Comments on: Danger at the end of the Driveway

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:08:58 +0000

I have in the past , but lovely weird people walk by and pilfer through my trash or use it as their own garbage can. If they could at least have the common sense to put it in the right bin so my nazi garbage guy doesnt yell al me I would be much obliged to allow them to use it :p

By: Toulouse

Toulouse — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 01:46:44 +0000

Ugh, how awful. Can you put it out the evening before collection BEFORE it gets dark???

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:48:19 +0000

Omg how scary! I am a single mom so unfortunately there no longer is a mr to take it out, so the kids and I do it in the am before we leave for school. Except the nazi recycling guy comes at 530 in the am to collect. I always put it out late for your very reason, but he refuses to stop and collect it when he drives by my house at 830. He did at first grumbling to me about my “time” frame in his route. What he fails to realize is I’m alone on a super busy intersection, and the road by driveway leads to the ghetto 5 miles down the road. No ma’am i am not gonna risk my life n limb taking out the recycling in the middle of the night cause his lazy ass can’t collect it at normal people time. Ty for sharing and helping me feel slightly less neurotic

By: Toulouse

Toulouse — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:55:38 +0000

That’s why I’m always saying….”Don’t PEG me!”
Nah, I’m usually not scared. I lived alone for a very long time and I generally think people aren’t out to harm me. But I got a very intense feeling of fear and ya know? Better safe than sorry.
Kids’ll do that to you as well. Ya know, when you have someone to protect.

By: Toulouse

Toulouse — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:54:16 +0000

I’m with you. I didn’t always listen to it so well when I was younger but now? I trust it. I really do.

By: Toulouse

Toulouse — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:53:45 +0000

Imagine what my trash was like when I lived alone before I got married. If my dad hadn’t dropped by every now and then to take it out, the whole house woulda been piles of it!

By: Toulouse

Toulouse — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:52:37 +0000

I don’t normally get scared and that’s what scared me. I do believe in intuition. Once in grad school, I was lying out in the sun on the grass near my apartment. A guy drove by several times and then finally got out and approached me. He said he was lost and asked if I had a phone book he could look in. Trusting me said, “Sure, come this way…” And about the time I’d taken 2 or 3 steps, I got a strange, eerie feeling that caused me to pause and tell him I’d just moved in and hadn’t gotten a phone book yet. Not long after, the news reported some guy had been randomly raping girls in their apartments. I don’t know if it was the same guy but…
I listen to my intuition.

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:22:01 +0000

Humans are the only species that, when we are afraid, we tell ourselves it’s no big. If a dog is afraid, it will run or bark, it will react.
Invest in the book THE GIFT OF FEAR. ;o)

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:19:54 +0000

That story is totally freaky. Having a dog helps me feel safer, but STILL. I get nervous walking from my car to my house after dark, but mostly because of the skunks in our neighborhood that are the size of small bears. I’m glad you are safe.

By: Keesha Beckford

Keesha Beckford — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 05:19:01 +0000

Crazy scary, Toulouse. Glad you are okay. And I don’t do trash either. I’d rather risk getting a ticket by throwing it out in the public trash can on the corner.