ginmar ([info]ginmar) wrote,
@ 2008-07-20 21:36:00
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Goddam
One of the little fucking kids in this neighborhood stole my goddam door key.

No more little fucking kids in this house. I don't believe it's malicious----well, except in the case of the little girl who tried to start the fire-----but t hat's it. I have put off getting the house rekeyed but this is it.

I am so fucking sick of everybody in the whole fucking world right now.

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[info]rickvs
2008-07-21 03:05 am UTC (link)
I'm picturing a painted line on your doorframe: "You must be this tall to enter."

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[info]ginmar
2008-07-21 03:08 am UTC (link)
Yeah, but the kid who stole the fucking cognac was taller than me.

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[info]rickvs
2008-07-21 03:17 am UTC (link)
Maybe you could hook some sort of Doc Brown helmet to the doorbell: "IQ must be this high to interrupt my zombie movie."

I dunno how to test for ethics, or motivated self-interest -- unless you can build an airlock (over a lime pit) that your visitor applicants would have to voluntarily lock themselves into. You could quiz them at your convenience, and if you didn't like what you heard, the airlock would open again ...empty.

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[info]crazysoph
2008-07-21 05:11 am UTC (link)
Maybe create a technological puzzle, which they have to solve before being allowed entrance.

Better: a rotating series or even random series of tech puzzles, so that each individual child must take the test.

Crazy(not sure what to do about either the possibility of kids taking tests for someone else, and also thinking of the need for an appropriate version of the Voight-Kampf test)Soph

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[info]crazysoph
2008-07-21 05:13 am UTC (link)
Oh, *duh*, you know, I rushed to comment before properly digesting everything you mentioned here. I plead only first cup of coffee this morning.

Crazy(but liking the lime-pit idea!)Soph

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[info]bkwrrm_tx
2008-07-21 10:01 am UTC (link)
I *really* like the way you think, Rick. :-)

Ginmar, I have no words. None at all...

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[info]fiona64
2008-07-21 01:30 pm UTC (link)
When you agreed to watch K and C, you did not agree to let the entire neighborhood in. Full stop.

I am really worried about how this family is stomping all over your boundaries ...

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[info]ginmar
2008-07-21 01:34 pm UTC (link)
It wasn't the girls, it was their little friends. That's it, though. No more kids in the fucking house. I know for a fact it wasn't K's friends because they never came near my damned desk. It was a little kid, either one of C's friends or her little brother. He might very well have flushed it down the toilet or something. Little shit.

But anyway, after two major thefts, and harassment and shit---very few of these kids are respectful to adults----I'm really disgusted. And K's been confiding in me about what she has to deal with.

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[info]fiona64
2008-07-21 03:21 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I totally got that it wasn't the girls. It gets back to what I said, though: you didn't agree to have the whole neighborhood stomping through your house, and so that's a boundary issue. No more little friends in the house, period, seems like a great boundary to me.

And I am astonished at how children are not taught to respect their elders anymore, to be quite frank. I see kids do stuff that would have earned me a major ass-whipping as a child ... not the least of which is talking back to a grown-up (or even hitting them, which I have seen plenty of times). There just seem to be no consequences anymore, and it irritates the hell out of me.

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[info]ginmar
2008-07-21 03:25 pm UTC (link)
Well, there's consequences for these kids now, because I called the cops again on that one kid's family, all of whom have shitty attitudes and most of whom showed up on my damned doorstep, on my property, demanding to know why I called the cops on their dear, innocent, charming brother. Fuck 'em.

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[info]9thkvius
2008-07-21 03:23 pm UTC (link)
Sometimes it's just too hard to get through to kids, especially ones who have not learned about boundaries. Some of the kids who live up the street and used to come over to my place to see Rerun apparently didn't learn about boundaries either. They would just do stuff and I would ask them not to, and then they do it again anyway I would lose my cool. So now they don't come over. I wave at them when I drive by and they wave back, but they don't come over anymore. And some of the adults in my neighborhood need to learn boundaries too. Anyone who shows up on my porch at weird (i.e. late) hours asking for strange things (matches in one case and beer in another) is just not welcome.

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[info]ginmar
2008-07-21 03:26 pm UTC (link)
Matches and beer? Yeah, that was Roberta. Never gave anything, always asked. Never offered anything, always wanting to take or get. After a while, you learn you're being used.

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