UO Thursday 5/19

ponyoisfun · May 2022

I'm gonna say it... kids don't (always) tell the truth.
The number of times I have had a parent tell me that their kid "said" such and such happened even though I was actually there is more than I can count. I don't think kids do it on purpose all of the time it is just that they don't have a lot of perspective on different situations. For the most part though I do listen to all sides, but I have encountered some situations where a kid has just fabricated something to put the teacher's attention on something else.

PurplePumpernickel · May 2022

Oh my kid makes things up all the time. ALL the time. Usually it starts out as an innocuous story about school and ends up as "and then <teacher> let me make a band and we watched Star Wars all day!"

mflowers929 · May 2022

I don't think that anyone should have the right to complain about gardening being "an eyesore" when someone is growing food 😡
I put out some grow bags for potatoes, out of the way, and I'm pretty sure my upstairs neighbor is going to complain about them.

PurplePumpernickel · May 2022

@mflowers929
I don't think anyone should complain about gardening, period.

database6 · May 2022

I think that in certain neighborhoods when you have agreed to the HOA rules, you shouldn’t let your gardening look like crap and be an eyesore. But I also think more people should grow their own food.

My UO is I get annoyed when someone asks me if I want a plastic bag to put a couple of things in. Not at the grocery store, but getting a doggy bag from a restaurant or at the gas station. I think plastic bags should be the new straws, they are so much worse. I always politely decline, but I hate it.

ETA: I’m not trying to say your tomatoes in a bag out of the way look like crap at all. Worries this was going to be taken in the wrong context.

mflowers929 · May 2022

I did move the bags closer to our patio so they at least aren't spread out too far. We live in condo style apartments and we're on the bottom floor so I typically use the little yard between my apartment and my neighbors apartment for things like letting the kids play, letting them use the pool (before my upstairs neighbor complained about that...), decorating for holidays, and my first thought was to put the bags in front of my bedroom windows. I wasn't super happy with how they looked there anyways but the fact that my neighbor was so snotty about it really bugged me.
We have a nice planter box that my hubby built for me last year that I grow a lot of stuff in and we've gotten nothing but compliments on so he's going to build a box to go around the bags so that they're more "aesthetic".

Gingermom15 · May 2022

@mflowers929 I see no need to complain about a neatly cared for garden. I’m not the type to complain about anyone else’s yard though for anything lol

this reminds me of when I lived in an apartment years ago and the neighbors asked if they could use my flowerbed and backyard. I said yes because I worked all the time and never used them myself. Looked out back weeks later and saw a bunch of corn and they grow tomatoes in my flower bed. I still laugh when I think about it 😂 totally thought they meant flowers. I got free veggies tho

mflowers929 · May 2022

@Gingermom15 lol maybe when I start harvesting stuff I'll just go and drop some off at their door as a peace offering lol

mflowers929 · May 2022

So as a WTF update to my gardening situation (that really can't wait for Wednesday lol) - my next door neighbor told me that my upstairs neighbor is apparently worried that we're growing pot. Outside our apartments. And that's why they're so cranky about it. Our neighbor across the way is helping next door neighbor with her patio planting and they went to talk to her about what we're growing (since she's an older lady) and brought that up.

I am just dying laughing. Like, we live in an apartment complex on a main road. Our patios are very visible from the road. We're also smooshed in between two not so great areas. If we were growing pot why in the WORLD would we ever grow it OUTSIDE!?

ponyoisfun · May 2022

@mflowers929 That is totally wild! They obviously know nothing about actually growing pot. Lol. Reminds me of someone we did live with who did grow outside and unsurprisingly found the plants ripped out of the ground one day.

mflowers929 · May 2022

@ponyoisfun right? lol. I've contemplated growing some to help with my ADHD until I can get on meds (it's legal and I have access to seeds for a strain that would be helpful), but I 110% would be growing INSIDE

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