leave with my pack.
Don’t get me wrong, we are not occupied by low-lifes, we have so many quality tenants; but shake any family tree, any workplace, neighborhood and those sneaky bastards are lurking, scheming an opportunity. See my post on "Difficult People."
Wouldn’t it be easier, and financially steady, to just take a job, any job. You will be guaranteed a steady $ each week: Then set a budget and live within it! I am sure the infamous sneak-thief Bernie Madoff is enjoying his ‘3 hots and a cot’ alienated from his family, friends and hated for the lives he ruined.
But such people are miserable bastards who couldn’t enjoy winning the lottery: it wouldn’t be enough, would cry the government took too much, or they would blew it on stupidity.
But as I bluntly told one problem person recently (who was trying to kiss up to me): "There are people who live miserable lives, they will die just as miserable, and no one will miss them."
There was no reply.
They are just exhausting. Thank you for letting me vent.
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