Thursday, October 12, 2006
Stupid Rules and Stupid Deadbeats
According to a report from the UPI volunteers at the Levy County, Florida’s local library must now take a drug test to be able to donate their time and work at the library.
Most of the volunteers are between 60 and 85 years old.
So are they afraid that grandma is smoking weed between the stacks?
Are they worried that Gramps is taking Viagra and nailing Granny in the romantic literature section?
Or are they scared that some oldster will get high on meth and start beating the youngsters with his oxygen tank?
Get real. Anyone who managed to live to be 85 years old didn't get there by shooting up five times a day!
As a result of this senseless requirement, and the fact the volunteers have to travel to another city to take the drug test - at their own expense, no less - the number of volunteers has dropped from fifty-five down to just two.
Bet the library now has to hire 'paid' employees at taxpayer expense to make up for the lack of volunteers. Yep, ya got real democracy in action here, folks.
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Sometimes Karma actually works for me.
I had a woman (I won't call her a lady) lease an apartment from me, and she signed a twelve-month lease. Just as the lease payment is almost past due for month number three, she leaves me a voice mail saying she's moved out and to come get the keys.
Not only did she fail to give me any advanced notice, she actually had the balls to ask for her deposit back.
When I reminded her she signed a lease that does not allow her to just up and move out without notice, and that she owed me rent for at least the next thirty days, she couldn’t seem to understand why that meant anything. After all, she wasn’t living there anymore and just because she signed a legally binding contract, why she should be obligated to anything? (I will usually allow someone out of a lease if they give me 30 days advanced notice and pay the rent for those thirty days. She gave me zero advanced notice.)
So, now I not only have a mortgage payment on the building where I won't have her rent to put towards it, thereby causing me to be late and costing me a hundred bucks for late fees, I also have to clean up her mess including candle wax on the floors and in the carpet, fix a gaping hole in the ceiling where they banged something into it coming down the stairs, clean the bathrooms and shampoo the carpets to get rid of the stench from the unfiltered mini-cigars she chain smoked all day. Plus try to repair several burns in the linoleum from these miniature cancer sticks AND clean up the almost brand new stove where she had a grease fire.
Judging from the inside of the oven and the spots all over the floors, her main culinary skills seemed to be in creating ash.
So, where does the Karma come in for me?
Seems she is getting into government housing - although on her lease application she put down an amount of income that should easily disqualify her from getting government assistance – and they have a rule requiring people to be paid up to date with their current (previous) landlord. So she now has a choice - pay me what she owes, or lose her government housing in which case we go to court and she still has to pay me what she owes plus additional for court fees.
The moral - don't lie to someone and expect to get away with it. Especially don't lie to someone who is used to dealing with liars on a regular basis.
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Oh, the International Time Traveler's meeting and beer-blowout bash will be held last Friday, at 8:00 PM until whenever, at Quark's Bar on DS9.
Have a great day!
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Most of the volunteers are between 60 and 85 years old.
So are they afraid that grandma is smoking weed between the stacks?
Are they worried that Gramps is taking Viagra and nailing Granny in the romantic literature section?
Or are they scared that some oldster will get high on meth and start beating the youngsters with his oxygen tank?
Get real. Anyone who managed to live to be 85 years old didn't get there by shooting up five times a day!
As a result of this senseless requirement, and the fact the volunteers have to travel to another city to take the drug test - at their own expense, no less - the number of volunteers has dropped from fifty-five down to just two.
Bet the library now has to hire 'paid' employees at taxpayer expense to make up for the lack of volunteers. Yep, ya got real democracy in action here, folks.
Sometimes Karma actually works for me.
I had a woman (I won't call her a lady) lease an apartment from me, and she signed a twelve-month lease. Just as the lease payment is almost past due for month number three, she leaves me a voice mail saying she's moved out and to come get the keys.
Not only did she fail to give me any advanced notice, she actually had the balls to ask for her deposit back.
When I reminded her she signed a lease that does not allow her to just up and move out without notice, and that she owed me rent for at least the next thirty days, she couldn’t seem to understand why that meant anything. After all, she wasn’t living there anymore and just because she signed a legally binding contract, why she should be obligated to anything? (I will usually allow someone out of a lease if they give me 30 days advanced notice and pay the rent for those thirty days. She gave me zero advanced notice.)
So, now I not only have a mortgage payment on the building where I won't have her rent to put towards it, thereby causing me to be late and costing me a hundred bucks for late fees, I also have to clean up her mess including candle wax on the floors and in the carpet, fix a gaping hole in the ceiling where they banged something into it coming down the stairs, clean the bathrooms and shampoo the carpets to get rid of the stench from the unfiltered mini-cigars she chain smoked all day. Plus try to repair several burns in the linoleum from these miniature cancer sticks AND clean up the almost brand new stove where she had a grease fire.
Judging from the inside of the oven and the spots all over the floors, her main culinary skills seemed to be in creating ash.
So, where does the Karma come in for me?
Seems she is getting into government housing - although on her lease application she put down an amount of income that should easily disqualify her from getting government assistance – and they have a rule requiring people to be paid up to date with their current (previous) landlord. So she now has a choice - pay me what she owes, or lose her government housing in which case we go to court and she still has to pay me what she owes plus additional for court fees.
The moral - don't lie to someone and expect to get away with it. Especially don't lie to someone who is used to dealing with liars on a regular basis.
Oh, the International Time Traveler's meeting and beer-blowout bash will be held last Friday, at 8:00 PM until whenever, at Quark's Bar on DS9.
Have a great day!
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