Christopher Goodwin
So I started just having them towed away, contractor hates me, fuck him I don’t care, I tried to be nice and he made my inner asshole surface and become an instrument of Karma.
So now they are training cooks in there and about to open, staff of maybe 10 or 15 young trendy bearded hipster gluten free, inked up freaks with gauges in their ear flaps, too many piercings and they clearly all shop at the same counterculture superstore. Great, I love local color, even if it is the equivalent of counterculture beige.
But here’s the deal. They can’t smoke near the store, so they walk down and stand next to my shop air intake and on the corner where my office and if it rains on my porch and they smoke, like 5 at a time. I went out and said “Hey I get the whole smoking program, did it for 35 years until less than a month ago, but you can’t dump your butts all over outside my business and blow smoke into my shop ventilation intakes please. There is s place across the street where there is no one in the building and it would be really cool if you could just go there in the future”.
Fucking nothing, passive aggressive shit, they said fine, but then just keep doing it. I am about to get the hose out and just start spraying the fuckers every time they do it, or put some speakers outside and play show tunes at 80db whenever they walk up. WTF happened to not shitting all over your neighbor? I swear I am really trying to keep my self in check but I’m about to forget myself over this disrespectful shit.
Ever since I moved back to the states I have been really trying to deal with things differently than I had to in other places, I just want things to be calm and drama free, I won’t even have people in my life who raise their voices, not to a small degree due to the fact that it trips a trigger that lets a dog off the chain that can be a bit difficult to control and I find myself sitting in silently and focusing on not going there.
I have to say, it just isn’t working out as I had hoped. Not just in this instance, but in general. It seems like the nicer and calmer you are the more people just disrespect your space and I am really wondering if perhaps I have not made an error in judgement.