Village Ordinances

Gotta love how village ordinances work so well to protect the residents. NOT

My parents, both retired and diabetic, got a letter from the village. The trash cans are visible and that violates an ordinance. Ok...they live in a townhome with no outdoor storage (no shed, garage, etc) Where exactly are they supposed to put the trash cans? Also, several years ago our trash pick up company got new trucks with this fancy lift, however the fancy lift doesn't work with regular plain old metal outdoor trash cans...my parents had to buy these huge plastic trash cans, which every Tuesday evening must be pushed to the end of the driveway. There are 2 cans, one for trash and one for recycling.

My parents have been keeping their cans on the porch for the last 2 years. For some reason this year that's not good enough and in order to help "beautify" the village, residents must now make sure their trash cans are not visible. SO...this means either putting them in the backyard and dragging them through the house once a week, or just keeping them in the house..where there's no room.

They asked about putting up plywood on the porch so the cans would be unseen...they village wants them to get a building permit...to put about 5 nails into a sheet of plywood.

Women with many children

I wonder why women have a ton of children when they can't take care of them all.

Now, I will give props to the Dugger's and 'Jon and Kate plus 8' because they ARE taking care of their children without welfare. What disgusts me is why women like the octuplet mother have 14 kids when she can't afford them or take care of them. Come On!

Now, I don't know the 'crazy baby lady' (what my friend Dave calls her) so I can't talk about her, but I do have a regular customer where I work who has 8 kids. Thankfully she doesn't shop with all 8, but she usually has 2 or 3 with her, and not one of them behaves while in the store! Today she had the two youngest with her. One took the shopping cart and raced up and down the aisle, the other turned on every noisy Valentine gift item we had, threw several bags of candy on the floor, and both of them just screamed at the top of their lungs! All this time Mom is totally oblivious and complaining that there's not a lot of Valentine candy left (the day before one of her many children needs it for school). I had to leave the aisle because I just couldn't work.

I've known women in my old store who have said that as long as they can keep getting welfare, they'll keep having babies. Women like that should have their kids taken away because they're obviously unfit. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking welfare...I've had to use it myself before, but to keep having children to keep getting welfare is just wrong, and if they insist on popping out a baby every 11 months, then at least take care of them and teach them to behave!