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In fact, have you ever really noticed that when you ask somebody at work or anywhere for that matter, "How are you doing?", the most common response is, "Okay, thanks...How about You?". If you are to ask somebody from MY building that same question...You usually will get a list of ailments that they have been suffering from in the last month or so. I am sorry...But, I don't care. It's not that I'm way too busy in my very important life for anyone...It's just that I simply don't really care. When I get home, I want to go inside of my place and relax without being bombarded by the game of 20 questions by my ever so nosy neighbors who love to hear themselves talk, talk and talk.

F.Y.I. Everything that a person does in one or any of these geriatric communities is done under a microscope.

• If your car was crooked in a parking space, they know who did it and furthermore will report it at the once a month board meeting or discuss it continually with other residents.
• If you have a guest come over to visit, they will remember the day and time of when your friend, relative or whoever arrived and left...not to mention the details of what your visiting party looked like or drove.
• If you happen to drag a stray leaf that has fallen off a nearby tree in the doorway upon entering on your shoe by accident, they would know who did it.

I am beginning to think that the security cameras that they put in most apartment/ condominium complexes are primarily for the use of the residents that have nothing better to do with their lives...seeing as though it can be aired into most of the homes with cable ready televisions. I am quite positive that it is this channel that is most frequented by the older and really, really old generation living in my building.

I have lived there for 3 years this May and have had a few too many fines pointed in my direction for common laws that I have broken within the Countryside code of ethics.

1. Having a gas grill on my deck when it clearly is an Electric Grill...SWEAR!! - $300.00
2. Having backed into a parking spot (which I did) to unload things into my place. (p.s. If the exhaust pipe of your vehicle is pointed in the direction of the homeowner's units...the oxygen level that seeps inside peoples living quarters may cause premature ailments contributing to an early onset of their demise). - $30.00
3. Propping of the security doorway...(okay, so I did that also on the same day that I backed my car into the parking space pointing my exhaust towards everyone's windows for them to breathe...crookedly parked, I might add.) -$30.00
4. Oil leak on the garage floor. (OOPS...I have an old car, what can I say.) -$30.00
5. Not getting it cleared by the board of directors to put in new laminate and carpet floors in my place...(So what, it was written in a small 4 point font in the by-laws that came out 2 months after I did it...Boo to them!)
6. The list goes on and on...and I just can't!!! Not in this Hell on earth which I call home.

This year will have to mark the year that I get the Hell out of there. It sucks, because I really like the style of my place and my bills are at a price that I can afford for right now. I just want a different neighborhood of fun people...that's all I ask.

**So, remember this the next time you consider moving into a community...especially with an older based population. They see and know everything about everybody!!!

# posted by Mikey B @ 10:03 AM