gregorylee
I'd rather be napping!!
Polite, considering what I am about to post.
I live in a decent neighborhood on the SW side of Columbus, outside 270. Not a real upidity type of development, middle class yada yada....
There is a family that lives across the street (I live on a court) that... let just say that they weren't born in the US. They, the people are nice enough, I think at one point I might have even mentioned them questioning me about the directions on the back of a bag of quickcrete (there are directions there, I checked). Any way, like I said, nice people, pretty clueless about American culture, do's, don’ts and whatnot but nice people nonetheless. Although I did stand and laugh as they stapled Christmas lights to their siding one year
There is Mom, an RN, and Dad who is a professional type although I do not know what it is that he does, so we not talking uneducated people here, and there are 6 kids all of whom are pretty well behaved ranging from 15 to 7 or so.
Since we have Cols trash we all have one of those 90 gal trash cans to put out for our pick up. Well I know how much trash a family of 4 can create, and we recycle our asses off (it's still alot of trash). I can't even imagine what it would be like to have 8, but thankfully they will sell you a second trash bin. Unfortunately it would seem like the family in question either doesn't know this, or chooses not to.
A few years ago (maybe 2) it was discovered by their direct next door neighbor that they were taking what didn't fit and putting it in their back yard. They called the health dept, and had them clean it all up. As you can imagine ( I have no idea at all how long they had been storing trash back there) there was a nice rat population happily living off of the situation. They were now displaced. It basically took the rest of the summer before the rat bait stopped disappearing from under my deck and shed. The thought was fuck this is gross, but they will have learned and this shouldn't be something I will have to deal with in the future... So I thought. Goddammit, there is little that really makes me feel ill, this does. For the last 6 weeks or so we have been through two 4 pound buckets of the bait chunks, and it isn't like they are taking one or two every few days. I put out six or eight a night and they are all gone the next day. I stopped tonight and bought a 9 lb bucket (at a wonderful $50) and put out 8 more chunks). This is single feeding bait we are talking about! I am absolutely terrified that summer is coming to a close, if I can't kill them all before fall they are going to be looking for somewhere warm to go.
I am considering, since I am already over a benji down on the rat bait just buying another bin for them. Oh, if you are going to call the "they haven't acclimated to America" card, they have lived across the street from me for 9 years, that ought to be enough time.
How the hell do you approach this subject.... "hey, look, you are causing rats to congregate in the neighborhood and in America that is bad" Maybe this kind of shit was normal where they came from.
Sorry about the long rant, I am just so fucking frustrated...
You would think that the lesson would have been learned after the first time.
fuck!
I live in a decent neighborhood on the SW side of Columbus, outside 270. Not a real upidity type of development, middle class yada yada....
There is a family that lives across the street (I live on a court) that... let just say that they weren't born in the US. They, the people are nice enough, I think at one point I might have even mentioned them questioning me about the directions on the back of a bag of quickcrete (there are directions there, I checked). Any way, like I said, nice people, pretty clueless about American culture, do's, don’ts and whatnot but nice people nonetheless. Although I did stand and laugh as they stapled Christmas lights to their siding one year
There is Mom, an RN, and Dad who is a professional type although I do not know what it is that he does, so we not talking uneducated people here, and there are 6 kids all of whom are pretty well behaved ranging from 15 to 7 or so.
Since we have Cols trash we all have one of those 90 gal trash cans to put out for our pick up. Well I know how much trash a family of 4 can create, and we recycle our asses off (it's still alot of trash). I can't even imagine what it would be like to have 8, but thankfully they will sell you a second trash bin. Unfortunately it would seem like the family in question either doesn't know this, or chooses not to.
A few years ago (maybe 2) it was discovered by their direct next door neighbor that they were taking what didn't fit and putting it in their back yard. They called the health dept, and had them clean it all up. As you can imagine ( I have no idea at all how long they had been storing trash back there) there was a nice rat population happily living off of the situation. They were now displaced. It basically took the rest of the summer before the rat bait stopped disappearing from under my deck and shed. The thought was fuck this is gross, but they will have learned and this shouldn't be something I will have to deal with in the future... So I thought. Goddammit, there is little that really makes me feel ill, this does. For the last 6 weeks or so we have been through two 4 pound buckets of the bait chunks, and it isn't like they are taking one or two every few days. I put out six or eight a night and they are all gone the next day. I stopped tonight and bought a 9 lb bucket (at a wonderful $50) and put out 8 more chunks). This is single feeding bait we are talking about! I am absolutely terrified that summer is coming to a close, if I can't kill them all before fall they are going to be looking for somewhere warm to go.
I am considering, since I am already over a benji down on the rat bait just buying another bin for them. Oh, if you are going to call the "they haven't acclimated to America" card, they have lived across the street from me for 9 years, that ought to be enough time.
How the hell do you approach this subject.... "hey, look, you are causing rats to congregate in the neighborhood and in America that is bad" Maybe this kind of shit was normal where they came from.
Sorry about the long rant, I am just so fucking frustrated...
You would think that the lesson would have been learned after the first time.
fuck!
