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Oh...And as far as loud, disrespectful nieghbors go...

What has been done to address that by calling the law on them is the correct thing to do...

People who take offence at that action, and start intimidating the people who live around them are slugs and cowards and they should be the ones to be run off...

I am one to not take very kindly to idle threats, yet I also know there is not much you can do about that legally...

So if someone were to make a stupid statement like "I'm going to kill you!"...

I just smile, and say to them, "So let me get this straight, because I just don't want to misunderstand you on this issue...You say you are going to kill me?"

At which point regardless of their answer to my question back to them...I turn and walk away...Go about my business...I want them to know, regardles of how intelligent they are...That is not my concern...That I do not fear the next decision they make...

Yes, inside I am outraged, I feel a desire to escalate, to just get it over with...But you will never know it by looking at it...That is a true sign of maturity and confidence that challenges someone of lesser constitution who should know better than to carry the situation any further...

Remember what we do in this forum and out in the world is the most definitive form of expression there is...You have the ability and can certainly take a human life...With this stance, you have just lobbed an easy and very clear choice to someone else to make...

Its really that easy...

Geesh, and it's only Monday...

There seems to be an absolute rapid decline in the respectability in people these days...Present company excluded...

There is no respect for peoples privacy, their property or opinion...

Just yesterday, the wife and I were running to the grocery store to pick up a few things for the week...I've lived in the nieghborhood for just about 38 years...I know a few people, and know what belongs and what appears to be passing through...I am all for folks taking drives and scoping out the nieghborhood, because I believe people should be free to do so...

We live next to a main drag that bisects through the middle of our part of the subdivision, and we take that to another street that runs to the grocery store...On the way, just as we are passing in front of the Catholic church in our "hood"...I noticed a car pulled over on the other side of the road with the door open...??? hmmmmm... A rather frumpy looking hispanic woman was walking up to a nieghbors house (their chainlink fence-line) and she was picking some pretty blooms or bulbs/fruit of some sort off a substantial tree/schrub inside that fenceline...

Now to make a long story short (right!), I kinda took offence at that, but since the wife was with me I was told to just let it go...

I mean its one thing to be driving or passing by someone elses property and noticing something nice...But to me, I have always held to the belief if that is a truth, telling someone that they have something nice, and asking someone if they could have a sample of that something (in this case) is a more nieghborly thing to do, if you want to do anything at all...

I believe this is a sign of the times, and when you allow just a little taste of things without really earning those things, it becomes an addiction, and addictions lead to further errosions of decency and lawlessness, and disrespect for others in any capacity...

And when these social deficiencies are challenged or questioned, you are the one branded as the "troublemaker" or social outcast...

I'm not sure there will ever be a time where people will say enough is enough, because we that might be able to be examples, and leaders in our communities will be leaving for more rural and isolated regions of the country...

hehehe, So call me a hypocrite, as soon as we can we will be heading for the hills!!! The sooner I can put Houston in my rear-view mirror the better...I know I am an awful person for occasionally announcing this inevitability and the reasoning behind it...But its a truth, and one I feel very comfortable with...

Its just the little things like this that build up and reinforce my resolve...