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[Re: Scott Garrett ]
#268556 - 03/10/2010 09:44 AM |
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Two thumbs up for our local pet store who refused to sell a goldfish to a customer.
The fish was destined to a life in a small bowl with very little room to move around. The shop did get some complaints and an article in the local newspaper.
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Re: How to offer help and not lose your mind
[Re: Scott Garrett ]
#268559 - 03/10/2010 10:05 AM |
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Two thumbs up for our local pet store who refused to sell a goldfish to a customer.
The fish was destined to a life in a small bowl with very little room to move around. The shop did get some complaints and an article in the local newspaper.
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Re: How to offer help and not lose your mind
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#268565 - 03/10/2010 12:49 PM |
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My pair of clownfish are so tightly bonded its adorable. They snuggle up in their anemone together, fiercely defending their little clutch of eggs.
Now that just sounds too cute!! Snuggling up in an anemone... I wanna do that! 
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Re: How to offer help and not lose your mind
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#268581 - 03/10/2010 02:43 PM |
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One thing that really makes me nuts tho and which I can't seem to stop myself from commenting on is people who don't pick up after their dogs. I'll go up and offer them poop baggies (always in my pockets, even in my current dogless state), and give them grief if they have an attitude, but besides being so damn unhealthy, this is one of the reasons that dogs are becoming less welcome in more and more places. Just frosts me to no end.
This one really bothers me too. A couple years ago when we lived in Houston before moving to Dallas we lived in an apartment.
Our apartment allowed dogs and the place even provided waste recepticles along with the poop bags, and I would see people take there dogs out, they would poop right near there and walk away without cleaning up after their dog!! 
It frosts me to know end as well.
What's worse is I have heard people talk about how it is fertilizerfor the grass!
Ignorance to the 10th power!
It seems that common sense in largely missing from the mass population.
It depends on how much I care about the subject and how angry I get when I see it happening.
But it can be difficult when you feel the steam coming out your head and your blood pressure rise.
My husband and I have conversations all the time about stuff like this Melissa and we seem to come to the conclusion that there are so many out there that not only are ignorant, but choose to want to stay that way.That and that they generally do not care about what they do, or how it effects others.
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Re: How to offer help and not lose your mind
[Re: Joyce Salazar ]
#268589 - 03/10/2010 03:26 PM |
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One of these days I'm going to have a George Costanza style melt down and just start screaming "Pick it up! Pick It up!!!!"
I almost pulled over the other day to yell at someone about their dog. Not that I agree with it, but we have BSL here about pit bulls that requires them to be leashed and muzzled in public. Almost nobody muzzles their dogs, and for the most part the cops don't care, but the leash law is definitely very strictly enforced in regards to pits.
This guy had a handsome young blue pit, on a very busy street, off leash, no fence. The dog wasn't even wearing a collar!
I so wanted to yell "If your dog doesn't get hit by a car they are going to take it away from you and kill it. It'll be YOUR fault!"
People are so stupid.
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Re: How to offer help and not lose your mind
[Re: Lauren Jeffery ]
#268591 - 03/10/2010 03:36 PM |
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One of these days I'm going to have a George Costanza style melt down and just start screaming "Pick it up! Pick It up!!!!"
Maybe we just have to start saying "Serenity Now, Serenity Now!" ala George's Dad. 
Joyce Salazar
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Re: How to offer help and not lose your mind
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#268593 - 03/10/2010 03:46 PM |
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One of these days I'm going to have a George Costanza style melt down and just start screaming "Pick it up! Pick It up!!!!"
Sadly, I have had a couple of these. Once it actually worked. When it didn't, I actually picked up the poop myself and chased the woman down, shouting at her that she had forgotten something and shoving the bag into her hand 
Two onlookers clapped so I felt oddly validated....
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 Re: How to offer help and not lose your mind
[Re: Kristel Smart ]
#268596 - 03/10/2010 03:50 PM |
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Been there too, Kristel. I had no idea I had it in me, as I'm usually pretty mild-mannered.
Poo raises the ire, I guess.
Ripley & his Precious
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Re: How to offer help and not lose your mind
[Re: Meredith Hamilton ]
#268599 - 03/10/2010 03:59 PM |
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.... Poo raises the ire, I guess.
It sure does.
I always always have spare poop baggies in my pocket. Like most of us (I feel sure), folded baggies go into my jeans every time I get dressed, along with cash, credit cards, and keys.
More than once, I've handed one to someone with a comment about being sorry they had forgotten theirs (no sarcasm) if I could possibly muster it, so as not to give any excuse for the jerk to become defensive. It's hard! I want to throw poop at them, not hand them a baggy with a nice smile!!!
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Re: How to offer help and not lose your mind
[Re: Kristel Smart ]
#268603 - 03/10/2010 04:21 PM |
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One of these days I'm going to have a George Costanza style melt down and just start screaming "Pick it up! Pick It up!!!!"
Sadly, I have had a couple of these. Once it actually worked. When it didn't, I actually picked up the poop myself and chased the woman down, shouting at her that she had forgotten something and shoving the bag into her hand
Two onlookers clapped so I felt oddly validated....
I did have a moment waaaay back in 1974...
I was in high school, driving home one day in my hot little pea green Gremlin...  (I keep telling myself it was hot and I look totally groovy in it!)
In any case, at a stop light, the woman in the car in front of me rolled down her window and tossed out two handfulls of trash -right on the road next to her car. Littering has always been one of my pet peeves, so... Here I am, dressed in my Catholic school uniform, pleated plaid skirt and white ankle socks with Saddle Oxfords (my Gremlin wasn't the only hot thing about me!) - running up to this car. The gal starts rolling up her window (by hand - no auto back then) and I grab all her trash and shove it back in the window as it is about to close. I don't remember what I said, but I'm sure it was perfectly appropriate for a nice high school girl...
No one clapped for me but I saw a mother with two young kids lean over and lock the car doors... 
Oi... the stupid things we did way back when...
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