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I complain a LOT. Often about really trivial and pointless STUFF. I had my landlord over this morning so he could look at my aerial, which is currently producing really furry images on the telly. But that's not why I'm complaining. In fact, I have no problems with my landlord. He's great, and is going to get a replacement aerial, plus replace some guttering and some posts, which I totally hadn't noticed were rotting from the weather. But while we were out the front I started to tell him about the parking issues which have been going on out the front of my place. One of the problems with where I'm renting is that it's right on the street, so as I try to watch the telly or sleep I get conversations right outside my window. Not much fun. But my biggest complaint is that I often get all manners of wacky parking out the front. Now don't get me wrong, it is completely legal to park out the front. But some people really don't give a shit and do all manner of stupid, irresponsible or just plain retarded tricks. Here are a couple of examples:

• one night last year I had a family park outside my bedroom window at like 3 in the morning (maybe they were on a trip and needed a rest?) and then proceeded to talk, yell, argue, play games and generally do stuff other than sleep. Needless to say I soon was doing stuff other than sleep. Plus my brain doesn't really work at 4 in the morning, so the best of my retaliation was to try and go back to sleep.
• a few months ago somebody parked their really big truck and trailer right out the front. unfortunately, my street is really narrow, and he parked opposite a car thereby making it impossible to actually drive up the street, unless you were on a scooter. i wasn't going anywhere so I didn't think too much about it until cops banged on my door while i was watching Buffy, asking about "the rig". I kept my ear to the ground in the morning and sure enough someone eventually showed up - except that it wasn't the owner, but a "friend" who was borrowing said truck. I told him the story and that he was probably booked and he said he would tell his "friend".
• last week I came from work to find another truck parked out the front. the caring fellow (or lady) had politely parked so that cars could get through this time, but the dick had parked backwards (which I know from personal history IS illegal) and he'd parked all the way up on the sidewalk! this really pissed me off this time, so I called the cops and gave them the licence plate. don't know if they did anything, but the reason I bring it up was that my landlord noticed the Kenworth rig had now cracked the pavement in like the Hulk had stomped his foot there.

So there's my bitch for the day. Sorry, but I had to get it off my chest and I know from experience that's it better to bitch to no one in particular rather than a soon-to-be ex-girlfriend. TTFN.