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Jul. 3rd, 2010 01:14 pmIt has come to my attention that not every homeowner is allowed to install a Solar-Powered, Environmentally-Responsible Passive Clothes Drying System* in his or her yard.
WTF, people? I can understand people not wanting to put one in their own yard due to being lazy or wanting dryer-sheet scented clothes (that, oddly, mostly smell like "Fresh Mountain Breeze" or whatever) or because they live near Bella and Edward and it rains too fucking much to bother with aclothesline SPERPCDS for the approximately fifteen minutes a year when the sun shines and their sparkley selves might be revealed to the entire world. But not letting other people, like your neighbors, install a clothesline because of HOA rules? I don't get it. That's just weird and wrong.
Wouldn't you want other people to save the environment for you? Wouldn't you want other people to conserve fossil fuels? Wouldn't you want to know that the granola-eating, hybrid-driving, reusable-grocery-bag-using hippies down the block were doing every bit of their part and yours to save the planet? Honestly, I'm okay with you driving your H3 and letting the engine idle while you go into the grocery. I'm okay with your bazillion-square-foot McMansion and its attendant heating and air conditioning costs. I'm down with the fact that you never, ever walk anywhere and the fact that most of your leisure activities, including the sports you watch, involve internal combustion engines. Your choice, obviously. The wrong choice, but yours to make.
That said, it is a sick and sorry world where the property values of a house are determined by whether or not the area in which the house is located permits clotheslines in the yards of the neighboring properties. How does "having a clothesline" lower property values? Because you think it looks trashy? Because you think it looks poor? Because then you could tell what sort of underwear your neighbors wore? (Hey, at least you'd know they WORE underwear. That's got to be some sort of a comfort.)
I will never understand other people.
*sounds way better than "clothesline", doesn't it?
WTF, people? I can understand people not wanting to put one in their own yard due to being lazy or wanting dryer-sheet scented clothes (that, oddly, mostly smell like "Fresh Mountain Breeze" or whatever) or because they live near Bella and Edward and it rains too fucking much to bother with a
Wouldn't you want other people to save the environment for you? Wouldn't you want other people to conserve fossil fuels? Wouldn't you want to know that the granola-eating, hybrid-driving, reusable-grocery-bag-using hippies down the block were doing every bit of their part and yours to save the planet? Honestly, I'm okay with you driving your H3 and letting the engine idle while you go into the grocery. I'm okay with your bazillion-square-foot McMansion and its attendant heating and air conditioning costs. I'm down with the fact that you never, ever walk anywhere and the fact that most of your leisure activities, including the sports you watch, involve internal combustion engines. Your choice, obviously. The wrong choice, but yours to make.
That said, it is a sick and sorry world where the property values of a house are determined by whether or not the area in which the house is located permits clotheslines in the yards of the neighboring properties. How does "having a clothesline" lower property values? Because you think it looks trashy? Because you think it looks poor? Because then you could tell what sort of underwear your neighbors wore? (Hey, at least you'd know they WORE underwear. That's got to be some sort of a comfort.)
I will never understand other people.
*sounds way better than "clothesline", doesn't it?
