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Post by monklady123 on Jun 3, 2020 13:21:42 GMT
On a scale of 1-10 of importance, with 10 being the most important, this is about at negative 2. 😜 But it’s just one of those odd things... Last summer a family moved into a house near me. I know it was in the summer because school hadn’t started yet and I remember wondering if there were school aged kids since the school is a block from their house. In the yard (no I wasn’t in their yard, the house is on a corner so I can see in as I walk my dog) is a small Buddha statue. This statue was left by the previous owners, and when they moved out the statue was left laying on the ground. And after almost a year it’s *still* laying on the ground. I know someone has been in the yard since then (although to be honest I never see them, not even since the pandemic started, which is also odd...) — but anyway, I know they’ve been in the yard because I see flowers in pots and a bag of potting soil and kids’ buckets and shovels. So why leave poor Buddha laying around like that? How hard is it to pick up a small statue? Poor guy. 😜 And if the new owners don’t want Buddha in their yard then why not just get rid of it? See, I told you this was trivial. Lol. Anyone else have a small “why?” thing?  |
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Post by lindas on Jun 3, 2020 13:47:48 GMT
Poor Buddha. Maybe they think that's the way he's suppose to be.
My small 'why'; Why is it so darn hard to get the first tissue out of those square boxes without tearing it. Never fails, I always destroy the first one no matter have carefully I pull.
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Post by workingclassdog on Jun 3, 2020 13:48:29 GMT
So funny.. I have the same "why" every morning when I drive out of my neighborhood. One house, has six of these plastic bottles that look like they are full of water down by their mailbox. I believe these plastic containers originally are for trucks that put in some other liquid to run (Blue Def? I think it is called). So they have been there for two weeks. The trash people are not picking them up. There they sit.
Then a few months ago a family moved out and I was excited because they took their indoor porch furniture with them. YES, indoor dining room chairs on the front porch. This has bugged me for years. I should have not let that bugged me because NOW the family in there (just moved in) is trashy trashy. A ton of trash they left for the trash people left back, they wouldn't pick it up. It was a grill, sinks, big ticket stuff. Our trash people are really good about taking just about anything... so this isn't them being picky. And the front porch is full of junk. I am just hoping they are doing some work on the house and it will all be cleaned up soon.
Those are my two "why" questions. Just clean up your crap.
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Post by femalebusiness on Jun 3, 2020 13:48:44 GMT
That would bother me unreasonably too.
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Post by supersoda on Jun 3, 2020 14:10:21 GMT
I would be pretty tempted to set him upright.
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Post by bc2ca on Jun 3, 2020 14:12:55 GMT
That would definitely catch my attention.
For 7 years we walked past a corner house where an elephant statue had tumbled down the steep side yard. It was also a corner lot at the top of a hill, so most of the lot was flat. I wondered if they forgot about the statue or if it was just too heavy to move up the hill and how the heck did get knocked over?And then one day it just wasn't there anymore which lead to more questions. Was it back up on the patio? Did someone slip over the fence and take it?
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Post by basketdiva on Jun 3, 2020 14:15:37 GMT
Why did my ditzy neighbor have the tree trimmers bring her a 3"diameter 6'-8' piece of the tree they removed from a another neighbor's yard. Knowing this woman it will sit on the driveway for at least a month.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 14:16:09 GMT
I would be pretty tempted to set him upright. OMG. DO IT! In the middle of the night! Put a couple of those flameless candles and some flowers. Make a shrine. I would putting stuff there every night. |
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Post by monklady123 on Jun 3, 2020 14:32:00 GMT
I would be pretty tempted to set him upright. hahaha Believe me I've thought about it. But, they do have a fence around the yard, so in order to get in there I'd have to open the gate and that's probably considered trespassing.  I can hear me now... "why yes officer, I was in the neighbors' yard...but you see there's this Buddha statue..." hahaha  |
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Post by femalebusiness on Jun 3, 2020 14:33:54 GMT
I would be pretty tempted to set him upright. OMG. DO IT! In the middle of the night! Put a couple of those flameless candles and some flowers. Make a shrine. I would putting stuff there every night. I like this! Ha. |
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Post by supersoda on Jun 3, 2020 18:54:17 GMT
I would be pretty tempted to set him upright. hahaha Believe me I've thought about it. But, they do have a fence around the yard, so in order to get in there I'd have to open the gate and that's probably considered trespassing. I can hear me now... "why yes officer, I was in the neighbors' yard...but you see there's this Buddha statue..." hahaha LOL--yeah, I can see how that might complicate things. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 21:25:35 GMT
Our neighbors behind us grill out almost every night from April to October. They have a good sized deck that's almost the width of their house. Where do they put their grill? On the deck right up against the siding. You can see where the siding has been warped by the heat. There's plenty of room to move the grill, at least while they're cooking but nope it never moves. Dh and I ask each other why all the time.
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Post by garcia5050 on Jun 3, 2020 21:38:18 GMT
That little Buddha thing would really annoy me.
When my kids were little, I would walk from the bus to my mom's house every day after work.There was this one house that clearly had a party over a weekend. They left a nice cutting board out there with visible bits of meat, good knives, etc. on a table in the backyard for about 3 weeks. As each day went by, I saw that meat rotting a bit more, and the flies were multiplying. It was disgusting. I might be able to see a day or two go by (maybe everyone is hungover) - but WEEKS!!!
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 3, 2020 23:28:44 GMT
We have renters behind us (our deck looks right into their yard). In April, their dogs ripped up a big trash bag of picnic/planting trash. It is now June. They have left the trash in their yard. It has rained and soaked a lot of it. It has been very windy and blown into other people's yards. WHY would you not clean up a full bag of trash in your yard? Because they moved. They left June first and the world rejoiced. Well, I did. Now the owner of the house has to clean up an entire yard of crap and whatever they left. In the 14 months they lived there they never mowed or watered the yard. Who lives like this? I live in city limits and 98% of people keep their property at least minimally kept up.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 2:17:10 GMT
Large item trash pick up was cancelled. Neighbors put out an old couch anyway. Been there 6 weeks...rain, sun, weather. I don't think it is getting picked up. Not really bugging me that much. Just why? Someone did take the cushions so there is that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 2:35:42 GMT
We go for walks in our neighborhood most evenings. We have so many "whys"!
Why does a house have a 4 foot tall ninja turtle on their front porch? It's not even from the good cartoon either! It's been there for at least a year, maybe longer.
Why does a house have a chunk of their driveway missing? I'm not talking about a broken off piece of asphalt. I'm talking about a whole section right in the middle of the driveway was broken up and taken out. It's been almost two years and new concrete STILL has not been poured.
Another house has cat garden flags in every window facing the street. The side windows we could see had cat figures and other cat related decorations in them. Another house has crosses all over. Another has fake flowers in their flower bed. Planted fake flowers.
We've seen broken fences, holes in the ground from ripped up plants, the strangest stuff on porches, remodels or replacements that we just couldn't figure out. We would spot something and see how long it would stay like that.
People are weird.
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Post by mom on Jun 4, 2020 2:54:59 GMT
A laying Buddah would bother me as well.
My little small 'why' is this:
My neighbor took out all the grass in his yard, and is currently reseeding it. Ok fine. But he left a 3 ft strip of his yard (between his house and ours) that he just ignores. It gets tall...he doesn't mow it. It is quite obviously his property but he just leaves it for us to mow.
Why? Why not take it out and re-seed it as well? Why leave it? Why not mow it? We eventually mow it because it looks like crap when ours is nice and trimmed.
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Post by edie3 on Jun 4, 2020 4:15:34 GMT
There is a house in our neighborhood that is all one color. The house, the trim, everything. It is cream color, but really needs something to add that "pop of color".
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Post by Merge on Jun 4, 2020 4:25:55 GMT
The house at the other end of the neighborhood that still displays the yard sign that says they got 3rd place for best holiday decorations ... in 2016. 😂
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Post by craftedbys on Jun 4, 2020 4:26:02 GMT
My why question is why is my intelligent, more than competent, college educated daughter incapable of nesting my sets of Rubbermaid storage containers or oblong Pyrex baking dishes. Seriously, the large glass dish does NOT get out on top of the smaller ones and why would you put a square container inside of a round container instead of putting the smaller round containers that fit inside one another?
This is not a one time goof, either. Every. Single. Time.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 4, 2020 4:38:08 GMT
Mine is, why does my kid do every little (and I do mean little) job only halfway? Today I asked her to take the recycling from the kitchen out to the bin outside. We have a couple sturdy fruit boxes just outside in the garage to make the task easier. She filled the box, took that stuff outside, but then left the last 5-6 items sitting in the kitchen.  Then DH came home later and asked if she had taken out the recycling or if I did, and I said, “She did. Why?” He said, “Because she put the whole box of stuff out on top of the bin that was piled full instead of dumping it in the empty one right next to it!”  |
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Post by LisaDV on Jun 4, 2020 12:54:41 GMT
My why question is why is my intelligent, more than competent, college educated daughter incapable of nesting my sets of Rubbermaid storage containers or oblong Pyrex baking dishes. Seriously, the large glass dish does NOT get out on top of the smaller ones and why would you put a square container inside of a round container instead of putting the smaller round containers that fit inside one another? This is not a one time goof, either. Every. Single. Time. We took in my older brother (56yo) last November due to a divorce and lack of work. I am quite anal about my kitchen but have been letting him help by putting away the dishes occasionally and cleaning up after our evening meal. I have 2 different sets that have rectangle containers. A quick look and you can see they are not even close to being the same type. Yet they are always mixed together. Plastic ware does not get put in that cabinet at all, unless he's emptied the dishwasher. Also we have multiple dimmer knobs (the round ones) throughout the house. Unfortunately they didn't make them all uniform. Sometimes you push it to turn it off. Sometimes you have to take it all the way down and click it off. It's annoying, but the rest of my family figured it out within a month of living here. 6 months, and we're still finding the ones that click off being all the way turned down by brother. Why? It's not that hard. |
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Post by mikklynn on Jun 5, 2020 0:45:53 GMT
Why does my new (1 year) neighbor mow around the bags of leaves he raked last fall? It's only 3 or 4 bags. Get rid of them!
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Post by pierkiss on Jun 5, 2020 4:16:51 GMT
OP I can answer your question! We moved into our house several years ago. The previous owners left a hideous cement rabbit statue. Right in the front flower bed up against the house. I hate almost all yard ornaments, and I sure as heck hate cement lawn ornaments. (We do have a couple of teeny tiny garden gnomes that my kids insisted on-they hide in the flowers). I instantly wanted this stupid rabbit gone. I tried to pick it up. It weighs a ton. And then the stupid thing fell over and one of its ears snapped off.  I managed to sort of push it over to a doorframe of a garage door we don't use. It has sat there in the shadow of a bush since we moved in. I can't lift it to get it into my car to take to my father in laws dumpster. And I guess it doesn't bother my husband that much because its in the shadow half hidden by a giant bush. So, it sits there. |
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Post by femalebusiness on Jun 5, 2020 4:30:44 GMT
OP I can answer your question! We moved into our house several years ago. The previous owners left a hideous cement rabbit statue. Right in the front flower bed up against the house. I hate almost all yard ornaments, and I sure as heck hate cement lawn ornaments. (We do have a couple of teeny tiny garden gnomes that my kids insisted on-they hide in the flowers). I instantly wanted this stupid rabbit gone. I tried to pick it up. It weighs a ton. And then the stupid thing fell over and one of its ears snapped off. I managed to sort of push it over to a doorframe of a garage door we don't use. It has sat there in the shadow of a bush since we moved in. I can't lift it to get it into my car to take to my father in laws dumpster. And I guess it doesn't bother my husband that much because its in the shadow half hidden by a giant bush. So, it sits there. Get a big hammer break it into pieces and throw a few pieces away in the trash each week until it is gone. I've done that a bunch of times with things that are too big for trash pickup. |
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Post by Dallie on Jun 5, 2020 11:53:11 GMT
We have renters behind us (our deck looks right into their yard). In April, their dogs ripped up a big trash bag of picnic/planting trash. It is now June. They have left the trash in their yard. It has rained and soaked a lot of it. It has been very windy and blown into other people's yards. WHY would you not clean up a full bag of trash in your yard? Because they moved. They left June first and the world rejoiced. Well, I did. Now the owner of the house has to clean up an entire yard of crap and whatever they left. In the 14 months they lived there they never mowed or watered the yard. Who lives like this? I live in city limits and 98% of people keep their property at least minimally kept up. Renters down the street told me they chose that house over others in the neighborhood because it was the "fanciest." They refuse to mow the lawn until the HOA gets on them, which is when it is about 18" . Why choose the "fanciest" house if you are going to make it look crappy? |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jun 5, 2020 12:05:24 GMT
There is a house in our neighborhood that is all one color. The house, the trim, everything. It is cream color, but really needs something to add that "pop of color". That reminds me of a house somewhere I lived before that had a hideous paint job. Nice little red brick ranch style home with 90% of the trim painted black. Flat black. Including the eaves. Why indeed?!? |
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Post by artbabe on Jun 5, 2020 15:19:14 GMT
I'd leave an anonymous note from Buddha asking to be sat back up. That would bother me too. |
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Post by johnnysmom on Jun 5, 2020 15:29:37 GMT
Poor Buddha ☹️
My “why”.....why are there so many raisins in trail mix? No matter what variety there always seems to be more raisins than anything else 🙄
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Post by TXMary on Jun 5, 2020 15:35:48 GMT
Our neighborhood why is about the house at the end of the street. It's on 5 acres, older but really nice, big house with a huge storage building. Like so big you could store an RV in it. We actually looked at it when it went on the market but decided to stay put. Someone bought it last September. They paid almost $400,000 for this house. And there has been no sign of life at it since it sold. None. Zero. Zilch. No workers. Nobody fixing it up. Not a soul has been around it to our knowledge since it sold. It bugs us. Who bought this house and where are they? I'm sure there's some reason they haven't moved in but we talk about it every time we walk by it.
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I can hear me now... "why yes officer, I was in the neighbors' yard...but you see there's this Buddha statue..." hahaha 
I managed to sort of push it over to a doorframe of a garage door we don't use. It has sat there in the shadow of a bush since we moved in. I can't lift it to get it into my car to take to my father in laws dumpster. And I guess it doesn't bother my husband that much because its in the shadow half hidden by a giant bush. So, it sits there. 
