First of all I come home this Tuesday night (after an awesome forum featuring the candidates still in the runoff election for Birmingham City Council) to find that there are 6 trash bags laying at the end of my driveway. And there are 3 more in my (should be) empty trash can.

I thought to myself: “But wait, Tuesday is trash day, and one of the things that the city of Birmingham does very well is pick up my garbage on a regular basis, so what’s all this trash doing here.”

Well, I’m an inquisitive bastard so I went inside to retrieve my “take a look under the hood” 4-D Cell, smack you over the head, flashlight. Thankfully the person(s) that dumped their trash on my driveway used white plastic bags so I could see through them and find a few pieces of mail. Well, it appears that my neighbor (we share an alley, but they technically live one street over) decided my already empty trash cans were a great spot for their trash.

I’ve spoken with these people before. They seemed nice enough.
They have a very playful boxer and unfortunately a very large branch fell on their 97 Honda Accord Wagon a few weeks back and I offered my condolences to them (being a fellow wagon owner and knowing that Honda no longer offers the Accord Wagon in the states made me even more sympathetic). But why is their trash in my driveway.

Well, I now have 2 overflowing trash cans full of someone else’s trash.
I hope there is a good reason behind this situation. I mean there has to be, right?
The good news is that the trash service runs again on Friday, so I’ll get over it.

THEN, to top it all off, as I’m about to write this post I log into the admin section of my website and I see that someone has linked back to my site (thank you Technorati).

“Oh wow”, I think, “a link from outside of my circle of bloggers“.

WRONG

Apparently it is someone that finds ill will in Half-Nekkid Thursdays. This person was rude enough to call the picture of my pregnant wife’s belly a “fat gross baby belly“.

Not only that, but my wife was reading over my shoulder so she saw what some heartless bitch said about her pregnant body.

Don’t like HNT?
Fine, don’t look at HNT posts or any blog that supports HNT.
Problem solved.

Insulting others and claiming pictures of washed up pop stars to be yourself is a clear sign of self esteem issues. What issue do you have behind a large group of people posting Half-Nekkid pictures of themselves on the Internet? Is it because someone coined the term and encouraged others to do it as well?

Well then holy shit! Hello pot, this is the kettle, you’re black!

How much do you want to bet that Nicole read someone’s blog and thought it would be a great idea to “hide behind an idea spawned” by some exhibitionist typer.

Please Nicole, jump off of this bandwagon known as blogging, no one cares about you partying so much that you were 4 hours late to work on Monday. Grow up and be a productive member of society.

And just in case she decides not to approve the comments I left on her site here’s what I said:

EchoBoomer said…

For the sake of humanity, I hope you never have a “fat gross baby belly”. It would be an injustice to your child.

For what it’s worth, my wife’s “fat gross baby belly” is now within 1 inch of its former “flat, gorgeous, beautiful, (and) buff” shape. And our daughter (which by the way came from that “fat gross baby belly”) is doing wonderfully as she approaches the end of her 3rd month of life.

If you don’t want to look at HNT posts, don’t. It’s that simple.

Posted Wed 19 Oct, 2005 9:55 am | [10] Comments
Categories: Ramblings